Articles tagged Gian Paolo

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Page 116, June 2011

On the road... with Ed Foster

Grove, Oxfordshire An audience with Gian Paolo DallaraThe boss of the world's largest race car builder talks F1, going stateside and race simulators In April I attended the annual Motorsport Industry Association dinner at WilliamsF1. Every year the MIA invites a motor sport personality who its CEO, Chris Aylett, will interview on stage after dinner. Last year it was ex-FIA president Max Mosley,...

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Page 56, October 2007

Lunch with... Jo Ramirez

The personable Mexican looks back over 40 years of Formula 1 glories and struggles, friendships and tragedies By Simon Taylor The problem is, lunch isn’t long enough. Over 40 seasons, this man has been friend and confidant to a succession of F1 heroes, helped them celebrate their victories and, too often, mourned their loss. He was inside Ferrari when it was Enzo’s fiefdom, with Tyrrell when Ken’...

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Page 90, December 2008

Rulers of a racing empire

Gian Paolo Dallara and new business partner Andrea Pontremoli are the men behind the world’s most successful yet understated racing car builder By Damien Smith Varano de’ Melegari is a small ‘municipality’, a huddle of pretty villages nestling on the side of a valley 30kms south-west of Parma. Not far from the Tuscan borders, it hints at the ‘rustic charm’ idyll so adored by English middle-class...