The company founded by Gianpaolo Dallara built their first Formula 3 car named Wolf for Walter Wolf Racing in 1978 which as the renamed Emiliani won the 1980 Italian F3 Championship. The first true Dallara was produced in 1981. In 1985 Dallara designed the F385, their first F3 car with carbon fibre/kevlar and aluminium honeycomb chassis. The car evolved a little bit until 2000 with some updates and revisions each following year. 1997 F3 Dallara, the F397, dominated the F3 season winning British, German, French, Italian and Japanese F3 championships.
Andre Couto, Portugal-born driver from Macao, raced the F397 powered by Fiat in the Italian F3 championship where he finished the season as runner-up. Couto drove for Prema Powerteam and won two races (at Magione and Enna). Couto also raced in Macau 1997 Grand Prix finishing 3rd in the leg 1. Graff Racing driver Soheil Ayari won the two-leg aggregate event by 11.5 seconds over his teammate Patrice Gay in second position.
| Season | Series | Event |
| 1997 | F3 | Macau GP |
| Driver | No. | Entrant |
| Andre Couto | 19 | Prema Powerteam |
| Scale | Manufacturer | Collection |
| 1:43 | Onyx | Andre Couto Collection |
| Cat. No. | Quality | Rarity |
| X313 | 
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