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Grand Prix History in Scale Models

1997, Dallara, Formula 3, Nick Heidfeld, Onyx

1997 Dallara F397 – Opel Heidfeld

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.

Nick Heidfeld in F397 – Opel entered by Opel Team BSR was the 1997  German Formula 3 Champion winning 5 out of 18 races.

SeasonSeriesEvent
1997F3 German Championship
Driver No.Entrant
Nick Heidfeld4Opel Team BSR
Scale ManufacturerCollection
1:43Onyx
Cat. No.QualityRarity
X316

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