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Grand Prix History in Scale Models

1997, Dallara, Formula 3, Nicolas Minassian, Onyx

1997 Dallara F397 – Renault Minassian

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.

French driver Nicolas Minassian  raced the F397 powered by Renault in the 1997 British Formula 3 Championship for Promatecme UK team. Minassian captured more wins (7) than any other driver, but finished the season runner-up behind Jonny Kane.

SeasonSeriesEvent
1997F3 British Championship
Driver No.Entrant
Nicolas Minassian6Promatecme UK
Scale ManufacturerCollection
1:43Onyx
Cat. No.QualityRarity
X315

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