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Grand Prix History in Scale Models

1997, Dallara, Formula 3, Onyx, Tom Coronel

1997 Dallara F397 – Toyota Coronel

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.

Dutch driver Tom Coronel won the All-Japan F3 championship driving the F397 powered by Toyota for TOM’s Racing. Coronel won six out of nine rounds of the series and finished the season with 54 points.

SeasonSeriesEvent
1997F3 All-Japan Championship
Driver No.Entrant
Tom Coronel7TOM’s Racing
Scale ManufacturerCollection
1:43Onyx
Cat. No.QualityRarity
X319

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