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. The F398 car for the 1998 season was, in line with FIA regulations, an update of the 1997 car and generally changes to the F398 were aerodynamic ones. The most obvious alterations, following F1 trends, were to the nose which now featured a pylon mounting and the introduction of winglets in front of the rear wheels.
Dutch driver Donny Crevels won the 1998 Italian Formula 3 championship. He drove the Dallara F398 – Opel for Prema Powerteam and won 3 out of 10 races of the season.
| Season | Series | Event |
| 1998 | F3 Italian Championship | |
| Driver | No. | Entrant |
| Donny Crevels | 3 | Prema Powerteam |
| Scale | Manufacturer | Collection |
| 1:43 | Onyx | |
| Cat. No. | Quality | Rarity |
| XFC99005 | 
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