Car builders Dallara are eagerly awaiting their return to F1 with the new Campos team, saying building a F1 car will be a "fascinating challenge."
Next year's Championship will see the Campos team join the F1 grid as one of three new entries. The Spanish outfit, though, will not be designing their own car, having called in Dallara for that challenge.
"I've accepted this opportunity with enthusiasm," Gian Paolo Dallara, the man behind the Dallara company, told the Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper.
"It's scary, but it's exciting for me and for my entire company, because this is a fascinating challenge that tests energy and creativity.
"We've been working for three months already. We want to have the car running around 10 January - let's hope it's quick, both for the sake of Campos and for us!"
Dallara added that he believes within his company he has the personnel needed to build Campos a car that is capable of competing at the highest level.
"We have strong people with fresh experiences such Gabriele Tredozi, who for years was the technical head at Minardi, and like Ben Agathangelou, aerodynamicist for Red Bull and Ross Brawn's Honda. And then there are our people, all of them good," he said.
Dallara previously competed in F1 between 1988 and 1992.
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ilalfisto
"Campos will pull the plug without the budget cap.
Sooner or later, someone will tell Dallara the news..."
Brent
"Dallara is not a "customer car". It is a joint venture, a Campos Dallara Cosworth. It is the same as BAR who started with a Reynard chassis and Mechachrome engine. Dallara should be able to build and develop the chassis. Odds are against them being midfield but it should give the boy's of STR more things to hit."
CanadianFan
"Let's hope the cars won't be as ugly as the ones Dallara produces for the IRL! Of course, if they are, it won't matter much as the only times we'll see them on TV is when they're lapped 10 times in each race."
NickUSA
"I wouldn't expect too much from this entry, but it will be fun to see them race. New blood is always nice, but it will take a lot longer than 10 months to create a new F1 car when you've never really done it before (at least, with any success). It's more than aerodynamics. Will it be reliable? Will Dallara and Campos be able to pull off the electro-mechanical aspects of a F1 design? Will they use Cosworth engines, which are not yet proven? Any team wanting to make a splash in the F1 pool needs money... a lot of it, for top engineers and designs and a top engine source. Then, who will drive? Not an effort for the feint of heart."
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