This beautiful new supercar starts life with no doors and no windshield or upright cowl whatsoever. Just a sleek, wide disk shooting around a circuit!
A windshield option makes this a Dallara Stradale Roadster, and a bubble glass hardtop makes it into a Dallara Stradale Targa.
Loving them all is easy. A few reasons:
— This is a right-now production car. First delivery happened last week and production is in full swing.
— Dallara is a name known on racetracks worldwide. They make the carbon chassis tubs for everyone. Seriously.
So they have carbon-fiber at scale. And wind tunnels galore to perfect aero.
— Ultralight roadster concept is available worldwide. Road certification is on owners’ hands. But plausible in some states and many Euro markets right away.
A final bonus? The entire chassis and electronics setup is in partnership with BOSCH. Gives a low-volume special grown-up brakes and traction. As well as searing pace.
Sprint pace is 3 seconds, powered by a turbo four. A monster turbo!
Tuned for racing and displacing 2.3-liters.
It is flat-packed low in the rear subframe and spits fire on throttle.
Here is an in-depth look at the FIRST EVER Dallara road car. Sure to make all streets into racetracks!
2018 DALLARA Stradale
DALLARA Wind Tunnel
DALLARA Carbon Expertise
2018 DALLARA Stradale
A dream nurtured on racetracks all over the world. The racing technology applied to the pleasure of driving. A unique product, designed to enhance the company’s key skills: carbon fiber structures, aerodynamics and vehicle dynamics.
Varano de’ Melegari, November 16 2017 – The first model of Dallara Stradale was handed over to its owner on the day of his birthday. Giampaolo Dallara, a life as an Engineer, went out to drive the street-legal Dallara right from the building in which he started his business activity 45 years ago in Varano de’ Melegari, not far from the house where he was born on November 16,1936.
In 2015, after a long processing period, twenty engineers and five mechanics were entrusted to a Technical Director: Giampaolo Dallara. The goal was clear: making a car to rediscover the real pleasure of driving on the road or on the track. “I like to think that Colin Chapman, which I began to admire since the days of his Lotus Seven, would appreciate the essentiality and simplicity of this car,” says
Mr. Giampaolo Dallara, President of Dallara Automobili. “This project,” adds Mr. Dallara, “sums up everything we learned from racing and from collaborations with our clients, and I am convinced that those who will use this car will be able to try the pleasure of driving for the sake of driving. They will get in the car to take a nice ride and to experience the pleasure of driving”.
Product
In the base configuration, the Dallara Stradale is a barchetta without doors, like a single-seater racing car. It can be customized in a roadster configuration with the addition of a windshield. Adding a T-Frame, the car becomes a targa. With the further addition of two doors with a seagull wing opening, the car becomes a coupe. For those who want to use the car mostly on track, there is the possibility to install a rear wing, which provides access to exceptional levels of downforce.
The car customizations in terms of performance are not limited only to the addition of the rear wing, but it is possible to install adjustable suspensions which allow to lower the car in track setup, guaranteeing a high comfort standard in any condition. The Dallara Stradale provides a sixspeed manual transmission, but among the optional equipment a “paddle-shift” system is provided for the robotized gearbox which minimizes the time shifting, equipped of two methods and two different mappings, automatic: Normal and Sport; and manual: Normal and Sport.
Thanks to its low weight, an accurate study of vehicle dynamics and high aerodynamic load, the performance is of a true racing car.
- Its 855 kg as a total car weight are a result of the extensive use of composite materials and carbon fiber. The logic behind materials and processes is “materials and processes suitable for their function”: pre-impregnated in an autoclave for the monocoque; long fiber compression moulding in structural components of the bodywork; body panel system in exterior panels; carbon sheet moulding in reinforcements.
- The kinematics of the suspensions and the calibration of springs and bars and dampers have been defined to maximize the compromise between grip and comfort. Dynamic characteristics of the vehicle have been set, developed and defined in numerous sessions at the Dallara Driving Simulator: expert test drivers have worked closely with technicians and engineers to define the specifications of the suspensions, aerodynamics, engine and ergonomics suitable for an exceptional driving pleasure.
- Thanks to the virtual development of the CFD and several Wind Tunnel sessions, the aerodynamic load coefficient obtained allows obtaining vertical load values (downforce) among the highest between GT roadcars (more than 820kg @ TopSpeed).
The combination of weight, vehicle dynamics and aerodynamics, along with customized tyres, allows to reach lateral accelerations beyond 2G under normal conditions of use.
The Dallara Stradale is equipped with the latest Bosch ESP stability control systems (which includes
ABS-EBD-TCS-VDC) to ensure an excellent control of the car in all conditions of use.
2018 DALLARA Stradale – Launch Party
The powertrain is a 4-cylinder 2.3 L supercharged capable of delivering 400 HP, the result of an accurate selection and optimization of engine components, combined with the electronic control system developed in close collaboration with Bosch.
The first prototype was presented on 16th November 2016, when Mr. Dallara turned 80 years old. Since then, the road testing activities have begun, with car homologation and production equipment setting.
On that same day, but one year later, on 16th November 2017, the deliveries of the Dallara Stradale begin, as promised one year ago.
| Dimensions | |
| Lenght | 4185 mm |
| Width | 1875 mm |
| Height | 1041 mm |
| Wheelbase | 2475 mm |
| Dry Weight | 855 kg |
| Powertrain e Layout | |
| Drivetrain | Rear-wheel |
| Engine position | Rear Mid-engine |
| Cylinders | 4 |
| Engine Size | 2300 cc |
| Valves | 16 |
| Maximum Torque | 500 Nm @ 3000-5000RPM |
| Power | 400 cv @ 6200RPM |
| Aspiration | Turbocharged |
| Emission Class | Euro 6d |
| Chassis | Monocoque and Bodywork in Carbon Fiber, Alluminium frames |
| Aerodynamics | |
| Downforce @ TopSpeed | > 820 kg (*) |
| Aero Efficiency | >2,4 (*) |
| Suspensions | |
| Diagram | Double wishbones |
| Dampers | 3 way adjustbale with EPA electric system |
| Perfomance | |
| Top Speed | 280 km/h |
| 0-100 km/h | 3,25s |
| 80-120 km/h in 5th gear | 3,49s |
| 100-200 km/h in 5° Gear | 8,5s |
| 100-0 km/h | 31 m |
| Maximum lateral acceleration | > 2g (*) |
(*) referring to the track day configuration road homologated
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