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Jim Hall (born
July 23,
1935 in
Abilene, Texas) is a former
racecar driver and constructor from the
United States. He competed in
Formula One from to, participating in 12 World Championship Grands Prix and numerous non-Championship races.
His place in motorsport history came as the owner and driving force of
Chaparral Cars of
Midland, Texas. During the 1960s in the
United States Road Racing Championship, and later in the
CanAm, his Chaparral cars were the most innovative cars in racing. He was a very early adopter of
aerodynamics applied to race cars and was leading proponent of that technology for an entire decade. He had a sabbatical in the early 1970s, racing in several
NASCAR Grand American division
pony car races. Hall came back to prominence in the
Championship Auto Racing Teams series, including two wins in the
Indianapolis 500 in 1978 and 1980; the latter with the first of the
ground effect cars to be raced in the event. He would later turn to using off-the-shelf racecars to race in his Indycar team which was renamed
Jim Hall Racing until 1996, when he retired from racing altogether. He now resides in Palm Springs Ca. and Midland Texas, is active in the oil and gas business and motorsports racing legacies. The saga of Jim Hall and Chaparral Cars is documented at the Petroleum Museum in Midland, Texas.
(External Link
) His son, Jim Hall, Jr., resides in California and operates the
Jim Hall Kart Racing School.
Awards
Complete Formula One World Championship results
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