Purdue Motorsports and Dallara to formalize partnership
Purdue University and Dallara are starting their engines on an innovative partnership this Indianapolis 500 race weekend. The partnership, originally announced last May, will be formalized Saturday (May 24) during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Dallara Experience Hub on Main Street in Speedway.
The collaboration allows Purdue’s motorsports engineering program, the only undergraduate, ABET-accredited such program in the country, to be housed inside the U.S. headquarters of Dallara, the largest multinational Italian race car manufacturer. The facility, located just one mile from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, will provide space for classrooms and hands-on training for Purdue students pursuing a career in motorsports while providing them unique opportunities to make early connections with international industry leader Dallara.
“This partnership puts Purdue students and industry leader Dallara alongside one another in the epicenter of the motorsports world,” said Dan Hasler, Purdue’s chief operating officer for Indianapolis. “The education, training and connection opportunities through this collaboration will benefit our students, Dallara and the motorsports industry as a whole here in central Indiana and beyond.”
Purdue students will gain real-world knowledge from faculty like Chris Finch, director of the Purdue motorsports engineering program in Indianapolis and former IndyCar race engineer with Dreyer & Reinbold Racing and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, while training alongside Dallara. Dallara has been the exclusive chassis supplier of the NTT INDYCAR Series since 2012 and is the sole chassis provider for the Indy NXT Series by Firestone (IndyCar); the designer of the Next Gen car (Gen-7) for the NASCAR Cup Series; and the manufacturer of the Cadillac and BMW LeMans Daytona Hypercar, a sports prototype car, for IMSA (International Motor Sports Association).
Many Purdue graduates from the program in Indianapolis have gone on to careers with motorsports manufacturers like Dallara, as well as in series such as IndyCar, IMSA and the National Hot Rod Association, many of which have teams headquartered in central Indiana. The motorsports industry plays a huge role in Indiana, generating a $2 billion economic impact annually, according to the Indiana Economic Development Corp.
Purdue Motorsports will begin operations at Dallara in time for the start of the fall semester in the 2025-26 academic year.
About Purdue University
Purdue University is a public research university leading with excellence at scale. Ranked among top 10 public universities in the United States, Purdue discovers, disseminates and deploys knowledge with a quality and at a scale second to none. More than 107,000 students study at Purdue across multiple campuses, locations and modalities, including more than 58,000 at our main campus in West Lafayette and Indianapolis. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue’s main campus has frozen tuition 14 years in a row. See how Purdue never stops in the persistent pursuit of the next giant leap — including its comprehensive urban expansion, the Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue Computes and the One Health initiative — at https://www.purdue.edu/president/strategic-initiatives.
About Dallara
Dallara is a story of passion, talent, tenacity and continual enthusiasm. Dallara was founded in 1972 by Giampaolo Dallara in Varano de’ Melegari. Over five decades, Dallara has designed, built and supported some of the world’s most competitive race cars. Dallara USA is at the center of the North American motorsports and technology industry. In deciding to base its operations in Speedway, Dallara further enhanced Indiana’s reputation as the world’s center of the industry. Along with the company’s motorsports efforts and activities, Dallara also has diversified into aerospace sectors over the years, leveraging its motorsport-derived expertise to provide innovative solutions. Learn more at https://dallaraexperiencehub.com/dallara-history.
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