Jim Hall (race car driver)

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Jim Hall (race car driver)

Jim Hall (born July 23,1935 in Abilene, Texas

Abilene, Texas

Abilene is a city in Jones County, Texas and Taylor County, Texas Counties in the central part of the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 115,930 at the United States Census, 2000....
) is a former racecar driver and constructor from the United States

United States

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. He competed in Formula One

Formula One

Formula One, abbreviated to F1, and currently officially referred as the FIA Formula One World Championship is the highest class of auto racing sanctioned by the F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile ....
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

Midland, Texas

Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, located on the Great Plains of the western area of the U.S. state of Texas. A small portion of the city extends into Martin County, Texas....
. During the 1960s in the United States Road Racing Championship

United States Road Racing Championship

The United States Road Racing Championship was one of two sports car racing series....
, and later in the CanAm

CanAm

The Canadian-American Challenge Cup or Can-Am, was an Sports Car Club of America/Canadian Auto Sport Clubs sports car racing series from 1966 to 1974....
, his Chaparral cars were the most innovative cars in racing.

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Jim Hall (born July 23,1935 in Abilene, Texas

Abilene, Texas

United States

Formula One

Midland, Texas

United States Road Racing Championship

The United States Road Racing Championship was one of two sports car racing series....
, and later in the CanAm

CanAm

Aerodynamics

Aerodynamics is a branch of Dynamics concerned with studying the motion of air, particularly when it interacts with a moving object. Aerodynamics is a subfield of fluid dynamics and gas dynamics, with much theory shared between them....
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

NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
Grand American

Grand American

Grand American was a NASCAR sanctioned series of pony car stock car racing. The series ran from 1968 until 1971. The series was called "Grand Touring" from 1968 to 1969....
division pony car

Pony car

The pony car is a class of automobile launched and inspired by the Ford Ford Mustang in 1964. It describes an affordable, compact, highly styled car with a sporty or performance-oriented image....
races. Hall came back to prominence in the Championship Auto Racing Teams

Champ Car

Champ Car, was the name for a class and specification of automobiles used in American Championship Car Racing for many decades, primarily for use in the Indianapolis 500 auto race....
series, including two wins in the Indianapolis 500

Indianapolis 500

The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, often shortened to Indianapolis 500 or Indy 500 or commonly known simply as The 500, is an USA automobile auto racing, held annually over the Memorial Day weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana....
in 1978 and 1980; the latter with the first of the ground effect

Ground effect in cars

Ground effect is term applied to a series of aerodynamic effects used in car design, which has been exploited to create downforce, particularly in racing cars....
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 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. His son, Jim Hall, Jr., resides in California and operates the Jim Hall Kart Racing School.

Awards

Jim Hall was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame
International Motorsports Hall of Fame

The International Motorsports Hall of Fame is a Hall of Fame dedicated to enshrining those who have contributed the most to auto racing either as a driver, owner, developer or engineer....
in 1997.
He was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America
Motorsports Hall of Fame of America

The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America is a Hall of Fame and museum in Novi, Michigan for United States motorsports legends....
in 1994.

Complete Formula One World Championship results

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	WDC	Pts.
1960 1960 Formula One season The 1960 Formula One season featured the eleventh FIA World Championship of Drivers , the third International Cup for F1 Manufacturers and numerous non-championship Formula One races....	Jim Hall	Lotus Team Lotus Team Lotus was the motorsport sister company of English sports car manufacturer Lotus Cars. The team ran cars in many motorsport series including Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Ford, Formula Junior, American Championship Car Racing and sports car racing.... 18 Lotus 18 The Lotus 18 is a race car designed by Colin Chapman for use by Team Lotus in Formula Junior, Formula Two, and Formula One. It was the first mid-engined car built by Lotus, and a marked improvement over Chapman's early and only moderately successful front-engined formula cars, the Lotus 12 and Lotus 16....	Climax Coventry Climax Coventry Climax was a United Kingdom Forklift, fire pump, and speciality engine manufacturer.... Straight-4 Straight-4 The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....	ARG 1960 Argentine Grand Prix Results from the 1960 Formula One Argentine Grand Prix held at Argentina on February 7, 1960....	MON 1960 Monaco Grand Prix Results from the 1960 Monaco Grand Prix held at Circuit de Monaco on May 29, 1960...	500 1960 Indianapolis 500 Results from the 1960 Indianapolis 500 held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Monday, May 30, 1960. The event was part of the 1960 Formula One season, being the last Indy 500 to be included in the Championship....	NED 1960 Dutch Grand Prix Results from the 1960 Formula One Dutch Grand Prix held at Circuit Park Zandvoort on June 6, 1960.Due to a crash, a spectator was killed during this event....	BEL 1960 Belgian Grand Prix Results from the 1960 Formula One Belgian Grand Prix held at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps on June 19, 1960.Classification Notes ...	FRA 1960 French Grand Prix Results from the 1960 Formula One French Grand Prix held at Reims-Gueux on July 3, 1960....	GBR 1960 British Grand Prix The 1960 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire, England, on 16 July 1960. The race was the seventh round of the 1960 Formula One season, the final Formula One season run to the 2.5 litre maximum engine displacement rules which had been in place since ....	POR 1960 Portuguese Grand Prix Results from the 1960 Formula One Portuguese Grand Prix held at Circuito da Boavista, Porto on August 14, 1960...	ITA 1960 Italian Grand Prix Results from the 1960 Formula One Italian Grand Prix held at Autodromo Nazionale Monza on September 4, 1960....	USA 1960 United States Grand Prix The 1960 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on November 20, 1960 at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California.... 7	NC	0
1961 1961 Formula One season The 1961 Formula One season included the 12th FIA Formula One World Championship season, which commenced on May 14, 1961, and ended on October 8 after eight races....	Jim Hall	Lotus Team Lotus Team Lotus was the motorsport sister company of English sports car manufacturer Lotus Cars. The team ran cars in many motorsport series including Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Ford, Formula Junior, American Championship Car Racing and sports car racing.... 18 Lotus 18 The Lotus 18 is a race car designed by Colin Chapman for use by Team Lotus in Formula Junior, Formula Two, and Formula One. It was the first mid-engined car built by Lotus, and a marked improvement over Chapman's early and only moderately successful front-engined formula cars, the Lotus 12 and Lotus 16....	Climax Coventry Climax Coventry Climax was a United Kingdom Forklift, fire pump, and speciality engine manufacturer.... Straight-4 Straight-4 The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....	MON 1961 Monaco Grand Prix The 1961 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on May 14, 1961 on the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo, Monaco. It was the inaugural race of the 1961 Formula One season, and the first race under the new 1.5 litre engine regulations....	NED 1961 Dutch Grand Prix The 1961 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on 22 May 1961 at Circuit Park Zandvoort.Taking place one week after the Monaco GP there was not time for Innes Ireland to heal from his injury in the previous race so he was replaced by Trevor Taylor....	BEL 1961 Belgian Grand Prix The 1961 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on 18 June 1961 at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.The organizers of the race invited 25 entries, but were only going to pay starting money to 19: sixteen pre-selected cars plus the 3 fastest of the remaining 9....	FRA 1961 French Grand Prix The 1961 French Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on 2 July 1961 at Reims-Gueux.By winning the race, Giancarlo Baghetti became only the third driver to win his first World Championship race, the other two being Nino Farina, who won the first World Championship race and Johnnie Parsons, who won the 1950 Indianapolis 500 ....	GBR 1961 British Grand Prix The 1961 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race, held on 15 July 1961 at the Aintree Motor Racing Circuit, near Liverpool. It was the fifth race of eight in the 1961 Formula One season....	GER 1961 German Grand Prix The 1961 German Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on 6 August 1961 at N?rburgring....	ITA 1961 Italian Grand Prix The 1961 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on 10 September 1961 at Autodromo Nazionale Monza.The race was marked by one of the most terrible accidents in the history of Formula One, when on lap 2 the German driver Wolfgang Von Trips lost control of his Scuderia Ferrari and crashed against a stand full of spectators, killing 14...	USA 1961 United States Grand Prix The 1961 Formula One season United States Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on October 8, 1961 at the Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York.... Ret			NC	0
1962 1962 Formula One season The 1962 Formula One season included the 13th FIA Formula One World Championship season, which commenced on May 20, 1962, and ended on December 29 after nine races....	Jim Hall	Lotus Team Lotus Team Lotus was the motorsport sister company of English sports car manufacturer Lotus Cars. The team ran cars in many motorsport series including Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Ford, Formula Junior, American Championship Car Racing and sports car racing.... 21 Lotus 21 The Lotus 21 was a Formula One racing car designed by Colin Chapman. It was a mid-engined design using a tubular spaceframe structure skinned with fibreglass panels, of a more advanced build than seen in the Lotus 18....	Climax Coventry Climax Coventry Climax was a United Kingdom Forklift, fire pump, and speciality engine manufacturer.... Straight-4 Straight-4 The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....	NED 1962 Dutch Grand Prix The 1962 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on 20 May 1962 at Circuit Zandvoort....	MON 1962 Monaco Grand Prix Results from the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix held at Circuit de Monaco on June 3, 1962....	BEL 1962 Belgian Grand Prix Results from the 1962 Formula One Belgian Grand Prix held at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps on June 17, 1962....	FRA 1962 French Grand Prix Results from the 1962 Formula One French Grand Prix held at Rouen-Les-Essarts on July 8, 1962....	GBR 1962 British Grand Prix Results from the 1962 Formula One British Grand Prix held at Aintree Motor Racing Circuit on July 21, 1962....	GER 1962 German Grand Prix Results from the 1962 Formula One German Grand Prix held at N?rburgring on August 5, 1962...	ITA 1962 Italian Grand Prix Results from the 1962 Formula One Italian Grand Prix held at Autodromo Nazionale Monza on September 16, 1962....	USA 1962 United States Grand Prix The 1962 Formula One season United States Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on October 7, 1962 at the Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York.... DNS	RSA 1962 South African Grand Prix Results from the Formula One South African Grand Prix held at East London, South Africa on December 29, 1962....		NC	0
1963 1963 Formula One season The 1963 Formula One season featured the fourteenth FIA World Championship of Drivers , the sixth International Cup for F1 Manufacturers and numerous non-championship Formula One races....	British Racing Partnership British Racing Partnership British Racing Partnership was a racing team, and latterly constructor, from the United Kingdom. It was established by Alfred Moss and Ken Gregory ? Stirling Moss's father and former manager respectively ? in 1957 to run cars for Stirling, when not under contract with other firms....	Lotus Team Lotus Team Lotus was the motorsport sister company of English sports car manufacturer Lotus Cars. The team ran cars in many motorsport series including Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Ford, Formula Junior, American Championship Car Racing and sports car racing.... 24 Lotus 24 The Lotus 24 was a Formula One racing car designed by Team Lotus for the 1962 Formula One season. Having devised the monocoque Lotus 25 for use by the works team, Colin Chapman decided to build a 'conventional' back-up spaceframe design which he would also sell to Privateer ....	BRM V8 V8 engine A V8 engine is a V engine with eight cylinder s mounted on the crankcase in two banks of four cylinders, in most cases set at a right angle to each other but sometimes at a narrower angle, with all eight pistons driving a common crankshaft....	MON 1963 Monaco Grand Prix Results from the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix held at Circuit de Monaco on May 26, 1963.... Ret	BEL 1963 Belgian Grand Prix Results from the 1963 Formula One Belgian Grand Prix held at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps on June 9, 1963.... Ret	NED 1963 Dutch Grand Prix Results from the Formula One Dutch Grand Prix held at Circuit Zandvoort on June 23, 1963.... 11	FRA 1963 French Grand Prix The 1963 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Reims-Gueux on June 30, 1963. It was the fourth round of the 1963 Formula One season.... 8	GBR 1963 British Grand Prix Results from the Formula One British Grand Prix held at Silverstone Circuit on July 20, 1963.... 6	GER 1963 German Grand Prix The 1963 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at N?rburgring on August 4, 1963.... 5	ITA 1963 Italian Grand Prix Results from the Formula One Italian Grand Prix held at Autodromo Nazionale Monza on September 8, 1963.... 8	USA 1963 United States Grand Prix The 1963 Formula One season United States Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on October 6, 1963 at the Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York.... 10	MEX 1963 Mexican Grand Prix Results from the Formula One Mexican Grand Prix held at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez on October 27, 1963.... 8	RSA 1963 South African Grand Prix Results from the Formula One South African Grand Prix held at East London, South Africa on December 28, 1963....	12th	3