Unforgettable Car Geniuses: Giampaolo Dallara. The engineer who, almost anonymously, builds more racing cars than anyone else in the world.

Racing was everything to him. Freshly graduated in engineering from Milan Polytechnic, he sought someone who would hire him and send him to the race tracks. Giampaolo Dallara had talent: in 1959, Ferrari hired him. But there was no racing. So he went to Maserati, where he worked on a few races assisting driver clients, but the company was struggling. He saw no future there. Ferruccio Lamborghini offered him a job. To lure him in, he sent him to Le Mans to see how to prepare a car for the 24-hour race. It was a clever ploy. Ferruccio had no intention of going to Le Mans, but when he arrived at the company, he asked him to design the new GT. It would be the Miura.