Jim Hall (race car driver)

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Jim Hall
Nationality  American
Formula One World Championship career
Active years	1960 - 1963
Teams	Lotus
Races	12 (11 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	0
Career points	3
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1960 United States Grand Prix
Last race	1963 Mexican Grand Prix

Jim Hall (born July 23, 1935 in Abilene, Texas^[1]) is a former racecar driver and constructor from the United States. He competed in Formula One from 1960 to 1963, participating in 12 World Championship Grands Prix and numerous non-Championship races.^[2]

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. [1] His son, Jim Hall, Jr., resides in California and operates the Jim Hall Kart Racing School.

[edit] Awards

• Jim Hall has been inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1997.
• He was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1994.

[edit] 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	Private	Lotus 18	Climax Straight-4	ARG	MON	500	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	POR	ITA	USA 7	-	0
1961	Private	Lotus 18	Climax Straight-4	MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	USA Ret			-	0
1962	Private	Lotus 21	Climax Straight-4	NED	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	USA DNS	RSA		-	0
1963	British Racing Partnership	Lotus 24	BRM V8	MON Ret	BEL Ret	NED 11	FRA 8	GBR 6	GER 5	ITA 8	USA 10	MEX 8	RSA	12th	3

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