The Dallara F191 was a

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and Nigel Cowperthwaite for use by the

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team during the

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. Its best finish was at the

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when

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drove it to third place.

Development

The Dallara F191 car was designed by

and Nigel Cowperthwaite and was an entirely new albeit conventional car rather than simply a development of the previous year's car. Like the cars of most other teams, the F191 had a high nose configuration.Tremayne, 1991, pp. 64–65 The Cosworth DFR from 1990 was discarded and instead an exclusive supply of Judd

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s was sourced from Engine Developments Limited. The new engine, developed by

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, generated plenty of power; at the start of the year it was achieving 660 bhp and by the end of the season it was putting out over 700 bhp.Hodges, 2001, pp. 70–71

Race history

For 1991,

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, who drove for the team the previous year, was retained while

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was replaced by

, who crashed the car heavily in pre-season testing. Scuderia Italia's failure to score any points the previous year, together with the number of teams attempting to qualify for races in the current season, meant that for the first half of the year, both drivers were forced to pre-qualify. When Lehto secured the team's best finish of the year by finishing third at the

, the four points earned from the race meant that from the German Grand Prix onwards, he and Pirro had direct entry to qualifying. While pre-qualifying was no barrier for Lehto, Pirro had failed three times. When he qualified for races, Pirro enjoyed relatively good reliability in contrast to Lehto who only finished five races all year. Pirro's best race was at the

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, where he scored a single point for sixth place. Emanuele Pirro 1991 USA

Complete Formula One results

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) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Notes

References

* * {{Dallara 1991 Formula One season cars Dallara Formula One cars