Reports are emerging from the Formula 1 paddock suggesting that Ferrari is set to collaborate with Dallara, a specialist Italian race car manufacturer.
"Contact with Dallara? Yes, there was," confirmed Ferrari team boss Maurizio Arrivabene, according to La Repubblica.
"We are planning to re-launch the Emilian motor valley to be able to answer the challenge posed by the English motor valley, where in a few kilometres there are the factories of Mercedes, Red Bull, Williams, Renault, Force India and Manor," he said.
Former F1 driver and Italian Jarno Trulli was also asked about the Dallara-Ferrari speculation, and he answered: "This joint venture of an Italian motor valley - if confirmed - would be a good thing."
A sort of Ferrari-Dallara collaboration is already in play in F1, as Dallara helps the unofficial Ferrari B-team Haas with its chassis.
Dallara dabbled in Formula 1 as a constructor from 1988 to 1992 as BMS Scuderia Italia, powered by Ferrari engines in their final year at the pinnacle of the sport.
The organisation was also involved with the now defunct Hispania Racing Team in 2010 and has had an illustrious history supplying chassis' for the Indycar Series.
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