Jim Hall in the Chaparral Cars Gallery of the Permian Petroleum Museum, Midland, Texas, 2009

Jim Hall is a race car driver, developer, and team owner. He competed in Formula One from 1960 to 1963, participating in twelve World Championship Grand Prix and numerous other races. An engineer who was educated at the California Institute of Technology, Hall was one of the first to apply aerodynamics to race car design. He was the leading proponent of that technology for a decade. Jim Hall's Chaparral Cars, based in his hometown of Midland, Texas, was among the most innovative cars in racing.