Looking back over the years you have to wonder how Jim Hall could have gotten it so wrong with the Chaparral 2H but it must be remembered that true genius must be allowed to fail and with the Chaparral 2H he certainly did that. The car called the blue whale by his competitors must have been secretly admired by his fellow designers for more than one must have wished that they too could been allowed to let their imagination run free. The Chaparral may have been a failure on the race track but it stands as a testament to the spirit that was the Canadian-American Challenge Cup.
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