Lola T92 / 10
The Lola T92 / 10 was a Group C sports car developed by Lola Cars in 1991 .
Development history
By the late 1980s, Lola had established itself as a developer and manufacturer of Group C sports cars on an order basis. This is how Lola created the Chevrolet Corvette GTP (internal Lola T86 / 10), the Nissan R89C (internal Lola T89 / 10) and the Nissan R90CK (internal Lola T90 / 10). The T92 / 10 was the first in-house Group C development since the T610 from 1982.
The car was redesigned from scratch. The front was pulled far down, the two large openings on the front of the car were used to cool the brakes. The front window of the cockpit was pulled flat forward to give the pilots the best possible view. A large rear wing ensured the best possible contact pressure.
The 3.5 liter V10 GV unit from Judd was used as the engine. John Judd presented this engine in 1991, which was installed in the Formula 1 - Dallara 191 by BMS Scuderia Italia . At Lola, the engine was adapted for a sports car. The car, of which three chassis were made, was presented for the first time at the 430 km race at the Nürburgring in 1991 , where it was exhibited but not driven.
Racing history
Two chassis, HU01 and HU02, were bought by the Dutch racing driver Charles Zwolsman senior in 1992 for his Euro Racing racing team . Zwolsman was arrested in 1988 for drug trafficking and sentenced to prison. In 1992 he was released on probation and competed in the sports car world championship with his team and the two T92 / 10s . The racing debut was the race car (chassis HU01) in April 1992 when the Interserie scoring race at Mugello . The first win came with the first race. The overall ranking consisted of two races, each over a distance of 14 laps. In this addition, Zwolsman won ahead of the Kremer - Porsche 962CK6 from Manuel Reuter and the Cougar C28S from Marco Brand used by Courage Compétition . For Zwoslman, the success was the only victory in a car race.
In the sports car world championship, the successes largely failed. Both Zwolsman chassis were entered for the first race of the season, the 500 km race in Monza . The car driven by Stefan Johansson and Jesús Pareja (chassis HU02) retired after a gearbox failure in the warm-up lap. The same defect brought Zwolsman and Cor Euser to an end after 39 laps . In the second race of the season, the 500 km race at Silverstone , Johannson and Pareja were disqualified. Zwolsman and Euser had another gearbox failure. The first finish in the world championship was at the 24-hour race in Le Mans , where the future Formula 1 driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen , Shunji Kasuya and Zwolsman finished 13th in the overall standings. The deficit on the victorious Peugeot 905 Evo 1B driven by Derek Warwick , Yannick Dalmas and Mark Blundell was 81 laps. The first finishes were at the 500 km race in Donington with fourth place for Frentzen and Phil Andrews and fifth place for Pareja and Hideshi Matsuda at the 1000 km race at Suzuka . The team did not take part in the last race of the sports car world championship, the 500 km race in Magny-Cours . Zwolsman was in custody after violating his probation requirements and the team faced disbandment.
The third chassis, HU03, was acquired by the British racing team McNeil Engineering . The car was used from 1995 for the Canadian Robbie Stirling in the Interseries. Sterling won the Interserie races at Brands Hatch and Albacete in 1996 , at the Hungaroring in 1997 and in May and August 2001 two races at the A1-Ring .
literature
- Thomas Nehlert, Group C: The sports car races 1982-1992 , Verlag Petrolpics, Bonn 2011, ISBN 3-940306-14-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Front of the Lola T92 / 10
- ↑ Rear of the Lola T92 / 10 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Mugello Interseries Races 1992
- ^ Monza 500 km race in 1992
- ↑ 500km Silverstone 1992 race
- ↑ Brands Hatch Interseries in 1996
- ↑ Inter-series races in Albacete 1996
- ^ Interseries races at Hungaroring 1997
- ↑ Interseries races at the A1-Ring 2001
- ↑ Interseries races at the A1-Ring 2001
