Lola Formula 5000
Kevin Bartlett in his Lola T400 at Lukey Heights Corner at Phillip Island. Copyright David Mellonie (davidmellonie.com) 2018. Used with permission.
Lola were the dominant constructor for much of the history of Formula 5000, starting with the numerically superior but technologically inferior Lola T140 series through the recalcitrant monocoque T190 series to the F2-based and eventually dominant T300 in 1972. The models that followed in 1973 and 1974, the T330/T332 series, proved to be the definitive F5000 cars, winning virtually everything and completely changing the landscape of F5000. After 1974, very few constructors stayed in Formula 5000 and Lola were able to continue their domination, even when the T400 proved a very difficult car. US agent Carl Haas led a return to the T332 design for 1976, in the form of the T332C, but a few new T430s were also built.
Technical details of these cars are still needed in many cases. Please email Allen at allen@oldracingcars.com if you can add anything.
| Type | Years | Number built | Notes | |
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| Lola T140 | 1968 | 17 | Spaceframe. Full details available | 
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| Lola T142 | 1969 | 28 | Spaceframe. Full details available | 
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| Lola T190 | 1970 | 17 | Monocoque. Full monocoque. Wheelbase 92"; track 58"; length 150"; overall width 77"; weight with water and oil 1290lbs. Advertised chassis price £5,300. Full details available | 
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| Lola T192 | 1971 | 12 | Monocoque. An upgrade to the T190 productionising Frank Gardner's improvements to the original SWB T190. Full details available |  |
| Lola T300 | 1972 | 17 | 1972 model but first five cars built late in 1971. Lola say 15 built but records show an HU18 built May 1972. Full details available |  |
| Lola T330 | 1973 | 24 | 1973 model but first two cars built late in 1972. Chassis numbers used: HU1 to HU12 and HU14 to HU26 but Lola have no record of the sale of the last of these. Wheelbase 102"; track 64"; length 190"; overall width 81"; weight with water and oil 1375lbs. Full details available. |  |
| Lola T332 | 1974-1975 | 28 | 1974 model but the first one or two cars built late in 1973. Chassis numbers used continued T330 range: HU27 to HU52 in 1974 and then two more numbers used in 1975: HU53 and HU54. Other 'kitted' T332s built in 1975 by converting T400s. Full details available. |  |
| Lola T400 | 1975 | 14 | 1975 model but the first two or three built in December 1974. Lola say 15 built but only HU1 to HU15 used and, of those, HU13 almost certainly not built. Full details available. |  |
| Lola T430 | 1976 | 3 | 1976 model but T332C also produced that season. Three built, two for VDS and one for Haas. Full details available |  |
| Lola T332C | 1976-1977 | 8 | Produced in 1976 as an alternative to the unloved T430. Chassis numbers used continued T330/T332 range: HU55 to HU61 in 1976 and a one-off HU62 in 1977. Full details available. |  |
Total number built: 168.