T492
A T492 at the Lola Factory. (The Lola Archive)
Sports 2000 had proven very popular in its first year in the UK and with the T490
dominating the season, winning nineteen out of twenty rounds, it's hardly surprising Lola's new offering for 1978 would be very popular. This was indeed the case and with other countries adopting the formula, Lola produced ninety-one T492s over the next two years, forty-six went to the US, thirty to the UK, eleven to Holland, seven to Sweden and one each to France, Switzerland and Denmark.
The new car was virtually identical to the T490 except that the single water radiator was moved from the front of the car to twin radiators, one either side of the tub just in front of the rear wheels. This change was offered to T490 owners as an update kit and many of them took advantage of the opportunity.
Once again, in the UK SodaStream Championship, the Lola's dominated with the T492 taking eleven rounds and with the T490 winning eight more nothing could stop the Huntingdon cars, in fact the top ten in the Championship were all Lola mounted. The T492 was similarly a winner in the US and Europe.
Year(s) of Construction: 1978-1979
The new car was virtually identical to the T490 except that the single water radiator was moved from the front of the car to twin radiators, one either side of the tub just in front of the rear wheels. This change was offered to T490 owners as an update kit and many of them took advantage of the opportunity.
Once again, in the UK SodaStream Championship, the Lola's dominated with the T492 taking eleven rounds and with the T490 winning eight more nothing could stop the Huntingdon cars, in fact the top ten in the Championship were all Lola mounted. The T492 was similarly a winner in the US and Europe.
Year(s) of Construction: 1978-1979
Total Built: 91
T492 being crated up for shipping at the factory in 1978. Photo courtesy of Bjorn Bellander www.bjorns-story.se
T492s to the fore at Brands Hatch, Wayne Wainwright leads Nick Adams and John Trevelyan.
(The Lola Archive)
(The Lola Archive)
Andreas Floth leads a brace of Tigas in his T492
A pair of T492s sporting non-factory aero revisions, the Martin Chambers #20 car with the Alan Rollinson developed low drag nose and non-factory fences, followed by the totally re-bodied car revised and driven by Keith Messer.