Lola T70 Mk3B in action: Best of Chevy V8 Sounds, Accelerations & Racing on Track! 

Andy i agree...all time fave race car ...though it just edges out the GT40, Chapparel, and the ole McLarens!!!!

Fell in love with them when I first saw and heard them racing at Oulton Park in 2012 too. So loud and brutal!

GT? I thought it was a prototype of it's time?

I was born in 1970, remember watching Speed Racer & remember being emotionally moved by the sounds & looks of these cars... by the time I was 5, if the old man couldnt find NASCAR then we would watch what ever motor sports we could find on tv at that time... I still feel the same emotions when I see & hear these sleek rockets... magic...

It’s a GT car? Not a prototype?

True, but these things weigh about 2000-2200 lbs?

The chassis was every bit as competent and competitive as the Porsche and Ferrari cars of it's day. It just didn't have the horsepower to run with them. The small block Chevy engine in 24 hour durability tune put out 425-450 hp. The Porsches and Ferraris probably over 500. The Ferrari probably had slight power edge with the liquid cooling. That Porsche cooling fan had to draw some serious power.

Those were 'real' HP back in the day. Not the silicon tits of today. All talk (torque) and plenty of action.

With no traction control and weighing nothing it's very scarey

The Lola T70 had 500hp from it's pushrod V8 5liter Chevrolet V8, mechanical fuel injection and naturally asperated and weighed just 1900 pounds dry or 860kilograms. It's performance is still respectable even by today's standards!

The Sunoco T70 was a favorite of mine, too. If you haven't read the book already, if you are curious about the details of the Sunoco T70, the book, "The Unfair Advantage," by Mark Donohue and Paul Van Valkenberg is a marvelous read; as the chapters are divided up among the race cars the Penske Team had with Mark at the wheel. The chapter of the Ferrari 512M had Donohue not pulling any punches about Ferrari, as that factory team had to be its own worse enemy; with Ferrari pursuing a self-defeating endeavor when racing against the Porsche 917s.

The Roger Penske Lola T70 Mk3b. Only Mk3B to win a 24 hour race. The 1969 Daytona 24 hours. Nearest rival was 30 laps behind. My favorite GT car of the 60's.

Indeed! And I can't stop recording them everytime I saw one on track 😌

@@19Bozzy92 …Lucky for us! Thank you!

Fondly remember gilles villeneuves feriz being woken up at the montreal gp. Ground shook.

@blxtothis - The reason they don't is because they were unsuccessful in making it a winner - or even a finisher for that matter! If you listen to the many Brits talk about it, you'd think Broadley & Lola created the car, which couldn't be further from the truth! Broadley had his own vision of what he thought the GT40 should be, totally forgetting (or ignoring) the fact that this was Ford's project and they were footing the bill for the entire build. It was designed, engineered and developed by Ford's Roy Lunn and his staff through Kar-Kraft in Michigan, Ford's contracted performance firm. Kar-Kraft was Ford's version of Lola Cars. Broadley's self righteous attitude pissed off the wrong (or right!) people at Ford and he was sent packing back to his Lola Car Co. Carroll Shelby and his small company, Shelby American, as well as Kar-Kraft and Holman Moody completed the GT40 in winning form where Broadley/Lola never got the car sorted out properly. 🤠 🏆 🏁

@@Loulovesspeed A lot of what you have said here is not true. Lola factually did design and build the initial cars developed from the Lola Mk6 GT which had attracted Ford's attention at Le Mans after the Ferrari snub.The first cars were assembled by Abbey Panels and by Lola in the workshop Ford purchased in Slough England. The body was designed by Roy Lunn, and was not successful, too high at the front and sloping down at the rear. Unlike the immediately succesful Lola T70 which won the first Can-Am championship. Also Broadley suggested Ford retain the aluminium based monocoque and spaceframe design, but Ford understandably used all steel so they could productionise it more easily into what would have been the world's first mid-engined super car. But then they never went through with that except for a few road legal versions of the Mk1 and specifically the Mk3. The combination of non race-bred aero packaging and heavy steel chassis made the very first car pretty poor and yes it did need development which is where Kar-Kraft, Shelby and co. certainly succeeded, as well as taking advantage of the rule that now allowed the 427 motor to be used. Other teams also developed the revised car including Alan Mann Racing, H&M, and most notably ex-Aston Martin racing team manager (managing Shelby and Salvadori to their Le Mans Win) John Wyer (also a Brit on the initial GT40 program in England) who ran all the Gulf Racing cars of the time, Mk1 GT40s in 1968 and 69 and Porsches including the 917 all through that era. Kar Kraft developed the GT Mk IV which included a revised chassis featuring more aluminium and greatly improved aero with the help of ex-Lola man Tony Southgate (who would go on to design the Shadow cars, and help develop the Ford RS200 and the Ferrari 333SP). So yes Lola did build the initial cars, and to say useful British infulence was negligible is untrue. Finally I think Ford and Broadley agreed to disagree, he was taken on for a fixed contract and when it finished they parted ways, likewise John Wyer. Ford now had a cutting-edge monocoque mid-engine chassis design (Porsche by comparison built their first monocoque in 1980), Lola had a new factory and new projects. Broadley designed Honda's RA300 F1 car, The Can-Am T160 and T220 series, the first F5000 cars, the evolving T70, and Graham Hill's Indianapolis winning car and others before 1970, and a lot more including further non-Lola brand name cars after that. Also Ken Miles.

@@garnicholson74 - All I could find on Tony Southgate's involvement with Ford was designing the chassis for their RS200 Group B rally car. The Ford MKIV was entirely American designed and built in the USA through Ford, Kar-Kraft and Holman Moody.

@@Loulovesspeed Granted the Mk IV was the car Ford should have built to start with, and was an amazing and well developed vehicle. And though Ken Miles died testing it's development version, it was built totally under American auspices. Maybe Ford should have just gone to Jim Hall. I apologise I can't remember my source for TS working on the MkIV though I read it recently, perhaps that was spurious.

@@garnicholson74 - If this had been a more conventional road racing model, then Hall would have probably been an excellent choice with his level of creativity and visionary style. Problem is, he had no more experience in 24 endurance racing than Ford did. I don't know, but Hall being brought in would have been very interesting at the very least!

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No worries! Thank you for watching

Those were Big Block cars, a very different sound.

Ha ha...same here bud, also Sears Point for me as well.

Too bad Lola never made a street car …

No problem at all!

That sweet candy smellin fuel

The russian tank? 😆

@@b.s.7693 valid point! Though living in Indianapolis, I've never met one.

@@apancher Seeing how Russia is currently doing in Ukraine, I don't think you will ever have to either 😁

Yep! They all had distinctive characteristics. Nowadays, I can't tell the difference between Toyota, Nissan, Peugeot, Audi, Porsche, or any of the other current breed of coupe racers.

I was parked at the Esses at Riverside, miss those days😀👍

Totally agree.

Lightweight Camaro. 370 lbs lighter due to acid dipping and qualifying after number changing and substitution

@@stephenpage-murray7226 (in a tone of pleasure) Ah! Yes! xD

UK

probably due to your mufflers..