The Pure Judd V10 Sounds of a 1992 Lola T92/10 Group C - OnBoard at Circuit Paul Ricard!
What's better than the sound of a Judd V10 screaming down the Mistral Straight at Circuit Paul Ricard? Not much else. I had this video in storage for a while now and had forgotten to work on. It's about the fantastic Lola T92/10 (chassis HU01) managed by Pastorelli Classic Cars and driven by David and Oliver Hart from DHG Racing during the 2023 Dix Mille Tours by @peterautoracing. On that occasion the car took part in the Paul Ricard round of the Group C Racing championship.
Following years of success building prototypes for Chevrolet in the IMSA GTP series as well as Nissan in the World Sportscar Championship and All Japan Sports Prototype Championship, Lola ended the 1991 season without a major manufacturer to back their sports car effort. Lola was therefore left to develop a car with the intent of allowing customers to buy a complete package, rather than relying on a major automobile manufacturer to dictate the car's design.
The T92/10 was developed in 1991 and it was designed to look more like a covered Formula car than a prototype. A lot of windtunnel development was done achieving extraordinarily high down-force figures combined with modest drag giving the car a very high lift-to-drag' ratio. Following the new 3.5-litre Group C rules they opted for the Judd GV10 engine already used in Formula 1 during those years. By August 1991 the first complete car was ready and unveiled to the public for the first time.
Euro Racing would become the primary customer of the T92/10, purchasing the first two chassis for use in the 1992 World Sportscar Championship season. As beautiful as the car was, it proved to be riddled with reliability problems, mainly related to the gearbox. Only a total of three T92/10s were built, as the Group C category was cancelled by the FIA in April 1992. This stifled the development of the car, as there was no longer any incentive of potential future sales.
In 1995, McNeil Engineering would purchase a third T92/10 chassis, with chassis number HU03, to be fielded in the Interserie championship. Although the Group C formula was technically dead, the car was still legal against modified open-wheel race cars.
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Event: Dix Mille Tours 2023
Where: Circuit Paul Ricard, France
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