Video: This car is the father of all Lolas

22nd February 2022

Ben Miles

Lola is one of the most important names in the history of motorsport. Whereas now the company has faded from existance – it's remains even being sold off at an auction – once it made some of the most important cars in the world.

While those cars would eventually include cars like Ford's GT40 – which began life with the design of the Lola Mk6 – the T70 and others right through to LMP1 machines of the 2010s, it all had to start somewhere, and that place was the Lola Mk1.