Lola Cars - Naming Scheme

Naming Scheme

At the time of Lola's creation, their sports cars and formula cars followed a naming scheme of being numbered in order of construction, and preceded by the term Mark (Mk1 through Mk6). However in 1964, the designations were altered to become Type (marked as simply T), with the first digit or two designating what type of car, and the final digit designating a variant of that car. This continued until 1986 when the numbering scheme was slightly altered. The T would remain, yet the next two digits would designate the year of original design, and the next two would designate what type of car it was. The final digit would again denote variants of that design. This was again slightly altered in 1998, with the T being replaced by a B, in honor of Lola's owner Martin Birrane. The numbering system would however remain the same.

Since employing the new system in 1986, the final two digits stand for the following types of cars:

• /00 – CART & Champ Car
• /10 – Group C & IMSA GTP, Le Mans Prototype SR1, LMP900, and LMP1 classes
• /20 – Indy Lights
• /30 – Formula One, later replaced by Formula Three
• /40 – Le Mans Prototype SR2 and LMP2 classes
• /50 – Formula 3000 & Formula Nippon
• /60 – Le Mans Prototype LMP675 class, later LMP1 Coupes
• /70 – Mexican Formula 3000, later touring cars, now Daytona Prototypes
• /80 – Le Mans Prototype LMP2 Coupes
• /90 – Sports 2000

Therefore, a car like the T92/10 would be a 1992 Group C car, and the B03/00 would be a 2003 Champ Car chassis.

Note that the Lola former A1 Grand Prix cars currently do not have a designation that matches this scheme, and are marked simply as Lola A1GP. The evolution of this car used in the Euroseries 3000 and its immediate successor AutoGP was given the name B0552.