Lola B12/60

Lola Cars

MarqueLola Cars
Power525 hp
Race record5 wins from 37 races · Drivers_champ = championships

The Lola B12/60 is one of the Lola Cars entries the open record knows by name, and by little else. That is not nothing: a name in the catalogue is where a car's story starts to be recoverable. The shape is credited to Julian Sole.

The background

Lola B12/60 is a Le Mans prototype built in 2012 by British Lola Racing Cars in England to compete in the FIA World Endurance Championship. It has been entered by the Rebellion Racing team in the FIA Endurance World Championship since the 2012 season and has also been used, to a lesser extent, in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) championship. It has also been used by the Dyson Racing in the ALMS since 2012.

The engineering

the output is 525 hp. On the scales it comes to 900 kg. That is roughly 583 horsepower per tonne: hypercar territory, where the limiting factor is the tyre, not the engine. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.

Where it sits

In the Lola Cars line-up the Lola B12/60 has a clear place: it replaced the Lola B08/60; it handed the line to the Rebellion R-One. Its Lola Cars stablemates include the Hill GH1 and the Lola B02/50.

Specifications

Kerb weight900 kg
WheelbaseTrack =
Length4,648 mm
DesignerJulian Sole
PredecessorLola B08/60
SuccessorRebellion R-One
Catalogue IDQ3258755
SourceWikipedia