Lola T70

This racing car was conceived in 1965 by the legendary Eric Broadley, founder of the prestigious British marque Lola Cars, who, like Chapman and other British enthusiasts of the time, decided to design and build his own racing cars based on the Austin 7.

Working independently, with the aim of dominating the endurance championships (Can-Am and the 24 Hours of Le Mans) and taking on rivals such as the Ferrari P3 and the McLaren M1. All the conditions were in favour of this ambitious project: first and foremost, an experienced, passionate and extremely motivated manufacturer, who managed to attract the attention of the Ford Motor Company with his cars to such an extent that he became a consultant for the famous GT40, and the support of none other than the newly crowned Formula 1 world champion John Surtees, who became one of the first drivers of the T70 and helped drive its development. This led to one success after another and the evolution of four different versions, from the Mk II barchetta (Spyder) with which Surtees won the Can-Am championship in 1966 to the Mk IIIB, making it increasingly high-performance, lightweight, stable and popular.

Thanks to its agility, this legendary racing car, in its various iterations, proved to be an excellent weapon in sprint races and set the pace in national and international competitions. Today, enthusiasts regard the T70 with the same admiration as they did 60 years ago: seeing its flowing lines in the flesh and hearing the powerful symphony of its V8 engine as it shifts down a gear on the approach to a bend thrills us admirers just as much as seeing Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain.