European Sports Car Championspip 1972 - the new T290

[Wolfgang]

European Sports Car Championspip 1972 was a very good year for the new Lola T290. Mr. Jo Bonnier fast expanding preparation and sales business as European Lola Agent had been working long nights to ready six of the T290 for the first round at Paul Ricard. Three cars were painted in the familiar JoBo colours of red, white and yellow and entert under Ecurie Bonnier, costumer Roand Heiler, Claude Swietlik and Jorg de Bagration. Bonnier, along with Frenchman Jean-Louis Lafosse were enterd and running under the colours of the French tabocco corporation and Scuderia Filipinetti in their T290s, Bonnier's car painted in attractive Gitane cegarette and Lafosse those of Flint. All these cars but one were fitted with specially built Bonnier FVC engines developed from that used by Helmut Marko on the Springbok Series .....
The sixt car was for the Italian Antonio Zadra. One more new T290 entry was Guy Edwards mit the Barclays sponsord car .......

You will find pdf's of the European Sports Car Championship 1972 from AUTOSPORT under http://www.racecar-collection.com/Autosport-1972.jsp with interesting details ... Look to the story of the Lola Abarth T290 by Mr. Osella, a pic: http://www.racecar-collection.com/LolaAbarthT290.jpg ....

[italiano]

dear sir

hi I view what you love the lola sports cars

I will post my pics of lola sports cars of the seventies

regards


italiano

[italiano]

hi

I post here some pics of the 1972 lola t 290 model

italiano

[alain HACHE]

chassis number at the Paul icard event was:

Jo Bonnier HU002
JL Lafosse HU003
C Swietlik HU005
H Heiler HU006
A Zadra HU008
De Bagration HU009
JJ Cochet HU011
G Edwards HU022
best regards
Alain

[Wolfgang]

Hello Alain.
do you have information about the chassis number of this LOLA Abarth T290? pic: http://www.racecar-collection.com/LolaAbarthT290.jpg
greetings Wolfgang

[alain HACHE]

hello Wolfgang
The Lola Abarth chassis number can be 014 and 015.But I am not sure of my "source"
Best regards

[Wolfgang]

Hallo Alain,

thank you for the scan of the french Sport Auto May 1972 Paul Ricard, where you found the cassis numbers. I show your scan in the internet at:
http://www.racecar-collection.com/image ... d-1972.pdf

Best regards
Wolfgang

[Wolfgang]

Hallo Alain,
Lola Abarth chassis-number HU14 + 15 I found too. Mr. Vincenzo Osella, Torino buy 1972 May 5 a Lola chassis T290 HU 7, the invoice have a duty stamp May 18.5.1972. Mr. Osella work close together with Abarth. May 21 a Lola Abarth race at Targa Florio, drivers Nicodemi/Moser. To early for HU 7 ??

Mr. Bonnier buy HU 7 from Lola March 1, HU14 + 15 April 10. All 3 cars was delieverd in RED colour.

Kind regards

[Wolfgang]

Hello all,

There is a Lola T290 HU24 in Japan, SUZUSHO.inc Racecar Collection.
( http://www.suzusho.com/racecar/page.php?code=1129000200 ).
Looks very original! See pic: http://www.racecar-collection.com/T290-HU24-blog.jpg

kind regards
Wolfgang

[driftwood]

what cahssas did Silvio Moser crash in?
what car dod Facetti have?
Zadra crashed 1 lola 290 big crash taken to hospital was this hu 8 ?
Later he races to 3rd in Targa Florio in a new chassis for that race
what chassis did Danielli have for Brescia Corse

[Wolfgang]

I read in the german "Sport Auto" March 72 that Mr. Pierre Maublanc started as the new sales agent of Lola racecars in France. Do he sell HU14+15 to french drivers ?

Wolfgang

[driftwood]

It is highly possible that MRS sold 2 cars to the french Minel Team
i have only 1 race for the driver Monot at Paul Ricard ( alain Hache said this car was hu15 ? ) Th edriver Nello Chelli has not been seen in a race entry list only at 2 events
I have not hear dofrm the french readrs if the Minel team raced in the french sports car series only
Autosport shows afew results/small race report but no details of cars drivers etc
Only the Kodak Barrie Smith car and the odd Barcleys Lola get mentioned

I have now found out that Moser was racing 290 hu 20 and 294 hu 71 cars

[Wolfgang]

Yes, HU20 is the car of Mr. Nicodemi, raced with Silvio Moser together. His Mechanic Mr Beat Schenker say the car is still bei Mr. Nicodemi. I found 2 races:

Tonino Nicodemi / Silvio Moser I/CH # 9 Targa Florio, Sicily 21.5.1972 Cosworth BDG Silvio Moser Racing Team SA HU 020 AutoSport, NAVIAUX, Beat Schenker

Tonino Nicodemi / Silvio Moser I/CH # 25 1000 km Österreichring 25.6.1972 Abarth Jolly Club HU 020

Wolfgang

[driftwood]

BEAT TOLD ME HE IS NOT SURE IF bdg WAS IN THE CAR FOR TARGA FLORIO EVENT AS HE DID NOT PREPARE THE CAR HE SAID HE THINKS HE HAD THE CAR FROM SEPTEMBER TO MAINTAIN AN DIT HAD THE BDG IN THEN
HE WILL CHECK MORE RECORDS TO BE SURE AND WILLSEE TONINO IN SEPT 06 AND ASK HIM WHO DID THE RACE PREPARING BEFORE HIM AND WHAT ENGINE WAS IN THE CAR THEN
YOU QUOTE AUTOSPORT - DO U MEAN THE UK VERSION?
NAVIAUX- WHERE IS THIS INFO FROM? IS THIS THE FRENCH BOOK COMPANY DOING THE PRO SPORTS AN DIJON 100 KM BOOKS?
MANY BOOKS AND WEBS REPORT TF EVENT HAS LOLA 290 ABARTH CAR FOR MOSER NICODEMI

THE DATES FOR THE 2 RACES ARE CLOSE MAYBE NOT TIME TO DO ENGINE SWAP FROM BDG TO ABARTH SO MAYBE CAR WAS ABARTH ENGINE UNTIL LATER IN THE SEASON THEN FORD ENGINE FITTED

SOON I WILL HAVE THE INFO
http://www.racecar-collection.com/LolaAbarthT290.jpg
DOES ANYONE RECOGNISE THIS CAR OR THE EVENT WHERE PHOTO IS FROM

[Wolfgang]

AUTOSPORT the UK-Version
NAVIAUX write the frensh book about the European Championship 2 liter 1972
The car Nicodemi/Moser driven in Targa Florio 1972 is noted in all papers as LOLA Abarth, but Beat say .....