Lola T280

[Jeremy Jackson]

Yes that's the family. The Autosport article showed the Mirage-BRM & the Lola in one pic, and David's Skoda was another pic. Malcolm Johnstone was a sometime-Skoda driver aswell. At the time of Autosports' article (March 81) they were still deciding whether to sell the Skoda...

[Dan Rear]

I remember the Auger Skoda as being the first car, IIRC, being built on a S2000 tub (T492 I think) rather than a 2-litre G6 one. Little actual difference I realise, but showed the way the world was going at the time. It was also, I think, the first 1300cc Skoda.

Malcolm Johnstone was a good racer I saw from late 70s to early 80s. Didn't he have a 1-litre Mini, then Imp, then Skoda? From Lowdham, near Notts, i recall. Does he do anything now ?

[Dan Rear]

just finished the Allen histories, wow ....what can I say !

Couple of points, though not much help with the mysteries I'm afraid. First 'GRS' as seen in the Zaborowski pics was I think Gunther Richter Sport, who built a one-off F2 car in about 1981-82, with little success as I recall. Similar sort of team to the Brutschins/Gebhardts, German privateers mainly doing the German F2 races only.

Second, how often did the Augers race their T280 ? I can't remember it out much at all in early 80s, the odd Libre race perhaps, Donington Open type things ?

[Jeremy Jackson]

The only time I know Auger raced it was at a Donington Open event in April 1981, but he may have done a few more that year.

[Alain HACHE]

for the next Le Mans Classic event are enterred these two cars :
from Equipe Europe (Y Mahé) a T280 car of 1972 and a T286 of 1976 from USA (Skidmore) . I think this is the car of Jeremy's picture 26 May 2004 .

[barathieu gerar]

gentlemen,

i came this day from LE MANS CLASSIC with marvellous cars.

I saw the LOLA T286 of SKIDMORE/LEONARD

and i could saw the chassis plate:T 286 HU 286/7.

delivered 11/03/76.

[barathieu gerar]

more about the car:24H DU MANS:
1976 :LAPEYRE/CHEVANNES
1977: PERRIER/LAPEYRE
1979:CHEVALLEY/LAPEYRE/PERRIER
1980:GAILLARD/CHEVALLEY/TRISCONI
1981:CHEVALLEY/GAILLARD/SOTY

[Jeremy Jackson]

Thanks for the confirmation Gerard, I think it's LM history is as we thought. Nice to have the chassis confirmed.

[Michael Oliver]

Originally posted by barathieu gerar
gentlemen,

i came this day from LE MANS CLASSIC with marvellous cars.

I saw the LOLA T286 of SKIDMORE/LEONARD

and i could saw the chassis plate:T 286 HU 286/7.

delivered 11/03/76.

I guess from the fact that you don't mention it that the car of Yvan Mahe was not there?

[Alain HACHE]

Michael
The T286 / 7 was Skidmore car and the Y Mahé car was the ex
Schultess T284 LM 1974 and 1975 .This car was by Heini Mader (ex Bonnier team in Gland Switzerland ) in 1974 builded . Y Mahé tolled to me that T284 is not Lola chassis
number , the car was builded with spares from 1972 Jo Bo's
T280 . The chassis number is T280/4 HU02 !!!!
Its for me difficult to believe but that seem to be coherent...
what do you think about ?

[Jeremy Jackson]

Alain,

Well that answers why Schulthess' car didn't really seem to fit anywhere... To his credit, Michael did suggest that this may be the case (See Allen's helpful page!)

[Alain HACHE]

thanks Jeremy for reply , I just visited Allen's pages very good job!
I will be absent for some days and will try when I will be back to place on this forum some of my pictures from LM classic
bye bye

[Michael Oliver]

Originally posted by Alain HACHE
Michael
The T286 / 7 was Skidmore car and the Y Mahé car was the ex
Schultess T284 LM 1974 and 1975 .This car was by Heini Mader (ex Bonnier team in Gland Switzerland ) in 1974 builded . Y Mahé tolled to me that T284 is not Lola chassis
number , the car was builded with spares from 1972 Jo Bo's
T280 . The chassis number is T280/4 HU02 !!!!
Its for me difficult to believe but that seem to be coherent...
what do you think about ?

Interesting. So what is the car in the Rosso Bianco museum then? The ex-Jauslin chassis? It's a while since I've read the thread, so I think I need to go through it again as even I am getting confused now!

Also, Fox Motorsports were advertising T280 HU02 in Motor Sports and this is a totally different car, it is in the US, I believe. So this puts a question mark over the Mahe car, especially given what I have been told about when it was built and how...

Would be interesting to see the pictures from the LM Classic.

[Jeremy Jackson]

Just watched the LM Classic on MotorsTV, and while there weren't any close-ups, there were a couple of shots of Mahé's car during racing - it was plain yellow, with T280 type bodywork. Hopefully Alain's photos will show it better.

[Nordic]

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