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Old 24 Aug 2003, 07:57 (Ref:697102)   #1
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Lola T280

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can somebody help me about LOLA T280 with 3L DFV engine :
Jo Bonnier was owner of the chassis 1 and 2 , but how many
cars was builded ? Chassis HU02 was destroyed in Jo BO's fatal crash in Le Mans 72 . Where is now chassis HU01?
In the Bianco Rosso Museum is a T 280 different of the original car . What is the story of this car ? A T280 won
a race in Estoril droved by Carlos GASPAR ( 18th June 1972 )and an other was entered in the 1972 Grand Champion Serie in Japan ( driver N TAKAHARA ) . Maybe somebody know
chassis number of these cars ?
I also search rear views of the car and pictures of the car
car entered by Jo Bonnier in Interserie 1972 .
Thanks for your answers ....
et un salut amical Ã* tous
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Old 24 Aug 2003, 08:35 (Ref:697120)   #2
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Alain, welcome to ten-tenths. A lovely car the T280.
I too recall seeing one in Peter Kaus' Rosso Bianco museum at Aschaffenburg.The greatest Sportscar museum in the world!
I can't help with chassis numbers but might be able to find some photos from 72. I will have a look.
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Old 24 Aug 2003, 10:52 (Ref:697185)   #3
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Alain,

I think the number of T280s is unclear, but jeremy Lord raced anon-Bonnier carin Minilite colours in Motoring News events in 1974 (I think). Tim Goss certainly raced that car at the Silverstone Interserie in 1974. That car "may" have been the one raced by Ray Mallock in Thndersports during 1983.

I believe the chassis for the cars for 1973 onwards, the T282 - T284 - T286 were sequential. T286-HU10 was the chassis run by James Wallis in Thundersports during 1985-86, and this was a car that was originally destined for de Cadenet, I believe.

So it could be assumed that there was a maximum of 10 3-litre chassis (If it wasn't for T286-HU50 being raced by Reudi Jauslin in Interserie from approx. 1978-83 !)

T280-HU01 was I think raced by Daniel Rouveyran in 1973, after that I don't know.

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Old 24 Aug 2003, 16:27 (Ref:697492)   #4
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Thanks Andrew for answer .
Perhaps the car in the Bianco Rosso Museum is not an T280
original ?
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Old 24 Aug 2003, 16:52 (Ref:697511)   #5
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Hello Jeremy
I also think so : T280 chassis number are really unclear
Yes chassis HU010 was originally destined to De Cadenet and won the thundersports cup in 1986 (driven by Walt Bohren ? )
probably this car also won Monza 1000 Kms in 1979 , and was recently to sold on RACE-CARS . com .
I had contact with D Rouveyran's nephew , and the car #61
was probably HU01 . D Rouveyran died in an moutain climb race in autumn 1973 . With chassis HU01 ?
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Old 24 Aug 2003, 17:18 (Ref:697533)   #6
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Alain,

HU10 was driven by James Wallis, and various other co-drivers - Mike Wilds in 1985, James Weaver & Will Hoy in 1986 i UK Thundersports events. It won one race at Brands Hatch in 1985, but only finished 2 of 4 races entered in 1986, so I think you're mixing it up with another series?

As I understood, it wasn't actually a running chassis until completed for Wallis' purchase in 1984.
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Old 24 Aug 2003, 21:49 (Ref:697732)   #7
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I might be wrong, but wasn't Rouveyran killed while driving his March 721G (c/n 721G/5)?
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Old 25 Aug 2003, 06:13 (Ref:697946)   #8
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bonjour VITESSE
D Rouveyran's nephew tell me that he was killed in a Lola but I couldnt get more infos about that . Maybe it was with a March ; do you know the race and the day of the
accident ?
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Sorry Alain, I have no details. David McKinney may know more though. Are you reading this David?
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Hello Alain, seems a lot of people here come from the center of France.
Can't help you with the Lola but i know for sure that Rouveyran died at the Mont Dore Hillclimb in 1973. There's a memorial reminding him in one of the first fast left handers at the beginning of the race. I've been there for holidays a couple of times and always wanted to know more about it. This post will surely help .
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My memory might be playing tricks here, but i seem to remember Mike Wilds destroying a Lola in a fire at Donington in a Thundersports race, or was that a T296??
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Old 26 Aug 2003, 09:28 (Ref:699148)   #12
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Yep your memory's OK, that was the T280 he shared with Mallock in 1983, entered by Marsh Plant Hire. It was actually rebuilt for the Brands race in September, which it won. So not sure how much dmaage the fire did, but I remember Autosport's photo, and it looked pretty extensive.
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Old 27 Aug 2003, 19:25 (Ref:701030)   #13
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SOME QUESTIONS:
Did Jo Bonnier sold an T280 chassis just after Buenos Aires
1972 1000 kms to Mr Nestor Garcia Vega ?
What was chassis number of the winning car of the 1000 Kms de Paris race in October 1972 ( G Larrousse and JP Beltoise) ? I only have T280/2 in my docs .
I really try to know the story of the only car abble to disturb the Matra Team in 24 Hours Le Mans 1972 .
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bonjour VITESSE
D Rouveyran's nephew tell me that he was killed in a Lola but I couldnt get more infos about that . Maybe it was with a March ; do you know the race and the day of the
accident ?
all the best for you
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Vitesse is correct - Rouvreyan died 1st July 1973 in the Mont Dore hillclimb at the wheel of March 721G/5.

HTH

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Old 3 Sep 2003, 18:27 (Ref:707254)   #15
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Alain,

The car that won the Paris 100okms in 1972 was a brand new chassis (according to Autosport), the prototype T282. However, it's bodywork was identical to the T280, i.e. it had the short nose, not the longer nose that the T282 had in 1973. Sorry, no idea of the chassis number.

I don't belive Garcia-Viega purchased a chassis, but drove the Ecurie Bonnier car(practice only) at Daytona in 1972.

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Old 4 Sep 2003, 19:52 (Ref:708386)   #16
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thanks Michael for infos about D Rouveyran .
Now I'm sure that HU01 was not destroy in this accident.
JL Lafosse had an accident with an T280 in practice of 9 H
Kyalami 1972 and the car couldnt start the race . Do you
know something about ?
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Old 4 Sep 2003, 20:01 (Ref:708399)   #17
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you confirm to me what I supposed about this car . I think this chassis was probably entered in some races in 1973 by Jolly Club : # 11 at Dijon 1000 Kms , # 10 at Monza 1000 Kms and #12 at the Nurburgring . Perhaps in entry list only # 1 Le Mans 1973 ?
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Alain,

The Kyalami T282 was Bonnier-entered and Gitnaes-sponsored and crashed after 3 laps of practice. I would assume it was the Paris chassis.

Autosport's reports say that Jolly Club's 1973 car was hired from Ecurie Bonnier, and entered as a T280. Rouveyran's car was quoted as "ex-BIP", but I don't know which races a BIP-sponsored T280 ran in. Local Portuguese races?

I'll see what else I can find.

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thanks Michael for infos about D Rouveyran .
Now I'm sure that HU01 was not destroy in this accident.
JL Lafosse had an accident with an T280 in practice of 9 H
Kyalami 1972 and the car couldnt start the race . Do you
know something about ?
Hi Alain

Jeremy has already answered this question - it was indeed a T282 entered by Ecurie Bonnier, crashed by J-L Lafosse and, by all accounts, written off, and probably the prototype as driven by Beltoise/Larrousse at Rouen in October.

Just having a quick look through my old Autosports re the 72 season for clues about chassis numbers:

It appears that HU-02 was driven by Bonnier/Wisell in Buenos Aires, with Larrousse/Craft sharing the prototype HU-01. The magazine reports a plan to sell them and run them for Karl von Wendt being 'apparently quite likely'. However, in the next sentence it says that after the race 'the Wisell car was sold...to a Brazilian driver' but does not say who (one can maybe assume Garcia-Veiga?). This suggests that HU-02 was sold but in fact Wisell drove both cars in the race, switching to the Larrousse/Craft T280 after his own retired. If we know that HU-02 was still with the team at Le Mans, this suggests that they may have sold the older prototype, HU-01, which would make more sense.

However, for the next race at Daytona, Garcia-Veiga was entered in the second car, alongside Craft and Larrousse, so maybe Bonnier did a deal such as suggested with von Wendt, e.g. they sold the car but continued running it for Garcia-Veiga and pairing him with their own drivers? Alternatively, maybe they never sold the car at all, but struck a deal for Garcia-Vega to drive it (e.g. sold a race drive) at Sebring and this was mis-reported as Garcia-Veiga having bought the whole car!

For Sebring, they are reported as only bringing one car, HU-02, for Bonnier/Wisell/Larrousse. For Round 4 at Brands Hatch, I know 2 Bonnier cars started, as there is a picture of them just after the start of the race. A few other interesting points: "By contrast to all these operations, that of Ecurie Bonnier is very much a shoestring effort. Their Lola-Cosworth T280s, the only two in existence, looked rather travel weary and were in need of some real development testing." Drivers for this race were Craft/Larousse (HU-01?) and Wisell/Bonnier (HU-02?). When the Craft car retired early on, Larousse switched to the Wisell/Bonnier car until that retired at about half distance (don't think JoBo drove but not 100% sure).

For Monza 1,000 kms, Hughes de Fierlandt replaced Craft as Larousse's partner, because he brought some money along... Both cars qualified well but went out of the race early on again.

For Round 6 (Spa 1,000kms) it appears that HU-01 may have actually been sold, as it reports Larrousse as driving "Lola number two after driving the original car all the rest of the season" and he shared with de Fierlandt. Wisell/Bonnier might have been originally entered but they don't appear to have turned up.

Don't think any T280s started Round 7, the Targa Florio. Ditto Round 8, Nurburgring 1,000kms, although Bonnier/Larousse were present driving an FVC-powered T290. I believe that by this stage the two cars were being prepared for Le Mans, with a reported 48,000 man hours being put into the task.

For Le Mans, two cars were fielded for Bonnier/Larrousse/van Lennep (Wisell was injured apparently)and de Fierlandt/Jorge de Bagration/Mario Cabral. Maybe the identities of two of the co-drivers is an indication that this second car had been sold before Le Mans to a Spanish or Portugese owner (sorry don't know the nationalities of these two!)? The Bonnier car (HU-02?) was destroyed in JoBo's fatal accident, while the de Fierland/de Bagration/Cabral car (which had also been driven by Larousse, in fact don't even know if de B and Cab got a drive) retired around midnight.

The following weekend (June 18th), Carlos Caspar is reported as winning the sports car race at Estoril in his "Lola-DFV T280". So, either this is HU-01 (or HU-02 depending on which car Bonnier was driving when he crashed!), ex-Le Mans or a new car. It seems this might have been a new car (HU-03?) because for the next round of the World Sportscar Championship at Osterreichring (June 25th), Vic Elford appears, partnered by Larrousse, "driving the Ecurie Bonnier second Lola T280 which had also appeared at Le Mans". By definition this can only be the car driven by de Fierlandt et al and it really depends how you interpret the use of the words "Ecurie Bonnier second Lola T280", e.g. if it was the number two car in the squad (which is what I think they mean) or the second T280 built (e.g HU-02)!!! They actually out-qualified all the Ferrari 312Ps for this race, only being beaten to pole by the Mirage. Not bad!

For Round 11, at Watkins Glen (July 22nd), Larrousse was paird with Wisell and Autosport reports that "The Lola was No. 1, and appeared in usual configuration..." Since its race number was 90, one can only assume that this is a reference to the car being chassis HU-01, again supporting the conclusion that it was HU-02 that was destroyed in the Bonnier accident.

For a sports car race at Estoril, November 11th 1972, Carlos Caspar is reported as a 'no-show' in his "3-litre Lola T280", apparently after sponsorship difficulties.

So this leaves us with three reported T280s that have appeared in public during the 1972 racing season.

In its season review of Group 5 sportscar racing, Autosport adds a few more tidbits:

"They were to have been run with sponsorship from Karl von Wendt's racing team, but when von Wendt withdrew after everything had been ordered, the cars were run at Bonnier's expense. They were even supported by his preparation business or BonGrip spike concern. With such an expensive project - around £100,000 invested - Bonnier was forced to take 'paying' drivers...

"The car's debut at Buenos Aires saw it leading at one stage and set fastest lap - a fat that, one would have expected, would make many private entrants think of running a car. This was what Ecurie Bonnier had hoped (Bonnier was the European agent for Lola cars) but surprisingly only one other car was sold throughout the year and this was never raced in Europe."

An interesting comment, particularly in the light of the fact that we know that Caspar raced his at Estoril in June! Maybe the writer didn't regard Portugal as being part of Europe!!!

As Jeremy pointed out, the Paris 1,000kms car was the prototype T282. NB although a T280 is listed in the grid for Smith/Ligonnet, this is actually a misprint and is the 2-litre T290 they had raced that year.

You probably already know a lot of this detail but I hope some bits of it are useful!

Cheers

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Does anyone remember an article in the Evening Standard years ago about a bloke in kent who had a road legal DFV powered T280 (I think - tho it may have been a later model)
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Does anyone remember an article in the Evening Standard years ago about a bloke in kent who had a road legal DFV powered T280 (I think - tho it may have been a later model)
Sounds like the sort of thing Nick Whiting would have done, being into Special Saloons and all that sort of thing!

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Michael,

Thanks for the detailed summary. Didn't get around tying all the Autosport comments together, and I completely missed the Gaspar reference at Estoril in June. Bonnier definitely didn't send cars to the Targa or Nürburgring. I tend to go for HU03 for Gaspar's car (this would then become Rouveyran's, contrary to what I supposed earlier on!), but it's only an opinion.

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, a T280 appeared in MNGT events here driven by Jeremy Lord in 73-74, but I don't know if that was a previously unused chassis or not.

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Michael,

Thanks for the detailed summary. Didn't get around tying all the Autosport comments together, and I completely missed the Gaspar reference at Estoril in June. Bonnier definitely didn't send cars to the Targa or Nürburgring. I tend to go for HU03 for Gaspar's car (this would then become Rouveyran's, contrary to what I supposed earlier on!), but it's only an opinion.

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, a T280 appeared in MNGT events here driven by Jeremy Lord in 73-74, but I don't know if that was a previously unused chassis or not.

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I've just been digging around a bit more and it seems the Bonnier cars contested a few other races, such as two Interserie rounds (but DNS at both of them 3/4/72 Ring and 1/5/72 Imola, plus de Fierlandt/Bonnier won the 4 hours of Le Mans on the Le Mans test day weekend (19/4/72).

Also Gaspar raced his T280 at Vila Real 9/7/72 and finished 3rd, then Casoni finished 5th in a T280 in the 500km of Imola 17/9/72. Maybe Gaspar sold his car to Casoni due to the reported sponsorship problems I mentioned earlier?

Takahara drove three races in a T280 in Japan, all at Mt Fuji Raceway. These were 3/9/72 (1st), 10/10/72 (1st) and 23/11/72 (1st). As the last World Championship round took place in the US on 22/7/72, it is reasonable to put forward the suggestion that Takahara bought/borrowed the surviving Ecurie Bonnier car, HU-01, but I don't have any firm evidence to back this up. In any case, I think they are unlikely to be the same car, because the dates overlap.

I'm currently looking into 1973, where Rouvreyan appears several times as well as a Jolly Club entry. Presumably the Rouvreyan car could be the ex-Gaspar/Casoni car, while the Jolly Club car was (I know someone mentioned this) an ex-Bonnier car - perhaps the one used by Takahara at the end of 1972? Lots of perhaps and maybes!

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Michael,

I knew about the Interserie races, and the LM race, but not about Takahara.

Autosport's 1973 Dijon report says that Rouveyran's was the ex-BIP chassis, which was Gaspar's. Just found Autosport's 1972 Vila Real report that says "Gaspar's new T280, the only one apart from the one surviving Bonnier car. Gaspar took delivery in early June... etc"
Seems a shame that there are some T290 chassis numbers quoted in this report, and not this one...

Casoni's car at Imola was hired by Brescia Corse from Bonnier.

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Hello
thanks at all for details , my opinion about Carlos Gaspar
T280 is probably chassis HU03 because Bonnier team could not in the week after Le Mans restaure HU01 and send it to Estoril to race at 18 of June . ( not enought time , team
shoked by Bonnier death ) .
Other important thing : on Gaspar car the "arceau de sécurité " was like HU01 and 2 before Monza (driver head protection only ) and HU01 had an larger at Le Mans and Zeltweg.I think this part of the chassis was not fast interchangeable . I have a picture of the car but I don't know how join it in message
all the best at all
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