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WELCOME TO THE LOLA T70 MARKII CHALLENGE

Lola boldly called the MkII version of their T70 the most successful sports car of 1966. And rightly so since it won some of the most important UK races as well as the USSRC and CanAm Championships in North America.

Eric Broadley’s T70 sports prototype was upgraded from the same successful formula as the MkI by having an American-sourced V8 engine in a small prototype chassis. Most of the successful cars were run with the small-block Chevrolet engines, but one victory was achieved with the Ford 333 and Penske tried the 427 Chevrolet with no success whatsoever.

The MkII specification introduced much more aluminum in the chassis which reduced the overall weight by 32 kg (70 lbs). More weight was saved by using color-impregnated fibreglass. This resulted in a 289 Ford-powered T70 weighing just 726 kgs (1500 lbs) while the Chevrolet 327 was at 726 kgs (1600 lbs).1

Other small changes that came with the MkII were wider wheels, consolidated radiators with one large cooling unit in the nose and revised suspension points.

In total 33 MkII Spyders were built by Lola and author John Starkey calls this series the most successful of all the T70 variants.1 Denny Hulme won 11 races in Europe driving SL71/31 for Sidney Taylor winning the first of five races outright including the Tourist Trophy at Oulton Park.

The first MkII was delivered to Team Surtees and John won first time out at the Guards Trophy Meeting at Brands Hatch. Drivers such as Graham Hill and David Hobbs drove for the Surtees team with great success. Brian Redman also scored two victories for Red Rose Racing in SL71/27.

In 1966 16 cars were delivered to the USA and won the USSRC championship in both 1966 and 1967. being the US agent of Lola, the Mecom Racing Team was under great pressure to perform. They sold the cars to private teams which used drivers such as George Follmer, Dan Gurney, Mark Donohue, Roger Penske and Buck Fulp. T70s won the first two rounds of the CanAm championship in 1966 which was eventually won by John Surtees.

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Car version to drive
There are 2 car versions in the mod.
We will be driving the Lola T70 MarkII FORD

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App) Helicorsa_V6
Helicorsa is a app that detects cars close to you, so contact can be avoided.
You must have this app installed and activated to take part in this series.
Download: https://www.simracingonline.co.uk/resources/helicorsa_v6.442/
More info: www.youtube.com/watch?v=koCDJJR_EoA

Please have this app installed for this series.

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How does each race start?
All races will have a standing start.
There is no formation lap.
There is a mandatory pit stop to change all 4 tires.

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No-shows
If a driver does not show up for a race without unregistering for that event or letting me know that he can't make it in the event-forum, he will be taken out of the complete series.

(You don't have to unregister for the whole series. You can unregister only for the race you can't do.)

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No Esc. on track rule in Qualification
In qualification you can not press Escape (Esc.) while on track (if you crash) and then go back out again.
If you want to do another run, you have to come into the pits first.

This is to protect the other drivers from someone taking abnormal risks to set a good lap time and crashing (other cars).

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Teamspeak
Teamspeak is one of the features of Sim Racing Online.
If you would like to hook up with other drivers on Teamspeak before the race (or any time), here is the forum link for the SRO Teamspeak address and password:
https://www.simracingonline.co.uk/threads/teamspeak-ip-address-password.19/

For who are not familiar with Teamspeak, you need to add the Sim Racing Online channel to your "bookmarks".

 

Selecting skins

If you would like to get a specific skin, please let me know through the mail.

Please sumbit:
1. the skin you want
2. your GUID nr.

Selected skins:

Tim Muttram: SL70/5 Walls IceCream
John vd Geest: SL70/3
Syd Drake: SL71/17
Laurent Londes: SL70/10
Paul Anstey: SL75/124
Mark Johnson: SL71/40
Stefan Lagodin: SL73/119
Maddie Shepherd: SL71/34
Filip Stoyanovich: SL 71/26
Kimi Martikainen: SL 71/26
Maxime Tendil: SL71/28
Jos Ogos: SL73/128

 

No, you're the first one. I'll make a list in post 2 of this thread.

 

Series is ready for sign up

Just want to remind everyone that the series is ready for sign up.

Lola T70 MarkII Spyder series

 

Hi Mark, I'd rather have it through the mail like requested so I don't miss anything.
Can you please send it like that, otherwise everybody will ask on the forum.

 

To me? Haven't seen it.
If you would like to use a default skin, then everybody incl. Caitlin Penny has to download and install it, otherwise it won't show for them or on the broadcast.
So you have to upload it on the forum.

 

Sorry, you're right. You have skin SL71/17.

 

I already have your GUID nr.: 76561197993480564
Yes, that's car nr. 25