No cure for Le Mans fever! 

"There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope." - TS Elliot 

365 days work distilled in to 24 Hours   *

There are 6810 bespoke designed parts on a Lola LMP car *

During a typical year the rolling road of Lola's commercially available Wind tunnel travels about 180,000km or 112,000miles! *

The Lola LMP1 will accelerate from 0 to 100mph in 4.1 seconds and can brake from 185mph to 50 mph in 3.2sec! Top speed is 212 mph. *

Lola is not only the most prolific customer constructor but they have also built sports cars for major manufacturers such as Ford with the GT in 1964, Nissan in 1989/1990 and MG in 2001 and 2002. * 1

47 Lola sports cars have raced in the Le Mans 24 Hours. This year's tally made it 152. *

Lola has sold 69 sports prototype cars since Martin Birrane acquired the company in 1997. 

2011 Grid - Leading Times

1. #2 Audi 3m25.738s LMP1

2. #1 Audi 3m25.799s LMP1

3. #9 Peugeot 3m26.010s LMP1

4. #8 Peugeot 3m26.156s LMP1

5. #3 Audi 3m26.165s LMP1

6.. #7 Peugeot 3m26.272s LMP1

7. #10 ORECA Peugeot 3m30.084s LMP1

8. #12 Rebellion Lola Toyota 3m32.883s LMP1

9. #16 Pescarolo Judd 3m33.066s LMP1

10. #13 Rebellion Lola Toyota 3m34.573s LMP1

11. #15 OAK Pescarolo 3m34.933s LMP1

12. #22 Kronos Lola-Aston Martin 3m36.551s LMP1

13. #20 Quifel-ASM Zytek 3m37.393s LMP1

14. # 26 Signatech ORECA Nissan 3m41.458s LMP2

15. #24 OAK Pescarolo 3m41.852s LMP1

16. #42 Strakka HPD 3m42.165s LMP2

17. #48 ORECA Nissan 3m43.098s

18. #39 Pecom Racing Lola-Judd 3m43.223s LMP2

19. #49 OAK Pescarolo 3m43.479s LMP2

20. #41 Greaves Zytek Nissan 3m43.802s LMP2

21. #40 Race Performance ORECA Judd 3m44.294s LMP2

22. #007 AMR Aston Martin 3m45.918s LMP1

23. #36 RML HPD 3m47.308s

24. #5 Hope ORECA Hybrid 3m47.961s LMP1

25. #009 AMR Aston Martin 3m48.253s LMP1

26. #44 EL Norma 3m48.420s

27. #35 OAK Pescarolo 3m48.665s LMP2

28. #33 Level 5 Lola HPD 3m48.863s LMP2 

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