Lola T92/10

Following years of success building prototypes for Chevrolet in the IMSA GTP series as well as Nissan in the World Sportscar Championship and All Japan Sports Prototype Championship, Lola ended the 1991 season without a major manufacturer to back their sports car effort.

Chief Designer Wiet Huidekoper started with a clean sheet of paper for the T92/10 and following extensive windtunnel development with scale models, achieving extraordinarily high down-force (negative lift) figures combined with modest drag, giving the car a very high L/D ("lift-to-drag") ratio.

These sat much farther back than on the previous Lola designs in order to improve aerodynamics and to increase cooling.

Its compact design allowed for much tighter bodywork on the Lola and was powerful enough to compete with the major manufacturers of the World Sportscar Championship.

Charles Zwolsman of the Netherlands would become the primary customer of the T92/10, his Euro Racing squad purchasing the first two chassis for use in the 1992 World Sportscar Championship season.

At the end of the season at Magny-Cours, Euro Racing's T92/10s would fail technical scrutineering and would not be allowed to participate.

The World Sportscar Championship was dissolved at the end of 1992, and Euro Racing went bankrupt at the beginning of the following year.

The car scored one more victory at the Hungaroring in 1997 before McNeil Engineering decided to switch to the new International Sports Racing Series for the 1998 season.

This required McNeil Engineering to remove the doors and roof from the car, although the windshield was mostly retained for aerodynamic purposes.

However this would not be sufficient to overcome the technical problems faced by McNeil Engineering, as the car finished the season having only scored six points in total.