Lola Mk2 (Formula Junior)

History

Eric Broadley's Lola entered single-seaters with the Mk2 (1960): the customer house's open-wheel beginning — the Formula Junior boom's context (the Lurani formula's explosion the young constructor joined), the front-engined architecture (the Mk2's traditional layout built as Cooper's rear-engined migration was conquering the class — the timing that made the type a period piece almost immediately), and the Broadley craftsmanship (the Mk1 sports-racer's giant-killing reputation carried into the single-seater turn) — racing Junior's fiercest era: the British-and-European 1960 seasons' grids, the customer careers the small production served, and the rapid succession (the rear-engined Mk3's 1961 answer the house's correction) that placed the Mk2 in the front-engined generation's preserved moment.

The founding-chapter economics frame the type: the customer-constructor model Broadley was building (the Lola method the six-decade house scaled from these beginnings), the BMC-Ford engine grammar the class's British entries ran, and the front-engined tier's market the revival movement keeps distinct.

The beginning identity structures the market: the marque-origin romance (the first Lola single-seater the collecting angle — the house that would build for every formula starting here), the register scholarship the small run keeps, and the Lurani front-engined classes' welcome.

The present is Lurani custody: register law, front-engined class eligibility, and the Broadley-beginning story throughout.

Palmarès

Formula Junior's 1960 British-and-European campaigns — the front-engined generation's grids — the customer house's first open-wheel ledger.