Lola T298 (Group 6)

History

Lola's two-litre sports line reached its final form with the T298 (1978): the Group 6 era's privateer staple — the T290-family's decade-long evolution (the barchetta architecture refined through the T292-T296 lineage toward this closing statement), the engine-window spectrum (the ROC-Chrysler-and-BMW-M12 fitments the European privateers ran, the Cosworth options beside), and the customer-team culture (the French-and-German entrant depth the two-litre classes' national championships armed) — racing the era's endurance map: the World Championship's Group 6 two-litre classes, the European hillclimb-and-sprint careers (the double-duty versatility the type's market spread), and the national sports-car championships that kept the fleet racing until the Group C reset closed the formula.

The rules window shaped the fleet's longevity: Group 6's two-litre division survived the decade's category reshuffles largely intact, so a T298 bought in 1978 could race the same class silhouette for four seasons — a stability that let the privateer teams amortise their chassis and that today gives the survivors unusually coherent, single-formula biographies.

The privateer-staple economics frame the type: the customer-production depth (the T290-family's volume the class's biggest fleet), the fitment-spectrum documentation culture, and the versatility case (circuit-and-hill careers the same chassis served).

The final-form identity structures the market: the historic-sports welcome (the Group 6 revival classes' regular grids), the lineage-position scholarship (T296-versus-T298 truths per car), and the barchetta-line romance the era's machinery carries.

The present is historic-Group-6 custody: fitment-identity law, chassis-biography documentation, and the staple's rational case throughout.

Palmarès

Group 6 two-litre class campaigns across the World-Championship rounds and the European national seasons — the privateer staple's late-seventies ledger.