# Lola T400 (F5000)

- Source: https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/lola-t400/
- Publisher: Racing Car Network (racingcarnetwork.com), the race car marketplace
- Type: car · Brand: Lola
- Discipline: formula, historic-racing
- Series: f1-historic
- Era: 1970s
- Last updated: 2026-07-06
- For sale on RCN: https://racingcarnetwork.com/for-sale/lola-t400/ (0 live listings right now)

The T400 is F5000's sequel problem: the 1975 successor the T332 refused to yield to — the customers who kept the old car — the formula's lesson that dominance resists improvement.

## Specifications

| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| Engine | 5.0 small-block Chevrolet |
| Power | ~550 hp |
| Position | T332's intended successor |
| Lesson | Dominance resists improvement |
| Ledger | 1975-76 campaigns in the shadow |
| Diligence | Crack-test law + setup scholarship |
| Years | 1975–1976 |
| Class | F5000 sequel chapter |

## History

Lola learned dominance's paradox with the T400 (1975): the sequel problem — the T332's intended successor (the update logic the customer-constructor's annual rhythm demanded), the mixed reception the season wrote (the new car's handling puzzles against the old car's resolved excellence — the customers who reverted, the T332s that kept winning), and the formula's lesson (the benchmark refusing succession: the 1975-76 American seasons still the T332's dynasty as the T400 fleet chased setup answers) — racing the category's late peak: the American championship campaigns, the British-and-European seasons (the Rothmans-era grids the type contested), and the Can-Am transition beside (the rebodied afterlife the family's chassis shared as F5000 closed).

The sequel economics frame the type: the annual-update commercial logic against engineering maturity (the resolved design's resistance to improvement — the paradox the class's history teaches), the shared-family parts grammar, and the customer-choice evidence (the grids voting with the old car).

The problem-child identity structures the market: the historic-F5000 welcome regardless (the revival classes' grids), the benchmark-discount pricing (the T400 trading beneath the T332's blue-chip law), and the setup-scholarship angle (the modern revival's answers to the period's puzzles).

The present is historic-F5000 custody: crack-test law, specification documentation, and the sequel-lesson story throughout.

## Palmarès

The 1975-76 American-and-European F5000 campaigns — the sequel seasons run in the T332 dynasty's shadow — and the Can-Am afterlife beside.

## What to check before you buy

Sequel-problem law: benchmark-discount realism first (the T400 pricing beneath the T332's blue-chip grammar — the honest arithmetic the type's history sets, and the value angle for the buyer who wants five-litre thunder under the benchmark's money), setup-scholarship documentation (the modern revival's answers to the period's handling puzzles — sorted cars racing well today), crack-test currency per the formula's hubs-and-uprights law, and Chevy rationality throughout. Historic-F5000 eligibility structures the racing life; the lesson-story is the charm — dominance's refusal to yield, priced at the accessible end of the dynasty.

## Did you know

- The old car refused to yield: T332s kept winning while the successor chased setup.
- The customers voted: period grids reverting to the benchmark the sequel couldn't beat.
- The revival solved the puzzles: modern setup scholarship making sorted T400s honest racers.

## Related entries

- Lola T332 (F5000) — https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/lola-t332/
- Lola T300 (F5000) — https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/lola-t300/
- Lola T142 (F5000) — https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/lola-t142/
- Lola T190 (F5000) — https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/lola-t190/