THE TEAM THAT WAS ONE AND DONE! The Story of the MasterCard Lola Team

This was one of the first ever motorsport history videos I did. While popular, it's badly made and needs an update with some extra tidbits you might not have known. And have more history of the actual Lola cars.
So with that, here's a Story Time video fit for 2023.
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[@shawnmungur4875]

Don't sell yourself short! Those early storytime videos is why I subscribed to this channel.

[@timmurray2945]

Same. I loved F1 in the mid to late 90's and I really enjoyed those earlier Story time videos.

[@jamessteel9016]

Agreed, thats why i subscribed 👍👍

[@AdamTheMan1993]

To add even further salt to Lola's wounds MasterCard became a secondary sponsor to the Jordan team during the 1997 season

[@battleofwills7189]

I do miss the days of smaller teams pulling off an excellent result. Minardi, Leyton House, Tyrell, Arrows, Jordan, Ligier.

[@gerarduspoppel2831]

When I started watching F1, Tyrrel was one of the worst teams. Later I found out that they were just world champions in the past. That was so weird.

[@battleofwills7189]

@@gerarduspoppel2831 - Yes, same here. And Ligier's one win in Monaco 96 after not winning for 15 years.

[@rolux4853]

I just love Tyrell’s experimental cars!

[@JohnSmithShields]

See Williams now, in the 80s and 90s, they were one of the best teams going. Now, well let's just ignore that.

[@battleofwills7189]

@@JohnSmithShields - I think they'll do a McLaren and make their way back up the grid. I think Haas, Sauber (if Audi decline entry) and Alpine (if they don't revert back to Renault) will continue to struggle.

[@samuelgt2811]

Fun fact: On the bring back v10's episode the race did on Lola's disastrous 1997 F1 effort, it was revealed that the T97/30 had less downforce than the F3000 cars of the time

[@MatthewLewisAtlanta]

It was also revealed that they HAD indeed gone to the wind tunnel with the T97/30

[@AidanMillward]

@@MatthewLewisAtlanta I haven’t listened to a single episode tbh. 😅

[@MatthewLewisAtlanta]

The Lola one is a cant-miss!

[@pher38]

Lola nearly also came back in 2010 and should have been given an entry

[@MatthewLewisAtlanta]

Yep. They were in the final running

[@pher38]

@@MatthewLewisAtlanta to think USF1 and Campos were chosen ahead of them

[@AlonsoRules]

they would have pulled out like the other 3 did within 5 years

[@pher38]

@@AlonsoRules maybe, or maybe they would have been the best of the new teams, grown and found new investment. Haas survived

[@l1a146]

When I think of Lola. I think of the mighty Lola T332 Formula 5000 cars of the 70s. Absolute brutal, ground shaking, beasts of things that were the staple of the Australian and New Zealand premier open wheel series and Grand Prix at the time. I remember seeing them as a kid and just being awestruck by them. The look, the noise, the whole package. I still have a 1/18 model of the one Jones raced . Thats how I like to remember Lola.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

Glad you're redoing the old videos. They're memory lane trips for some of us and undoubtedly news to more recent fans. The best way to turn a new fan into an old one is to give them the knowledge of the past to help them enjoy the future. So please carry on with your excellent work! Btw, where are all the Moreno fans? Get more subs or we're never getting that video!

[@simonolsen9995]

Never once have I caught myself silently singing, "Da La La La Lara" to myself.

[@palm92]

The Lola 1997 T97/00 CART car was an equally atrocious machine, their time in F1 I think might have had a knock-on effect on their CART program. It was so bad in pre-season testing that teams that had used the (quite excellent) T96/00 the previous year either rapidly switched chassis to either Reynard or Swift (Forsythe actually using a 1996 Reynard briefly until a 97i could be built for them) or switched to Reynards mid-season. Tasman's Adrian Fernandez stuck with the car(with the great Firestone/Honda combo at least), becoming it's development driver for the season; "When Lola tested its T97/00 in the Williams wind tunnel towards the end of the 1997 CART season the results were said to have revealed a calibration error in the Cranfield wind tunnel, which had been used by Lola for many years, and which it had assisted in upgrading in 1995. The error was found to be of such magnitude that, far from generating downforce comparable with that of the rival Reynard 97I, the T97 was found to be greatly in arrears. "Furthermore, the aerodynamic package was found to be unstable, with the centre of pressure able to migrate excessively along the underside of the car under acceleration and braking, but most particularly in cornering. The effect was sufficient to induce a condition in which front and rear end grip became unpredictable." '[The] rear end instability manifested itself early on in the development of the T97/00. this was initially suspected to be due either to a mechanical problem with the suspension geometry, or an insufficiently stiff rear section of the car. Updates to stiffen the rear end, including new gearbox castings and suspension revisions, were made. But this fundamental handling fault seemed to resist all attempts at a remedy - and almost resulted in Lola's extinction as a CART constructor. By the end of 1997, all its customers had switched to alternative chassis suppliers - a heavy blow for a company which, only five years before, had had the entire customer car market to itself." The car was finally fixed for Fontana, the final round of the 1997, where Tasman finished 3rd. It was all for naught though, come 1998 there would only be a single Lola on the grid. The B98/00 was a much improved car, but unfortunately only Davis Racing ran it with Arnd Meier on worthless Goodyear Tires and a Ford engine that was deficient to the Honda. However by 1999 a few other teams adopted it (including Penske) and it was on Firestones with Hogan. 2000 Came around and it was equal to the Reynard, especially with the Toyota engine. Oddly Reynard's time in F1 with BAR effecting their CART program.

[@Holden308]

Fun Fact: Lola literally had nothing to do with the Team Haas of the mid-1980s other than team boss Carl Haas being the main Lola importer to CART at the time. Haas named his cars Lola's (THL1 and THL2 - THL being Team Haas Lola) and Eric Broadley was named as the chief engineer, but the truth was the cars were designed and built by FORCE (Formula One Race Car Engineering), a company the team had set up on an industrial estate near Heathrow that included employees such as Chief Designer Neil Oatley and a young designer/aerodynamicist named Ross Brawn. Lola was only there in name only.

[@MaxScheibenpflug]

With a paintjob like they had, I wish they would have made it. Such good-looking cars!

[@benbenneyworth3207]

"It had the aerodynamic propities of John Prescott" 😂😂

[@terminateshere]

Now there's youngsters looking up who John Prescott is.....

[@JoshuaC923]

😂😂😂

[@Stathis_Borans]

Didn't he crack some Welsh bloke, or cracked an egg on some Welsh bloke or something I don't know..there was definitely an egg involved.

[@surajbalajr.4016]

That sent me 😂😂😂

[@Artelowet]

About the missing airbox: I remember there had been talks about forbidding airboxes for '95 to reduce power. The Forti FG01, in its basic form, was also missing an airbox. Best visable from the front or from above. And I once read, that John Barnard designed the Ferrari 412T2 originally also without an airbox, but it was quickly added short before the design process was completely finished.

[@samiraperi467]

Needed money so went to F1? A move that has historically worked well. /s

[@pher38]

Fact error: MasterCard did not pull their funding. They had a contract to fund the team through their club but still paid £300,000 deposit. MasterCard had guests in Brazil that Jordan looked after. Broadley pulled the plug because then team was heavily in debt in the short term and this sponsorship money would not come till later

[@iDAV8]

Sure bud

[@terminateshere]

I did notice Jordan's car sprouted a Mastercard logo around that time - Eddie likely saw the chance to grab what was left of the arrangement. He knew how to play the game.

[@pher38]

@@terminateshere apparently the deal Jordan did was that they would look after MasterCard’s guests in Brazil in exchange for a later meeting at their h.q.. And hey presto, they landed a sponsorship deal from Silverstone onwards

[@terminateshere]

@@pher38Classic Eddie. Always knew how to get his foot in the door.

[@pher38]

@@terminateshere indeed. He gets lot of stick but he was a fearless salesman

[@TL98]

lola could've at least stuck around and be a chassis maker like reynard did with BAR in their early years

[@decb]

and Dallara are for Haas

[@pher38]

Broadley was also keen to enter in 97 as he had tried to in 96 and 97 and had hired Keith wiggins in 96 to make it happen

[@stevehageman6785]

Well, I did learn two things. 1) Lola worked with Ford on the GT40, 2) Lola worked on the Honda F1 car. Sad end to Lola, but you know what they say: "How do you make a small fortune in F1? You start with a large fortune!"

[@stanbrow]

Excellent epidode

[@GWFires]

In 94 it was considered to ban airboxes for 95 (thats why at 8:10) I dont remember any prototype for 94 *sigh* Mastercard saw that the direct bank competition "HSBC" was starting in 97 with Stewart. So they pushed Lola for 97, as they would withdrawn otherwise. (Start Nov 96, season start 4 months later.) I would also like to add that the T97/30 was a modified T95/30. Which was already outdated in 95. Also they used qualy fuel in the first practice sessions, other teams ran race simulations with more fuel. P.S. If i remember correctly it was said in 92, after seeing the miss managment of Andrea Moda. That other back markers would fight for points with this car, as it was well built and designed. Tbh the BMW S192 wasnt a bad design.

[@AntoniusTyas]

Hey, I remember one of your very early video on Lola. This is quite an improvement over that, especially with the story-telling aspect. Footnote: That 'sim racing effect' is what caused LMP2's WEC demise. Everyone buys Oreca because Oreca is OP compared to Ligier, Riley and Dallara, at least in terms of integration between the 07 chassis and the Gibson GK428 V8 engine, and then the LMP2 class in WEC turned into what is basically Oreca Cup, not too different with the old Formula Le Mans in Le Mans Series of 2010-2011. I think similar situation is happening in Rally2 class with everyone getting their Skoda Fabia (built by Oreca, as it happened). Though in Rally2 class one can argue Fiesta Rally2, i20 Rally2 and the upcoming GR Yaris Rally2 can really take it to the rallying field against the Fabia Rally2.

[@nickb2049]

Early 90's Lola CART cars are possibly the best looking open wheel car ever built.

[@jsquared1013]

I still prefer the late 90's /early 00's from an aesthetic point of view.

[@3Dsjk]

There are some neat articles out there on cars that were proposed to be the new 2012 Indycar, including the original DeltaWing concept, but apparently Indycar was never seriously considering anyone but Dallara. In another 10 or 12 years, when they get around to replacing what started as the DW12, Indycar won’t even bother holding pretending any other company might have a shot at making the new car.

[@terminateshere]

The team cancelled by the credit card company. Maybe they could have put a magnetic strip on the back to cheat the timing beams? Only chance they would have had.

[@boxy2k8]

Looooola, la la la la looooola

[@thegridgab]

I saw one of the Lola Chassis at Mondello Park in Ireland. Shame it was painted black and not in its Mastercard livery.

[@joemueller-zt9hn]

love the old story time videos! nice seeing them get a refresh.

[@the80hdgaming]

Lol... Lola is the name of my husky.. My dad always refers to the markings on her back as her "racing stripes"... 😂😂😂 Edit: Total kudos for the hat... Go Jays Go!!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@lummatravel]

Still love the MasterCard livery ❤

[@wabba67]

"We need to develop this new front wing. How many credit cards have we sold this week?" Brilliant :-D

[@adinakruijssen3056]

Love this livery

[@theoforde-stiegler]

Best Motorsport content on the internet! Where can I find your music?

[@tungtranviet499]

Well guest what lads? Lola is back at racing (sort of)

[@michealoflaherty1265]

Lola never got a chance to work out The Kinks 🥁

[@therrydicule]

Lola came too fast in F1. They almost kind of showed up with a test mule for the 1998 season.

[@legoferrari14]

They got fucked over by their title sponsor MasterCard; MasterCard saw the launch of Stewart, the de-facto Ford Works Team backed by rival financial company HSBC, & saw dollar-signs.

[@kicapanmanis1060]

That's what she said.

[@therrydicule]

@@legoferrari14 That could be it, honestly I don't know the basis of that choice and it seems to. But they shouldn't have gone in F1 like that... Unless they had a plan to be there for maybe 15 years and are ready to go in front of shareholders "1997 is going to suck in F1, we are literally running a test mule to learn about the tracks." And they didn't have such plans...

[@nickigoe5006]

It was a test car, they were supposed to to actually enter the year later but Mastercard forced them to enter with little notice.

[@urchinnorton7632]

The 95 Lola F1 car did not have an airbox because that was due to become a new rule in F1 to slow the cars down which in the end never happened

[@terminateshere]

I remember the knee-jerk rules in 94 involved opening a slit at the back of the airbox. Some teams designed their 1995 cars around this limitation only for the rules to change back early in the year. The Benetton B195 took said change in it's stride, the Forti FG01 less so.

[@palm92]

Yes it's this. Oddly though the aborted Reynard-designed DAMS GD-01 had one, as did the DOME F105.

[@urchinnorton7632]

Yes I think the Lola was designed well before these 2 and by the time they were completed the ruling was not going to come. Would liked to have seen the Dome race looked like a competent job compared with others. The DAMS looked like a s**tbox

[@palm92]

@@urchinnorton7632 The DAMS was very inelegant looking. Chunky.

[@palm92]

Excellent video as always - I was unaware of the exact nature of the sponsorship deal for Lola-Mastercard.

[@j.paulm.1575]

Love that you brought your old theme back.

[@LoganHunter82]

At least you have never done "Raid: Shadow Legends" sponsors. Thumbs up for that 👍 I bet many of the bottom grid teams of the 90's would've done that

[@AidanMillward]

Won’t do G-Fuel either. Not flogging caffeine laced energy stuff to a potentially young audience. Plus every cunt on the planet is sponsored by them.

[@SteveDull]

​@@AidanMillwarddo you really need to use the c word? Especially when 'apparently' trying to protect children 🙄

[@AidanMillward]

@@SteveDull video is labelled not safe for kids.

[@SteveDull]

@@AidanMillward so much for community guidelines then

[@Thebibs]

Thanks Aidan. That Lola team always fascinated me, on how shite they were. Can you possibly do a story on another chaotic team from back in the day: Osella?

[@gchampi2]

Point of order! It was the Lola Mk.6 that led to the GT40, not the T70.

[@AidanMillward]

I never said that the T70 became the GT40. All I said is that the prototype of the GT40 looks like the T70

[@MJW59]

Holy shit I completely forgot about this one. You are the MVP.

[@RRaquello]

Not much of a team but a nice paint job. In my younger days I used to always mix up Lola and Lotus. Two English car builders, what could be the difference?

[@AidanMillward]

During the recording I said lotus three times.

[@brokentuskclan1795]

Meanwhile Brawn bought his team for the price of a Vimto.

[@AidanMillward]

Can’t get a Vimto for a quid anymore 🫠

[@minibus9]

Excelent video

[@ianwynne764]

Hello Aidan: Good job for mentioning The Kinks. Have a good weekend.

[@billmcdonald4335]

Back in the day I blinked, and I missed out on their whole evolution. Pity.

[@mrterp04]

I miss when chassis makers had names like supermodels. Lola. Dallara. Reynard. Um, March? G-Force? Penske?

[@robertwilloughby8050]

Osella. Imagine a sultry (but completely insane!) Italian supermodel!

[@palm92]

WRT to the no wind tunnel time - the T97/30 may have actually seen the inside of one in Cranefield, if only briefly. Nothing more than a day or 2.

[@AJZulu]

@15:07 I STILL HAVE THAT PlayStation game!

[@turnpiketumbler8938]

New Aidran Millward postcast. A few laps of Forza Motorsport. Sipping on a can. Perfect way to ease myself into the weekend.

[@pavise6333]

When I saw Visa going to become the title sponsor for then AlphaTauri, this team was the first thing that came to mind

[@AdamTheMan1993]

I doubt Visa are having the same financial sponsorship contract with RB than what MasterCard did with Lola

[@slamanna212]

You should do a video on the changes from 2016 to 2017. I googled them and its really interesting.

[@de-fault_de-fault]

A weird side note here is the story of (Carl, not Gene) Haas-Lola…Lola did not actually build the cars, but because all Lola customer cars in North America were distributed by Carl Haas, he slapped the name on them anyway as a marketing opportunity. And now I’m wondering if I commented this on the original version five years ago when I had just started following the channel.

[@nedbeaty72]

I was at that race, those things were shocking!

[@polycube868]

Since at the beginning you stated you remade these videos to improve the quality, well I'll comment again these are the only story times on KZbin I watch.

[@JoshuaC923]

And then there's me starring at that Marshall amp behind

[@benjarsenault]

And now Lola is back in motorsports in Formula E next season

[@Hammerhead547]

If you get a chance you should look at the story of the 1990 TNT/Red Man Tobacco Monster Truck World Championship and how Bigfoot 7 was so dominant that the sanctioning body (TNT Motorsports) first tried banning the truck from competition due to "new and untested tech" and then just settled on banning them from the middle of the season just to give thee other teams a chance too catch up in the points so that the championship wouldn't be a walkover for them. The move was extremely controversial among several of the other top teams (like Everett Jasmer's USA#1 team) and spurred them on to make major technical improvements on their trucks which lead the the 91's season being the closest one in the history of the sport to that time.

[@JimUe1]

Nice hat

[@Joe-wj7ku]

Ya beautyyyyy

[@Jackal776]

The early 90s Larrousse / Lolas had brilliant liveries.

[@cjsnowdon]

Roberto Moreno would have been the perfect driver for them

[@FlashoftheBlades]

And to think that Lola outlasted Reynard, who started experiencing financial problems of their own midway through the 2002 season. This led many CART teams who were running Reynards to switch to Lolas mid-season. By the end of the season, Reynard was kaput. And as far as I know, no attempt at a revival has been made.

[@LegoGrandPrix13]

@0:20 Good ideal. Do Forti next please.

[@BDSFormula1]

BRO!

[@LegoGrandPrix13]

@@BDSFormula1 whats up?

[@BDSFormula1]

@@LegoGrandPrix13 not much man! Great to see ya here

[@JohnSmithShields]

Hello early Storytime, we meet again. I miss the WWE theme music in the background!!!!! #morenorules

[@surajbalajr.4016]

Imagine Lawrence stroll getting the naming rights of Lola. Perez winning in a lola. 😂

[@amfk8079]

Just noticed the dsl 100 (guitar amp for those who dont play) highly underrated marshal IMO. does the old tones and new stuff amazingly well.

[@AidanMillward]

It’s the 50.

[@amfk8079]

@@AidanMillward even better. get those tubes working! Cool to find like minded people in other areas.

[@eamonahern7495]

Martin Birrane used to own Mondello Park as well.

[@polycube868]

Being an American I've never seen a pound bill...pretty cool, thanks for showing it.

[@AidanMillward]

Note. It’s a note. 😅

[@polycube868]

@AidanMillward again American who never seen one 😂🤣 we call our paper money bills

[@racer9637]

I just hope Lola gets the chance to be a P2 manufacturer again

[@EricOates15]

Mastercard Still Sponsor Football's UEFA Champions League

[@Eagleracer38x]

MasterCard was being stupid... They wanting instant gratification, not the year later, like Lola had been working on.

[@extragoogleaccount6061]

Their sponsorship was both terribly set up and demanding.

[@williamford9564]

And Broadley was stupid for not understanding what was in the terms of the agreement. Did he not hire lawyers or were the lawyers also buffoons?

[@Tintortoise]

Go jays go

[@1BCamden]

In the garage that week in Melbourne was a mixed bag of emotions, excitement to dismay and while I wouldn’t dispute anything you have proposed, the real priority issue was the gearbox actuation, it just wouldn’t behave, the guys worked through the night, but without success, very disappointing, regardless of the overall 107% challenge. The failure of LOLA that weekend was a very sad blow to Broadley and this fledgling F1 team.

[@Suprahampton]

Eric wanted to wait an extra year for development but Mastercard insisted on the '97 entry apparently

[@1greenMitsi]

this is why 80s/90/2000s was so good; shady deals done by obscure rogue business men sometimes nigerian princes, which ended up defaulting and rugging teams, Scandals, cheating, tobacco sponsorship, drivers going to jail, V10s...it was a soap opera for men. Modern F1 is too sterilized, bring back the backmarker teams and loose regulations

[@kickstartmotoart]

Is there any photos of the lola cars at Brazil ?

[@Tacko14]

1:45 Where are his legs in all that? Feet in front of the front axle, well alright. That was how it went down back then. But kneecaps?

[@purwantiallan5089]

All the 1990s F1 Teams like Leyton House, Minardi, Ligier, Footwork, and BMS Scuderia Italia and 2007 Super Aguri are all done way better than Mastercard Lola.

[@mattzegarski3831]

Re: Missing Air Box. Remember in 1994, after Senna's death, they made teams punch holes in their airboxes. I always assumed, after seeing spy pix of this car, that they thought that airboxes were a thing of the past. The teams were only allowed to keep them for sponsorship purposes.

[@PuncakeLena]

Now I'm curious what would've happened if Mastercard let Lola set the year of entry

[@RetroQon]

aidan doing remasters of old episodes :)

[@donathandorko]

Do GB3 and FRECA. We care and we will watch.

[@DL-nn1ws]

5k away now

[@The_ROKCER]

13:25 was that a LTX / LTT reference?

[@KR1736]

Looks like a F1 car but drives like a bath tub lola, la la la lola

[@prattomatic]

It’s a pleasant surprise to see a Brit wearing a Blue Jays hat. Is there a backstory?

[@craigcharlesworth1538]

I actually think Lola were worse than Life and Andrea Moda, because those teams were run by clowns who didn't know what they were doing and Lola were run by people who had masterminded hundreds of wins in a dozen different series. They shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as those other teams.

[@stevenkilsdonk2046]

Racer magazine had a photo of McNish in the no-airbox test car. Edit: google returns this and more photos as well.

[@AidanMillward]

Would have used one if I could. But the drawing was good enough of a reference.

[@ruddgrandprix-speedrunraci8515]

Lola's End or. How did MasterCard pull the BastardCard?

[@ruddgrandprix-speedrunraci8515]

Sorry for the grammar errors.

[@FlashoftheBlades]

That’s what I’m going to start calling them: BastardCard.

[@Chris-et2fm]

The aerodynamic properties of John Prescott 💀

[@spawnyruud]

How was Badoer’s 7th place in San Marino in 1993 helpful for them? Didn’t points only go to 6th back then?

[@AidanMillward]

Because Lola’s highest finish that season was higher than Tyrrell’s

[@icey2203]

11:30. Gp2 engine…. Gp2

[@cdnkart]

Can you redo or repost the (Drunken) Duncan Hamilton video? Also, I've seen you with a Canadians jersey, give me a dm if you want to come out for a C's game at The Nat!

[@BDSFormula1]

bots are here so first also josh revel?

[@AidanMillward]

What about Josh Revell?

[@BDSFormula1]

@@AidanMillward sorry, first thing that came to mind seeing the video topic

[@AidanMillward]

@@BDSFormula1 tbf I did is long before Josh Revell had a channel 😅

[@SiVlog1989]

If S1apsh0es were to branch his "Liers, Thieves and Lawyers" series into F1, this fiasco would definitely be there. What a mess

[@FlashoftheBlades]

Same with Andrea Moda. And for his “What is a…” series, seeing how he’s done a video about what an Indycar is, a video about what sports car racing prototypes are would be an excellent way to branch out.

[@nickjasperse9903]

A yes how a big amrican company kild a race cars bulder