The first thing I notice when the whine of the Lola T70S’s starter motor is replaced by the bark of its 5.0-litre, race-built small-block Chevrolet V8 is that it’s a bit… quiet. It’s louder than the average road car, sure, but standing a few feet from an inch-perfect recreation of a late ’60s Can-Am racer at idle should be shaking the ground and turning my bones to dust, and it just isn’t.
This, in all fairness, is very much not Lola’s fault. We’re at the MIRA test track in Warwickshire, where strict noise limits are in force. Fine if you’re testing an upcoming EV, less so if you’re running what is, for all intents and purposes, a racing car…
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