Whether it’s the folksy “win on Sunday, sell on Monday” or its anodyne MBA-speak replacement “road relevance,” the connection between road cars and race cars is one of the fundamental forces of the motorsports universe. It usually takes the form of actual cars, either showroom models prepped for the track or homologation specials built purely to make a race team’s machinations legal. But 40 years ago, BFGoodrich did the same thing with tires. In 1984, looking to promote its T/A radial tires, the company put together a two-car team and went endurance racing in both the IMSA GT Championship and the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), including the 24 Hours…
For Sale: Rotary-Powered 1984 Lola That Won Its Class at Le Mans on Street Tires
