Lola Yellow

Lola Yellow, the yellow from the Lola set of shades

The third shade of the trio named after the British constructor of racing cars. Yellow is the most conspicuous among them and on racing cars it did not fill the role of a discreet paint: it served as a ground on which the sponsor marks were legible even from the grandstand and on a television picture.

The formula cars of the marque

Lola did not build only sports prototypes. It supplied chassis to the whole European formula pyramid, from the lower classes through Formula 2 and Formula 3000 up to Formula 5000 with large displacement engines, and its machinery ran in Japanese formula and sports series as well. It was exactly in these series that the look of a car was decided by its sponsor, so the same body appeared in sharply differing colors. Saturated yellow grounds were common among them, because they were easy to work with in the graphics of a livery.

What you will use the shade for on a model

• Bodies of formula cars of the lower and middle classes
• Noses and side pods, where the sponsor graphics are meant to be legible
• Yellow surfaces of two-color liveries and the fields of race numbers
• Telling cars of the same type apart by color in a collection

Who the color is for

It will serve modelers who build formula cars of customer construction and want a yellow in the racing position to hand: saturated, but not fluorescent. It is practical for collections too, where more than one car of identical construction stands side by side and the color is the only thing that tells them apart at first sight.