1990 LOLA ALFA ROMEO T90/00 Formula Indy For Sale

LOLA-ALFA ROMEO T90/ 00 Formula Indy - Ex Team PATRICK RACING
         
              CHASSIS number LOLA : 26 B
          Engine number Alfa Romeo : AR INDY * 001*

           CHASSIS TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION

  A honeycomb composite monocoque utilizing a carbon-fibre skinned upper section moulded
  to form the aerodynamic body profile, and an aluminium-skinned fomed lower section.
            ENGINE ALFA ROMEO SPECIFICATION
      8 V - 9O° - 2. 700 cc - Turbo - power 700 hp at 12. 000 rpm
In the years 1989-1991, Alfa Romeo officially returned to compete in American racing after a wait of many years, since they had started in the 30s, and then abandoned after a few years.
In 1990, Alfa Romeo signed an agreement with the PATRICK RACING Team directed by Chip Ganassi, to participate in the Formula Indy races with their own engine, initially with MARCH chassis, and then, halfway through the season, they purchased 2 LOLA T90/ 00 chassis, and raced with these, in the belief that they were more performing than the March.
. The Alfa Romeo 8V Indy engine mounted on this car has a very particular history.
It was initially designed and built in 1986 within FERRARI, "child" of the tug-of-war between Enzo Ferrari and the F. I. A., with the awareness that it would never be used in the Indy races in America, but it was only a provocation aimed at acquiring from Enzo Ferrari more contractual capacity towards the F. I. A., hypothesizing an abandonment of Formula 1 to participate in the Indy races in America.
When Alfa Romeo, (which belonged to the same industrial group as Ferrari) in 1989 decided to participate in the Formula Indy races, it gave its technical director, Eng. Claudio Lombardi the task of updating and improving the performance of this Ferrari engine already ready but lacking in developement and testing, until reaching the
final result : the birth of the new ALFA ROMEO 8V -INDY engine.
The first engine to leave the Factory was mounted on this car, ( as demonstrated by the Alfa Romeo plate with the writing A. R. INDY N° * 1* , glued next to the LOLA plate with the chassis number LOLA T9000, chassis N° 26) As far as we know, Alfa Romeo together with the PATRICK RACING team purchased a total of 3 LOLA chassis, 2 T90/ 00 in 1990, and 1 LOLA T91/ 00 in 1991 on which the driver Danny Sullivan raced, who took over from Roberto Guerrero. This car, chassis 26 as far as we know, was used in 1990 for development tests by Alfa Corse test driver Giorgio Francia and then used in some races by Roberto Guerrero, as an alternative to chassis 25.
It was probably driven in a private test by Danny Sullivan before the start of the 1991 season, waiting for the new car, the LOLA T91/ 00 which he used all season.
In 1998, an Italian collector from Torino named Giovanni Litrico, purchased from the PATRICK RACING Team and imported into Italy from America, the entire block of old Alfa Romeo-powered cars, consisting of 6 cars (3 MARCH -ALFA ROMEO, and 3 LOLA-ALFA ROMEO) and all the spare parts that remained.
Giovanni Litrico then resold, one by one, all these cars, (the other LOLA T90/ 00 with chassis N 25 is owned by a collector from Milan, the T91/ 00 ex Danny Sullivan is at the Alfa Romeo Museum) while this one became the property of the well-known driver and restorer Mauro Pane, who later, before his death, sold it to the current owner.
The car is in exceptional condition of conservation, complete with all its mechanical parts, but it's not ready to race.
The engine has been stopped for many years and therefore needs to be opened and checked before use.
Spare parts for the engine are included in the price (2 heads complete with valves, and more......)