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engine - the other being Mike Costin). Neither Jones or Tambay would score a point with the Lola Hart THL1. Despite Jones praising the new car and its engine, the team had finally got some speed out of the THL1 with Tambay qualifying 11th, some 2.226 faster and 12 places better than Jones in the
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World Championship). The Australian qualified 19th for his home race but stalled the car at the start leaving him dead last. After getting a push start and being almost a quarter of a lap behind, Jones fought his way through the field and was up to 6th and into the points by lap 20 before being
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During a 2012 interview series with Formula One legends, Alan Jones described the underpowered Hart 415T engine as like "sending a boy to do a mans job", adding that it was an old
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teams not enter, but withdrew before the race due to political pressure, however it was covered up as "illness" in order to not lose face, with the plan concocted by
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engine that someone had thrown a turbo on and said "lets go and do Formula One". Up against the financial and technical resources of Ferrari, Renault,
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testing of both the THL1 and THL2. Lola however earned the team's points towards the Constructors Championships as the team's designated constructor.
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was delayed meaning that the THL1 was pressed into service for the first three races of the season, its last race being the
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for Jones to drive, it was powered by the new, 900 bhp (671 kW; 912 PS)
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was in fact the 50th running of the race, but it was the first time it was part of the
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Double wishbones, push-rod and rocker actuated coil springs over dampers, anti-roll bar
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Double wishbones, push-rod and rocker actuated coil springs over dampers, anti-roll bar
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Jones showed the potential of the car in the final race of the season, the first ever
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and John Baldwin (Duckworth was one of the designers of the highly successful
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engine. The Haas Lola team only had one car for 1985 and it was driven by
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The car was called a Lola but its only connection to the famous
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teams boycott the race for political reasons, and the
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Category
Formula One
Team Haas (USA) Ltd.
Designer(s)
Neil Oatley
Ross Brawn
THL2
Chassis
Carbon fibre
aluminium
honeycomb
monocoque
Axle track
Wheelbase
Engine
Hart 415T
Straight 4
turbo
mid-engine
longitudinally mounted
Transmission
Hewland
manual
Shell
BP
Tyres
Goodyear
Team Haas (USA) Ltd.
Australia

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