Car 97 Lodestar Lola, USAC Champ Car 1974
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This photograph from 1974 captures the striking Car No. 97 Lodestar Lola, a USAC Champ Car competing during a formative era of American open-wheel racing. With its bold red-and-white livery, Firestone tires, and distinctive nose-wing design, the car reflects the rapidly evolving engineering of the mid-1970s, when aerodynamics, chassis development, and turbocharged powerplants were transforming the speed and handling of top-level race machines.
Built by Lola Cars, one of Britain’s most influential racing constructors, the chassis represents a generation of cars that competed in both oval and road course layouts across the United States Auto Club (USAC) Championship Trail—the series that eventually evolved into the modern IndyCar format. The Lodestar sponsorship and stylized Native American-inspired logo give the car a uniquely recognizable identity among its period competitors.
Behind the car, fans, support vehicles, and rival machines help complete the authentic race-day atmosphere, evoking the grassroots accessibility of 1970s motorsport—an era before enclosed paddocks and corporate hospitality suites. Spectators could stand just feet from the cars, smell fuel and tire smoke, and watch teams wrench on engines between practice laps.
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