LOLA BACKS MUIRA smiling Bob Muir -number one driver for All Australian Racers and Lola's works T300. LOLA CARS has announced it will back an Australian team -All Australian Racers -in the 1972 motor racing season -including the Australian rounds of the Tasman. The announcement came from the London offices of Lola last Wednesday and nominated Sydney driver Bobby Muir as the number one driver.Muir will drive the immaculate Lola T300 which was brought to Australia early in December for real estate millionaire, Niel Allen to contest the Tasman series.The car has been rebuilt after Allen's Surfers Paradise practice accident and will be ready to contest the Australian rounds.This week Muir tested the Lola for the first time on the Warwick Farm short circuit.Lola works driver Frank Gardner, who crashed in the Levin round of the Tasman (see report this page) tested the Muir car in Sydney this week but will not take it back to New Zealand to contest the final New Zealand rounds.His own car will be repaired in Sydney for the Australian rounds.The team of cars will consist of the works five Ii tre Lola T300 as the team mainstay.This will be supported by the two-litre Mildren Waggott as a back-up car.A series production Falcon GT-HO Phase III as well as the Lotus 31 Ford will also be run over the team banner later in the year.The Lola T300 will be entered in the four Australian rounds of the Tasman championship.The Mildren Waggott will be retained as a spare car during this series.There is also a possibility of a new driver being found for this car.Following the Tasman rounds the Lola T300 will contest some rounds of the L and M Continental Championship for Formula A car in the United States, as well as the Australian Gold Star championship.At the conclusion of the Tasman Series the Mildren­ Waggott will be shipped to Japan to contest the Japan and the Singapore Grand Prix in Bob Muir's hands.The concluding months of 1972 will be spent running the Series Production GT­ HO Phase III in the Gold Medal Series at Amaroo Park, the Toby Lee Series at Oran Park and finally the Hardie Ferodo 500 at Bathurst.Bob Muir started motor racing in October of 1965 driving Formula Vee racing cars with mixed success; after 20 months he graduated to the sports car ranks with a Lotus 23B, and continued his climb with some memorable dices with the late Glyn Scott.From there, to a disappointing year with the un. reliable Renmax BN2 Cli­max, although, finding time to fit in sponsored drives in his ex-Lotus 23B and the Lotus 32 Twin-cam.1970 saw the purchase of the 2-litre Mildren Waggott, culminating in the best overall showing of a 2-litre car during the 1971 Australian Tasman Series.1971 also saw Bob compete in Japan and England.Bob is to be engaged as number one driver for All Australian Racers.Muir gives the T300 its first outing on the Warwick Farm short circuit. It's rebuild aher the Allen accident was done by former Mildren team engineer.Glen Abbey.