Sorry for the noobish question, but are Lola Aston still around? If not, what happened to them?
The Lola Aston was leased to Muscle Milk in the ALMS for a single season in 2011. The next year, it was made mostly obsolete with the regs. It wasn't far off, but the body accommodated the 6 Liter V12. Since the engines were supposed to be smaller, it would have been silly to retro-fit a AM V8, which had never been put in a LMP car. Additionally, they would have had to fit a large dorsal fin, as well as cutting some holes in the fender. Probably more, but still.
In the WEC/ILMC, Aston had dropped the Lola in favor of the AMR-One, an in-house design, which turned out to be a flop. They quickly pulled the remaining chassis not already in use by MM out of storage (In a museum, I believe), and sent it to the ALMS for a single round at Laguna Seca, to compete along side the Muscle Milk car, to shake it down again in preparation for Petit Le Mans. Driven by factory drivers Stefan Mucke, Harold Primat, and Adrian Fernandez, that was the last race win for the Lola Aston Martin. It went on to finish 3rd behind the Peugeot and Oreca-Peugeot at Petit. To my knowledge, that was the last time the car was raced.
The Lola Aston was good, but was always overshadowed by the massive budgets of Peugeot and Audi.
The AMR-One was garbage, and was used a year later as the Pescarolo chassis. It was also total trash.
So no, it isn't. But their GT team is doing work right now...
Realistically though there was no reason the Skyactiv couldn't run in one of the two, weren't they linked to Dempsey and his now defunct LMP2 program?
