Leo Geoghegan slices his venerable Lotus 39 Repco into the Warwick Farm Esses, Tasman Series, 15 February 1970… Terrific shot, the focus is on the driver, the rest of the car blurred giving the impression of speed, something Geoghegan had in abundance. Leo ‘made his name’ in this car, he was a front-runner from the […]
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Jim Clark and Leo Geoghegan’s Lotus 39…
Posted: February 12, 2016 in F1, FeaturesTags: 1966 Tasman Series, 1969 JAF Japanese Grand Prix, 1970 Australian Gold Star Series, Birrana 274 Ford, Jim Clark, Leo Geoghegan, Lotus 39 Climax, Lotus 39 Repco, Lotus 59 Waggott
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Australian Lotus 11 Replicas…
Posted: April 15, 2019 in Sports Racers, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: Australian Motor Racing History, Denis Lupton, Devione, Devione LC2 Ford, Lotus 11 Replica
Denis Lupton’s ‘Team Devione’ Lotus 11 Ford Rep at Calder, ‘whilst the circuit was still being built, marked on the slide is 1960’… Racer, engineer and mechanic Lupton and ace welder Hedley Thompson met at the Australian Motor Sports Club and soon developed a strong friendship. Thompson was a foreman in aircraft maintenance at TAA- […]
Leo’s Lotus 59B Waggott…
Posted: September 17, 2018 in Fotos, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: Australian Motor Racing History, Leo Geoghegan, Lotus 59B Waggott, Warwick Farm
Despite being in the middle of built up Sydney, Warwick Farm had its bucolic elements… And there is nothing more quintessentially country Australian than a windmill- here as a backdrop for Leo Geoghegan’s Lotus 59B Waggott prior to the 1971 Tasman round on 14 February. Frank Gardner’s Lola T192 Chev was victorious that weekend, Leo […]
Derek’s Deccas and Lotus 15’s…
Posted: November 9, 2017 in Features, Sports RacersTags: 1958 Le Mans 24 Hours, 1959 Le Mans 24 Hours, 1960 Australian Tourist Trophy, Decca Mk1 Climax, Decca Mk2 Climax, Deccas Place North Adelaide, Derek Jolly, Lotus 15 Climax, Lotus 15 Climax '608', Lotus 15 Climax '626', Penfolds Wines
Ira Phillips changes a Jaguar XK140 wheel with Derek Jolly’s Lotus 15 Climax ‘608/626’ on the trailer enroute to Gnoo Blas, Orange, New South Wales in late January 1960… Derek Jolly lead a full life, he was a man of many parts. A visionary with money who had many interests including motor racing, business, photography, […]
Lotus in Australia…
Posted: October 6, 2017 in Features, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: Derek Jolly, Geoghegan's Sporty Cars, Leaton Motors, Leo Geoghegan, Lotus Cars, Lotus Cars in Australia, Lotus Elan, Lotus Elan Plus 2, Lotus Europa, Pete Geoghegan
Geoghegans were the Australian importers and distributors of Lotus cars from the mid-sixties to the mid-seventies when Jim Smith’s Peter Manton Motors in Melbourne stepped up to the plate… The brothers Geoghegan are no doubt well known to most primotipo readers by now, even you international mob. Between them they had ‘Taxis’ or Touring Cars […]
Bay of Plenty Road Race, John Youl and the Frank Matich Lotus 19’s…
Posted: September 8, 2017 in Features, Obscurities, Sports RacersTags: Bay of Plenty Premier Road Race, Bib Stillwell, Brabham BT7A Climax, Cooper T53 Climax, Cooper T55 Climax, Elfin 400 Traco Oldsmobile, Frank Matich, Jim Palmer, John Youl, Lotus 19 Climax #950, Lotus 19b Climax, Mount Maunganui
Frank Matich’s Brabham BT7A Climax leading Jim Palmer’s Cooper T53 Climax around the 2.897 Km Mount Maunganui road circuit, New Zealand, 28 December 1963… Mount Maunganui is a beach town at the southern end of Tauranga Harbour in The Bay of Plenty in the north of New Zealands North Island. Only two ‘Bay of Plenty […]
Hawthorn’s Lotus 11…
Posted: September 4, 2017 in F1, Obscurities, Sports RacersTags: Graham Hill, Lotus 11 Climax, Mike Hawthorn, Stirling Moss
I don’t think of Mike Hawthorn as a Lotus driver but here he is with Graham Hill, rather similar in age, they were both born in 1929… Amazing really, grafter Hill worked hard to get into motor racing, his GP career started not long before Hawthorn’s finished and went well into the 1970’s, not to […]
Jackie Oliver and Lotus, mainly…
Posted: January 13, 2017 in F1, FeaturesTags: BRM P133, BRM P153, Jackie Oliver, Leo Geoghegan, Lotus 35 Ford Cosworth, Lotus 41B Ford, Lotus 48 Ford, Lotus 49 Ford, Lotus 59 Waggott, Lotus 69 Ford FVA, Lotus F2 Cars
The spare Lotus 48 Ford FVA, chassis 48-2 during the Eifelrennen Euro F2 round in the Nurburgring pitlane on 24 April… Oliver’s Lotus Components entered Lotus 41B was the most successful of the Lotus works entries, he finished 11th. The Team Lotus duo of Graham Hill were 15th with Clark retiring with fuel metering unit failure. […]
Cliff Allison, Lotus 12 and the Mid-Engined Revolution 1958…
Posted: November 29, 2016 in F1, FotosTags: 1958 Italian Grand Prix, 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, Bernie Ecclestone, Cliff Allison, Connaught Type B Alta, Cooper T45 Climax, Ferrari Dino 246, Graham Hill, Jack Brabham, Lotus 12 Climax, Maurice Trintignant, Mike Hawthorn, Stirling Moss, Vanwall VW57
Cliff Allison releases his Lotus 12 Climax from the Monaco haybales on 18 May 1958, whilst teammate Graham Hill passes in the sister car… It was a significant race for Lotus, their debut as Championship Grand Prix competitors, Allison was classified sixth and Hill’s race ended on lap 15 with engine dramas. Coventry Climax had […]
Hill’s F1 Brabham BT26 and Chapman’s Lotus 63…
Posted: November 11, 2015 in F1, ObscuritiesTags: 1969 British Grand Prix, Brabham BT26A Ford, Brabham BT34 Ford, Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart, Jochen Rindt, John Miles, Lotus 49B Ford, Lotus 63 Ford, Matra MS80 Ford, Ron Tauranac
Graham Hill having a squirt of Jack’s Brabham BT26A Ford in British GP practice, Silverstone July 1969… GH in a Brabham is not such a big deal; he raced F2 Brabhams with success for years as well as Tasman Formula ‘Intercontinental’ Brabhams in the mid-sixties. Later he was the pilot of Ron Tauranac’s intriguing ‘Lobster […]
