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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Alec Strachan, Lotus Mk6 Climax…
Posted: June 23, 2020 in Sports RacersTags: Alex Strachan, Graham Howard, Lotus Mk 6 Climax
Alex Strachan was the first to import a Lotus into Australia, and as a consequence he was appointed by Colin Chapman the first of many Lotus concessionaires over the years in this country… The car was significant enough to make the cover of Wheels magazine, Alec’s race exploits in the car commenced the long run […]
Moffat’s Lotus Cortina, Shelby, K-K and Trans-Am phases…
Posted: March 6, 2020 in Features, Sports Racers, Touring CarsTags: 1968 Daytona 24 Hour, 1968 Sebring 12 Hour, Allan Moffat, Australian Motor Racing History, Ford Falcon GTHO, Ford Mustang, Horst Kwech, Kar-Kraft, Lotus Cortina, Roy Lunn
Allan Moffat finesses his Shelby Mustang around the Daytona banking during the 1968 running of the endurance classic on 4 February… The first two World Sportscar Championship rounds in 1968- at Daytona and Sebring were also the first rounds of the Sports Car Club of America’s Trans-Am Championship which had very quickly become an important […]
Cooper T39 Climax, Le Mans 1957, Brabham, Raby…
Posted: January 28, 2020 in Obscurities, Sports RacersTags: 1957 Le Mans 24 Hours, 1958, Aston Martin DBR1 300, Brabham BT14 Ford-Lotus, Brabham BT3 BRM, Cooper Mk 8 Norton, Cooper T39 Climax, Ian Raby, Jack Brabham
Jack Brabham’s first Le Mans 24 Hours was the 1957 running of the endurance classic during which he shared a Cooper T39 Climax with Englishman Ian Raby… Whilst the Coventry Climax 1097cc FPF engined car was quick the duo finished fifteenth outright and third in their 1100cc class behind the similarly engined works Lotus 11 […]
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 led 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 […]
