Spencer Martin tips his Ferrari 250LM into the fast ‘Homestead Corner’ at Warwick Farm before unleashing the cars 3.3 litre V12 on the long Hume Straight, what a sound it must have made! August 1965… Spencer Martin was one of Australia’s champion drivers of the 1960’s winning the Gold Star, the Australian Drivers Championship in […]
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Spencer Martin: Australian ‘Gold Star’ Champion 1966/7…
Posted: April 30, 2015 in Features, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: Brabham BT11a Climax, Brabham BT4 Climax, David McKay, Ferrari 250 LM '6321', Ferrari 250LM, Gold Star Series, Graham Hill, Scuderia Veloce, Spencer Martin
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Lorenzo, Clive and Spencer: Boomerang Servo, Sydney 1962…
Posted: September 20, 2017 in F1, Obscurities, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: 1962 Warwick Farm 100, Boomerang Service Station, Cooper T53 Maserati, Holden FX, Joel Wakely, Lorenzo Bandini, Prad Holden, Spencer Martin
Two of my favourite drivers are Lorenzo Bandini and Australian Gold Star champion, Spencer Martin but it was quite a surprise to see them in the same shot- Lorenzo in a Cooper and Spencer a Holden… Joel Wakely’s Boomerang Service Station at Concord, inner-western Sydney was well known amongst Australian motor-racing aficionados by February 1962 […]
Gissa few laps?…
Posted: April 28, 2021 in Fotos, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: 1968 'Warwick Farm 100', Australian Motor Racing History, Brabham BT23D Alfa Romeo, Denny Hulme, Frank Gardner
c’mon Alec won’t even notice, our helmets are much the same. Its gotta be quicker with that Eyetalian V8- lookout ‘yerv fried the left front though FG… Denny Hulme trying to convince Frank Gardner to give him a few Warwick Farm laps in FG’s new Mildren Racing Brabham BT23D Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 V8. The […]
Australian Motor Sports…by Stephen Dalton
Posted: February 19, 2021 in FeaturesTags: Arthur Wylie, Australian Motor Sports magazine, Bob Shepherd
Recording history, as it happens was a very different process before internet based websites and twitispheres made for real-time instantaneous news access across the globe. February 2021 heralds 75 years since a doyen of Australian motoring journals began its journey. Let’s reflect… World conflict had not long ceased when those with a motor sporting interest […]
Harves…
Posted: January 25, 2021 in Features, FotosTags: Bowin P8 Repco, Brabham BT14 Ford, Brabham BT14 Repco, Brabham BT23E Repco, Brabham BT36 Waggott, John Harvey, McLaren M6B Repco
John Harvey in Bob Jane’s McLaren M6B Repco-Brabham V8 nailing Warwick Farm’s Esses on May 2 1971. The late Australian champion, who died on December 20, 2020, raced so many different cars during a career from fifties speedway to noughties historic racing gave a big editorial challenge, what photograph to choose for the opening shot. […]
Australian Racing Random 4…
Posted: September 18, 2020 in Features, FotosTags: 1980 Australian Grand Prix, Alan Jones, Charlie Smith, Elfin Catalina, Elfin T100 Clisby, Horace Aunger, Jaguar XK120, Les Taylor, Prad Healey, Talbot
Whilst Darwin’s ‘Northern Standard’ reported that the attempt on the Darwin to Alice Springs record by Brisbane racer/motorcycle dealer Les Taylor and his salesman, ex-Spitfire pilot Dick Rendle’s Jaguar XK120 was a ‘well kept secret’, news of it soon spread. So much so that when the duo arrived in the Alice 10 hours and 32 […]
Australian Racing Random 3…
Posted: July 31, 2020 in F1, Sports RacersTags: Aspendale Speedway, Australian Motor Racing History, BRM P126, Elfin 792 VW, Elfin GE-225 VW, Frank Matich, Garrie Cooper, Jack Brabham-Knighthood, John Bowe, John Smith, Kaditcha Ford DFL, Stirling Moss
Pedro Rogriguez BRM P126 V12 howling its way around Surfers Paradise in the summer of 1968, behind is Dick Atwood’s sister car… This shot is by Rod MacKenzie, loved his work, especially the more creative stuff of which there is heaps- he died last year sadly, see here for some of his work; https://primotipo.com/2018/09/27/oz-racing-books/ and […]
Longford 2
Posted: June 19, 2020 in Features, FotosTags: Arnold Glass, Australian Motor Racing History, Bib Stillwell, Brabham BT7A Climax, Ferrari 250LM, Graham Hill, Jack Brabham, Longford, Lotus 27 Ford, Spencer Martin
Appendix J tustle into Mountford Corner circa 1964- Alan Robertson’s Peugeot 203 dives under an FJ Holden, the finish line is only 500 metres away, perhaps this is a last lap lunge… It’s a corker of a shot. ‘Longford 2’, who is he kidding, Longford 10 you may well reasonably say! Everything in motor racing […]
Australian Racing Random 1…
Posted: April 27, 2020 in FotosTags: 1972 Dulux Rally, Alan Jones, Australian Motor Racing History, Eclipse Zephyr Special, J.W.F Milano Holden, Keith Rilstone, Morris Mini 850, Penguin Hillclimb Tasmania, Templestowe Hillclimb
Lots of shots are great, I’m accumulating way too many for an article apiece so this is the first in an ongoing series of ‘dumping ground’ of photographs most of which first saw the communal light of day on Bob Williamson’s Australian Motor Racing Photographs Facebook page. I will keep adding these ‘Oz Racing Random’ […]
