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 […]
Hordern Trophy…
Posted: July 25, 2021 in FeaturesTags: 1967 Hordern Trophy, Brabham BT23D Alfa Romeo, Frank Gardner, Hordern Trophy
Frank Gardner takes the chequered flag after winning the December 3, 1967 Hordern Trophy, traditionally the season ending Gold Star round at Warwick Farm… Frank’s habit was to finish his European racing season and then head back to his home city, Sydney, and contest the final Gold Star round as a warm up for the […]
Australian Racing Random 8…
Posted: July 17, 2021 in FotosTags: Alec Mildren, Australian Motor Racing History, Brian Sampson, Centaur Waggott, Cooper T51 Maserati, Dave Walker, John Ampt, John French, Lotus 56B Pratt & Whitney
Dave Walker in the radical Lotus 56B Pratt & Whitney, 4WD gas turbine powered F1 car during practice for the 1971 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort… It is just over 50 years since the gritty Aussie raced this radical Lotus – developed and raced at the ’68 Indy 500 then adapted by Chapman and his […]
Greg Cusack and Scuderia Veloce at Longford 1964…
Posted: May 10, 2021 in FotosTags: 1964 South Pacific Trophy, Australian Motor Racing History, Brabham BT4 Climax, Brabham BT6 Ford, Graham Hill, Greg Cusack, Longford
Greg Cusack exits Newry Corner, Scuderia Veloce Brabham BT6 Lotus-Ford Twin-cam, South Pacific Trophy, Longford, 2 March 1964… Cusack was the second ANF1.5 car home in the Tasman round, Frank Gardner was ten seconds up the road in Alec Mildren’s similar Brabham- it was a good showing and indicative of his pace. I wrote an […]
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. […]
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