The full field of Series Production cars rumbles down the hill from the rise through the kink on the plunge to Dandenong Road on the warm-up lap of the 21 September 1969 Sandown ‘Datsun Three Hour’ race… It was a Ford rout in the tribal battle between Ford and Holden on the circuits of Australia, […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Bob Atkin Collection 1…
Posted: March 7, 2022 in Fotos, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: Bob Atkin, Ferrari 250LM, Scuderia Veloce Motors
Australian enthusiasts of a certain age will recall Bob Atkin as David McKay’s partner in Scuderia Veloce, the Sydney based race team and prestige car dealership established by McKay as he evolved from racing driver to entrant/entrepreneur/motor trader, in addition to racing/automotive journalism off to the side. SVs soon became the team to watch, 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 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 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 […]
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’ […]
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 […]
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