Tim Mayer sizes up the cockpit of his new Tasman Cooper T70, full of optimism having just tested the car at Goodwood, October 1963… Tim Mayer is one of motor racing’s many ‘might-have-beens’, cut down in his prime in a Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd Tasman Cooper T70 Climax at Longford, Tasmania on 28 February […]
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Tim Mayer: What Might Have Been?…
Posted: November 18, 2016 in FeaturesTags: 1963 British Formula Junior Championship, 1964 South Pacific Trophy Longford, 1964 Tasman Series, Bruce McLaren, Cooper T70 Climax, Longford Circuit, Tim Mayer, Timmy Mayer, Tyler Alexander
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Lola Mk6 Ford, Bruce McLaren and his M1 Olds…
Posted: February 24, 2021 in Sports RacersTags: Bruce McLaren, Goodwood, Le Mans, Lola Mk6 GT Ford, McLaren M1 Oldsmobile, Monza
The Richard Attwood/David Hobbs Lola Mk6 GT at Le Mans in 1963. Q22 after dramas with the French scrutineers, and just outside the top-12 at the end of the first hour. The GT’s first pitstop was to rectify a slipping dynamo belt, later there was a two-hour stop to sort Colotti T37 transaxle dramas. Then […]
Longford 1965…
Posted: September 27, 2019 in F1, FotosTags: 1965 Australian Grand Prix, Australian Motor Racing History, Brabham BT11a Climax, Brabham BT7A Climax, Bruce McLaren, Cooper T79 Climax, Frank Matich, Jack Brabham, Jim Clark, Lotus 32B Climax
Frank Matich, Brabham BT7A Climax leads Jim Clark’s works Lotus 32B Climax into Pub Corner at Longford in March 1965. A ‘take your breath away shot’, composition and execution by Reg Dalwood is something special… I suspect this is lap 2 with the leading trio of McLaren, Brabham and Hill further up the road. Behind […]
Matich & Stillwell: Brabhams, Warwick Farm, Sydney December 1963…
Posted: July 20, 2018 in F1, FeaturesTags: 1964 Tasman Series, 1965 Tasman Series, Australian Motor Racing History, Bib Stillwell, Brabham BT11a Climax, Brabham BT4 Climax, Brabham BT7A Climax, Frank Matich, Graham Hill, Jack Brabham, Jim Clark, Lotus 32B Climax
Frank Matich, Brabham BT7A Climax tries to outbrake Bib Stillwell #6, Brabham BT4 Climax, December 1963… Photographer John Ellacott upon posting this shot online described it as ‘the two great rivals on Hume Straight’…Matich braking down the outside on the run into the slow second gear ‘Creek Corner’. Frank’s car was brand new, just unpacked, […]
Longford Lap…
Posted: July 5, 2018 in Features, FotosTags: Australian Grand Prix Longford, Australian Motor Racing History, Australian Tourist Trophy Longford, Longford Circuit, South Pacific Championship Longford, South Pacific Trophy Longford
Longford’s Pit Straight- Illawarra Road from a Percival EP-9 at low altitude during the 1959 meeting… We are indebted to Tasmanian enthusiast Rob Saward who left his photographic archive and that of his father Jim in the care of Lindsay Ross (oldracephotos.com.au) who periodically uploads tidbits of visual pleasure from his coterie of talented ‘snappers such as the […]
The Stuff ‘yer Have to Do…
Posted: November 26, 2017 in Fotos, Obscurities, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: Boans Department Store, Cooper T70 Climax, Gordon Stephenson, Lawnmower Race
To keep a sponsor happy that is! Here it’s Perth racer Gordon Stephenson presenting the prizes to the winners of a department store lawnmower racing competition… WTF you may well say? Boans was an iconic department store in Western Australia for almost a century. Remember when every State or City had such emporiums of […]
Geoff Smedley’s Twin Plug Coventry Climax 2.5 FPF…
Posted: November 16, 2017 in Features, ObscuritiesTags: 1963 Australian Gold Star Series, 1964 Tasman Series, Coventry Climax FPF Engine, Coventry Climax FPF Twin-Plug Engine, Geoff Smedley, John Youl
Geoff Smedley fettles his ‘Twin Plug’ 2.5 Coventry Climax FPF engine fitted to John Youls’ Cooper T55 … In the late Formula Libre period in Australasia, just before the Tasman Formula commenced on 1 January 1964 the engine of choice was very much the Coventry Climax FPF. In fact the Tasman Formula was specifically designed around the […]
‘Levin International’ New Zealand 1965…
Posted: November 2, 2017 in F1, FeaturesTags: 1965 Tasman Series, Brabham BT11a Climax, Bruce McLaren, Cooper T70 Climax, Cooper T79 Climax, Frank Gardner, Jim Clark, Levin, Lotus 32B Climax, Phil Hill, Tim Mayer
Jim Clark takes in a few rays and a touring car race from his grandstand atop a Ford Zodiac, Levin, New Zealand Tasman, January 1965. In the distance are the Tararua Ranges, alongside the Team Lotus mechanics are fettling Jim’s Lotus 32B Climax. The champions relaxed nature and the scene itself epitomises all that was […]
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 […]
Patto and his Coopers…
Posted: February 2, 2017 in FeaturesTags: 1954 Australian Hillclimb Championship, 1961 Australian Gold Star Championship, Bill Patterson, Cooper MkV/41/51, Cooper T39 Climax, Cooper T51 Climax, Cooper T53 Climax, Stan Jones
Bill Patterson getting all he can from the 1000cc JAP engine in his little, lithe, light and nimble Cooper MkV. He is on his way to Australian Hillclimb Championship glory on 19 April 1954 at Collingrove, Angaston in South Australia’s Barossa Valley… Patterson was an immensely fast driver, look closely and you can see his […]
