Bruce McLaren won the first Tasman Cup/Series in 1964 aboard the first ‘real McLaren’, a 2.5-litre Cooper T70 Climax FPF. Two of these machines were designed and built by McLaren and his friend/confidant/mechanic and fellow Kiwi, Wally Willmott, at Coopers in late 1963. The nascent Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Team cars were raced by the […]
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Bruce McLaren and the Tasman Cup…
Posted: October 9, 2022 in F1, FeaturesTags: 1964 Tasman Series, Australian Motor Racing History, Bruce McLaren, Cooper T70 Climax, Tim Mayer
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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 […]
Lady Wigram Trophy 1965…
Posted: October 15, 2021 in F1, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: 1965 Tasman Cup, Brabham BT11a Climax, Bruce McLaren, Cooper T79 Climax, Frank Gardner, Jim Clark, Lotus 32B Climax
Bruce McLaren setting up a selfie before the Lady Wigram Trophy, Tasman Series, 23 January 1965… Sorting his goggles in any event, Cooper T79 Climax. The cars in the background are the #9 Bill Thomasen Brabham BT4 Climax and Red Dawson’s Cooper T53 Climax Lowline. What stood out on an initial scan of this bunch […]
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 […]
McLaren, Cooper T70, Sandown…
Posted: April 20, 2020 in F1, FotosTags: 1964 Australian Grand Prix, Brabam BT11A Climax, Bruce McLaren, Cooper T53 Climax, Cooper T62 Climax, Cooper T70 Climax, Jack Brabham, Jim Palmer
Bruce McLaren, Cooper T70 Climax, Australian Grand Prix, Sandown Park 1964… Its an unusual angle, Bruce is thinking about brakes as he passes the end of the pit counter and heads towards the tight ‘Peters’ left-hander before the blast up the back straight- unusual in that the shot is taken from outside the circuit, between […]
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 Jim are Bib […]
‘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 […]
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
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 […]
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-litre 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
Levin, NZ January 1964 (Smedley) 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 Cup commenced on 1 January 1964 – the engine of choice was very much the Coventry Climax FPF. In fact the Tasman […]
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