Lordy knows how many different bikes and cars the great John Surtees drove in his lengthy career at elite level, on two and four wheels?!… His brief Matra F2 phase was a new one on me until tripping over some of these photographs whilst researching an article on Matras. ‘Big John’ did two races for […]
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Surtees, Matra 1966 and thereabouts…
Posted: May 24, 2019 in FeaturesTags: Cosworth SCA Engine, Formula 2, Jackie Stewart, Jacky Ickx, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, John Surtees, Matra Djet, Matra MS5 Cosworth SCA, Matra MS7 Ford, Reims, Rouen
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Australian Racing Random 6…
Posted: March 13, 2021 in FeaturesTags: Austin Healey 100/4, Australian Motor Racing History, Brian McGuire, David Walker, Frank Matich, Lotus 56B Pratt & Whitney, McGuire BM1 Ford, Mercury Trial Tasmania, Michael Andretti, Reynard 941 Ford
The heavies before the start of the AJC Trophy at Warwick Farm, fifth round of the Australian Touring Car Championship, on July 12, 1970. Allan Moffat, Mustang Trans-Am, Jim McKeown, 911S, Pete Geoghegan, Mustang, you can just see Brian Foley’s 911S then Bob Jane’s Mustang Shelby Trans-Am on the dummy grid. Moffat’s Trans-Am started from […]
Jackie Oliver and Lotus, mainly…
Posted: January 13, 2017 in F1, FeaturesTags: BRM P133, BRM P153, Jackie Oliver, Leo Geoghegan, Lotus 35 Ford Cosworth, Lotus 41B Ford, Lotus 48 Ford, Lotus 49 Ford, Lotus 59 Waggott, Lotus 69 Ford FVA, Lotus F2 Cars
The spare Lotus 48 Ford FVA, chassis 48-2 during the Eifelrennen Euro F2 round in the Nurburgring pitlane on 24 April… Oliver’s Lotus Components entered Lotus 41B was the most successful of the Lotus works entries, he finished 11th. The Team Lotus duo of Graham Hill were 15th with Clark retiring with fuel metering unit failure. […]
Australian Racing Random 11…
Posted: October 2, 2022 in FeaturesTags: AC Ace Bristol, Australian Motor Racing History, Mary Seed, Milthorpe Special
This Dr Who-esque shot was taken by Peter Houston at Hume Weir on the 1971 Boxing Day weekend. It’s later F2 front runner Enno Buesselmann in his Formula Ford days, an Elfin 600. Click here for more on Australian FF formative days. These couple of pages from a mid-1950s brochure about the Phillip Island circuit […]
Robin Lewis Collection…
Posted: April 22, 2023 in Features, Touring CarsTags: Australian Motor Racing History, Robin Lewis
What an incredibly talented photographer Robin Lewis is! Thanks to social media his archive is accessible. If you are a Facebooker just key in Robin Lewis and have a look for yourself. A serial motor cycle racer/historian/fan the Hahndorf based professional has an immense body of work from his days in Melbourne as a freelancer, […]
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 […]
Oh Dear…
Posted: March 10, 2020 in F1Tags: 1965 Belgian Grand Prix, 1965 Dutch Grand Prix, Coventry Climax, Coventry Climax FWMV V8, Coventry Climax FWMW Flat-16, HRH Prince Phillip, Jim Clark, Leonard Lee, Lotus 33 Climax, Mike Spence, Walter Hassan
HRH Prince Phillip during a ‘cooks tour’ of Coventry Climax Ltd, Widdrington Road, Coventry on 21 June 1966… I tripped over these photographs searching for shots of the FWMV four-valve heads- that 1.5 litre V8 was the engine Jim Clark used to win his 1963 and 1965 F1 titles in the rear of Lotus 25 […]
Lakeside early days…
Posted: September 23, 2019 in Sports Racers, Touring CarsTags: 1962 Australian GT Championship, 1964 Australian Touring Car Championship, Australian Motor Racing History, Brian Muir, Centaur Waggott, Ferguson P99, Holden EH S4, John French, Lakeside Raceway, Sid Sakzewski
The grid for the Australian GT Championship at Lakeside, Queensland on 8 July 1962… Bill Pitt, Jaguar 3.4 alongside John French in the Centaur Waggott/Holden, then the two Lotus Elites of Tony Osborne #16 and #7 Brian Foley. On the row behind is #21 Les Howard, Austin Healey Sprite Ford-Cosworth, in the middle the partially […]
Words from Werrangourt 3: Life is an adventure – Jumbo Goddard by Bob King…
Posted: October 30, 2021 in Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: Bentley 8-litre Turbo, Bugatti T35C, Frazer Nash, Jaguar 'D Type', Jumbo Goddard
164 MPH IN A VINTAGE BENTLEY–THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN LEMUEL ‘JUMBO’ GODDARD – A GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER “Jumbo liked shiny things”. A legend in his own lifetime, much has been written about John L. Goddard. His life story has been told by journalist luminaries including Bill Boddy (Motor Sport, 12/62), Pedr Davis, (Sports Car […]
Chaparral 2A Chev…
Posted: January 25, 2020 in Sports RacersTags: 1965 Sebring 12 Hours, Chaparral 2A Chev, Chaparral 2C Chev, Chaparral 2D Chev, Chaparral 2E Chev, Dan Gurney, Hap Sharp, Jim Hall, Lotus 19B Ford
Jim Hall on the front row of the grid, a locale he became quite akin to and fond of in 1964/1965- Laguna Seca in May 1965, Chaparral 2A Chev… 1965 started fantastically for the boys from Midland, Texas with a mighty win over twelve hours at Sebring against the best in the world from Ferrari, […]
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