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Waggott
Waggott Engineering was an Australian automotive engineering company which gained fame for the engines which it produced for motor sport applications from the 1950s through to the 1970s. The company had its origins in a machine shop opened in 1948 by Merv Waggott. Initially concentrating on commercial refrigerator repairs and general engineering it later diversified into the production of after-market parts for automotive and motor sport applications. This was followed in the mid-1950s by the development and production of the Waggott TC engine.About Waggott Cams Retrieved from www.waggottcams.com.au on 11 September 2009 Although based on the six-cylinder Holden “Grey” motor it was extensively modified with twin overhead camshafts, a spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Stewart
Malcolm Clarke Stewart (14 March 1935 – 19 March 1977) was an Australian racing driver. He was known as the "Jolly Green Giant" for his disposition and height. Stewart was born in Orange, New South Wales. He began his motorsport career racing motorcycles, being selected to represent Australia at the 1955 Isle of Man TT, but withdrew due to work commitments. After racing Karts and touring cars he moved to open wheelers in 1965 with much success, winning the 1967 and 1968 Australian One and a Half Litre Championships. Stewart was selected to drive for Alec Mildren Racing, and went on to win the 1969 and 1970 Australian Formula 2 Championships driving a 1.6-litre Mildren Waggott. In 1970 he competed in a 2-litre Mildren Waggott in which he ran strongly in the 1970 Tasman Series with a number of podiums, and finished second to Jackie Stewart in the 1970 JAF Grand Prix for Formula Libre cars. He also won the 1971 Australian Drivers' Championship and the 1972 Singapore Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 Australian Drivers' Championship
The 1970 Australian Drivers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Australian Formula 1 and Australian Formula 2 racing cars.CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, 1970, pages 78 The winner of the title, which was the fourteenth Australian Drivers' Championship,CAMS Manual of Australian Motor Sport 1980, page 56 was awarded the 1970 CAMS Gold Star. The championship was won by Leo Geoghegan driving a Lotus 39 Repco and a Lotus 59B Waggott Waggott Engineering was an Australian automotive engineering company which gained fame for the engines which it produced for motor sport applications from the 1950s through to the 1970s. The company had its origins in a machine shop opened in 1948 b .... Calendar The championship was contested over six rounds with one race per round.Australian Competition Yearbook 1971, pages 51 to 63 Points system Championship points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the first six finishers in each round. Only the best five round ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Geoghegan
Leo Geoghegan (16 May 1936 - 2 March 2015) was an Australian former racing driver. He was the elder of two sons of former New South Wales car dealer Tom Geoghegan, both of whom become dominant names in Australian motor racing in the 1960s. While his younger brother Ian "Pete" Geoghegan had much of his success in touring car racing, winning five Australian Touring Car Championships, Leo spent most of his racing career in open wheel racing cars. Career Leo also drove Group E Series Production Cars and Group C touring cars at the annual Bathurst 500/1000 endurance race for the Ford Works Team, Chrysler Australia and the Holden Dealer Team. This gave him the distinction of being the only driver to race for all three Australian factory backed teams. Leo and Ian Geoghegan drove their Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 in the 1965 Armstrong 500 at Bathurst while wearing business suits as part of a sponsorship deal with a Sydney clothing store. After crossing the line in second place, the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildren (racing Cars)
The Mildren name was used on a series of racing vehicles constructed for, or acquired by, Australian racing team owner Alec Mildren during the 1960s and early 1970s. Mildren Maserati The Mildren Maserati was a one-off sports car which was built in 1964, utilizing a clone of a Lotus 19 chassis with components from a Cooper T51 and a 2.9 litre Maserati Type 61 engine.Rennmax, www.oldracingcars.com Retrieved on 15 December 2012 The chassis was constructed by Bob Britton, who also produced racing cars under the name. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Australian GT Championship
The 1962 Australian GT Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title2006 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, page 14-6 for drivers of Appendix K GT cars. Pedr Davis, The Macquarie Dictionary of Motoring, page 200 The title, which was the third Australian GT Championship,Some difference of opinion exists regarding the actual name of the title. Australian Motor Sport, September 1962 uses both "Australian G.T. championship" and "Australian Gran Turismo Championship", The Courier Mail, Monday, 9 July 1962 uses "Australian Grand Touring Championship" and the 2006 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport uses "Australian GT Championship" was contested over a single race held at the Lakeside circuit, in Queensland, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ... on 8 July 1962.John Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Formula 2
Australian Formula 2, sometimes abbreviated to AF2 or ANF2, is a "wings and slicks" formula racing category in Australia. The category is one of Australia's oldest, dating back to 1964. The current format of AF2 was introduced in 1978. Brian Shead of Cheetah Racing Cars and Garrie Cooper of Elfin Racing Cars were largely responsible for the development of the format, which was devised to suit the needs of Australian drivers, most of whom had little or no sponsorship and had to bear the costs of racing out of their own pockets. The class was an amalgamation of the previous Australian Formula 2 and Australian Formula 3 categories, using the same or newly developed cars, but powered by production-based single-cam, 2 valve per cylinder engines, with an engine capacity between 1100 cc and 1600 cc. Popular engines initially included the Toyota 2T, Ford Kent and Holden Gemini. Later on the Volkswagen Golf became the engine of choice due to its lighter weight and greater power levels. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 Australian Formula 2 Championship
The 1970 Australian Formula 2 Championship was an Australian motor racing title for drivers of racing cars complying with Australian Formula 2 regulations. The title, which was recognised by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport as the fourth Australian Formula 2 Championship, was decided over a single 40-lap, race, staged at the Lakeside circuit in Queensland, Australia on 27 September 1970.Des White, Stewart F2 Champ Again, Racing Car News, November 1970, pages 38-39 There were seven starters in the event. The championship was won by Max Stewart driving a Mildren Waggott. Results {, class="wikitable" border="1" generated with :de:Wikipedia:Helferlein/VBA-Macro for EXCEL tableconversion V1.4 , - style="font-weight:bold" , align="center" , Position , Driver , align="center" , No. , Car , Entrant , align="center" , Laps , - , align="center" , 1 , Max Stewart , align="center" , 6 , Mildren Waggott TC4V , Alec Mildren Racing , align="center" , 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Australian Drivers' Championship
The 1971 Australian Drivers’ Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title open to Australian Formula 1 and Australian Formula 2 racing cars.Conditions for Australian Titles, 1971 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, pages 79-83 It was the fifteenth Australian Drivers' Championship and the first to feature cars complying with a new for 1971 Australian Formula 1 which permitted cars with production based V8 engines of up to 5 litre capacity (commonly known as Formula 5000 cars) or racing engines of up to eight cylinders and up to 2 litre capacity.Pedr Davis, The Macquarie Dictionary of Motoring, 1986, page 171 The championship winner was awarded the 1971 CAMS Gold Star and the title of Australian Champion Driver. The championship was won by Max Stewart from Kevin Bartlett, Alan Hamilton and John McCormack, with only two points separating first from fourth after the final race.John Brownsea, Stewart is Gold Star Champ, Racing Car News, November 1971, pages 58-59 Calendar The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Australian Formula 2 Championship
The 1969 Australian Formula 2 Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title open to racing cars complying with Australian Formula 2. The title, which was the third Australian Formula 2 Championship,Records, Titles and Awards, 2006 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, page 14-6 was contested concurrently with the 1969 Sam Hordern Memorial Trophy which was staged at Warwick Farm in New South Wales, Australia on 7 December 1969.David McKay, ho hum hordern, Modern Motor, February 1970, pages 93 & 95 The championship was won by Max Stewart driving a Mildren Waggott. Results Note: The 1969 Sam Hordern Memorial Trophy, which incorporated the 1969 Australian Formula 2 Championship, was a round of the 1969 Australian Drivers' Championship. It was open to both Australian National Formula cars and Australian Formula 2 Australian Formula 2, sometimes abbreviated to AF2 or ANF2, is a "wings and slicks" formula racing category in Australia. The category is one of Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John French (racing Driver)
John French (born 28 November 1930) is an Australian retired racing driver. French was born in Millaa Millaa, Queensland, and his long career lasted from the 1960s to the early 1980s. He won the 1962 Australian GT Championship driving a Centaur-Waggott and in 1969 French paired with Allan Moffat to win the Sandown Three Hour race in a Ford Falcon GTHO Phase I. French was well known multi-franchise car dealer selling BMC vehicles, Alfa Romeo, Renault, Peugeot and Subaru in Brisbane. Many of the marques he sold featured prominently in his professional racing career. Nationally however he is best remembered as Dick Johnson's co-driver to win the crash-shortened 1981 Bathurst 1000 (French was driving the #17 Ford XD Falcon when the race was stopped, but wasn't one of the cars in the accident). He regularly drove the works Ford Falcon GTHO's alongside Allan Moffat, and also drove Moffat's and Ian Geoghegan's Improved Production Ford Falcon GTHOs in the Australian Touring Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Formula 1
Australian Formula 1 (AF1) was a motor sport category for open-wheeler racing cars which was current in Australia from 1970 to 1983. AF1 was introduced by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport in 1970, initially restricting cars to unsupercharged engines of no greater than 2.5-litre capacity, running on commercial fuel. AF1 was essentially a new name for the Australian National Formula which had been Australia’s premier racing category from 1964 to 1969. Effective 23 February 1971, AF1 was changed to a two-part formula catering for racing cars fitted with 5.0-litre production based pushrod V8 engines (internationally known as Formula 5000 cars) and those fitted with less restricted unsupercharged engines of eight cylinders or less and up to 2000 cc in capacity. The smaller engine option was discontinued after 1976. The main engines used were Chevrolet Small-Block engine, Chevrolet and Repco-Holden V8 engine, V8's, though occasionally a Ford 335 engine#302 and 351 Cleve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Australian Formula 2 Championship
The 1971 Australian Formula 2 Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Australian Formula 2 racing cars.Conditions for Australian Titles, 1971 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, pages 79–83 It was the fifth Australian Formula 2 Championship.Records, Titles and Awards, 2006 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, page 14-7 Calendar The championship was contested over a six heat series with one race per heat.Jim Shepherd, A History of Australian Motor Sport, 1980, pages 78–79 Heats were staged concurrently with those of the 1971 Australian Drivers' Championship which was open to drivers of both Australian Formula 1 and Australian Formula 2 cars. * Heat 1, Governor's Trophy, Lakeside, Queensland, 6 JuneDes White, F5000 on the way, Racing Car News, June 1971, pages 26–28 * Heat 2, Angus & Coote Diamond Trophy, Oran Park, New South Wales, 27 JuneMax Stahl, Stewart Leads Gold Star, Racing Car News, August 1971, pages 34–35 * Heat 3, Glynn Scott Memorial Trophy, Surf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
