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Six Hour Le Mans
The Six Hour Le Mans was an endurance motor race for sports cars and touring cars held annually in Western Australia, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ... from 1955 to 1972. Initially run at the Caversham Airfield circuit, the event was moved, along with all other WA circuit racing, to the then new Wanneroo Raceway in 1969. Winners References Further reading *Around The Houses (© 1980) by Terry Walker *A History of Australian Motor Sport (© 1980) by Jim Shepherd {{Automobile endurance races ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Barbagallo Raceway AKA Wanneroo Park (Australia) Track Map
Barbagallo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alf Barbagallo (born 1942), Australian racing car driver and businessman * Jess Barbagallo, American playwright and performer See also * 93061 Barbagallo, a main-belt asteroid * Barbagallo Raceway, a motorsport circuit located in Neerabup, Western Australia {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1959 Six Hour Le Mans
The 1959 6-Hour Le Mans Production Car Race was a motor race staged on 1 June 1959 at the Caversham Race Circuit in Western Australia, Australia. It was organised by the WA Sporting Car Club, and was the fifth annual ''Six Hour Le Mans''. The race was won by Clem Dwyer and Vin Smith, driving a Triumph TR3A. Results {, class="wikitable" border="1" generated with :de:Wikipedia:Helferlein/VBA-Macro for EXCEL tableconversion V1.4 , - style="font-weight:bold" , align="center" , Position , Drivers , align="center" , No. , Car , Entrant , align="center" , Cat. pos. , align="center" , Category , align="center" , Class pos. , align="center" , Class , align="center" , Laps , - , align="center" , 1 , Clem Dywer, Vin Smith , align="center" , 1Six-hour Race to Triumph, Modern Motor, August 1959, pages 70 & 71 , Triumph TR3A , Diesel Motors , align="center" , 1 , align="center" , Sports Cars , align="center" , , align="center" , , align=" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1965 Six Hour Le Mans
The 1965 Six Hour Le Mans was an endurance race open to Sports Cars, Improved Production Touring Cars & Series Production Touring Cars. The event was staged at the Caversham circuit in Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ... on 7 June 1965. Results were as follows: References *A History Of Australian Motor Sport, © 1980 *Around The Houses, © 1980 *Modern Motor, August 1965 *Racing Car News, July 1965 *{{Cite web , url=https://www.terrywalkersplace.com/ , title=Archived copy , access-date=6 October 2023 , archive-date=2 June 2023 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602045810/http://terrywalkersplace.com/ , url-status=live Six Hours Le Mans Six Hours Le Mans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jaguar E-type
The Jaguar E-Type, or the Jaguar XK-E for the North American market, is a British FMR layout, front mid-engined sports car that was manufactured by Jaguar Cars, Jaguar Cars Ltd from 1961 to 1974. Its sleek appearance, advanced technologies, high performance, and competitive pricing established it as an icon. The E-Type's claimed top speed,New Jaguar Car Has Top Speed of 150 M.P.H. ''The Times'', Wednesday, 15 Mar 1961; p. 7; Issue 55030 sub-7-second 0 to 60 mph (97 km/h) acceleration, largely unibody, unitary body construction, front and rear independent suspension with disc brakes, mounted inboard at the rear, and rack-and-pinion steering spurred industry-wide changes.Jaguar Model Guides: The E-Type , www.jcna.com, accessed 1 October 2019 The E-Type was based on Jaguar's Jaguar D-Type, D-Type rac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1964 Shell Le Mans 6 Hour Race
The 1964 Shell Le Mans 6 Hour Race was an endurance motor race open to Sports Cars and Touring Cars. The event was held at the Caversham circuit in Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ... on the Foundation Day Holiday Monday, 1 June 1964. Retrieved from www.terrywalkersplace.com on 27 August 2008 Results References Further reading * Australian Motor Sport, August 1964, page 52-53 * Terry Walker, Around The Houses, 1980, page 58External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lotus Seven
The Lotus Seven is a sports car produced by the British manufacturer Lotus Cars (initially called Lotus Engineering) between 1957 and 1973. The Seven is an open-wheel car with two seats and an open top. It was designed by Lotus founder Colin Chapman and has been considered the embodiment of the Lotus philosophy of performance through low weight and simplicity. The original model was highly successful with more than 2,500 cars sold, due to its attraction as a road legal car that could be used for clubman racing. After Lotus ended production of the Seven, Caterham bought the rights and today Caterham makes both kits and fully assembled cars based on the original design known as the Caterham 7. The Lotus Seven design has spawned a host of imitations on the kit car market, generally called ''Sevens'' or ''Sevenesque'' roadsters. History Series 1 The Lotus Seven was launched in 1957 to replace the Mark VI as the entry-level Lotus model. The Seven name was left over from a mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1963 Six Hour Le Mans
The 1963 Six Hour Le Mans was an endurance race for Sports Cars, Touring Cars & Grand Touring Cars. The race was held at the Caversham Airfield circuit in Western Australia on 3 June 1963. It was the ninth annual Six Hour Le Mans race.Terry Walker, Six-Hour "Le Mans", Around The Houses – A History of Motor Racing in Western Australia, 1980, pages 56 to 59 The race was won by Jeff Dunkerton driving a Lotus Super 7. The winning car completed 194 laps, a total distance of 427 miles (688 km). Race results References {{reflist Further reading *Le Mans Distance A Record, The West Australian, Tuesday, 4 June 1963, page 10 *The big names in motor sport win on BP, (advertisement for BP Super and BP Energol oil), The West Australian, Tuesday, 4 June 1963, page 32 *Caversham Results, The West Australian, Tuesday, 11 June 1963 *Jim Shepherd, A History of Australian Motor Sport, Sportsbook Publishing Co., 1980 Six Hours Le Mans Six Hour Le Mans The Six Hour Le Mans was an endur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Coventry Climax
Coventry Climax was a British manufacturer of forklift trucks, fire pumps, racing engines, and other speciality engines. History Pre WWI The company was started in 1903 as Lee Stroyer, a joint venture by Jens Stroyer and Pelham Lee. In 1905, following the departure of Stroyer, it was relocated to Paynes Lane, Coventry, and renamed as Coventry Simplex by Horace Pelham Lee, a former Daimler employee, who saw an opportunity in the nascent internal combustion engine market. An early user was GWK, who produced over 1,000 light cars with Coventry-Simplex two-cylinder engines between 1911 and 1915. Just before the First World War, a Coventry-Simplex engine was used by Lionel Martin to power the first Aston Martin car. Ernest Shackleton selected Coventry-Simplex to power the tractors that were to be used in his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914. Hundreds of Coventry-Simplex engines were manufactured during the First World War to be used in generator sets for se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lotus 15
The Lotus 15 is a front-engine sports racing car designed by Colin Chapman of Lotus, built from 1958 until 1960. Series 1 The 15 is a two-seater, front-engine, rear wheel drive sports racer with an aluminium body over a space frame configuration. As opposed to the six cylinder Bristol 2L engine in its predecessor Lotus Mk.X, the Mk.15 was designed with a dry-sump, all aluminium, DOHC four cylinder Coventry Climax FPF engine of 1.5 to 2.5 Litre displacement built for Formula Two and Grand Prix racing, mated to Lotus' own 5 speed sequential transaxle nicknamed ' Queerbox'. It was designed in 1957, and the production began in late 1957. The spaceframe was similar to Lotus Eleven except for the Chapman strut rear suspension with inboard brakes and the accommodations for a larger engine, which included a slightly (7.5 degrees) tilted engine mounting space on the plan view, shifted to the right of the centerline in the front and left at the rear of the engine. This arrangement gave a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1962 Six Hour Le Mans
The 1962 Six Hour Le Mans was an endurance motor race for Sports Cars, Sedans and GT cars. The event was held at the Caversham Airfield, Caversham circuit in Western Australia on 3 June 1962. There were a total of 31 starters in the race, which was the eighth Six Hour Le Mans. The race was won by Derek Jolly and John Roxburgh (racing driver), John Roxburgh driving a Lotus 15 Coventry Climax. Results References {{reflist Further reading Terry Walker, Around The Houses - The History of Motor Racing in Western Australia, 1980 External linksTerry Walker's Place - Western Australian Motor Racing History, as archived at web.archive.org Six Hours Le Mans 1962 in Australian motorsport, Six Hour Le Mans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Aston Martin DB3S
The Aston Martin DB3S is a sports racing car that was built by Aston Martin. Following the failure of the heavy and uncompetitive Aston Martin DB3 designed by Eberan Eberhorst; William Watson, employed as Eberhorst's assistant, presented an alternative design to John Wyer, Aston Martin's competitions manager, whose assistance was needed as Eberhorst could well oppose being up-staged. In total 31 cars were made, with 11 works cars and 20 cars being sold for customer use. The DB3S was introduced in 1953 and proved significantly more successful than the Aston Martin DB3. Although the DB3S failed at Le Mans they went on to score a 1–2 at the Tourist Trophy at Dundrod in the 6th round of the inaugural World Sportscar Championship in 1953 to help Astons to 3rd in the championship. There was also a win in the non-championship Goodwood 9 Hours. 1954 was a less successful season with a third place in the Buenos Aires 1000 km being the high point. However the cars failed at the Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1961 Six Hour Le Mans
The 1961 Six Hour Le Mans was an endurance motor race for sports cars and sedans. The race was staged at the Caversham circuit in Western Australia on Monday, 5 June 1961. It was the seventh annual Six Hour Le Mans.Terry Walker, Six-Hour "Le Mans", Around The Houses - The History of Motor Racing in Western Australia, 1980, pages 56 to 59 The race was won by Ray Barfield driving an Aston Martin DB3S. Results The winning car covered a record 187 laps (385 miles / 620 km) despite the fact that it rained throughout the race. References Six Hours Le Mans Six Hour Le Mans The Six Hour Le Mans was an endurance motor race for sports cars and touring cars held annually in Western Australia, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainla ... June 1961 sports events in Australia {{touringcar-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
