...and jolly well it went, too!
Even more impressive at the Goodwood Revival. What an excellent win!
Derek Walker of Ladybird fame
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eeyore48
, Sep 09 2008 09:09
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David Beard
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Posted 02 October 2009 - 16:20
Even more impressive at the Goodwood Revival. What an excellent win!
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Alan Cox
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Posted 02 October 2009 - 18:29
Don't you just love drivers of period single-seaters who carry on wearing open-faced helmets with visors?
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Posted 02 October 2009 - 20:13
Even more impressive at the Goodwood Revival. What an excellent win!
And, inevitably, he won. Terrific.
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Phil Rainford
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Posted 02 October 2009 - 21:10
Don't you just love drivers of period single-seaters who carry on wearing open-faced helmets with visors?
Did Derek ever wear a full face helmet ........even in his Special Saloon days
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Posted 11 April 2010 - 20:06
Derek celebrated 50 seasons of racing when he took part in the Classic Clubmans race at Oulton Park recently with his Ladybird Mk10, a car he last raced in 1973. Derek first raced at Oulton with an MG Special in 1961!
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Posted 15 April 2010 - 16:08
Just to show how versatile Derek is, he cooked us a mean fried breakfast at Cadwell last week-end at around 6.45 am, before finishing second in the Formula Juniors.Derek celebrated 50 seasons of racing when he took part in the Classic Clubmans race at Oulton Park recently with his Ladybird Mk10, a car he last raced in 1973. Derek first raced at Oulton with an MG Special in 1961!
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Posted 13 February 2012 - 10:30
Derek with Ian Ward, 1976.
Note the Marshals Club sticker above the Union Flag, Derek was the first Honary Life Member of the BMRMC North Region. This was in recognition of all his help with marshals training in the 70s and 80s.
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Phil Rainford
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Posted 23 March 2013 - 14:47
Derek was on form again at Donington last weekend
He worked his way up to second place before mechanical gremlins forced him into the pits ............
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He worked his way up to second place before mechanical gremlins forced him into the pits ............
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Posted 23 March 2013 - 15:48
Would anyone be able to PM me any contact details for Derek Walker? I wonder if he might recognise my current project, an unidentified historic Clubmans car. It's geting hard to find anyone who was around in the eary days of clubmans formula now
Many thanks,
Al
Many thanks,
Al
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Phil Rainford
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Posted 29 August 2013 - 18:19
Derek and his Ladybird last weekend.....
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Charles Helps
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Posted 16 October 2015 - 12:07
I'd be interested to see a picture of the first Walker Ladybird. I had a letter from Don Rawson recently saying that in the early sixties he removed and gave the tail of his Lotus Mk VI to Walker for his first Ladybird. There is a George Phillips photo of the Lotus showing the car when it was being raced by Eric Dobson at Mallory Park on 26th April 1959 here. Autosport described it as "E. Dobson's peculiar looking Lotus".
