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[DNQ]

Hello, I would like to tell you about a project I'm working on.

I am putting together a comprenhensive archive of Australian championship winners, and major race winners, in a similar way to the 6th Gear (http://www.racer.dem...ear/champs.html), but in a far more exhaustive list of Australian results - to date, the current categories are included: AUSCAR, Australian Drivers Championship, Australian Formula 2 Championship, Australian Formula 3 Championship, Australian Formula Ford Championship, Australian Production Car Championship, Australian Rally Championship, Australian Sports Car Championship, Australian Sports Sedan Championship, Australian Super Touring Championship, Australian Touring Car Championship, Konica V8 Supercar Series, Nations Cup, Tasman Cup, V8 BRutes - and there are many more to come (NASCAR, World Series Sprintcars a few of the big ones).

I also plan to include winners of major Australian races: Bathurst 1000, Tourist Trophy, Australian Grand Prix, Sandown 500, Queensland 500, Bathurst 24 Hour etc... In each case, the year, driver, state/nationality and car will be included eg - AUSCAR

1998/99 Leigh Watkins (Vic), Ford Falcon EL
etc etc

The ultimate goal is to also have a picture of each championship/race winning car, clickable from the main list. I should have a preview to put up soon (hosted at my site...chequered flag).

Obviously, I can't complete this all myself, and need some help ...

- Now, I am just 16 years old, and that presents a few problems going way back to the 50's in regards to driver nationalities and states - and I have come up with a few drivers whom I can't find nation/state of birth for.

Fred Gibson, (victoria?)
B McPhee, (first name also please)
B Mulholland, (first name also please)
A Roberts, (first name also please)
John Goss,
Kevin Bartlett, (victoria?)
Brian Sampson,
Bob Morris, (victoria?)
John Fitzpatrick,
John French, (Qld?)
Ford John Harvey,
Graeme Bailey,
Peter McLeod, (NSW?)
David Parsons,

- Hosting - for the picture side of things, approximatly 40mb would be needed - my site is hosted by the f1 site, globalf1, but I cant use that sort of space. Can anyone recommend a free host that allows hotlinking preferably without advertising?

- Anyway, that's all for now, if I have any problems, I will post them on this thread. It's not too big a project really, I have another sources to make it fairly easy (Australia Motor Racing Year, Raceyear, Australian GP book (you know, the fat one that covers up to 1985, I think Ray Bell was a contributor), countless motorsport news, auto action, wheels magazines etc and of course the internet [GEL motorsport page, 6th Gear, Ten-Tenths to name a few sites]

That's all for now,
I appreciate any replies/help

Regards,
Scott Russell

[DNQ]

Originally posted by DNQ
Fred Gibson, (victoria?)
B McPhee, (first name also please)
B Mulholland, (first name also please)
A Roberts, (first name also please)
John Goss,
Kevin Bartlett, (victoria?)
Brian Sampson,
Bob Morris, (victoria?)
John Fitzpatrick,
John French, (Qld?)
Ford John Harvey,
Graeme Bailey,
Peter McLeod, (NSW?)
David Parsons,

Also,

Frank Coad, John Roxburgh

Thanks

PS - remember, you can e-mail me at scottrussell@globalf1.net

[racer69]

This looks like a great project, i'm happy to help in any way.

[SennasCat]

Fred Gibson, (victoria?) Yes
Bruce McPhee, (first name also please)
Barry Mulholland, (first name also please)
A(ndy?) Roberts, (first name also please)
John Goss, Sydney
Kevin Bartlett, (victoria?)
Brian Sampson, Victoria
Bob Morris, Sydney + Kangaroo Valley NSW
John Fitzpatrick, UK
John French, (Qld?) yes
Ford John Harvey, (John Harvey - Victoria)
Graeme Bailey, Gosford NSW
Peter McLeod, Wollongong NSW(NSW?)
David Parsons, - two of them, both from Tasmania

[Catalina Park]

Fred Gibson was from NSW and moved to Vic when he started running the Nissan Team (When he was driving he was in Sydney).
John Goss started racing in Tasmania and moved to Sydney when he started in touring cars.
Kevin Bartlett, Sydney.
David Parsons, Tasmania.
David Parsons (Truckie Parsons) Victoria I think.

[eldougo]

Fred Gibson, ( nsw)
Bruce McPhee,
Barry Mulholland,
Andy Roberts, ( NSW)
John Goss, Tasmaina
Kevin Bartlett, (nsw)
Brian Sampson, Victoria
Bob Morris, Sydney + Kangaroo Valley NSW
John Fitzpatrick, UK
John French, (Qld)
John Harvey, (John Harvey - Victoria)
Graeme Bailey, Gosford NSW
Peter McLeod, Wollongong NSW(NSW?)
David Parsons, - from Tasmania

[Catalina Park]

Bruce McPhee, NSW Wyong
Barry Mulholland NSW (I think Wyong or Gosford)
John Harvey is from Sydney and raced Speedway in Sydney moved to Melbourne to drive for Bob Jane and has been in Melbourne ever since.

It is hard to give a drivers town because some move to get a drive so do you say where they are from or where they live or where they lived when they started racing.
Most touring car teams are in Melbourne and drivers like Seton and Scaife moved from NSW to Vic to get drives with Victorian teams.

[DNQ]

Update - Thanks for the help so far

Updates for July 3

Thanks

Thanks so far - this actually isn't as big as i thought (...wait til the picture bit starts though...)
As for driver state/nation - I'll go for place of birth i think

State of Origin Needed For

Doug Whiteford
Warwick Pratley
John Crouch
Frank Pratt
Bill Murray
Alan Tomlinson,
Les Murphy
Bob Lea-Wright
Carl Junker
Bill Thompson
Arthur Terdich
Peter Hackett
Paul Stephanson
David Bruce
Wayne Ford

Results Completed for

Bathurst 12/24 Hour, Bathurst 1000, Tourist Trophy, Australian Grand Prix, Canberra 400, Gold Coast Indy, Queensland 500, Race of a 1000 Years, AUSCAR, Australian Drivers Championship, Australian Formula 2 Championship, Australian Formula 3 Championship, Australian Formula Ford Championship, Australian Production Car Championship, Australian Rally Championship, Australian Sports Car Championship, Australian Sports Sedan Championship
Australian Super Touring Championship, Australian Touring Car Championship, Konica V8 Supercar Series, Nations Cup, Tasman Cup, V8 BRutes

Currently Needed...

Full list of Sandown 500 winners, pre 1998
AMSCAR series champions - only have 1986 result as this stage Tony Longhurst (Qld), BMW 325i
Australian Grand Prix - Touring Car Supports - Overall Winners from each GP since 1985
Rally Australia Winners - all of them since the start
Full Results of any other major championships not already listed (excluding Speedway, Motor Cycling - maybe added later..
Still need server space

What's in Store?

Archive to go online within 1 week - addition of pictures to begin from then
Official Name - ARC Archive (Rustralian Race & Championship Archive)
Possible Addition of New Zealand major events (Touring Cars, GP etc) if time allows
Work will slow down from Sunday this weekend - back at school, work experience etc - only doing so much now cause I'm on holidays

[DNQ]

Originally posted by DNQ
Currently Needed...

Full list of Sandown 500 winners, pre 1998
AMSCAR series champions - only have 1986 result as this stage Tony Longhurst (Qld), BMW 325i
Australian Grand Prix - Touring Car Supports - Overall Winners from each GP since 1985
Rally Australia Winners - all of them since the start
Full Results of any other major championships not already listed (excluding Speedway, Motor Cycling - maybe added later..
Still need server space

Oops, also Australian Endurance Championship results

[William Dale Jr]

Australian Endurance Championship Winners:

Champion Manufacturers:
1971 GMH
1972 Ford
1973 GMH
1974 GMH
1975 GMH
1976 GMH
1977 Ford
1978 Ford
1979 GMH
1980 GMH
1981 Toyota
1982 Nissan
1983 GMH & Mazda
1984 Mazda
1985 BMW
1986 Nissan
1987 BMW & Nissan
1988 Ford,
1989 Toyota
1990 Ford
1991 Nissan

Champion Drivers:
1982 Allan Moffat (?), Mazda RX7
1983 Peter McLeod (?), Mazda RX7
1984 Allan Moffat (?), Mazda RX7
1985 Jim Richards (?), BMW 635CSi
1986 Jim Richards (?), BMW 635CSi
1990 Glenn Seton (?), Ford Sierra RS500
1991 Mark Gibbs/Rohan Onslow (?), Nissan GTR



AGP Touring Car support race Winners:

1985 Dick Johnson (Qld), Ford Mustang
1987 Dick Johnson? (Qld), Ford Sierra RS500
1988 Larry Perkins? (Vic), Holden Commodore VL (Perkins won the South Australia Cup race on the Saturday, don't know about the Sunday race)
1991 Jim Richards (?), Nissan GTR
1993 Wayne Gardner (NSW), Holden Commodore VP
1994 John Bowe (Tas), Ford Falcon EB
1995 John Bowe (Tas), Ford Falcon EF



AMSCAR Series Winners:

1987 Jim Richards (?), BMW M3
1988 Colin Bond (NSW), Ford Sierra RS500
1989 Tony Longhurst (Qld), Ford Sierra RS500
1990 Tony Longhurst (Qld), Ford Sierra RS500



Sandown 500 Winners (sourced from www.sandownraceway.com.au) :

1964 Ralph Sach/Roberto Bussinello Alfa Romeo Super Ti
1965 Frank Gardner/Kevin Bartlett Alfa Romeo Super Ti
1968 Tony Roberts/Bob Watson Holden Monaro 327GTS
1969 Allan Moffat/John French Ford Falcon GTHO
1970 Allan Moffat Ford Falcon GTHO Ps2
1971 Colin Bond Holden Torana XU-1
1972 John Goss Ford Falcon GTHO Ps3
1973 Peter Brock Holden Torana XU-1
1974 Allan Moffat Ford Falcon XBGT
1975 Peter Brock Holden Torana SLR5000
1976 Peter Brock Holden Torana L34
1977 Peter Brock Holden Torana A9X
1978 Peter Brock Holden Torana A9X
1979 Peter Brock Holden Torana A9X
1980 Peter Brock Holden Commodore VC
1981 Peter Brock Holden Commodore VC
1982 Allan Moffat Mazda RX7PP
1983 Allan Moffat Mazda RX7PP
1984 Peter Brock/Larry Perkins Holden Commodore VK
1985 Jim Richards/Tony Longhurst BMW 635 Csi
1986 George Fury/Glenn Seton Nissan Skyline DR30
1987 George Fury/Terry Shiel Nissan Skyline DR30
1988 Alan Moffat/Gregg Hansford Ford Sierra RS500
1989 Jim Richards/Mark Skaife Nissan Skyline HR31
1990 Glenn Seton/George Fury Ford Sierra RS500
1991 Mark Gibbs/Rohan Onslow Nissan GTR Turbo
1992 Larry Perkins/Steve Harrington Holden Commodore VL
1993 Geoff Brabham/David Parsons Ford Falcon EB
1994 Dick Johnson/John Bowe Ford Falcon EB
1995 Dick Johnson/John Bowe Ford Falcon EF
1996 Craig Lowndes/Greg Murphy Holden Commodore VR
1997 Craig Lowndes/Greg Murphy Holden Commodore VS
1998 Larry Perkins/Russell Ingall Holden Commodore VT
2001 Tom Waring/John Bowe Ferrari F360



Rally Australia Winners:

1988* Ingvar Carlsson/Per Carlsson (Sweeden), Mazda 323 Turbo 4x4
1989 Juha Kankkunen/Juha Piironen (Finland), Toyota Celica GT4
1990 Juha Kankunnen/Juha Piironen (Finland), Lancia Delta Integrale 16V
1991 Juha Kankunnen/Juha Piironen (Finland), Lancia Delta Integrale 16V
1992 Didier Auriol/Bernard Occelli (France), Lancia Delta Integrale HF
1993 Juha Kankunnen/Nicky Grist (Finland), Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD
1994 Colin McRae/Derek Ringer (Scotland), Subaru Impreza 555
1995 Kenneth Eriksson/Staffan Parmander (Sweeden?), Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III
1996 Tommi Makinen/Seppo Harjanne (Finland), Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III
1997 Colin McRae/Nicky Grist (Scotland), Subaru Impreza WRC97
1998 Tommi Makinen/Risto Mannisenmaki (Finland), Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V
1999 Richard Burns/Robert Reid (England), Subaru Impreza WRC99
2000 Marcus Gronholm/Timo Rautiainen (Finland), Peugeot 206
2001 Marcus Gronholm/Timo Rautiainen (Finland), Peugeot 206

*round of Asia-Pacific Championship, all others round of World Championship


Hope these are of some help

[DNQ]

Perfect!

That is everything that was needed for now, wonderful, with a bit of luck I can piece that together and have something online within a day or two.

[anjakub]

Originally posted by William Dale Jr
1995 Kenneth Eriksson/Staffan Parmander (Sweeden?), Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III

Yes, Sweden

[Udo K.]

Originally posted by DNQ
Perfect!

That is everything that was needed for now, wonderful, with a bit of luck I can piece that together and have something online within a day or two.

DNQ - looking forward to that, as there are many gaps to be filled in my Australian records.

[Barry Lake]

Doug Whiteford - Victoria
Warwick Pratley - NSW
John Crouch - NSW
Frank Pratt - Victoria
Bill Murray - NSW
Alan Tomlinson - WA
Les Murphy - Victoria
Bob Lea-Wright - NSW
Carl Junker - Victoria
Bill Thompson - NSW
Arthur Terdich - Victoria
Peter Hackett - not sure
Paul Stephanson (Stephenson?) - don't know
David Bruce - never heard of him
Wayne Ford - ditto

[David McKinney]

Didn't Wayne Ford race a Cooper single-seater, possibly with Holden engine, on the Victorian country circuits in the early 1970s?

[William Dale Jr]

I've found a Wayne Ford racing in the 1988 Australian F2 Championship, but sadly no state of origin...

[DNQ]

The ARC Archive is now online

http://cfm.globalf1....chive/index.htm

At the moment, this is just a private page, so please don't post the url around the place, for now it is just available on TNF and Ten-Tenths forums. Thank You.

Now, the main priority now, is to weed out mistakes in what we already have before we add additional series (Australian NASCAR, World Series Sprintcars, Bathurst 3 Hour GT-P race, etc)

Thank you for your support,

Scott

[DNQ]

July 4 - Corrections made to Gold Coast Indy 300, Canberra 400, Australian Super Touring Championship, Tourist Trophy, Rally Australia. Additions: Bathurst V8 300, Bathurst 3 Hour - Showroom Showdown.

[DNQ]

The ARC Archive is now online and public, and can be accessed from Chequered Flag - http://cfm.globalf1.net/ - under "history"

Thank you to Racer69 and William Dale Jr for sending me many corrections/updates.

Remember, the birth state for the following drivers are still required:

Tony Kavich
Peter Hackett
Paul Stephenson
David Bruce
Wayne Ford
Garry Waldon
Rod Wilson
Terry Bosnjak
Mark Williamson
Graham Alexander
John Woodberry

Full list of champions for these categories would also be appreciated

Super Trucks
Porsche Cup

NASCAR results will be added soon, thanks to Racer69.

I will use this to report any major changes - from now on I will not be posting any minor updates here.

[mickj]

David McK
Yes Wayne Ford raced a Cooper fitted with a Holden 6 motor in Victoria.

[Allen Brown]

Originally posted by mickj
David McK
Yes Wayne Ford raced a Cooper fitted with a Holden 6 motor in Victoria.

Mickj

What sort of Cooper? And when was this? I am still trying to understand all the Cooper-Holdens racing around 1970 and this could be anopther piece in the jigsaw.

Thanks

Allen

[Vitesse2]

Scott - excellent stuff. You're providing a great service to those of us who are less than knowledgable about Aussie national racing. Can I suggest that you add just a brief note to each table explaining the formulae they were run to?

And a refreshing lack of typos too apart, that is, from a couple of blokes called Max and Jackie Stewert ....

[Allen Brown]

Scott

Greate site! Just a couple of bits I can add.

You have Ken Smith winning the 1976 Tasman series. The Tasman Cup actually stopped after 1975 and two separate championships were run in 1976: the 'Peter Stuyvesant' series in New Zealand (won by Smith) and the Rothmans International in Australia (won by Schuppan).

The NZ series moved to Formula Atlantic after 1976 but the Aussie series continued as F5000 until 1979. Warwick Brown won in 1977 (Lola T430) and 1978 (Lola T333CS converted back to F5000 spec) and Larry Perkins (Elfin MR8) somehow won the 1979 series despite not winning a race. The traditional February International races were thereafter absorbed into the Gold Star series.

Also you have F5000 cars winning the F2 championship in 1979/80/81. Is that right?

Allen

[DNQ]

Originally posted by Allen Brown
Scott You have Ken Smith winning the 1976 Tasman series. The Tasman Cup actually stopped after 1975 and two separate championships were run in 1976: the 'Peter Stuyvesant' series in New Zealand (won by Smith) and the Rothmans International in Australia (won by Schuppan).

The NZ series moved to Formula Atlantic after 1976 but the Aussie series continued as F5000 until 1979. Warwick Brown won in 1977 (Lola T430) and 1978 (Lola T333CS converted back to F5000 spec) and Larry Perkins (Elfin MR8) somehow won the 1979 series despite not winning a race. The traditional February International races were thereafter absorbed into the Gold Star series.

Well yes, I was a little confused by what went on there. I knew the series split into two, but the other day I could only find one site (a NZ one), making no mention of the Australian series. I've done a bit more searchign around and resolved it all now, thanks Allen. I have updated the Tasman Cup section, not sure if it's correct though, please tell me if I've buggered it up

Originally posted by Allen Brown
Also you have F5000 cars winning the F2 championship in 1979/80/81. Is that right?

Guess I'll have to look that one up again - I got those results from 'Australian Motor Racing Year 1992" - I'll take a look later on and see if I made a mistake. Its not inconcieveble of course, that with F5000 having practically ended by then that some of the cars were re-engined, but of course, I may be wrong.

Originally posted by Vitesse2
Scott - excellent stuff. You're providing a great service to those of us who are less than knowledgable about Aussie national racing. Can I suggest that you add just a brief note to each table explaining the formulae they were run to?

That will probably come later. At the moment I've only got some minor footnotes for each one that is all, will probably expand each championship to its own page later.

Anyway, bed time for me, thanks for the words of encouragement - this has been a great time filler in some VERY boring school holidays...lol

Scott

[Barry Lake]

Originally posted by Allen Brown
What sort of Cooper? And when was this? I am still trying to understand all the Cooper-Holdens racing around 1970 and this could be anopther piece in the jigsaw.

Thanks

Allen

Allen

I went through all these Cooper-Bristol turned Cooper-Holden cars many years (maybe a quarter of a century, now I come to think of it!) ago and sent it to Doug Nye for his Cooper book (though, form memory, it appeared he didn't use it, or didn't receive it).

Now, with more programmes of the day available, one of my many projects is to go through them again more methodically. But it is not a top priority, so don't hold your breath. I don't know how long it will be.

[Barry Lake]

Scott

Good to see someone so young getting into history so enthusiastically. Learning history is like building financial security - the earlier you start, the easier it is (I must get around to starting on the latter some day...).

It pains me to have to tell you that I would have answers to all your queries, but no longer in an organised enough fashion to easily find it. My library has way outgrown my house. Until I find spacious accommodation elsewhere, I can only help when I stumble across information.


Tony Kavich - I should know, but I'm not sure, so won't guess.

Peter Hackett - I know him, and I have an F3 media guide that would tell me, but I just can't find it. I can find out, though, if noone beats me to it.

Paul Stephenson - I have an idea, but am not sure, so will not take the risk of misleading you.

David Bruce - don't know

Wayne Ford - if he ran a Cooper Holden in the 1960s, and I didn't come across him, you can safely bet he is Victorian.

Garry Waldon - lives in NSW and I am fairly confident he always has. I know him, also, but he doesn't come to the race meetings these days.

Rod Wilson - The Pirelli competition tyre man, operates out of Melbourne and I think he's always been there.

Terry Bosnjak - almost certain he is NSW.

Mark Williamson - don't know

Graham Alexander - I did an interview with him recently, he's a Victorian.

John Woodberry - don't know

[David McKinney]

Originally posted by Barry Lake
I went through all these Cooper-Bristol turned Cooper-Holden cars many years (maybe a quarter of a century, now I come to think of it!) ago

I thought the Wayne Ford car was rear-engined (and therefore not an ex-Cooper-Bristol) but have no idea now what I'm basing that assumption on

[Ray Bell]

Maybe a photo in Racing Car News?

[Ray Bell]

Originally posted.....
Doug Whiteford - Victoria
Warwick Pratley - NSW
John Crouch - NSW
Frank Pratt - Victoria
Bill Murray - NSW
Alan Tomlinson - WA
Les Murphy - Victoria
Bob Lea-Wright - NSW
Carl Junker - Victoria
Bill Thompson - NSW
Arthur Terdich - Victoria
Peter Hackett - not sure
Paul Stephanson (Stephenson?) - don't know
David Bruce - never heard of him
Wayne Ford - ditto

Likewise, no information on Bruce, Hackett or Stephenson, but Wayne Ford is certainly from Victoria, raced the Krefel after Graeme Baird and I have photographed him in his Holden Special at Hume Weir. He raced for an awful long time.

But wasn't Bob Lea-Wright from Victoria as well?

Terry Bosnjak is from NSW, part of the omnibus family.

Jim Richards, of course, is a Kiwi... so NZ would suffice alongside his name. Unless you want to credit Victoria with another driver.

Mark Gibbs... NSW
Allan Moffat... Vic
Glenn Seton... (after shifting from NSW) Vic
Barry Seton... NSW when he raced
Peter McLeod... NSW
Rohan Macarthur-Onslow... NSW

[David McKinney]

Rohan Onslow raced under the name of Rohan Onslow in the UK

[Milan Fistonic]

Allen

You already have a photo of the Cooper-Holden that Wayne Ford raced. It is the one I recently sent you.

The car, according to Blanden, is a T51 (F2.14.59) that was bought by Victa Industries for David McKay to drive.

[William Dale Jr]

Originally posted by David McKinney
Rohan Onslow raced under the name of Rohan Onslow in the UK

I thought he also raced under the name of Rohan Onslow here too

[O Volante]

I have current drivers Peter Hackett born on 17 September 1975, Sydney, and Paul Stephenson born 17 March 1977, Melbourne ... Source: somewhere in the net - so view info with necessary caution!

[Barry Lake]

Ah! Now I understand why I wasn't aware of Wayne Ford in a Cooper-Holden. I was thinking front-engined Cooper Holden and, since I'd researched those fairly thoroughly, I couldn't understand why he wasn't familiar.

I had forgotten someone actually put a Holden engine in a rear-engined Cooper. Why? (Someone once - early 1970s - asked me to put a Daimler SP250 engine into a very famous Brabham F1 car. I needed the job, but refused to do it, thankfully. The car has now been fully restored to original.)

As for Bob Lea-Wright. I was wrong. He was not from NSW.

I just dug out an old profile (1953) on Lea-Wright and it says, "Born in Shanghai of British parents, he went to New Zealand and then Melbourne." At the time of the story, he lived in Queensland.

He was from everywhere EXCEPT NSW, it seems. When he raced, he lived in Melbourne.

As for Peter Hackett, NSW is probably correct as state of residence, but a mutual friend tells me to be wary of the year of birth.

[Catalina Park]

Originally posted by William Dale Jr


I thought he also raced under the name of Rohan Onslow here too

When he started racing he was Rohan Macarthur-Onslow and then dropped the Macarthur after a year or two.

[DNQ]

Originally posted by Barry Lake
Scott

Good to see someone so young getting into history so enthusiastically. Learning history is like building financial security - the earlier you start, the easier it is (I must get around to starting on the latter some day...).

Thanks Barry, much appreciated, I've read a fair bit of your stuff, so its' great being given words of encouragement by someone such as yourself. Thanks

Some more changes today, nothing big, I've just added states for some drivers, added a few things I've left out no more.

Ray - regarding Rohan Onslow, I will leave it as that at the archive, quite simply, as that is how he is known by most people, in the same was a JPM is simply Juan Montoya.

Scott

[Allen Brown]

Originally posted by Milan Fistonic
Allen

You already have a photo of the Cooper-Holden that Wayne Ford raced. It is the one I recently sent you.

The car, according to Blanden, is a T51 (F2.14.59) that was bought by Victa Industries for David McKay to drive.

So it is. I really should re-read Blanden more often. Thanks Milan.

Blanden doesn't mention what sort of Holden engine it used. Any ideas?

Allen

[DNQ]

Just to let you know, this project hasn't died, it's still going strongly, quite a few updates this week thanks to Racer69, take a look ---> http://cfm.globalf1....chive/index.htm

Also, the Formula 1 Fatality and Injury Archive has had a few updates recently, quite a few actually, take a look --> http://cfm.globalf1....ex_formula1.doc

I havent even got close to finishing either of these, but next on the cards is a section listing winners of all Super Touring races held in Australia, that should be quite straightforward.

I've also done a list of instances in F1 were the winner has lapped every other car in the race at least once. Happened almost 25 times, only six times since 1976, amazingly it was mostly in the so called glory days that this happened frequently.

[David Shaw]

A couple of typos to fix:

Australian Drivers Championship 1987: Brabham spelt incorrectly
Australian Touring Car Championship: Sierra Cosworth RS500, not 5000

Great site.

[Ray Bell]

Originally posted by Allen Brown
.....Blanden doesn't mention what sort of Holden engine it used. Any ideas?

Holden 'red' motor... presumably a 179, inline six. May have been a 149, but I don't think so.

edit... that all sounds a bit too indefinite. It was an inline six of the seven main bearing variety, probably a 179 but possibly a 149 to fit into the 2.5 category of the time. However, as the car basically only ran in F Libre races, it's more likely he went for the more powerful and stronger (had a steel crank...) 179.

[Falcadore]

Originally posted by DNQ
Hello, I would like to tell you about a project I'm working on.

I am putting together a comprenhensive archive of Australian championship winners, and major race winners, in a similar way to the 6th Gear (http://www.racer.dem...ear/champs.html), but in a far more exhaustive list of Australian results - to date, the current categories are included: AUSCAR, Australian Drivers Championship, Australian Formula 2 Championship, Australian Formula 3 Championship, Australian Formula Ford Championship, Australian Production Car Championship, Australian Rally Championship, Australian Sports Car Championship, Australian Sports Sedan Championship, Australian Super Touring Championship, Australian Touring Car Championship, Konica V8 Supercar Series, Nations Cup, Tasman Cup, V8 BRutes - and there are many more to come (NASCAR, World Series Sprintcars a few of the big ones).

I also plan to include winners of major Australian races: Bathurst 1000, Tourist Trophy, Australian Grand Prix, Sandown 500, Queensland 500, Bathurst 24 Hour etc... In each case, the year, driver, state/nationality and car will be included eg - AUSCAR

1998/99 Leigh Watkins (Vic), Ford Falcon EL
etc etc

The ultimate goal is to also have a picture of each championship/race winning car, clickable from the main list. I should have a preview to put up soon (hosted at my site...chequered flag).

Obviously, I can't complete this all myself, and need some help ...

- Now, I am just 16 years old, and that presents a few problems going way back to the 50's in regards to driver nationalities and states - and I have come up with a few drivers whom I can't find nation/state of birth for.

Fred Gibson, (victoria?)
B McPhee, (first name also please)
B Mulholland, (first name also please)
A Roberts, (first name also please)
John Goss,
Kevin Bartlett, (victoria?)
Brian Sampson,
Bob Morris, (victoria?)
John Fitzpatrick,
John French, (Qld?)
Ford John Harvey,
Graeme Bailey,
Peter McLeod, (NSW?)
David Parsons,

- Hosting - for the picture side of things, approximatly 40mb would be needed - my site is hosted by the f1 site, globalf1, but I cant use that sort of space. Can anyone recommend a free host that allows hotlinking preferably without advertising?

- Anyway, that's all for now, if I have any problems, I will post them on this thread. It's not too big a project really, I have another sources to make it fairly easy (Australia Motor Racing Year, Raceyear, Australian GP book (you know, the fat one that covers up to 1985, I think Ray Bell was a contributor), countless motorsport news, auto action, wheels magazines etc and of course the internet [GEL motorsport page, 6th Gear, Ten-Tenths to name a few sites]

That's all for now,
I appreciate any replies/help

Regards,
Scott Russell

Scott - have a look here

http://www.ecn.net.au/~amib/home.htm

there's a bunch of stuff there that should help.

And don't forget VESRIX.....

http://www.conrod.com.au/stats/

plus drop me an e-mail and I can drop four tons of stats in your lap.

[Ray Bell]

Originally posted by DNQ
.....Ray - regarding Rohan Onslow, I will leave it as that at the archive, quite simply, as that is how he is known by most people, in the same was a JPM is simply Juan Montoya.

This isn't quite the same...

Rohan's surname is Macarthur-Onslow, while Pablo is a middle name for Juan Montoya. His family go back to John Macarthur, one of the very early settlers and the man responsible for introducing (IIRC) the Merino sheep to Australia for us to ride on the back of.

But the main reason for this post is this...

Yesterday, when I went back to this thread, I read right through it and finished up seeing a couple of errors and omissions. As I proceeded I saw all were cleared up except for the business about the engine type in the Cooper.

But I'd forgotten this one... Steve Williams had a question mark, eldougo sort of confirmed it... the Christian name and state for 'Roberts'.

Now it's clear to me from the list in which it's included that you're meaning the 'Roberts' who drove with Colin Bond in the Hardie Ferodo of 1969... co-winner with him, right?

That was Tony Roberts, a Victorian. Andy Roberts is a lesser light sports car racer from Sydney, drove a Hillman Californian in the early sixties, was run over by Rusty French and finally recovered to race again in a couple of cars he built himself in the seventies and eighties. That he probably scored points in Australian Sports Car Championship races is almost incidental.

Tony Roberts was also a rally driver, from memory, as Bond basically was when Harry Firth put him into the Monaros.

[Falcadore]

Tony Roberts first foray into endurance circuit racing was with good mate and fellow rallyist Bob Watson in 1968. They won Sandown together then backed up with third on the big hill. Both are (were in Roberts case ) Victorian. Although fading memory is suggesting Watson may have passed on as well.

[Ray Bell]

Last I heard, Bob Watson was fine...

He ran some major event in the mid nineties, a round Australia trial, I think, has probably retired to enjoy the company of the lovely Heather Russell a bit more.

[Falcadore]

According to PROCAR, managers of the Australian Production Car Championship, the 2002 winner was Colin Osborne, not Brett Peters. Peters won the GT-Performance Championship. Before you ask, Osborne is Victorian and drove (drives) a Toyota Celica.

You've listed the GT-Production champions, and called it GT-Performance in your asterisk note below.

Your ARC names,
Jeff Beaumont
Gregg Carr
Murray Coote
Ross Dunkerton
Fred Gocentas
Mick Harker
Graham Hoinville
Geoff Jones
Frank Kilfoyle
Peter Lang
John Large
Barry Lowe
Jim McAuliffe
Mark Nelson
Kate Officer
Ed Ordynski
Dave 'Dinta' Officer
Kevin Pedder
Geoff Portman
Ross Runnalls
Doug Rutherford
George Shepheard
Warwick Smith
Mark Stacey
Iain Stewart
Monty Suffern
Steve Vanderbyl
Craig Vincent
Bob Watson

It should also be noted that the 1977 Australian Rally Championship was tied and Dunkerton/Beaumont had to share the trophy with Fury/Suffern. Dunkerton drove a 260Z, Fury a 710, both Datsuns.

Also in 1986 Kate Officer was not Barry Lowe's navigator. Kate as ever, was calling the corners for husband 'Dinta', but the champion, Lowe had used two different navigators during the year, splitting the navigators points between them, handing the championship to the runners up co-pilot, Kate. The Officers had a Starion Turbo that year I think.

[Bondy]

Hi guys

Tony Kavich (NSW)
David Bruce (Geelong VIC) Lont time Victorian Open wheeler driver)
Wayne Ford (VIC) Open Wheeler Veteran, also raced Clubman sports cars in the late 70s early 80s
Mark Williamson (NSW) I know when he raced a F/Ford years ago he was a NSW person think he is back there now
Graham Alexander (Geelong VIC)
John Woodberry (TAS)

Curt

[Catalina Park]

Originally posted by Falcadore
According to PROCAR, managers of the Australian Production Car Championship, the 2002 winner was Colin Osborne, not Brett Peters. Peters won the GT-Performance Championship. Before you ask, Osborne is Victorian and drove (drives) a Toyota Celica.

Colin is from Sydney and was on the CAMS NSW state council before becoming CAMS president.
Last time I spoke to him he was working in Newcastle.

[Falcadore]

Originally posted by Catalina Park

Colin is from Sydney and was on the CAMS NSW state council before becoming CAMS president.
Last time I spoke to him he was working in Newcastle.

Jeez I knew that. All those never ending streams of yellow MR2s flooding out of Sydney. Must be the whole CAMS thing threatening to corrupt all.... aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhgghghgjkfhgjh4oi2i4p






nnoooooo!! don't take me away..... I'll be good pleeeeeease aaaahhhhh!

[DNQ]

Great to see this thread back in action, thanks for the fresh contributions, I'll try and sort them all out and plug them into the list when the holidays come around.

[Falcadore]

Paul Stokell is Tasmanian.