Historic Race Meeting New Zealand

[racing fxgt]

Going to Pukekohe race track on sunday to watch Historic Race meeting,F5000 cars ex Warwick Brown 1977 Australian Grand Prix winning Lola T430 and a Lola T332, should be good to watch, I'll try and take some photo's.
How about the entry price !cheap A! and you can walk around the pits no worry.

[275 GTB-4]

Looks like a good meeting - those F5000s will shake those shakey Isles and reverberate around Pukekohe - love to be there!! Look forward to your pics

[Warwick]

Should be a good meeting,but Pukekohe would have to rate as NZ's most boring track and with the worst facilities in the country it will be a while before I'll bother going back to it,although I understand they are meant to be upgraded for the V8's so I hope that will change.

If you like that type of meeting there is a similar one the Skope classic (used to be the PDL) 1st/2nd Jan at Ruapuna,unfortunately due to other racing commitments I get to miss this for the second year in a row,have a good time at Pukekohe!

[racing fxgt]

The race meeting had a good turn out of cars here's some pic's #1 is a Begg Fm2

[racing fxgt]

#2 is Brabham BT 18

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#3 Elva FJ 1100cc 1959

[racing fxgt]

#4 F Brabham 3800cc 1991
I'll upload some more tomorrow.

[David McKinney]

Evocative shots RF - the FM2 looks much nicer than it ever did in period!
How difficult would it be to add the name of entrant or driver of these cars?

[racing fxgt]

Ok David
Begg FM2 is Stuart Lush
Brabham BT 18 is Rodin Woofton
Elva FJ Rob Williams
F Brabham Ian Lloyd

[racing fxgt]

#5 Here's a Broadspeed Mini 1966 1380cc driver Bernie Hines

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#6 Lola 332 1974 5000cc driver Ian Clements.
This car was delivered to Carl Hass in the USA in 1974,it was sold to Gordy Ofterdahl and raced by Bob Lazier in the USA.

[mickj]

Great pics racing fxgt. Was the Broadspeed ever raced in Aus, as I think Brian Foley raced 1 in Castrol colours.

[Warwick]

I think the Lola 332 comes from down here as I've seen it out at Ruapuna during the week at some test days,both it and another 332 owned by Stan Redmond used to race down here,although I was told Stan sold his overseas.

I've also seen the Begg FM2 at the PDL meeting along with a later Begg 018? ex Stu Murdoch,awesome cars,I think they should ditch F1 and go back to these.

Any Indycars up there as well?

[racing fxgt]

Sorry Mickj no info in the program about the mini.
#7 Lola T190 5000cc 1970 This is the ex Mike Hailwood car he finished forth in the European Championship F5000's 1970

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#8 March Indy 86c 5800cc 1986.
Driver Hamish Paterson

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#9 Lola T580 2000cc 1976.
Driver Jim Turnbull.
I've still got more if you want to see them.

[275 GTB-4]

Originally posted by racing fxgt
#5 Here's a Broadspeed Mini 1966 1380cc driver Bernie Hines

Thanks for all the great shots racing fxgt, there ought to be some sort of award for you!! Keep up the good work. Not sure if the Broadspeed is the Folet/Stewart machine - as far as I know it is still owned by a fella in Sydney. Suppose it could have had an airing or maybe its changed hands. (have a black mac on me!!

[racing fxgt]

#10 No info on this one, not in the program but it's a Merc

[racing fxgt]

#10 Here's a front pic of the car.

[racing fxgt]

#11 Sunbeam 12000cc 1924.
Driver Wallace McNair.
There is a full shot of this car if you want to see.

[David McKinney]

I suspect the car listed as a Merc was actually one of the Matamata-built MER cars

[Andrew Kitson]

Awesome! Looks like a great historic scene down there!
I suspect the little Lola FF2000 is the ex-works Mike Blanchet car. I have good memories of Hailwood in the Lola F5000. His mechanic was Malcolm Malone who lived near me here in the UK. He died back in '75 when he looked after another Lola, a T330 for a guy called Nick Wattiez who I was 'gofer' for. I also remember a guy called David Oxton racing a Begg over here in '73 in F5000. It was a 'mustard' yellow colour with a massive air box.

[275 GTB-4]

Originally posted by Andrew Kitson
Awesome! Looks like a great historic scene down there!
I suspect the little Lola FF2000 is the ex-works Mike Blanchet car. I have good memories of Hailwood in the Lola F5000. His mechanic was Malcolm Malone who lived near me here in the UK. He died back in '75 when he looked after another Lola, a T330 for a guy called Nick Wattiez who I was 'gofer' for. I also remember a guy called David Oxton racing a Begg over here in '73 in F5000. It was a 'mustard' yellow colour with a massive air box.

Hello Andrew from downunder, I too have fond memories of Mike Hailwood, from his Aussie Tasman Series exploits and his magnificent motorcycling talent. I wil never forget him wrestling with a Surtees? at our now defunct Warwick Farm maintaining a racing line with bags of opposite lock time after time. How tragic that he and his son were taken from us by a (drunken?) truck driver. Why are so many of the good ones taken from us? (don't answer that).

We have a fairly good Historic scene over here in Australia as well, have a look at the NSW HSRCA website and Victorian and Queensland outfits:

http://www.hsrca.org.au/index.asp
http://www.hrcc.org.au/
http://www.vhrr.com/

Cheers and all the best in Motorsport

[Andrew Kitson]

275 GTB-4, thanks very much for these sites. Looks like a great historic scene in Australia too! One day, I must get down there to take a look.

[275 GTB-4]

Originally posted by Andrew Kitson
275 GTB-4, thanks very much for these sites. Looks like a great historic scene in Australia too! One day, I must get down there to take a look.

Come on over, we will look after you promise not to get you into too much trouble!! There is one thing you need to be careful of though - its a big round yellow ball - its called the sun!!