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John Roxburgh (racing Driver)
John Bayles Roxburgh (25 April 1932 – 2 August 1993) was an Australian racing driver, and motor sports administrator. Roxburgh's career was highlighted by taking victory in the original 1960 Armstrong 500 (known later as the Bathurst 1000), co-driving a Vauxhall Cresta with Frank Coad. Roxburgh continued to race touring cars well into the 1970s, most notably racing for the factory supported Nissan Motors, Datsun Racing Team. He won Class A at Bathurst in 1967 Gallaher 500, 1967 driving a Nissan Sunny#B10 .281966.E2.80.931969.29, Datsun 1000 (B10 series), and Class B in 1968 Hardie-Ferodo 500, 1968 in a Nissan Bluebird#510 series, Datsun 1600 (510 series), co-driving with triple Australian Grand Prix winner Doug Whiteford on each occasion. Roxburgh also won the 1962 Six Hour Le Mans at Caversham Airfield, Caversham in Western Australia driving a Lotus 15 with Derek Jolly. He later turned to the administration of the sport, serving as Confederation of Australian Motorsport, CAM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 Armstrong 500
The 1960 Armstrong 500 was an endurance motor race for Australian made or assembled standard production sedans. The event was held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Victoria, Australia, Victoria, Australia on 20 November 1960 over 167 laps of the 3.0 mile circuit, a total distance of 501 miles. The race was organised by the Light Car Club of Australia and promoted by Armstrong York Engineering Pty Ltd.Official Programme, The 1960 Armstrong 500, Phillip Island, Sunday, 20th November Jim Thompson, managing director of the shock absorber manufacturer, was encouraged by his PR man Ron Thonemann to increase the company's business with major carmakers, particularly Ford Australia, Ford and Holden, by sponsoring a race. This was the first event held in the history of the race later to become known as the Bathurst 1000, the race that would come to dominate Australian motor racing. Outright controversy Officially only class placings and prize money were awarded, with no outri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Australia is Australia's largest state, with a land area of , and is also the List of country subdivisions by area, second-largest subdivision of any country on Earth. Western Australia has a diverse range of climates, including tropical conditions in the Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberley, deserts in the interior (including the Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Gibson Desert, and Great Victoria Desert) and a Mediterranean climate on the south-west and southern coastal areas. the state has 2.965 million inhabitants—10.9 percent of the national total. Over 90 percent of the state's population live in the South-West Land Division, south-west corner and around 80 percent live in the state capital Perth, leaving the remainder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasman Series Drivers
Tasman most often refers to Abel Tasman (1603–1659), Dutch explorer. Tasman may also refer to: Animals and plants * Tasman booby * Tasman flax-lily * Tasman parakeet (other) * Tasman starling * Tasman whale People * Tasman (name), a name of Dutch origin, including a list of people with the name Places New Zealand * Mount Tasman * Tasman Bay * Tasman District, a local government district * Tasman Glacier * Tasman Lake * Tasman (New Zealand electorate) * Tasman River * Tasman (settlement), in Tasman District Tasmania, Australia * Tasman Fracture, an ocean trench southwest of Tasmania * Tasman Island, an island off the southeast coast of the Tasman Peninsula * Tasman National Park, at the south end of the Tasman Peninsula * Tasman Outflow, an ocean current south of Tasmania that encircles Antarctica * Tasman Peninsula, in southeast Tasmania Other * Tasman, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran * Tasman Rip, a marine channel in the South Shetland Islands, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bathurst 1000 Winners
Bathurst may refer to: People * Bathurst (surname) * Bathurst Bellers Mann (1858–1948), Irish-born rugby union player in Wales * Bathurst Peachy (1893–1953), American college head baseball coach Places and jurisdictions Australia * Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, a city ** Bathurst Region, the local government area for the Bathurst urban area and rural surrounds ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Bathurst in Australia ** Anglican Diocese of Bathurst ** Electoral district of Bathurst, a state legislative assembly district ** Electoral district of Bathurst (County), a former electoral district ** Bathurst County * Lake Bathurst (New South Wales) * Bathurst Bay, Queensland * Bathurst Harbour, Tasmania * Bathurst Island (Northern Territory) * Bathurst Lighthouse, Rottnest Island Canada * Bathurst District, a historic district in Upper Canada, also a county within the district New Brunswick * Bathurst, New Brunswick * Bathurst Parish, New Brunswick * Bathurst (electo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Racing Drivers
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Firth
Henry Leslie Firth, OAM (18 April 1918 – 27 April 2014) was an Australian racing driver and team manager. Firth was a leading race and rally driver during the 1950s and 1960s and continued as an influential team manager with first the Ford works team and then the famed Holden Dealer Team (HDT) well into the 1970s. Firth’s nickname was "the fox", implying his use of cunning ploys as a team manager. Firth won the Bathurst 500, including its predecessor at Phillip Island, four times (twice in the final two races held at the Island and twice at Bathurst). He also won the Southern Cross Rally and the Australian Rally Championship. He was inducted into the Supercars Hall of Fame in 2007. Firth has often been described as a 'bush engineer', someone who could probably build a race winning engine from nothing more than a roll of wire, while leading Australian Motoring journalist and former part-time racer Bill Tuckey once wrote of Firth that as a driver, engineer and team man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Jane
Robert Frederick Jane (18 December 1929 – 28 September 2018) was an Australian race car driver and prominent entrepreneur and business tycoon. A four-time winner of the Armstrong 500, the race that became the prestigious Bathurst 1000 and a four-time Australian Touring Car Championship, Australian Touring Car Champion, Jane was well known for his chain of Tire, tyre retailers, Bob Jane T-Marts. Jane was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 2000. Early life Bob Jane grew up in Brunswick, Victoria, Brunswick, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne. His passion for racing began in the early 1950s as a champion bicycle rider, holding many state records before turning to four wheels. In the later 1950s, he started Bob Jane Autoland, a company that distributed parts for Jaguar (car), Jaguar and Alfa Romeo. Through this venture, a love of cars and motor sport blossomed and he first entered competitive racing in Australia in 1956; by 1960, he was racing with some of Australia's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellington 500
The Wellington 500 was a street circuit, street race for touring car racing, touring cars which took place at Wellington City in Wellington, New Zealand in the 1980s and 1990s. The 1987 event was a round of the 1987 World Touring Car Championship. The final running of the race was in 1996, a non-championship sprint event for teams from the Australian Touring Car Championship. History Beginnings (1985-86) The race was first proposed in 1984 and first took place a year later, albeit with a different layout from that to the original proposal. Initially dubbed the Nissan Cue 500, the first event in 1985's title was changed at the last minute to the Nissan Sport 500 due to Cue Magazine's demise in the week preceding the event. The following year Mobil became a naming sponsor and the Nissan Mobil 500 name was born. The Nissan Mobil 500 was actually a two-event series with the first round being held at the Wellington Street Circuit and the second at Pukekohe Park Raceway south of Auckl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confederation Of Australian Motorsport
Motorsport Australia, formerly the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS), is the nationally recognised governing and sanctioning body for four-wheeled motorsport in Australia. It is affiliated with the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). Responsibilities Motorsport Australia has been the custodian of motor sport in Australia since 1953. It is the National Sporting Authority (ASN) for motorsport in Australia, recognised by Sport Australia, and is delegated this responsibility by the FIA. Motorsport Australia affiliated with the FIA in its own right in 1958 before being granted full membership in October of that year on a probationary basis. In 1960, Motorsport Australia's membership of the FIA as an ASN was confirmed as permanent. The FIA aims to ensure that motorsport is conducted in accordance with the highest standards of safety, fairness and social responsibility and Motorsport Australia, together with in excess of 120 other ASNs in over 100 nations, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Caversham Airfield
Caversham Airfield, also known as Middle Swan Airfield was an airfield constructed at Caversham, Western Australia during World War II as a parent aerodrome for use by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm and the United States Navy. The airfield had a triangle of three landing strips. Middle Swan was the parent airfield with the following satellite airfields: *Beverley *Bindoon *Gingin North * Mooliabeenee The United States Army Air Corps also utilised the airfield during World War II. It was also a gliding club location after the war. Motor racing circuit The airfield was later utilised as a motor racing circuit, hosting its first event in 1946. Pedr Davis, The Macquarie Dictionary of Motoring, page 78 In 1956 the Western Australia Sporting Car Club gained a lease for the property, which was then converted into a permanent circuit. It became Western Australia's premier motor racing venue, hosting the Australian Grand Prix in 1957 and 1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bathurst 1000
The Bathurst 1000 (known for sponsorship reasons as the Repco Bathurst 1000) is a Touring car racing, touring car race held annually on the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It is currently run as part of the Supercars Championship, the most recent incarnation of the Australian Touring Car Championship. In 1987 Bathurst 1000, 1987 it was a round of the 1987 World Touring Car Championship, World Touring Car Championship. The Bathurst 1000 is colloquially known as ''The Great Race'' among motorsport fans and media. The race originated with the 1960 Armstrong 500 with a 500 mile race distance at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit; it was relocated to Bathurst in 1963 also with the 500 mile distance and has continued there every year since, extending to a 1,000 kilometer race in 1973. The race was traditionally run on the New South Wales Labour Day#Australia, Labour-Day long weekend in early October. Since 2001, the race has been run on the weekend f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
