Terry Walker's Place

Welcome to Terry Walker's Place.

Western Australian Motor Racing History

Latest Update: 21 Feb 2008

New article: Caversham's Unbreakable Lap Records

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It's the 40th anniversary year of the final year of Caversham. This lovely pic by Paul Boxsell was taken at the final meeting, the 1968 WA Touring Car Championship, with Peter Manton leading Brian Foley into KLG. The Foley car was bought by Howie Sangster after the race meeting.

Introduction

This site is about Western Australian road racing history - and to a lesser extent other Australian road racing matters.

I have written two motor racing books - Around the Houses, a History of Motor Racing in Western Australia 1902-1979; and Fast Tracks, an Atlas of Australian Motor racing Circuits 1904-1994. I am busily writing a third, Around the Raceway, which is basically a sequel to Around the Houses, starting with the opening of Wanneroo Park (or Barbagallo Raceway as it later became) in 1969 and running through to 2009, the 40th Anniversary of the circuit. (I have also written another book, Murder on the Rabbit Proof Fence, which doesn't fit in with the theme of this site but there is a brief page on it as well.)

Around the Houses is out of print, but a CD-ROM edition exists and is available. Fast Tracks is still in print. Both can be obtained through Pit Stop Bookshop on-line. There is a bit of a blurb on Around the Raceway inside this site. The complete books are not on this site; I don't want to cut my own throat giving away free what's still for sale. What's in here are basically blurbs for them.

I have written a few articles on various aspects of Western Australian motor racing history, including histories of some notable racing cars, plus a few profiles of drivers. There are also some additional racing circuit maps/variations which I didn't know about when I wrote the two older books.

There are two photo galleries. One consists of racing and race related photographs. The second consists of scans of of racing programme covers dating back to the early 1930s.

A substantial part of the site consist of detailed results of Western Australian race meetings from 1902 to the present day. This is a work in progress, but there's a stack of stuff in there already, specially since 1969. With any luck, this project will be completed by the end of this year (fingers crossed). There can also be found lists of winners of WA State Championships, winners of WA rounds of the Australian Touring Car Championship, and winners of the 300 km races.