Terry Walker's Place

Terry Walker's Place - Western Australian Motor Racing History

Terry Walker's Place - Western Australian Motor Racing History

4 August 2010

The Neville Cooper Story

Norm Beechey's old PK 752 at Caversham, with Neville Cooper at the wheel (Neville Cooper Collection)

NEW

The latest Cover Story is The Neville Cooper Story, click on title or photo above. Last month's Cover Story, The Formula Vee Story, is now found under "Articles".

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, and can be obtained through Pit Stop Bookshop on-line. Fast Tracks is now out of print. There is a bit of a blurb on Around the Raceway inside this site.

There are five photo galleries. Photos of racing; photos of rallying and autocross; race programme covers; portraits of former drivers; and photos taken at recent reunions of Caversham drivers. The racing galleries will, starting 1 January, be changed at regular intervals. Each gallery will have a theme. From January 2010 is will be A Tribute To Caversham, a collection of photos from the Caversham era. Later galleries will be of Albany; the Australian Grand Prix in Western Australia; and so on. Galleries will be posted for probably two months each. We'll see how that goes. They may well alternate with cover stories leading to articles rather than galleries.

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 the bulk of the job is now done: everything I already had or could find since is now uploaded. There are, inevitably, a lot of missing items, specially before 1969. Nevertheless, I figure that the results of about 90 percent of the races run in WA are now on-line.

Under "Articles" you will find lists of winners of WA State Championships, winners of WA rounds of the Australian Touring Car Championship, and winners of the 300 km races, and associated data like Lap Records.

In the spirit of the site: The webmaster,.
back in the good old days, long hair,
sideburns, moustache and, yes, flares! 1975.