Updated January 2011

OVER the years I have made a practice of copying covers of borrowed Western Australian motor racing programmes. In Around the Houses they made splendid illustrations. They will also make splendid illustrations in the on-going project Around the Raceway.

During my own days as a spectator and driver I naturally bought programmes, and to my great surprise I discovered them in a cardboard box in the backyard shed in November 2005. I thought I'd given them away years ago. (I also found a boxful of old copies of Racing Car News from the same period; I thought I'd given them away, too).

Whenever I lay hands on a programme these days, I automatically copy it. Sometimes, I scan the cover; on some occasions I have just photographed it using a digital camera, which gives much the same results as a scanner. Many of the older programmes here were photographed long ago using a 35 mm camera, and are not so sharp. I will continue to add covers to this site as they come in.

Programmes have gone through many phases, and were often regarded as nuisances by the Club. From time to time there would be loud exclamation - "we forgot the bloody programme!" - and a roneoed edition would be hastily prepared. For years they were contracted out, and financed by advertisements, but in recent years the Club has been producing desk-top published 8-page programmes without advertising, which are now handed out free at smaller Club meetings. "Proper" programmes are naturally produced for such major events as the Super V8 Round and SuperTrucks. (And yes, I know I spell the word "program" over there on the left hand column, just so it fits the space.)

If you have any Western Australian motor racing programmes not on this list, could you email a colour scan to me? The cover, please - also, if possible, those pages containing entrants lists with car numbers. I would love to add them to this Page, and credit the source. My usual size is 600 pixels across x height.

Selected Race Programme Covers

My thanks to the WASCC, Scott McKay, Tim Garrett, Ken Devine, Terry McGrath and Graeme Hooley for contributions.
Click on thumbnail to enlarge.

Early Horizontal format

Perkolilli 1931
Caversham 1946
Bunbury 1946
Caversham 1947
Caversham 1948
Narrogin 1948

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Australian Grand Prix held in Western Australia

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Narrogin 1951
Caversham 1957
Caversham 1962
Wanneroo 1979

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Around the Houses Circuits
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Narrogin 1949
Goomalling 1952
Narrogin 1952
Northam 1952
Goomalling 1953
Narrogin 1953
Northam 1956
Bunbury 1963
Albany 1964
Geraldton 1965
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Caversham Meetings
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March 1955
October 1955
March 1956
June 1956
July 1959
October 1961
June 1961
August 1961
September 1963
June 1964
May 1965
June 1965
August 1966
September 1966
March 1967
June 1967
August 1967
September 1967
March 1968
May 1968
August 1968
September 1968
October 1968
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Wanneroo / Barbagallo
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June 1969
September 1969
August 1970
February 1971
July 1971
March 1972
July 1974
June 1975
February 1976
March 1976
July 1976
September 1976
November 1977
August 1978
August 1979
October 1980
April 1981
August 1982
September 1982
August 1984
October 1984
October 1985
August 1986
September 1988
August 1989
September 1992
April 1993
November 1994
March 1995
May 1997
July 1998
August 1999
February 2000
February 2005
August 2006
November 2007
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ATCC / V8 Supercars
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1973
1980
1984
1985
1987
1988
1991
1995
1996
2001
2002
2003
2004
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Miscellaneous
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York 1980
York 1983
York 1985
York 1989
York 1995
York 1997
Midland 1994
Narrogin 2001
Northam 2005
Albany 2005
Albany 2008
Northam 2009