by Brian Goulding – – – Back on September 22, 1975, the 1976 Tyrrell Formula One car was introduced to the world’s press. The new car sat in the London Airport Heathrow Hotel under a white dust sheet with all the familiar bumps showing – rear wing, cockpit roll hoop and front wheels. However, when […]
Racing Guru: Brian Goulding
Four-wheel drive fallacy – part 2
by Brian Goulding – – – In my previous article on 4wd competition cars, I wrote about the success, or rather lack of success, of four-wheel drive cars in Formula One. This time I want to explore the efforts of engineers to use four-wheel drive in the era before Formula One – pre-1950, and the […]
Four-wheel drive fallacy
by Brian Goulding – – – Many motor manufacturers use four-wheel drive on their powerful (and not so powerful) road cars as a method of ensuring a more efficient transfer of drive to the ground, especially in wet and slippery conditions. It is an obvious advantage on the road, but it begs the question: why […]
Ken Miles – Muscle Car Master
by Brian Goulding For me, the outstanding character in the popular 2019 movie Ford v Ferrari was the cantankerous, ex-patriate race driver and engineer Ken Miles. Actor Christian Bale was Miles exactly as I imagined him to be. The movie was a not very accurate story of how Ford finished 1-2-3 in the 1966 Le […]
Fast Female Drivers at Bathurst
by Brian Goulding A few years ago, while working for the Australian Racing Drivers Club (ARDC), I received a phone call from a journalist. The bloke was writing an magazine article on female competitors in Bathurst’s Great Race. I suspect he thought we could just press a button and print out a list for him. […]
Formula One Midgets
by Brian Goulding Sixty-five years ago, Formula One aficionados were waiting for the start of a controversial new formula which had the potential to rip Formula One apart. The new rules were announced by the FIA in 1958 to take effect from January 1961. Engine displacement was limited to 1.5-litres, as it had been for […]
The ARDC Grand Prix
by Brian Goulding It is 65 years since the Australian Racing Drivers Club ran the 23rd Australian Grand Prix at Mount Panorama, Bathurst. At this fabulous meeting not only was the 1958 Australian Grand Prix decided but the 1958 Australian Tourist Trophy was run and won. The TT was the quaint old name given to […]
Board with Racing?
by Brian Goulding Motor racing circuits have used a variety of surfaces over the decades. Bitumen, concrete, gravel, dirt and clay have all been employed, and races have been conducted around the world on the sands of beaches and deserts. One surface that enjoyed a brief but spectacular burst of popularity was wooden boards. That’s […]
Racing Guru: My First Bathurst
by Brian Goulding When Channel 7 began covering the Armstrong 500 at Mount Panorama, Bathurst, in 1963 I was 12. Sixty years ago, the Armstrong 500 was a 500-mile race for almost standard showroom touring cars. The previous three annual 500s took place at the fast Phillip Island circuit in Victoria, but the circuit surface […]
