Alastair has successfully completed sixteen over two weekends at the first ever New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing. Alastair celebrated racing legend Bruce McLaren by driving 1961 Lola MK 1, which was owned and raced by Alastair’s brother William Caldwell. William tragically died in 1966 while driving a Brabham BT6, which replaced the Lola.
Bruce McLaren was the McLaren team owner, founded in 1963. Alastair was one of the men who pulled Bruce McLaren from his car when it crashed in 1970 Bruce stories
An army of motorsports enthusiasts turned up to the festival and watched the little car finish all the races and do very well considering its tiny 1220cc engine. Many racers wore period dress as old school racers hit the track at the first major motorsports event at the new Hampton Downs race track in front of an crowd of up to 7,000 and the Pukekohe Park Raceway.
The events took place on the weekends of 22 and 29 January 2010.
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- 1943 Alastair's early years
- 1955 Licence to drive
- 1957 Alastair's High School years
- 1959 Evading the police
- 1960 Becoming a mechanic
- 1966 The Tasman series
- 1966 Leaving New Zealand
- 1967 Joining McLaren
- 1967 CanAm Door Catches
- 1967 Monza
- 1968 South Africa
- 1968 CanAm
- 1969 Driving the Formula 1 Cars
- 1973 Fittipaldi joins McLaren
- 1973 McLaren Team manager
- 1974 Montezemolo
- 1975 Hunt replaces Fittipaldi
- 1975 Hunt gets paid little
- 1976 Inventing the Air-Starter
- 1976 Six-speed Gear Boxes
- 1976 Misbehaving in Canada
- 1976 Japan
- 1977 Adidas Uniforms
- 1977 Changing Tyres
- 1977 Leaving McLaren
- 1979 Nelson Piquet
- 1980 Skirts on Formula 1 Cars
- 1981 Leaving Formula 1
- 1982 Making Lists
- 1982 Signing on
- 1982 Creating Space Station
- 1991 Highland Fling
- 1991 Classic Marathon
- 1992 Getting the Austin A35
- 1992 El Salvador
- 1993 Carerra Panamerica
- 1993 Centre of attention
- 1993 Nicest car in rally
- 1993 LeJog
- 2000 London to Sydney
- 2000 Porsche Racing
- 2000 Porsche Crashing
- 2001 Ferrari
- 2001 Inca Trail
- 2004 Berlin - Moscow - Berlin
- 2005 World Cup Rally
- 2007 Norway
- 2008 Liège-Brescia-Liège
- 2008 An Icelandic Odyssey
- 2008 North & West Africa
- 2009 West Coast America
- 2009 London to Casablanca
- 2010 New Zealand Festival of motor racing
- 2010 New Zealand Big Sky Adventure
All photos copyright Ground-Sky Photography. Photos provided by and republished with kind permission of the Ground-Sky website.
Car
Lola MK1 (link)
Facts
2010 (Year)
Hampton Downs Raceway
Pukekohe Park Raceway
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Alastair successfully completes 16 races over two weekends in his Lola MK1.
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