Walden Motorsport

Walden Motorsport, also known as Walden Racing, run by Brian Walden, is a specialist race car preparation outfit in the West of Sydney. Running in Production Car and Improved Production Car events, they entered the 1997 ARDC AMSCAR series with Brian driving. The team made its debut in the top flight V8 Supercar Championship running an old AU Falcon for Garth Walden at the Queensland Raceway round of the 2004 Championship, having leased a franchise owned by Bap Romano's Romano Racing. The team would often sneak into the field in qualifying and run towards the rear of the field. They would have the unwanted honour of being the first car out of the 2004 Bathurst 1000 ending participation in the great race of the AU Falcon.

After the lease expired at the end of the 2004 season, Brian Walden attempted to buy the Romano franchise but this deal was vetoed by TEGA and was not approved by AVESCO. After sitting out 2005 and 2006 the team again tried to re-enter the fray in 2007 when a 32nd licence spot was reactivated, but despite reports saying that they were ready to be on the grid for the season opener in Adelaide, the team were once again denied entry. Then in 2008 the team looked set to claim the 32nd spot with technical assistance from Paul Weel Racing. However that entry was scuppered when it was announced that PWR was withdrawing from the sport leaving the Walden's without a car. At the eleventh hour, they won the right to enter at the first round in Adelaide but the team failed to appear for the first two rounds of the 2008 series and their franchise has since been put up for sale, effectively bringing an end to V8 Supercar for the team. [http://www.v8supercar.com.au/content/hero_news/march08/walden_licence_for_sale/ Walden licence for sale] Official Site of the Australian V8 Supercar Championship Series retrieved on March 20 2008]

2007 also saw them enter a Holden Commodore VY in the Australian Production Car Championship and 2007 and 2008 Bathurst 12 Hour races with modest success.

References

* Media Man article [http://www.mediaman.com.au/profiles/walden_motorsport.html]
* Old web page [http://waldenmotorsport.netfirms.com/]
* V8 Supercar article [http://www.v8supercar.com.au/news/latestnews/newsdisplay.asp?Ind=&author=&gid=32677682]
* NMD Article [http://www.nmd.com.au/news2/news_detail.cfm?ID=6927]
* 2008 Bathurst 12 Hour [http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?10/02/2008.MOUN.R11]

External links

* [http://www.waldenmotorsport.com.au/ Official Web page]