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Old page wikitext, before the edit (`old_wikitext`)	'{{Use dmy dates\|date=June 2012}} {{Use Australian English\|date=June 2012}} {{Infobox F1 driver\| \| image = David Walker 1971 Lotus 56 B Pratt Whitney.jpg \| caption = Walker at the wheel of the [[Lotus 56\|Lotus 56B]] [[Formula One]] car during the [[1971 Dutch Grand Prix]] \| image_size = 250 \| pixels = 150 \| name = Dave Walker \| nationality = {{flagicon\|AUS}} Australian \| birth_date = {{birth date and age\|1941\|6\|10\|df=y}} \| birth_place = [[Sydney]], Australia \| Years = {{F1\|1971}} – {{F1\|1972}} \| Team(s) = [[Team Lotus]] \| Races = 11 \| Championships = 0 \| Wins = 0 \| Podiums = 0 \| Points = 0 \| Poles = 0 \| Fastest laps = 0 \| First race = [[1971 Dutch Grand Prix]] \| First win = \| Last win = \| Last race = [[1972 United States Grand Prix]] }} '''David Walker''' (born 10 June 1941 in [[Sydney]]) is an Australian former racing driver who drove for [[Team Lotus\|Lotus]] in the 1971 and 1972 [[Formula One]] World Championships. ==Career== During the 1960s Walker's racing career faltered (he was the 1969 British Formula Ford Champion and finished third in the 1969 European Formula Ford Championship), however finally broke through racing a Lotus in [[Formula Three]] during 1971. He won 25 out of 32 races that year, including the Formula Three support races at the [[Monaco Grand Prix]] and the [[British Grand Prix]] at [[Silverstone Circuit\|Silverstone]]. By the end of the year he had won both the Shell and Forward Trust UK Formula Three titles. Coming to the attention of Lotus founder [[Colin Chapman]], Walker was handed his Formula One debut at the [[1971 Dutch Grand Prix]] to drive the [[Lotus 56B]], powered by a [[Pratt & Whitney]] turbine engine. During the rain-affected race, Walker used the turbine car's advantages of [[four wheel drive]] and superior torque to rise from his starting position of 22nd to 10th place within five laps, but eventually spun off into retirement. Walker was given a full-time Formula One seat to drive the [[Lotus 72]] in the [[1972 Formula One season\|1972]] season, as number two driver to [[Emerson Fittipaldi]]. As the season went on, however, both Walker and the team became increasingly disenchanted. After Lotus discovered Walker had tested a [[Formula Two]] car for another team, he was dropped from the team for the [[1972 Italian Grand Prix\|Italian GP]] and the [[1972 Canadian Grand Prix\|Canadian GP]], where he was replaced by [[Reine Wisell]]. Walker was back for the [[1972 United States Grand Prix\|US GP]], but retired. In all, Fittipaldi won five races and scored 61 points, winning the championship, while Walker never finished a Grand Prix higher than ninth place (in [[1972 Spanish Grand Prix\|Spain]]), his best race where he had been contesting 5th place with Peter Revson, when he ran out of fuel, in the last laps. He was promising in the openin glaps at Monaco where he had F3 experience, but made mistakes in the extraordinary downpour. By mid season Team was totally focused on Fittipaldi taking the Championship, and Walker's 72 of little importance, but predictably his form at Brands and in Austria suggeted some real improvement, while the engine lasted. Lotus blamed Walker's allegedly inadequate driving technique, poor fitness and lack of mechanical sensitivity; while Walker claimed Lotus gave him inferior equipment and gave far more attention to Fittipaldi's needs than his. He was not retained for the [[1973 Formula One season\|1973]] season, and was replaced by [[Ronnie Peterson]]. David Walker remains the only driver not to score a single Formula One Championship point in the same season his teammate won the drivers' title. For 1973, Walker drifted into Formula Two but was unfortunate to be badly injured in two road accidents that year. He retired from motor racing at the end of 1975, saying the effect of crash injuries made him not the same driver, and he was trying too hard, after a few imprerssive outings in the UK Shellsport F5000 series, taking a front row grip position at Oulton park and now lives in [[Queensland]] running a boat charter business. ==Racing results== ===Career summary=== {\| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" \|- ! Season ! Series ! Position ! Car ! Team \|- ! 1963 \| Australian Formula Junior Championship \|align="center" \| 4th \| Brabham BT2 - [[Ford]] \| Scuderia Veloce \|- ! 1964 \| [[Australian Formula 2 Championship]] \|align="center" style="background:#DFDFDF;"\| '''2nd''' \| Brabham BT2 - [[Ford]] \| \|- !rowspan=2\| 1969 \| BRSCC Formula Ford 1600 \|align="center" style="background:#FFFFBF;"\| '''1st''' \| Lotus 61 - [[Ford]] \| Holbay \|- \| European Formula Ford Championship \|align="center" style="background:#FFDF9F;"\| '''3rd''' \| Lotus 61 - [[Ford]] \| Holbay \|- !rowspan=2\| 1970 \| [[List of British Formula Three champions\|BRSCC Lombank Formula 3 Britain]] \|align="center" style="background:#FFFFBF;"\| '''1st''' \| Lotus 59A - [[Ford]] \|rowspan=2\| Gold Leaf Team Lotus \|- \| [[List of British Formula Three champions\|BRSCC Motor Sport / Shell Formula 3 Britain]] \|align="center" style="background:#DFDFDF;"\| '''2nd''' \| Lotus 59 - [[Ford]] \|- !rowspan=2\| 1971 \| [[List of British Formula Three champions\|Shell Super Oil British F3 Championship]] \|rowspan=2 align="center" style="background:#FFFFBF;"\| '''1st''' \|rowspan=2\| Lotus 69 - [[Ford]] \|rowspan=2\| Gold Leaf Team Lotus \|- \| Forward Trust BARC F3 \|} ===Complete Formula One World Championship results=== ([[:Template:F1 driver results legend 2\|key]]) {\| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%" ! Year ! Entrant ! Chassis ! Engine ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! WDC ! Points \|- \| [[1971 Formula One season\|1971]] ! [[John Player & Sons\|Gold Leaf]] [[Team Lotus]] ! [[Team Lotus\|Lotus]] [[Lotus 56B\|56B]] ! [[Pratt & Whitney]] [[Turbine]] \| [[1971 South African Grand Prix\|RSA]] \| [[1971 Spanish Grand Prix\|ESP]] \| [[1971 Monaco Grand Prix\|MON]] \|style="background:#EFCFFF;"\| [[1971 Dutch Grand Prix\|NED]]<br /><small>Ret</small> \| [[1971 French Grand Prix\|FRA]] \| [[1971 British Grand Prix\|GBR]] \| [[1971 German Grand Prix\|GER]] \| [[1971 Austrian Grand Prix\|AUT]] \| [[1971 Italian Grand Prix\|ITA]] \| [[1971 Canadian Grand Prix\|CAN]] \| [[1971 United States Grand Prix\|USA]] \| ! NC ! 0 \|- \| [[1972 Formula One season\|1972]] ! [[John Player & Sons\|John Player]]<br />[[Team Lotus]] ! [[Team Lotus\|Lotus]] [[Lotus 72\|72D]] ! [[Cosworth]] [[V8 engine\|V8]] \|style="background:#000000; color:#ffffff"\| [[1972 Argentine Grand Prix\|<span style="color:white;">ARG</span>]]<br /><small>DSQ</small> \|style="background:#CFCFFF;"\| [[1972 South African Grand Prix\|RSA]]<br /><small>10</small> \|style="background:#CFCFFF;"\| [[1972 Spanish Grand Prix\|ESP]]<br /><small>9</small> \|style="background:#CFCFFF;"\| [[1972 Monaco Grand Prix\|MON]]<br /><small>14</small> \|style="background:#CFCFFF;"\| [[1972 Belgian Grand Prix\|BEL]]<br /><small>14</small> \|style="background:#CFCFFF;"\| [[1972 French Grand Prix\|FRA]]<br /><small>18</small> \|style="background:#EFCFFF;"\| [[1972 British Grand Prix\|GBR]]<br /><small>Ret</small> \|style="background:#EFCFFF;"\| [[1972 German Grand Prix\|GER]]<br /><small>Ret</small> \|style="background:#EFCFFF;"\| [[1972 Austrian Grand Prix\|AUT]]<br /><small>Ret</small> \| [[1972 Italian Grand Prix\|ITA]] \| [[1972 Canadian Grand Prix\|CAN]] \|style="background:#EFCFFF;"\| [[1972 United States Grand Prix\|USA]]<br /><small>Ret</small> ! NC ! 0 \|- !colspan="18"\|{{center\|{{small\|Source:<ref>{{cite book\|last=Small\|first=Steve\|title=The Guinness Complete Grand Prix Who's Who\|date=1994\|publisher=Guinness\|page=391\|isbn=0851127029}}</ref>}}}} \|} ===Non-Championship Formula One results=== ([[:Template:F1 driver results legend 3\|key]]) (Races in '''bold''' indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) {\| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%" ! Year ! Entrant ! Chassis ! Engine ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 \|- \| 1971 ! [[John Player & Sons\|Gold Leaf]] [[Team Lotus]] ! [[Lotus 56B]] ! [[Cosworth DFV\|Ford Cosworth]] [[V8 engine\|V8]] \| [[1971 Argentine Grand Prix\|ARG]] \| [[1971 Race of Champions\|ROC]] \| [[1971 Questor Grand Prix\|QST]] \| [[1971 Spring Trophy\|SPT]] \| [[1971 BRDC International Trophy\|INT]] \|style="background:#CFCFFF;"\| [[1971 Jochen Rindt Gedächtnisrennen\|JRG]]<br /><small>9</small> \| [[1971 International Gold Cup\|IGC]] \| [[1971 World Championship Victory Race\|WCV]] \|- \| 1972 ! [[John Player & Sons\|Gold Leaf]] [[Team Lotus]] ! [[Lotus 72]] ! [[Cosworth DFV\|Ford Cosworth]] [[V8 engine\|V8]] \|style="background:#CFCFFF;"\| [[1972 Race of Champions\|ROC]]<br /><small>9</small> \|style="background:#DFFFDF;"\| [[1972 Brazilian Grand Prix\|BRA]]<br /><small>5</small> \|style="background:#FFFFFF;"\| [[1972 BRDC International Trophy\|INT]]<br /><small>DNS</small> \|style="background:#EFCFFF;"\| [[1972 International Gold Cup\|IGC]]<br /><small>Ret</small> \| [[1972 Italian Republic Grand Prix\|IREP]] \| [[1972 World Championship Victory Race\|WCV]] ! ! \|} ==References== {{reflist}} ==Sources== * ''Lotus 72 - Formula One Icon by Michael Oliver (Coterie Press, 2004)'' * {{cite web\|last=Oliver\|first=Michael\|title=Up in Smoke\|publisher=[[Motor Sport (magazine)\|''Motor Sport'']] magazine\|url=http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/june-2004/72/smoke\|date=June 2004\|accessdate=31 March 2015}} * [http://www.forix.com/driver.php?l=0&r=1941061000&c=0 Forix] * [http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/drv-waldav.html Grandprix.com] ==External links== [https://web.archive.org/web/20140310034417/http://www.f1rejects.com/drivers/walkerd/index.html F1 Rejects biography] [Archived link] [https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/david-walker/ Profile at Driver DataBase] *[http://racing-reference.info/driver/David_Walker Profile at Racing Reference USA] {{s-start}} {{s-sports}} {{succession box\|title= [[British Formula 3 Championship]]<br />BRSCC Lombank Series Champion \|before=[[Emerson Fittipaldi]]<br />(Combined championship) \|after= [[Roger Williamson]]\|years= 1970}} {{succession box \| before = [[Tony Trimmer]] \| title = [[List of Monaco Grand Prix Formula Three support race winners\|Monaco Formula Three <br />Race Winner]]\| after = [[Patrick Depailler]]\| years = 1971}} {{succession box\|title= [[British Formula 3 Championship]]<br />[[British Automobile Racing Club\|BARC]] Series Champion \|before=[[José Carlos Pace\|Carlos Pace]] \|after= [[Roger Williamson]]\|years= 1971}} {{succession box\|title= [[British Formula 3 Championship]]<br />BRSCC Motorsport/[[Royal Dutch Shell\|Shell]] Series Champion \|before=[[Tony Trimmer]] \|after= [[Roger Williamson]]\|years= 1971}} {{s-end}} {{British F3 champions}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Walker, David}} [[Category:1941 births]] [[Category:Sportsmen from New South Wales]] [[Category:Australian Formula One drivers]] [[Category:Team Lotus Formula One drivers]] [[Category:British Formula Three Championship drivers]] [[Category:Atlantic Championship drivers]] [[Category:Australian Formula 2 drivers]] [[Category:Racing drivers from Sydney]] [[Category:Tasman Series drivers]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Sydney]]'
New page wikitext, after the edit (`new_wikitext`)	'{{Use dmy dates\|date=June 2012}} {{Use Australian English\|date=June 2012}} {{Infobox F1 driver\| \| image = David Walker 1971 Lotus 56 B Pratt Whitney.jpg \| caption = Walker at the wheel of the [[Lotus 56\|Lotus 56B]] [[Formula One]] car during the [[1971 Dutch Grand Prix]] \| image_size = 250 \| pixels = 150 \| name = Dave Walker \| nationality = {{flagicon\|AUS}} Australian \| birth_date = {{birth date and age\|1941\|6\|10\|df=y}} \| birth_place = [[Sydney]], Australia \| Years = {{F1\|1971}} – {{F1\|1972}} \| Team(s) = [[Team Lotus]] \| Races = 11 \| Championships = 0 \| Wins = 0 \| Podiums = 0 \| Points = 0 \| Poles = 0 \| Fastest laps = 0 \| First race = [[1971 Dutch Grand Prix]] \| First win = \| Last win = \| Last race = [[1972 United States Grand Prix]] }} '''David Walker''' (born 10 June 1941 in [[Sydney]]) is an Australian former racing driver who drove for [[Team Lotus\|Lotus]] in the 1971 and 1972 [[Formula One]] World Championships. ==Career== Walker had some international racing experience early in his career in the Australian rounds of the Tasman series in 1964-65 on challenging tracks like Longford and Sandown at a time when most Australian National 2.5 drives were near world class and he also drove a Lotus 70 in the 1971 Australian rounds. During the 1960s Walker's racing career faltered (he was the 1969 British Formula Ford Champion and finished third in the 1969 European Formula Ford Championship), however finally broke through racing a Lotus in [[Formula Three]] during 1971. He won 25 out of 32 races that year, including the Formula Three support races at the [[Monaco Grand Prix]] and the [[British Grand Prix]] at [[Silverstone Circuit\|Silverstone]]. By the end of the year he had won both the Shell and Forward Trust UK Formula Three titles. Coming to the attention of Lotus founder [[Colin Chapman]], Walker was handed his Formula One debut at the [[1971 Dutch Grand Prix]] to drive the [[Lotus 56B]], powered by a [[Pratt & Whitney]] turbine engine. During the rain-affected race, Walker used the turbine car's advantages of [[four wheel drive]] and superior torque to rise from his starting position of 22nd to 10th place within five laps, but eventually spun off into retirement. Walker was given a full-time Formula One seat to drive the [[Lotus 72]] in the [[1972 Formula One season\|1972]] season, as number two driver to [[Emerson Fittipaldi]]. As the season went on, however, both Walker and the team became increasingly disenchanted. After Lotus discovered Walker had tested a [[Formula Two]] car for another team, he was dropped from the team for the [[1972 Italian Grand Prix\|Italian GP]] and the [[1972 Canadian Grand Prix\|Canadian GP]], where he was replaced by [[Reine Wisell]]. Walker was back for the [[1972 United States Grand Prix\|US GP]], but retired. In all, Fittipaldi won five races and scored 61 points, winning the championship, while Walker never finished a Grand Prix higher than ninth place (in [[1972 Spanish Grand Prix\|Spain]]), his best race where he had been contesting 5th place with Peter Revson, when he ran out of fuel, in the last laps. He was promising in the opening glaps at Monaco where he had F3 experience, but made mistakes in the extraordinary downpour. By mid season Team was totally focused on Fittipaldi taking the Championship, and Walker's 72 of little importance, but predictably his form at Brands and in Austria suggested some improvement, while the engine lasted. Lotus blamed Walker's allegedly inadequate driving technique, poor fitness and lack of mechanical sensitivity; while Walker claimed Lotus gave him inferior equipment and gave far more attention to Fittipaldi's needs than his. He was not retained for the [[1973 Formula One season\|1973]] season, and was replaced by [[Ronnie Peterson]]. David Walker remains the only driver not to score a single Formula One Championship point in the same season his teammate won the drivers' title. For 1973, Walker drifted into Formula Two but was unfortunate to be badly injured in two road accidents that year. He retired from motor racing at the end of 1975, saying the effect of crash injuries made him not the same driver, and he was trying too hard, after a few impressive outings in the UK Shellsport F5000 series, taking a front row grid position at Oulton park and now lives in [[Queensland]] running a boat charter business. ==Racing results== ===Career summary=== {\| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" \|- ! Season ! Series ! Position ! Car ! Team \|- ! 1963 \| Australian Formula Junior Championship \|align="center" \| 4th \| Brabham BT2 - [[Ford]] \| Scuderia Veloce \|- ! 1964 \| [[Australian Formula 2 Championship]] \|align="center" style="background:#DFDFDF;"\| '''2nd''' \| Brabham BT2 - [[Ford]] \| \|- !rowspan=2\| 1969 \| BRSCC Formula Ford 1600 \|align="center" style="background:#FFFFBF;"\| '''1st''' \| Lotus 61 - [[Ford]] \| Holbay \|- \| European Formula Ford Championship \|align="center" style="background:#FFDF9F;"\| '''3rd''' \| Lotus 61 - [[Ford]] \| Holbay \|- !rowspan=2\| 1970 \| [[List of British Formula Three champions\|BRSCC Lombank Formula 3 Britain]] \|align="center" style="background:#FFFFBF;"\| '''1st''' \| Lotus 59A - [[Ford]] \|rowspan=2\| Gold Leaf Team Lotus \|- \| [[List of British Formula Three champions\|BRSCC Motor Sport / Shell Formula 3 Britain]] \|align="center" style="background:#DFDFDF;"\| '''2nd''' \| Lotus 59 - [[Ford]] \|- !rowspan=2\| 1971 \| [[List of British Formula Three champions\|Shell Super Oil British F3 Championship]] \|rowspan=2 align="center" style="background:#FFFFBF;"\| '''1st''' \|rowspan=2\| Lotus 69 - [[Ford]] \|rowspan=2\| Gold Leaf Team Lotus \|- \| Forward Trust BARC F3 \|} ===Complete Formula One World Championship results=== ([[:Template:F1 driver results legend 2\|key]]) {\| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%" ! Year ! Entrant ! Chassis ! Engine ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! WDC ! Points \|- \| [[1971 Formula One season\|1971]] ! [[John Player & Sons\|Gold Leaf]] [[Team Lotus]] ! [[Team Lotus\|Lotus]] [[Lotus 56B\|56B]] ! [[Pratt & Whitney]] [[Turbine]] \| [[1971 South African Grand Prix\|RSA]] \| [[1971 Spanish Grand Prix\|ESP]] \| [[1971 Monaco Grand Prix\|MON]] \|style="background:#EFCFFF;"\| [[1971 Dutch Grand Prix\|NED]]<br /><small>Ret</small> \| [[1971 French Grand Prix\|FRA]] \| [[1971 British Grand Prix\|GBR]] \| [[1971 German Grand Prix\|GER]] \| [[1971 Austrian Grand Prix\|AUT]] \| [[1971 Italian Grand Prix\|ITA]] \| [[1971 Canadian Grand Prix\|CAN]] \| [[1971 United States Grand Prix\|USA]] \| ! NC ! 0 \|- \| [[1972 Formula One season\|1972]] ! [[John Player & Sons\|John Player]]<br />[[Team Lotus]] ! [[Team Lotus\|Lotus]] [[Lotus 72\|72D]] ! [[Cosworth]] [[V8 engine\|V8]] \|style="background:#000000; color:#ffffff"\| [[1972 Argentine Grand Prix\|<span style="color:white;">ARG</span>]]<br /><small>DSQ</small> \|style="background:#CFCFFF;"\| [[1972 South African Grand Prix\|RSA]]<br /><small>10</small> \|style="background:#CFCFFF;"\| [[1972 Spanish Grand Prix\|ESP]]<br /><small>9</small> \|style="background:#CFCFFF;"\| [[1972 Monaco Grand Prix\|MON]]<br /><small>14</small> \|style="background:#CFCFFF;"\| [[1972 Belgian Grand Prix\|BEL]]<br /><small>14</small> \|style="background:#CFCFFF;"\| [[1972 French Grand Prix\|FRA]]<br /><small>18</small> \|style="background:#EFCFFF;"\| [[1972 British Grand Prix\|GBR]]<br /><small>Ret</small> \|style="background:#EFCFFF;"\| [[1972 German Grand Prix\|GER]]<br /><small>Ret</small> \|style="background:#EFCFFF;"\| [[1972 Austrian Grand Prix\|AUT]]<br /><small>Ret</small> \| [[1972 Italian Grand Prix\|ITA]] \| [[1972 Canadian Grand Prix\|CAN]] \|style="background:#EFCFFF;"\| [[1972 United States Grand Prix\|USA]]<br /><small>Ret</small> ! NC ! 0 \|- !colspan="18"\|{{center\|{{small\|Source:<ref>{{cite book\|last=Small\|first=Steve\|title=The Guinness Complete Grand Prix Who's Who\|date=1994\|publisher=Guinness\|page=391\|isbn=0851127029}}</ref>}}}} \|} ===Non-Championship Formula One results=== ([[:Template:F1 driver results legend 3\|key]]) (Races in '''bold''' indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) {\| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%" ! Year ! Entrant ! Chassis ! Engine ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 \|- \| 1971 ! [[John Player & Sons\|Gold Leaf]] [[Team Lotus]] ! [[Lotus 56B]] ! [[Cosworth DFV\|Ford Cosworth]] [[V8 engine\|V8]] \| [[1971 Argentine Grand Prix\|ARG]] \| [[1971 Race of Champions\|ROC]] \| [[1971 Questor Grand Prix\|QST]] \| [[1971 Spring Trophy\|SPT]] \| [[1971 BRDC International Trophy\|INT]] \|style="background:#CFCFFF;"\| [[1971 Jochen Rindt Gedächtnisrennen\|JRG]]<br /><small>9</small> \| [[1971 International Gold Cup\|IGC]] \| [[1971 World Championship Victory Race\|WCV]] \|- \| 1972 ! [[John Player & Sons\|Gold Leaf]] [[Team Lotus]] ! [[Lotus 72]] ! [[Cosworth DFV\|Ford Cosworth]] [[V8 engine\|V8]] \|style="background:#CFCFFF;"\| [[1972 Race of Champions\|ROC]]<br /><small>9</small> \|style="background:#DFFFDF;"\| [[1972 Brazilian Grand Prix\|BRA]]<br /><small>5</small> \|style="background:#FFFFFF;"\| [[1972 BRDC International Trophy\|INT]]<br /><small>DNS</small> \|style="background:#EFCFFF;"\| [[1972 International Gold Cup\|IGC]]<br /><small>Ret</small> \| [[1972 Italian Republic Grand Prix\|IREP]] \| [[1972 World Championship Victory Race\|WCV]] ! ! \|} ==References== {{reflist}} ==Sources== * ''Lotus 72 - Formula One Icon by Michael Oliver (Coterie Press, 2004)'' * {{cite web\|last=Oliver\|first=Michael\|title=Up in Smoke\|publisher=[[Motor Sport (magazine)\|''Motor Sport'']] magazine\|url=http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/june-2004/72/smoke\|date=June 2004\|accessdate=31 March 2015}} * [http://www.forix.com/driver.php?l=0&r=1941061000&c=0 Forix] * [http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/drv-waldav.html Grandprix.com] ==External links== [https://web.archive.org/web/20140310034417/http://www.f1rejects.com/drivers/walkerd/index.html F1 Rejects biography] [Archived link] [https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/david-walker/ Profile at Driver DataBase] *[http://racing-reference.info/driver/David_Walker Profile at Racing Reference USA] {{s-start}} {{s-sports}} {{succession box\|title= [[British Formula 3 Championship]]<br />BRSCC Lombank Series Champion \|before=[[Emerson Fittipaldi]]<br />(Combined championship) \|after= [[Roger Williamson]]\|years= 1970}} {{succession box \| before = [[Tony Trimmer]] \| title = [[List of Monaco Grand Prix Formula Three support race winners\|Monaco Formula Three <br />Race Winner]]\| after = [[Patrick Depailler]]\| years = 1971}} {{succession box\|title= [[British Formula 3 Championship]]<br />[[British Automobile Racing Club\|BARC]] Series Champion \|before=[[José Carlos Pace\|Carlos Pace]] \|after= [[Roger Williamson]]\|years= 1971}} {{succession box\|title= [[British Formula 3 Championship]]<br />BRSCC Motorsport/[[Royal Dutch Shell\|Shell]] Series Champion \|before=[[Tony Trimmer]] \|after= [[Roger Williamson]]\|years= 1971}} {{s-end}} {{British F3 champions}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Walker, David}} [[Category:1941 births]] [[Category:Sportsmen from New South Wales]] [[Category:Australian Formula One drivers]] [[Category:Team Lotus Formula One drivers]] [[Category:British Formula Three Championship drivers]] [[Category:Atlantic Championship drivers]] [[Category:Australian Formula 2 drivers]] [[Category:Racing drivers from Sydney]] [[Category:Tasman Series drivers]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Sydney]]'
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 ==Career==
-During the 1960s Walker's racing career faltered (he was the 1969 British Formula Ford Champion and finished third in the 1969 European Formula Ford Championship), however finally broke through racing a Lotus in [[Formula Three]] during 1971. He won 25 out of 32 races that year, including the Formula Three support races at the [[Monaco Grand Prix]] and the [[British Grand Prix]] at [[Silverstone Circuit|Silverstone]]. By the end of the year he had won both the Shell and Forward Trust UK Formula Three titles. Coming to the attention of Lotus founder [[Colin Chapman]], Walker was handed his Formula One debut at the [[1971 Dutch Grand Prix]] to drive the [[Lotus 56B]], powered by a [[Pratt & Whitney]] turbine engine. During the rain-affected race, Walker used the turbine car's advantages of [[four wheel drive]] and superior torque to rise from his starting position of 22nd to 10th place within five laps, but eventually spun off into retirement.
+ Walker had some international racing experience early in his career in the Australian rounds of the Tasman series in 1964-65 on challenging tracks like Longford and Sandown at a time when most Australian National 2.5 drives were near world class and he also drove a Lotus 70 in the 1971 Australian rounds. During the 1960s Walker's racing career faltered (he was the 1969 British Formula Ford Champion and finished third in the 1969 European Formula Ford Championship), however finally broke through racing a Lotus in [[Formula Three]] during 1971. He won 25 out of 32 races that year, including the Formula Three support races at the [[Monaco Grand Prix]] and the [[British Grand Prix]] at [[Silverstone Circuit|Silverstone]]. By the end of the year he had won both the Shell and Forward Trust UK Formula Three titles. Coming to the attention of Lotus founder [[Colin Chapman]], Walker was handed his Formula One debut at the [[1971 Dutch Grand Prix]] to drive the [[Lotus 56B]], powered by a [[Pratt & Whitney]] turbine engine. During the rain-affected race, Walker used the turbine car's advantages of [[four wheel drive]] and superior torque to rise from his starting position of 22nd to 10th place within five laps, but eventually spun off into retirement.
 Walker was given a full-time Formula One seat to drive the [[Lotus 72]] in the [[1972 Formula One season|1972]] season, as number two driver to [[Emerson Fittipaldi]]. As the season went on, however, both Walker and the team became increasingly disenchanted. After Lotus discovered Walker had tested a [[Formula Two]] car for another team, he was dropped from the team for the [[1972 Italian Grand Prix|Italian GP]] and the [[1972 Canadian Grand Prix|Canadian GP]], where he was replaced by [[Reine Wisell]]. Walker was back for the [[1972 United States Grand Prix|US GP]], but retired.
-In all, Fittipaldi won five races and scored 61 points, winning the championship, while Walker never finished a Grand Prix higher than ninth place (in [[1972 Spanish Grand Prix|Spain]]), his best race where he had been contesting 5th place with Peter Revson, when he ran out of fuel, in the last laps. He was promising in the openin glaps at Monaco where he had F3 experience, but made mistakes in the extraordinary downpour. By mid season Team was totally focused on Fittipaldi taking the Championship, and Walker's 72 of little importance, but predictably his form at Brands and in Austria suggeted some real improvement, while the engine lasted. Lotus blamed Walker's allegedly inadequate driving technique, poor fitness and lack of mechanical sensitivity; while Walker claimed Lotus gave him inferior equipment and gave far more attention to Fittipaldi's needs than his. He was not retained for the [[1973 Formula One season|1973]] season, and was replaced by [[Ronnie Peterson]]. David Walker remains the only driver not to score a single Formula One Championship point in the same season his teammate won the drivers' title.
+In all, Fittipaldi won five races and scored 61 points, winning the championship, while Walker never finished a Grand Prix higher than ninth place (in [[1972 Spanish Grand Prix|Spain]]), his best race where he had been contesting 5th place with Peter Revson, when he ran out of fuel, in the last laps. He was promising in the opening glaps at Monaco where he had F3 experience, but made mistakes in the extraordinary downpour. By mid season Team was totally focused on Fittipaldi taking the Championship, and Walker's 72 of little importance, but predictably his form at Brands and in Austria suggested some improvement, while the engine lasted. Lotus blamed Walker's allegedly inadequate driving technique, poor fitness and lack of mechanical sensitivity; while Walker claimed Lotus gave him inferior equipment and gave far more attention to Fittipaldi's needs than his. He was not retained for the [[1973 Formula One season|1973]] season, and was replaced by [[Ronnie Peterson]]. David Walker remains the only driver not to score a single Formula One Championship point in the same season his teammate won the drivers' title.
-For 1973, Walker drifted into Formula Two but was unfortunate to be badly injured in two road accidents that year. He retired from motor racing at the end of 1975, saying the  effect of crash injuries made him not the same driver, and he was trying too hard,  after a few imprerssive outings in the UK Shellsport F5000 series, taking a front row grip position at Oulton park and now lives in [[Queensland]] running a boat charter business.
+For 1973, Walker drifted into Formula Two but was unfortunate to be badly injured in two road accidents that year. He retired from motor racing at the end of 1975, saying the  effect of crash injuries made him not the same driver, and he was trying too hard,  after a few impressive outings in the UK Shellsport F5000 series, taking a front row grid position at Oulton park and now lives in [[Queensland]] running a boat charter business.
 ==Racing results==