Johnnie Walker (also known as John Walker; 3 September 1944 – 6 May 2024) was an Australian racing driver.

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Johnnie Walker was born in Adelaide, South Australia on 27 September 1943,^[1][2] He first raced in the early 1960s at Mallala in his Holden FE road car.^[2] After competing in the Australian Formula 2 Championship he graduated to Formula 5000 in 1972, driving an Elfin MR5 and a Matich A50 before switching to the Lola marque in late 1973.

Walker finished second in both the 1973 and 1975 Australian Drivers' Championships before breaking through to win the title in 1979 in his Lola T332 Chevrolet. He also won the 1979 Australian Grand Prix at Wanneroo Raceway.

In 1975, he was highly competitive in the Tasman Series going into the final round at Sandown as equal series leader with Warwick Brown and Graeme Lawrence. However he crashed his Lola on the first lap demolishing 50 metres of the horse racetrack's running rails.

Walker drove several touring car races for the Holden Dealer Team in 1975-1976 including co-driving with Colin Bond in the 1975 Hardie Ferodo 1000 where they placed third in a Holden Torana SL/R 5000 L34.

Walker died on 6 May 2024, at the age of 79.^[1]

Results sourced from Driver Database.^[3]

Complete Tasman Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

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Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	DC	Points
1972	City State Racing	Elfin MR5 Repco-Holden	PUK	LEV	WIG	TER	SUR	WAR	SAN	AIR 4	12th	3
1973	Johnnie Walker	Elfin MR5 Repco-Holden	PUK	LEV	WIG	TER	SUR 4	WAR 4	SAN 5	AIR Ret	9th	8
1974	Johnnie Walker	Lola T330 Repco-Holden	LEV 1	PUK 7	WIG Ret	TER Ret	ORA 2	SUR 5	SAN 3	AIR Ret	3rd	21
1975	Johnnie Walker	Lola T332 Repco-Holden	LEV 4	PUK 4	WIG 3	TER 4	ORA 3	SUR 1	AIR 3	SAN Ret	2nd	30

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Complete Bathurst 500/1000 results

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Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
1970	Aunger Accessories / Fairway Ford	Kym Aunger	Ford XW Falcon GTHO Phase II	E	18	DNF	DNF
1971	City State Racing Team	Malcolm Ramsay	Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1	D	124	18th	11th
1975	Holden Dealer Team	Colin Bond	Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34	D	154	3rd	3rd
1978	Settlement Road Motor Wreckers	Warren Cullen	Holden LX Torana SS A9X Hatchback	A	152	7th	7th

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