The origins of the Gemini Formula Juniors constructed by The Chequered Flag lay in the Moorland Special, a Formula Junior drawn up and constructed by Leslie Redmond, very early in 1959 initially from a set of basic drawings and layout supplied by Len Terry. The car was found to be an early production model displayed at the Earls courts motor show car by Lotus and they had put the sand in the doors to give the doors a solid clunk sound when shutting.īy 1959 after rebuilding the Elite, soon to have the plate, LOV 1 and in the hands of Warner the car was raced throughout UK and Continent to became the most successful Elite’s with over 30 class wins and 24 overall wins. Amongst other things Ward removed “pounds and pounds of sand” from the doors.
On appointment of New Zealander, Brad Ward as Warner’s competition mechanic, the car was found by Ward to have been poorly maintained by Warners previous mechanic so Ward set to and completely stripped and rebuilt the car. The Elite was however unsuccessful and rarely finished. The car was subsequently painted White with broad black stripe front to rear which subsequently became the Chequered flag racing colours. The Cooper (on its first race practice) was crashed by team mate Percy) so Warner took his own personal Lotus Elite (147VMK) into the team. Warner a former RAF pilot was familiar with motor racing having in 1958 started in club racing with AH100S and Lotus 11 followed by a Tojeiro-Bristol and Cooper Monaco 2 litre was bought. Sports car at London Docks awaiting shipping to North America Warner aside from selling Sports cars to the local London market shipped a considerable number of these cars to the burgeoning North American market. Graham Warner, the principle of highly successful car sales company The Chequered Flag Car Sales in Chiswick High Rd, London was the man behind The Chequered Flag engineering company, the constructors of the Gemini Racing Cars.
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