Johnnie Walker (racing driver)

John Walker (3 September 1944 – 6 May 2024) was an Australian racing driver.

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.

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.

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.