If you’re sitting around warming up your credit card for the forthcoming four weeks of holiday shopping, you might want to take a peek at the Walker Racing liquidation auction recently put up online. Longtime British race team owner Derrick Walker seems to be packing up shop at last and this auction includes everything from IMSA trophies to office furniture from the team’s Indianapolis shop.
Walker’s career in racing started as a mechanic in Formula 1. He moved stateside in 1977, where he went to work for Roger Penske until 1987. He took over the Porsche Indy Car team after Al Holbert’s untimely death and when he purchased the program, he put his name on the first team, Walker Motorsports. His later endeavors included Indy and CART programs for Scott Goodyear, Robby Gordon, Gil de Ferran, Sarah Fisher, and more. That program later was run in conjunction with Aussie Vineyards sponsorship and the last CART season saw Walker overseeing Will Power and Simon Pagenaud—both now IndyCar champions for Penske—on his team. He later picked up a Falken Tires-partnered Porsche 911 program in IMSA competition, a program that ended in 2015. More recently, Walker has taken turns officiating for IndyCar and the SCCA. With no program in the pipe, it’s unfortunate, although not unexpected, to see Walker folding his endeavors.
The auction features mostly things from around the office without any of the typical stuff you’d expect from the shop. Among the things up for sale, starting December 6, are: an Ilmor Engines paper weight, some rare Hot Wheels, a bunch of ALMS and IMSA trophies, thank-you plaques from Bobby Unser, an oversized novelty check made out to Will Power, a Walker Racing bicycle in Team Australia colors, a Team Australia helmet, Nomex gloves and racing suits, framed prints, Indy Car and CART yearbooks, and office furniture/equipment that includes a gigantic copier. You can even buy the kitchen cabinets that would, perhaps, come with the kitchen sink.
