1960 Australian Grand Prix

The 1960 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race held at Lowood in Queensland, Australia on 12 June 1960. The race, which was run to Formula Libre,[1] had 16 starters.

1960 Australian Grand Prix
Race 3 of 7 in 1960 Australian Drivers' Championship
Race details
Date 12 June 1960
Location Lowood circuit, Tarampa, Queensland
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 4.54 km (2.82 miles)
Distance 36 laps, 163.44 km (101.52 miles)
Weather Sunny
Pole position
Driver
Cooper-Maserati
Time 1'45.9
Fastest lap
Driver Australia Lex Davison Aston Martin
Time 1'44
Podium
First
Cooper-Maserati
Second
Aston Martin
Third
  • Australia Bib Stillwell
 Cooper-Climax

It was the twenty fifth Australian Grand Prix.[2] Alec Mildren won his only AGP, which was also the second AGP victory for a rear-engined racing car. Mildren eschewed the more usual Coventry Climax FPF engine in favour of a Maserati sports car unit to power his Cooper T51, one of many competitors at the time who tried sports car engines in racing car chassis. Davison's Aston Martin DBR4 too had a sports car engine replacing the 2.5-litre powerplant, this being 3.0 litre unit from a DBR1.[3]

Alec Mildren won the 1960 Australian Grand Prix driving a Cooper T51, similar to the example depicted above

Classification

Results as follows.[4]

Pos No. Driver Car Entrant[5] Laps Time
1 2 Australia Alec Mildren Cooper T51 / Maserati 2.5L A.G. Mildren Pty. Ltd. 36 1h 4m 35.05s
2 3 Australia Lex Davison Aston Martin DBR4/300 / Aston Martin 3.0L A.N. Davison 36 1h 4m 35.55s
3 16 Australia Bib Stillwell Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.2L B.S. Stillwell 36
4 70 Australia Jon Leighton Cooper T45 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.0L Scuderia Birchwood 35
5 71 Australia Noel Hall Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.0L Ecurie Hall 35
6 8 Australia Arnold Glass Maserati 250F / Maserati 2.5L Capitol Motors 35
7 20 Australia Glynn Scott Cooper T43 / Coventry Climax FPF 1.7L G. A. Scott
8 4 Australia Charlie Whatmore Lotus Eleven / Coventry Climax FPF 1.5L C. Whatmore & Co.
9 33 Australia Mel McEwin Tornado II / Chevrolet 4.6L M. W. McEwin
10 49 Australia Noel Barnes MG TC Special / MG 1.5L N. F. Barnes
 ? 37 Australia Keith Russell MG TC Special / MG 1.5L D. K. Russell
 ? 32 Australia Max Williams MG TC Special / MG 1.5L Ecurie Lismore
 ? 10 Australia George Jamieson Lotus Eleven / Coventry Climax FWA 1.1L[6] Rockhampton Car Sales
Ret 87 Australia Frank Matich Lotus 15 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L Leaton Motors (Sports Cars) Pty. Ltd. 9
Ret 18 Australia Stan Jones Maybach III / Chevrolet 4.6L Moran Motors Pty. Ltd. 4
Ret 6 Australia Joe Bonenti MG TF Special / MG 1.5L J. A. Bonetti
DNS 7 Australia Ern Tadgell Sabakat / Lycoming 7.9L C. E. Tadgell

Notes

References
  1. Australian Grand Prix, Autosport. 5 August 1960. pp. 198, 199 & 207.
  2. 25th Australian G.P. at Lowood, Australian Motor Sports, July 1960, pages 252 to 254
  3. John B. Blanden, Historic Racing Cars in Australia, 1979, p. 41
  4. Howard, Graham (1986). "1960". In Howard, Graham (ed.). The Official 50-race history of the Australian Grand Prix. Gordon, NSW: R & T Publishing. pp. 256–266. ISBN 0-9588464-0-5.
  5. Official Programme, Twenty Fifth Australian Grand Prix, Lowood, Queensland, 12 June 1960
  6. Australian Grand Prix Lowood, 12 Jun 1960, oldracingcars.com Retrieved 21 March 2015
  7. ""Whisker" win in Grand Prix". The Courier Mail. 13 June 1960. p. 12.
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