1960 Australian Grand Prix
1960 Australian Grand Prix | |||
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Race 3 of 7 in 1960 Australian Drivers' Championship | |||
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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 | ![]() | Aston Martin | |
Time | 1'44 | ||
Podium | |||
First | Cooper-Maserati | ||
Second | Aston Martin | ||
Third | Cooper-Climax |
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.
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]
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Classification
[edit]Results as follows.[4]
Pos | No. | Driver | Car | Entrant[5] | Laps | Time |
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1 | 2 | ![]() | Cooper T51 / Maserati 2.5L | A.G. Mildren Pty. Ltd. | 36 | 1h 4m 35.05s |
2 | 3 | ![]() | Aston Martin DBR4/300 / Aston Martin 3.0L | A.N. Davison | 36 | 1h 4m 35.55s |
3 | 16 | ![]() | Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.2L | B.S. Stillwell | 36 | |
4 | 70 | ![]() | Cooper T45 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.0L | Scuderia Birchwood | 35 | |
5 | 71 | ![]() | Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.0L | Ecurie Hall | 35 | |
6 | 8 | ![]() | Maserati 250F / Maserati 2.5L | Capitol Motors | 35 | |
7 | 20 | ![]() | Cooper T43 / Coventry Climax FPF 1.7L | G. A. Scott | ||
8 | 4 | ![]() | Lotus Eleven / Coventry Climax FPF 1.5L | C. Whatmore & Co. | ||
9 | 33 | ![]() | Tornado II / Chevrolet 4.6L | M. W. McEwin | ||
10 | 49 | ![]() | MG TC Special / MG 1.5L | N. F. Barnes | ||
? | 37 | ![]() | MG TC Special / MG 1.5L | D. K. Russell | ||
? | 32 | ![]() | MG TC Special / MG 1.5L | Ecurie Lismore | ||
? | 10 | ![]() | Lotus Eleven / Coventry Climax FWA 1.1L[6] | Rockhampton Car Sales | ||
Ret | 87 | ![]() | Lotus 15 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L | Leaton Motors (Sports Cars) Pty. Ltd. | 9 | |
Ret | 18 | ![]() | Maybach III / Chevrolet 4.6L | Moran Motors Pty. Ltd. | 4 | |
Ret | 6 | ![]() | MG TF Special / MG 1.5L | J. A. Bonetti | ||
DNS | 7 | ![]() | Sabakat / Lycoming 7.9L | C. E. Tadgell |
Notes
[edit]- Attendance: 25,000[7]
- Pole position: Alec Mildren – 1'45.9
- Fastest lap: Lex Davison – 1'44.0, 97.7 mph, new lap record[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Australian Grand Prix, Autosport. 5 August 1960. pp. 198, 199 & 207.
- ^ 25th Australian G.P. at Lowood, Australian Motor Sports, July 1960, pages 252 to 254
- ^ John B. Blanden, Historic Racing Cars in Australia, 1979, p. 41
- ^ 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.
- ^ Official Programme, Twenty Fifth Australian Grand Prix, Lowood, Queensland, 12 June 1960
- ^ Australian Grand Prix Lowood, 12 Jun 1960, oldracingcars.com Retrieved 21 March 2015
- ^ a b ""Whisker" win in Grand Prix". The Courier Mail. 13 June 1960. p. 12.