1960_Australian_Grand_Prix

1960 Australian Grand Prix

1960 Australian Grand Prix

Motor car race

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.

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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]

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Notes

References

  1. [1]
    Australian Grand Prix, Autosport. 5 August 1960. pp. 198, 199 & 207.
  2. [2]
    25th Australian G.P. at Lowood, Australian Motor Sports, July 1960, pages 252 to 254
  3. [3]
    John B. Blanden, Historic Racing Cars in Australia, 1979, p. 41
  4. [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. [5]
    Official Programme, Twenty Fifth Australian Grand Prix, Lowood, Queensland, 12 June 1960
  6. [6]
    Australian Grand Prix Lowood, 12 Jun 1960, oldracingcars.com Retrieved 21 March 2015
  7. [7]
    ""Whisker" win in Grand Prix". The Courier Mail. 13 June 1960. p. 12.
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