1975_Australian_Sports_Car_Championship

1975 Australian Sports Car Championship

1975 Australian Sports Car Championship

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The 1975 Australian Sports Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title open to Group A Sports Cars and Group D Production Sports Cars.[1] The championship was contested over a single race staged at the Phillip Island circuit in Victoria, Australia on 30 November 1975.[2] The race was run over 30 laps of the 4.76 km circuit, a total race distance of 143 km.[2] It was the seventh Australian Sports Car Championship, and the only one in the twenty-year history of the title to be contested over a single race rather than over a series of races.[3]

The championship was won by Garrie Cooper, driving an Elfin MS7.[2]

Results

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  • Number of entries: 66[4]
  • Number of starters: Unknown[6]
  • Number of finishers: 20[2][4]
  • Pole position: Garrie Cooper (Elfin MS7), 1:47.2
  • Winner's race time: 54:44.6
  • Fatstest lap: Garrie Cooper (Elfin MS7) 1:45.6

Notes & references

  1. CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, 1975, pages 86-87
  2. Sports Car Championships, Australian Competition Yearbook, 1976 Edition, pages 86-87
  3. Cooper Captures Sports Title, Racing Car News, January 1976, pages 70-71
  4. Australian Sports Car Championship Philip Island, Australian Auto Action, 4 December 1975, page 11
  5. The Racing Car News race report lists 41 cars in its grid line-up. Australian Competition Yearbook infers that there were 40 starters and names 29, including two (Gymer and Cesario) who are not included in the Racing Car News listing

Further reading

  • Jim Shepherd, A History of Australian Motor Sport, 1980, pages 173-174

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