1960 Australian Grand Prix

December 2020 July 2011 CUST Race 3 of 7 in 1960 Australian Drivers' Championship Australian Australia Lowood Circuit.jpg Lowood circuit, Tarampa, Queensland 12 June 1960 Permanent racing facility 2.82 4.54 36 101.52 163.44 Sunny Alec Mildren AUS Cooper-Maserati 1'45.9 Lex Davison Aston Martin 1'44 AUS Alec Mildren AUS Cooper-Maserati Lex Davison AUS Aston Martin Bib Stillwell AUS Cooper-ClimaxThe 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,Australian Grand Prix, Autosport 5 August 1960 198, 199 & 207 had 16 starters. It was the twenty fifth Australian Grand Prix.25th Australian G.P. at Lowood, Australian Motor Sports, July 1960, pages 252 to 254 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.John B. Blanden, Historic Racing Cars in Australia, 1979, p. 41 thumb|left|Alec Mildren won the 1960 Australian Grand Prix driving a Cooper T51, similar to the example depicted above Classification Results as follows.Howard Graham Graham Howard The Official 50-race history of the Australian Grand Prix 1986 R & T Publishing Gordon, NSW 0-9588464-0-5 256–266 1960 Pos No. Driver Car EntrantOfficial Programme, Twenty Fifth Australian Grand Prix, Lowood, Queensland, 12 June 1960 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 1.1LAustralian Grand Prix Lowood, 12 Jun 1960, oldracingcars.com Retrieved 21 March 2015 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 O-480 7.9L aircraft engine C. E. Tadgell Notes Attendance: 25,000"Whisker" win in Grand Prix The Courier Mail 13 June 1960 12 Pole position: Alec Mildren – 1'45.9 Fastest lap: Lex Davison – 1'44.0, 97.7 mph, new lap record References External links Open Wheelers 1960, autopics.com.au Grand Prix of Australia, www.silhouet.com 1960 Gold Star results, members.optusnet.com.au/dandsshaw via web.archive.org Australian Grand Prix 1959 Australian Grand Prix 1960 1961 Australian Grand Prix Grand Prix Category:Australian Grand Prix Category:Sports competitions in Queensland Australian Grand Prix