1961 Australian Grand Prix

March 2023 October 2011 CUST Race 5 of 5 in 1961 Australian Drivers' Championship Australian Australia Mallala Race Circuit, Mallala, South Australia 9 October 1961 Permanent racing facility 2.1 3.38 50 105 168.95 Sunny Bill Patterson AUS Cooper-Climax 1'42.0 Bill Patterson Cooper-Climax Lex Davison Cooper-Climax 1'44 AUS AUS Lex Davison AUS Cooper-Climax Bib Stillwell AUS Cooper-Climax David McKay AUS Cooper-Climax The 1961 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula Libre motor raceThe Australian Grand Prix, 1961 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, page 52 held at the newly completed Mallala Race Circuit in South Australia on 9 October 1961. The race, which was Round 5 of the 1961 Australian Drivers' Championship, had 17 starters.1961 Gold Star Races, members.optusnet.com.au/dandsshaw https://web.archive.org/web/20120401212439/http://members.optusnet.com.au/dandsshaw/images/results/races61.htm 1 April 2012 Retrieved on 14 March 2013 The race was the twenty sixth Australian Grand Prix and would be the last to be held in South Australia until the first Formula One World Championship Australian Grand Prix was staged at the new Adelaide Parklands Circuit in 1985. Lex Davison won his fourth and final AGP setting a record for wins that still stands today, having only been equalled by Michael Schumacher. David McKay actually crossed the finish line first but had been assigned a one-minute penalty, for a jumped start, which relegated him to third position behind Davison and Bib Stillwell.http://www.smh.com.au/news/Obituaries/Dashing-enthusiast-of-motor-sport/2005/01/02/1104601240405.html Dashing enthusiast of motor sport Peter McKay 3 January 2005 The Sydney Morning Herald 25 May 2010 thumb|L. Kakoschke (#42 Austin-Healey) and Steve Tillett (#18 MG TC) at the 1961 Australian Grand Prix meeting. Kakoschke was not entered in the Grand Prix. Tillett was entered for the race but did not start. Davison's Australian Grand Prix victory would be the last for a domestically based Australian until Frank Matich won the 1970 AGP at Warwick Farm in Sydney driving a McLaren M10B Formula 5000 car, although British-based Australian Jack Brabham had won the AGP in both 1963 and 1964. thumb|The Ricardian which was driven by John Newmarch in the 1961 Australian Grand Prix. The car is pictured at Mallala in 2012 Classification Results as follows.Howard Graham Graham Howard The Official 50-race history of the Australian Grand Prix 1986 R & T Publishing Gordon, NSW 0-9588464-0-5 268–275 1961 Pos No. Driver Entrant Car / Engine Laps Time 1 4 Australia Lex Davison B.S. Stillwell Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.2L 50 1h 29m 01s 2 6 Australia Bib Stillwell B.S. Stillwell Cooper T55 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L 50 1h 29m 42s 3 14 Australia David McKay Scuderia Veloce Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L 50 1h 30m 05s 4 9 Australia Bill Patterson Bill Patterson Motors P/L Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L 48 5 15 Australia Murray Trenberth M Trenberth Alta / Holden 2.5L 46 6 20 Australia Eddie Clay E Clay Cooper T23 / Bristol 2.2L 45 7 26 Australia Alan Jack Briefield Motors Cooper T39 / Coventry Climax FWB 1.5L1961 Australian Grand Prix, www.oldracingcars.com Retrieved on 14 March 2013 48 8 45 Australia Trevor Ellis T Ellis Austin 8 Special / Austin Supercharged 0.9L 38 9 16 Australia Mel McEwin M McEwin Tornado Mk II / Chevrolet 4.6L 35 10 60 Australia Peter Wilkinson P Wilkinson Elfin Steamliner / Ford 1.2L 35 Ret 5 Australia John Youl Scuderia Veloce Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L 46 Exhaustion Ret 8 Australia Keith Rilstone K Rilstone Zephyr Special / Ford 2.3L 33 Ret 19 Australia Doug Whiteford Bill Patterson Motors P/L Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L 30 Engine Ret 11 Australia John Ampt J Ampt Cooper T38 / Jaguar 3.8L 25 Ret 30 Australia John Newmarch J Bruggeman Ricardian / Holden 2.4L 14 Ret 56 Australia Helene Bittner H Bittner Vitesse / Ford 100E 1.2L 1 Gearbox Ret 3 Australia Laurie Whitehead L Whitehead Ausper T2 / Ford 1.0L 0 DNS 2 Australia Stan Jones Stan Jones Motors Pty Ltd Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L Engine DNS 29 Australia Garrie Cooper Elfin Sports Cars Elfin Formula Junior / Ford 1.1L Gearbox DNS 44 Australia Dud Dansie Bakewell Bridge Motors BBM rotary valve special / Holden - Dunstan Rotary ValveDNS18 Australia Steve TillettS. D. Tillett MG TC Notes Pole Position: Bill Patterson - 1:42.0 Fastest Lap: Bill Patterson / Lex Davison - 1:44.0 References External links XXVI Australian Grand Prix 1961, www.the-fastlane.co.uk Australian Grand Prix 1960 Australian Grand Prix 1961 1962 Australian Grand Prix Grand Prix Category:Australian Grand Prix Australian Grand Prix