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, 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
Classification Results as follows.
Pos No. Driver Car EntrantOfficial Programme, Twenty Fifth Australian Grand Prix, Lowood, Queensland, 12 June 1960 Laps Time 1 2 Alec Mildren Cooper T51 / Maserati 2.5L A.G. Mildren Pty. Ltd. 36 1h 4m 35.05s 2 3 Lex Davison Aston Martin DBR4/300 / Aston Martin 3.0L A.N. Davison 36 1h 4m 35.55s 3 16 Bib Stillwell Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.2L B.S. Stillwell 36 4 70 Jon Leighton Cooper T45 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.0L Scuderia Birchwood 35 5 71 Noel Hall Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.0L Ecurie Hall 35 6 8 Arnold Glass Maserati 250F / Maserati 2.5L Capitol Motors 35 7 20 Glynn Scott Cooper T43 / Coventry Climax FPF 1.7L G. A. Scott 8 4 Charlie Whatmore Lotus Eleven / Coventry Climax FPF 1.5L C. Whatmore & Co. 9 33 Mel McEwin Tornado II / Chevrolet 4.6L M. W. McEwin 10 49 Noel Barnes MG TC Special / MG 1.5L N. F. Barnes ? 37 Keith Russell MG TC Special / MG 1.5L D. K. Russell ? 32 Max Williams MG TC Special / MG 1.5L Ecurie Lismore ? 10 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 Frank Matich Lotus 15 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L Leaton Motors (Sports Cars) Pty. Ltd. 9 Ret 18 Stan Jones Maybach III / Chevrolet 4.6L Moran Motors Pty. Ltd. 4 Ret 6 Joe Bonenti MG TF Special / MG 1.5L J. A. Bonetti DNS 7 Ern Tadgell Sabakat / Lycoming O-480 7.9L aircraft engine C. E. Tadgell
Notes Attendance: 25,000 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