The 1955 Queensland Road Racing Championship was a motor race held at the Southport circuit in Queensland, AustraliaAmes and Alfa are Queensland champs, Wheels (magazine), January 1956, pages 46 & 47 on 6 November 1955.Alf Cummings, Grand Prix win at 22, Modern Motor (magazine), January 1956, pages 22, 23 & 84 The race was held over 20 laps of the 5.7 mile (9.17 kilometre) circuit, a total distance of 114 miles (247.6 km). The meeting was conducted by the Queensland Motor Sporting Club in association with the Pacific Car Club.
The race was won by Steve Ames driving an Alfa Romeo.
Classification
Position Driver No. Car Laps Time / remarks 1 Steve Ames 8 Alfa Romeo P3Mark Bisset, Count Stephen Ouvaroff’s Southport. Queensland, November 1955..., primotipo.com, as archived at web.archive.org 85m 27.3s 2 Ken Richardson Talbot-Lago T26C 3 Rex Taylor 25 Jaguar XK120 4 Barry Griffiths 28 Triumph TR2 5 Beau Mossetter MG TC s/c 6 N. Barnes MG Special s/c ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Did not finish Lex Davison HWM Jaguar 6 Broken steering arm Did not finish Jack Brabham 6 Cooper T40 Bristol 5 Bent valves
Notes Attendance: nearly 15,000 Starters: 11 Finishers: 6 Winning margin: 27 seconds Fastest lap: Jack Brabham, 3m 53s (88 mph) Handicap placings (over the first twelve laps): Griffiths, Taylor and Mossetter
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