1960 Australian Grand Prix
The 1960 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race held at Lowood in Queensland, Australia on 12 June 1960. The race had 16 starters.
It was the twenty fifth Australian Grand Prix. 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 DB3S three litre sports car engine replacing the 2.5 litre powerplant.
won the 1960 Australian Grand Prix driving a Cooper T51, similar to the example depicted above
Classification
Results as follows.Pos | No. | Driver | Car | Entrant | Laps | Time |
1 | 2 | ![]() | Cooper T51 / Maserati 2.5L | AG Mildren Pty Ltd | 36 | 1h 4m 35.05s |
2 | 3 | ![]() | Aston Martin DBR4/300 / Aston Martin 3.0L | Ecurie Australie | 36 | 1h 4m 35.55s |
3 | 16 | ![]() | Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.2L | BS Stillwell | 36 | |
4 | 70 | ![]() | Cooper T45 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.0L | Scuderia Birchwood | 35 | |
5 | 71 | ![]() | Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.0L | O Hall | 35 | |
6 | 8 | ![]() | Maserati 250F / Maserati 2.5L | Capitol Motors Pty Ltd | 35 | |
7 | 20 | ![]() | Cooper T43 / Coventry Climax FPF 1.7L | Glyn Scott Motors | ||
8 | 4 | ![]() | Lotus Eleven / Coventry Climax FPF 1.5L | Charles Whatmore | ||
9 | 33 | ![]() | Tornado II / Chevrolet 4.6L | M McEwin | ||
10 | 49 | ![]() | MG TC Special / MG 1.5L | N Barnes | ||
? | 37 | ![]() | MG TC Special / MG 1.5L | D Russell | ||
? | 32 | ![]() | MG TC Special / MG 1.5L | M Williams | ||
? | 10 | ![]() | Lotus Eleven / Coventry Climax FWA 1.1L | Rockhampton Car Sales | ||
Ret | 87 | ![]() | Lotus 15 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L | Leaton Motors | 9 | |
Ret | 18 | ![]() | Maybach III / Chevrolet 4.6L | Stan Jones Motors Pty Ltd | 4 | |
Ret | 6 | ![]() | MG TF Special / MG 1.5L | J Bonetti | ||
DNS | 7 | ![]() | Sabakat / Lycoming 7.9L | Tadgell Aviation |