Jim McKeown (racing driver)


Jim McKeown is a retired Australian racing driver who competed in the Australian Touring Car Championship from 1964 to 1972, with a best finish of 2nd in the 1970 ATCC. McKeown was part of the successful Neptune Racing Team alongside Norm Beechey and Peter Manton. The team later became known as the Shell Racing Team and consisted of McKeown in a Porsche 911S, Beechey in a Holden Monaro GTS350 and Manton in a.
In addition to the Australian Touring Car Championship, McKeown also competed in the Bathurst 500 and its forerunner at Phillip Island on four occasions. He and George Reynolds took the Class D win at the 1962 Armstrong 500, five laps off the lead. McKeown drove for the Ford Works Team under Harry Firth in the 1968 Hardie-Ferodo 500, finishing 42nd with Spencer Martin in the team's only XT Falcon GT fitted with an automatic transmission. In the 1970s McKeown raced Porsches in the Sports Sedan category, achieving a 2nd-place finish in the 1974 Toby Lee Series at Oran Park.

Career results

SeasonTitlePositionCarTeam
1967Australian Touring Car Championship6thFord Lotus CortinaTridents Racing Team
1969Australian Touring Car Championship4thFord Lotus CortinaJim McKeown Motors
1970Australian Touring Car Championship2ndPorsche 911SShell Racing Team
1971Australian Touring Car Championship4thPorsche 911SShell Racing Team
1972Australian Touring Car Championship13thAlfa Romeo 2000 GTVShell Racing Team
1973Toby Lee Series4thPorsche Carrera
1974Toby Lee Series2ndPorsche Carrera

Complete Australian Touring Car Championship results

YearTeamCar12345678DCPoints
1964Neptune Racing TeamFord Cortina Mark I LotusLAK
Ret
NC-
1965Neptune Racing TeamFord Cortina Mark I LotusSAN
Ret
NC-
1967Tridents Racing TeamFord Cortina Mark I LotusLAK
6
NC-
1968Jim McKeown MotorsFord Cortina Mark II LotusWAR
Ret
NC-
1969Jim McKeown MotorsFord Cortina Mark II LotusCALBATMAL
4
SUR
3
SYM
3
4th11
1970Jim McKeown Shell Racing TeamPorsche 911SCAL
3
BAT
4
SAN
Ret
MAL
Ret
WAR
1
LAK
3
SYM
1
2nd29
1971Shell RacingPorsche 911SSYM
4
CAL
3
SAN
3
SUR
5
MAL
4
LAK
6
ORA
4
4th20
1972Shell Racing TeamAlfa Romeo 2000 GTVSYMCAL
DNS
BAT
7
SAN
Ret
AIRWARSURORA13th6