1958 Australian Grand Prix
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The 1958 Australian Grand Prix was an open-wheel motor race held at Mount Panorama Circuit
on 6 October 1958. The race had 28 starters. It was the first Australian Grand Prix to specifically exclude sports cars from the entry.
It was the twenty third Australian Grand Prix
. Lex Davison
won his third AGP, equalling records set by Bill Thompson
and Doug Whiteford
.
Mount Panorama Circuit
Mount Panorama Circuit is a motor racing track located in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It is the home of the Bathurst 12 Hour motor race, held each February, and the Bathurst 1000 motor race, held each October...
on 6 October 1958. The race had 28 starters. It was the first Australian Grand Prix to specifically exclude sports cars from the entry.
It was the twenty third Australian Grand Prix
Australian Grand Prix
The Australian Grand Prix is a motor race held annually and is held to be the pinnacle of motor racing in Australia. The Grand Prix is the oldest surviving motor racing competition held in Australia having been held 76 times since it was first run at Phillip Island in 1928. Since 1985 the race has...
. Lex Davison
Lex Davison
Alexander Nicholas Davison was a racing driver who won the Australian Grand Prix four times between 1954 and 1961 and won the Australian Drivers' Championship in 1957...
won his third AGP, equalling records set by Bill Thompson
Bill Thompson (racing driver)
Bill Thompson was an Australian Race Car Driver from 1929 to about 1935. He drove a Bugatti Type 37A s/cand although his career was not taken to the international level, it was quite successful.-Career:Some highlights of his career include:...
and Doug Whiteford
Doug Whiteford
Doug Whiteford was an Australian racing driver.Whiteford was best known as a competitor in the Australian Grand Prix which he won three times in four years. He was fondly remember for his Talbot-Lago T26 Formula One car which he used to win his second and third Grands Prix. His third win was at the...
.
Classification
Results as follows.Pos | No. | Driver | Car | Laps | Time | Pts |
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1 | 12 | Lex Davison Lex Davison Alexander Nicholas Davison was a racing driver who won the Australian Grand Prix four times between 1954 and 1961 and won the Australian Drivers' Championship in 1957... |
Ferrari 625 Ferrari 625 Ferrari created three different cars to use the Tipo 625 four-cylinder engine:* 1953 625 TF sports racer* 1954 625 F1 Formula One racer* 1956 625 LM sports racer... / Ferrari 3.0L |
30 | 1h 25m 18s | 8 |
2 | 1 | Ern Seeliger | Maybach III / Chevrolet 4.6L | 30 | 1h 27m 20s | 5 |
3 | 46 | Tom Hawkes | Cooper Cooper Car Company The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1946 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England in 1946... T23 / Holden Holden motor The Holden straight-six motor is a straight-six engine produced by General Motors–Holden's in Australia between 1948 and 1986. Initially dubbed the Grey motor alluding to the colour of the cylinder block, later iterations came in the form of a Red, Blue, Black and the four-cylinder Starfire engine... 2.3L |
30 | 1h 27m 26s | 3 |
4 | 5 | Merv Neil | Cooper Cooper Car Company The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1946 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England in 1946... T45 / Climax 1.7L |
29 | ||
5 | 9 | Curley Brydon | Ferrari 125 F1 Ferrari 125 F1 The 125 F1 was Ferrari's first Formula One car. It shared its engine with the 125 S sports racer which preceded it by a year, but was developed at the same time by Enzo Ferrari and famed designer, Gioacchino Colombo.... / Chevrolet 4.7L |
28 | 1 | |
6 | 33 | Len Lukey | Lukey / Bristol Bristol Cars Bristol Cars is a manufacturer of hand-built luxury cars headquartered in Patchway, near Bristol, United Kingdom. Bristol have always been a low-volume manufacturer; the most recent published official production figures were for 1982, which stated that 104 cars were produced in that year... 2.2L |
28 | ||
7 | 10 | Alec Mildren | Cooper T43 Cooper T43 The Cooper T43 was a Formula One and Formula Two racing car designed and built by the Cooper Car Company for the 1957 Formula One season, first appearing at the 1957 Monaco Grand Prix in a factory entered car for Jack Brabham... / Climax FPE 2.0L |
28 | ||
8 | 19 | Ray Walmsley | Alfa Romeo Tipo B Alfa Romeo P3 The Alfa Romeo P3, P3 monoposto or Tipo B was a classic Grand Prix car designed by Vittorio Jano, one of the Alfa Romeo 8C models. The P3 was first genuine single-seat Grand Prix racing car and Alfa Romeo's second monoposto after Tipo A monoposto . It was based on the earlier successful Alfa Romeo P2... / Chevrolet 4.7L |
28 | ||
9 | 22 | Tom Clark | Ferrari Ferrari Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles as Ferrari S.p.A. in 1947... 555 Super Squalo / Ferrari 3.4L |
28 | ||
10 | 3 | Jack Myers | WM Special / Holden Holden motor The Holden straight-six motor is a straight-six engine produced by General Motors–Holden's in Australia between 1948 and 1986. Initially dubbed the Grey motor alluding to the colour of the cylinder block, later iterations came in the form of a Red, Blue, Black and the four-cylinder Starfire engine... 2.4L |
27 | ||
11 | 56 | Bill Reynolds | Orlando MG / MG 1.5L | 22 | ||
12 | 32 | Keith Moy | MG NE / Holden Holden motor The Holden straight-six motor is a straight-six engine produced by General Motors–Holden's in Australia between 1948 and 1986. Initially dubbed the Grey motor alluding to the colour of the cylinder block, later iterations came in the form of a Red, Blue, Black and the four-cylinder Starfire engine... 2.4L |
19 | ||
13 | 11 | Gordon Stewart | MG Special / MG 1.5L | 18 | ||
Ret | 4 | Stan Jones Stan Jones (racing driver) Stanley Jones was an Australian racing driver.Today better known as father of 1980 World Drivers' Champion Alan Jones, Stan was a prominent racing driver himself, racing mainly in the 1950s. He is one of eleven drivers to have won the Australian and New Zealand Grands Prix... |
Maserati 250F Maserati 250F The Maserati 250F was a racing car made by Maserati of Italy used in '2.5 litre' Formula One racing between January 1954 and November 1960. Twenty-six examples were made.-Mechanical details:... / Maserati Maserati Maserati is an Italian luxury car manufacturer established on December 1, 1914, in Bologna. The company's headquarters is now in Modena, and its emblem is a trident. It has been owned by the Italian car giant Fiat S.p.A. since 1993... 2.5L |
26 | ||
Ret | 21 | Syd Negus | Cooper Cooper Car Company The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1946 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England in 1946... T20 / Bristol Bristol Cars Bristol Cars is a manufacturer of hand-built luxury cars headquartered in Patchway, near Bristol, United Kingdom. Bristol have always been a low-volume manufacturer; the most recent published official production figures were for 1982, which stated that 104 cars were produced in that year... 2.0L |
24 | ||
Ret | 39 | Ted Gray | Tornado II / Chevrolet 4.6L | 24 | ||
Ret | 25 | Ray Gibbs | Cooper Cooper Car Company The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1946 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England in 1946... T23 / Holden Holden motor The Holden straight-six motor is a straight-six engine produced by General Motors–Holden's in Australia between 1948 and 1986. Initially dubbed the Grey motor alluding to the colour of the cylinder block, later iterations came in the form of a Red, Blue, Black and the four-cylinder Starfire engine... 2.4L |
18 | ||
Ret | 20 | Alf Harvey | Maserati 4CLT Maserati 4CL and 4CLT The Maserati 4CL and its derived sister model the Maserati 4CLT are single-seat racing cars that were designed and built by Maserati. The 4CL was introduced at the beginning of the 1939 season, as a rival to the Alfa Romeo 158 and various ERA models in the voiturette class of international Grand... / O.S.C.A. O.S.C.A. Officine Specializzate Costruzioni Automobili - Fratelli Maserati SpA was an Italian brand of sports car automobiles, usually abbreviated to O.S.C.A., OSCA or Osca.- History :... 4.5L |
16 | ||
Ret | 41 | Frank Walters | So Cal Special / Ford Ford Sidevalve engine The Ford Sidevalve is a side valve from the British arm of the Ford Motor Company. The engine had its origins in the 1930s Ford Model Y, and were made in two sizes, 933cc or "8 HP", and 1172cc or "10 HP". The early engines were very basic and did not have a waterpump as standard relying on... 4.4L |
10 | ||
Ret | 62 | John Schroder | Nota Nota Nota is an automobile manufacturer in Australia. The company was founded by Guy Buckingham in 1952. He was an aircraft engineer and used his expertise to build triangulated spaceframed sportscars. Possibly Australia's first space-framed cars. In 1958 the company built a series of all-enveloping... Consul / Ford Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK... 1.5L |
10 | ||
Ret | 45 | Alan Ferguson | MG TC / Holden Holden motor The Holden straight-six motor is a straight-six engine produced by General Motors–Holden's in Australia between 1948 and 1986. Initially dubbed the Grey motor alluding to the colour of the cylinder block, later iterations came in the form of a Red, Blue, Black and the four-cylinder Starfire engine... 2.4L |
8 | ||
Ret | 15 | Barry Collerson | MG TA / MG 1.5L | 6 | ||
Ret | 48 | Bill Cooke | Peugeot Special / Peugeot Peugeot Peugeot is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest carmaker based in Europe.The family business that precedes the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion... 1.5L |
6 | ||
Ret | 58 | Ern Tadgell | Lotus 12 Lotus 12 The Lotus 12 was an unsuccessful Formula Two and Formula One racing car.Colin Chapman's first foray into single-seater racing, the 12 appeared in 1957. It featured a number of important innovations Chapman would use on later models. To better use the power of the Coventry Climax engine, it was... / Climax FPE 1.5L |
4 | ||
Ret | 14 | Jack Robinson | Jaguar Special / Jaguar 3.4L | 2 | ||
DSQ | 44 | Jack Neal | Maserati 4C Maserati 4CL and 4CLT The Maserati 4CL and its derived sister model the Maserati 4CLT are single-seat racing cars that were designed and built by Maserati. The 4CL was introduced at the beginning of the 1939 season, as a rival to the Alfa Romeo 158 and various ERA models in the voiturette class of international Grand... / Maserati Maserati Maserati is an Italian luxury car manufacturer established on December 1, 1914, in Bologna. The company's headquarters is now in Modena, and its emblem is a trident. It has been owned by the Italian car giant Fiat S.p.A. since 1993... 1.5L |
18 | ||
DNS | 59 | Bill Patterson Bill Patterson (racing driver) Gerard William Riggall "Bill" Patterson was an Australian motor racing driver, race team owner and businessman.... |
Cooper T43 Cooper T43 The Cooper T43 was a Formula One and Formula Two racing car designed and built by the Cooper Car Company for the 1957 Formula One season, first appearing at the 1957 Monaco Grand Prix in a factory entered car for Jack Brabham... / Climax 1.7L |
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DNS | 71 | Noel Hall | Ralt Ralt RALT was a manufacturer of single-seater racing cars, founded by ex-Jack Brabham associate Ron Tauranac after he sold out his interest in Brabham to Bernie Ecclestone. Ron and his brother had built some specials in Australia in the 1950s under the RALT name... Mk.4 / Vincent Vincent Motorcycles Vincent Motorcycles was a British manufacturer of motorcycles from 1928 to 1955. Their 1948 Black Shadow was at the time the world's fastest production motorcycle... 1.0L |
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Standings after the race
Drivers' Championship standingsPos | Driver | Points |
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1 | Stan Jones Stan Jones (racing driver) Stanley Jones was an Australian racing driver.Today better known as father of 1980 World Drivers' Champion Alan Jones, Stan was a prominent racing driver himself, racing mainly in the 1950s. He is one of eleven drivers to have won the Australian and New Zealand Grands Prix... |
23 |
2 | Len Lukey | 20 |
3 | Alec Mildren | 18 |
4 | Ted Gray | 13 |
5 | Lex Davison Lex Davison Alexander Nicholas Davison was a racing driver who won the Australian Grand Prix four times between 1954 and 1961 and won the Australian Drivers' Championship in 1957... |
8 |