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The 1959 Six Hour Le Mans
Six Hour Le Mans
The Six Hour Le Mans was an endurance motor race for sports cars and touring cars held in Western Australia from 1955 to 1972. Initially run at the Caversham Airfield circuit, the event was moved, along with all other WA circuit racing, to the then new Wanneroo Park Raceway in...

was an endurance race for production cars.
The event was held at the Caversham Airfield

Caversham Airfield

Caversham Airfield, also known as Middle Swan Airfield was an airfield constructed at Caversham, Western Australia during World War II as a parent aerodrome for the United States Fleet Air Arm of the 7th Fleet....

circuit in Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

on 1 June 1959.

Results

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Position	Drivers	No.	Car	Entrant	Cat. Pos.	Category	Class Pos.	Class	Laps
1	Clem Dywer, Vin Smith		Triumph TR3A	Diesel Motors	1	Sports			176
2	Lionel Beattie		MGA MG MGA The MGA is a sports car produced by MG division of the British Motor Corporation from 1955 to 1962.The MGA replaced the older T-type cars and represented a complete styling break from the older vehicles. The car was officially launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1955...		2	Sports			174
3	Merv Dudley, Doug Green		MGA		3	Sports			174
4	Jack Ayers		Holden 48-215 Holden 48-215 The Holden 48-215, also known unofficially as the Holden FX is a mid-size, six-cylinder sedan which was produced by the Australian automaker, General Motors–Holden's Ltd between November 1948 and October 1953....	Superior Cars	1	Sedan	1	1601-2500cc	172
5	Jim Harwood, Bill Downey		Triumph TR3A		4	Sports			171
6	Darryl McGuinness		Austin-Healey Austin-Healey Austin-Healey was a British sports car maker. The marque was established through a joint-venture arrangement, set up in 1952 between Leonard Lord of the Austin division of the British Motor Corporation and the Donald Healey Motor Company, a renowned automotive engineering and design...	Reimann Motors	5	Sports			171
7	Dave Sullivan		Holden 48-215		2	Sedan			171
8	Ray Barfield		Triumph TR3 Triumph TR3 The Triumph TR3 is a sports car which was produced between 1955 and 1962 by Standard-Triumph in the United Kingdom. The facelifted variant, unofficially known as the "TR3A", entered production in 1957 and the final version, unofficially the "TR3B", was produced in 1962.-TR3:Although the car was...		6	Sports			164
9	David Sadique		Simca Simca Simca was a French automaker, founded in November 1934 by Fiat. It was directed from July 1935 to May 1963 by the Italian Henri Théodore Pigozzi...		3	Sedan	1	1101-1300cc	163
10	Ron Heath		Jaguar XK120 Jaguar XK120 The Jaguar XK120 is a sports car which was manufactured by Jaguar between 1948 and 1954. It was Jaguar's first sports car since the SS 100, which ceased production in 1940.-History:...		7	Sports			159
11	Don Reimann, John Glasson		Standard Ten Cadet Standard Ten thumb\|right\|250px\|A 1934 Standard 10/12 SpeedlineThe Standard Ten was a small car produced by the British Standard Motor Company from 1906 to 1961....	Diesel Motors	4	Sedan	1	851-1100cc	155
12	Syd Negus		Plymouth Plymouth (automobile) Plymouth was a marque of automobile based in the United States, produced by the Chrysler Corporation and its successor DaimlerChrysler.-Origins:... Sports		8	Sports			152
13	R Betteridge		Morris Minor Morris Minor The Morris Minor was a British economy car that debuted at the Earls Court Motor Show, London, on 20 September 1948. Designed under the leadership of Alec Issigonis, more than 1.3 million were manufactured between 1948 and 1971...		5	Sedan			150
14	Bob Annear, D Reines		Standard Ten Cadet	Diesel Motors	6	Sedan			148
15	B Lemon		Volkswagen Volkswagen Beetle The Volkswagen Type 1, widely known as the Volkswagen Beetle or Volkswagen Bug, is an economy car produced by the German auto maker Volkswagen from 1938 until 2003...		7	Sedan			147
16	Lloyd Trezise		Ford V8 (1938) 1937 Ford The Ford line of cars was updated in 1937 with one major change — the introduction of an entry-level 136 CID V8 in addition to the popular 221 CID V8 unit. The model was a refresh of its predecessor, itself based on Ford's V8-powered Model 40A and was the company's main product. ...		8	Sedan	1	Over 2500cc	146
17	Mike Geneve, R Pelusey		Skoda Škoda Auto Škoda Auto , more commonly known as Škoda, is an automobile manufacturer based in the Czech Republic. Škoda became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group in 2000, positioned as the entry brand to the group...		9	Sedan			143
18	L Johnson, Jack Wynoff		Renault Dauphine Renault Dauphine Renault Dauphine is a rear-engined economy car manufactured by Renault in one body style — a three-box, four-door sedan — as the successor to the Renault 4CV, with over two million examples marketed worldwide during its production from 1956-1967....		10	Sedan	1	Up to 850cc	138
19	H van Lannen		Austin-Healey		9	Sports			131
20	Stan Starcevich		Holden		11	Sedan			122
21	Aub Melrose		Austin-Healey		10	Sports			116
22	Tony Carboni		Austin-Healey		11	Sports			96
23	Jim Ward		Ford Zephyr Ford Zephyr The Ford Zephyr was a car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in the United Kingdom. Between 1950 and 1972, it was sold as a more powerful six-cylinder saloon to complement the four-cylinder Ford Consul: from 1962 the Zephyr itself was offered in both four- and six-cylinder versions.The Zephyr...		12	Sedan			69
24	Mal Chapman		MGTF		12	Sports			15

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