The 1961 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 motor race for sports cars and sedans. It was staged at the Caversham

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 Monday, 5 June 1961.

Results

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Position	Drivers	No.	Car	Entrant	Class	Laps
1	Ray Barfield	1	Aston Martin DB3S Aston Martin DB3S The Aston Martin DB3S was a sports racing car built by Aston Martin as a replacement for the heavy and uncompetitive Aston Martin DB3. In total 31 cars were made, with 11 works cars and 20 cars being sold for customer use. The DB3S was introduced in 1953 and it proved somewhat more successful than...		Sport Cars	187
2	Bob McDowall		Triumph TR3A		Sport Cars
3	Vic Johnson		Austin-Healey 100-4 Austin-Healey 100 The Austin-Healey 100 is a sports car built from 1953 until 1959. There were two models, the original four-cylinder Austin-Healey 100, built 1953-1956, and the six-cylinder Austin-Healey 100-6, built 1956-1959....		Sport Cars
4	Wally Knox		Holden 48/215		Sedans
5	Dave Sadique		Simca Montlhery Simca Aronde The Simca Aronde was a family car manufactured by the French automaker Simca from 1951 to 1963. It was Simca's first original design , as well as the company's first unibody car...
	Other starters included the following
	Bill Inwood	19	Simca
	David McKay, Jack Wynhoff		Renault Gordini	Diesel Motors
	Don Reinann		Ford Anglia Ford Anglia The 1949 model, code E494A, was a makeover of the previous model with a rather more 1940s style front-end, including the sloped, twin-lobed radiator grille. Again it was a very spartan vehicle and in 1948 was Britain's lowest priced four wheel car....	Mortlocks
	John Glasson	16	Austin Lancer
	Max MacCrackan	26	Lotus 11
	Neville Macbeth		Austin-Healey Sprite Austin-Healey Sprite The Austin-Healey Sprite is a small open sports car which was announced to the press in Monte Carlo by the British Motor Corporation on 20 May 1958, just before that year's Monaco Grand Prix. It was intended to be a low-cost model that "a chap could keep in his bike shed", yet be the successor to...

The winning car covered a record 187 laps (385 miles / 620 km) despite the fact that it rained throughout the race.