1963 Australian Formula Junior Championship
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The 1963 Australian Formula Junior Championship was open to racing cars complying with "Australian Formula Junior
" regulations. The championship was decided over a single race which was staged at the Warwick Farm Raceway
in New South Wales
on 8 September 1963. Race distance was 34 laps, 75 miles.
Formula Junior
Formula Junior is an open wheel formula racing class first adopted in October 1958 by the CSI . The class was intended to provide an entry level class where you could use inexpensive mechanical components from ordinary automobiles...
" regulations. The championship was decided over a single race which was staged at the Warwick Farm Raceway
Warwick Farm Raceway
Warwick Farm Raceway was a motor racing facility which was in operation from 1960 to 1973. Warwick Farm Raceway hosted numerous major events during its life such as the Australian Grand Prix and rounds of both the Australian Touring Car Championship and the Tasman Series.-History:Warwick Farm...
in New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
on 8 September 1963. Race distance was 34 laps, 75 miles.
Results
Fourteen cars started in this, the second and final Australian Formula Junior Championship. Results were as follows:| Position | Driver | No. | Car | Entrant | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo Geoghegan Leo Geoghegan Leo Geoghegan is a retired Australian racing driver.Geoghegan is the elder of two sons of New South Wales car dealer Tom Geoghegan, who went on to become two of the dominant names in Australian motor racing in the 1960s... |
10 | Lotus 22 Lotus 22 The Lotus 22 was a racing car built by Lotus cars in 1962, and a total of 77 cars were built. It was developed from the 1962 Lotus 20, with the major differences that it had disk brakes all round, had a top link to the rear suspension, and had a dry sump engine that was canted over to lower the... Ford |
Total Team | 34 |
| 2 | Greg Cusack | 3 | Repco Brabham Ford | Scuderia Veloce | 34 |
| 3 | Jack Hunnam | 6 | Elfin Ford | Jack Hunnam Mtrs. | 33 |
| 4 | David Walker David Walker (racing driver) David Walker is an Australian former racing driver who drove for Lotus in the 1971 and 1972 Formula One Championships.-Career:... |
4 | Repco Brabham Holbay | Scuderia Veloce | 33 |
| 5 | Kingsley Hibbard | 21 | Rennmax Rennmax The Rennmax name was applied to a series of open wheel racing cars and sports racing cars constructed by Rennmax Engineering in Sydney, Australia between 1962 and 1978... Ford |
K. Hibbard | 33 |
| 6 | Lionel Ayers | 11 | Lotus 20 Lotus 20 Lotus 20 was a Formula Junior car built by Lotus for the 1962 season as a successor to the Lotus 18.The chassis was a spaceframe, clothed in fibreglass bodywork. It had front double wishbone suspension, but the rear had a lower wishbone with the driveshaft being fixed length and therefore used as... Holbay |
Motor Racing Co | 33 |
| Other Starters (in grid order) | |||||
| DNF | Jim Palmer | 5 | Elfin Ford | Scuderia Veloce | 13 |
| DNF | Ken Milburn | 14 | Lotus 20 | K. Milburn | 11 |
| DNF | Charlie Smith | 7 | Elfin Ford | C.G. Smith | |
| G McClelland | 1 | Repco Brabham | G.B. McClelland | ||
| J Gates | 16 | Lotus 18 Lotus 18 The Lotus 18 was a race car designed by Colin Chapman for use by Lotus in Formula Junior, Formula Two, and Formula One. It was the first mid-engined car built by Lotus and was a marked improvement over Chapman's early and only moderately successful front-engined formula cars, the 12 and 16. It was... |
Apex Autos | ||
| Peter Wherrett Peter Wherrett Peter Wherrett was an Australian motoring and motor sport journalist and race car driver.Wherrett learned to drive when his parents got their first motor car when he was twelve... |
8 | Lynx | Young AR Team | ||
| DSQ | Nev McKay | 15 | Lotus 20 | Scuderia Birchwood | |
| H Budd | 18 | Jolus | H. Budd | ||