1963 Six Hour Le Mans
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The 1963 Six Hour Le Mans
was an endurance race for Sports Cars, Appendix J Touring Cars & Appendix K Grand Touring Cars. The race was held at the Caversham Airfield
circuit in Western Australia on 3 June 1963 with the winning car covering 194 laps (427 miles, 688 km).
Results of the event are given below.
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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 Sports Cars, Appendix J Touring Cars & Appendix K Grand Touring Cars. The race 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 on 3 June 1963 with the winning car covering 194 laps (427 miles, 688 km).
Results of the event are given below.
Position | Drivers | No. | Car | Class | Class Pos. | Laps | ||
1 | Jeff Dunkerton | 26 | Lotus Super 7 | Sports Cars 1101 to 1600cc | 1 | 194 | ||
2 | Mike Tighe | 47 | Fiat 1500 Fiat 1500 Fiat 1500 may refer to:* Fiat 1500 , the 1935 model* Fiat 1300/1500, the 1961 model... |
Touring Cars 1301 to 1600cc | 1 | 186 | ||
3 | Mike Hurst, Dick Ward | 27 | 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... |
Sports Cars 751 to 1100cc | 1 | 180 | ||
4 | Bruce Harding | 84 | Holden Holden GM Holden Ltd is an automaker that operates in Australia, based in Port Melbourne, Victoria. The company was founded in 1856 as a saddlery manufacturer. In 1908 it moved into the automotive field, before becoming a subsidiary of the U.S.-based General Motors in 1931... |
Touring Cars 2001 to 2600cc | 1 | 178 | ||
5 | David Thomas, Ian Durrant | 110 | Morris Cooper | Touring Cars 751 to 1000cc | 1 | 178 | ||
6 | Owen Stringer, Bill Humble | 62 | Morris Cooper | 178 | ||||
7 | Jack Wynhoff, Don Baker | 106 | Renault Renault Renault S.A. is a French automaker producing cars, vans, and in the past, autorail vehicles, trucks, tractors, vans and also buses/coaches. Its alliance with Nissan makes it the world's third largest automaker... R8 |
Grand Touring 751 to 1000cc | 1 | 174 | ||
8 | Bill Inwood | 44 | 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... Montlhery |
Grand Touring 1001 to 1300cc | 1 | 172 | ||
9 | Roy Bolton | 111 | Vauxhall Vauxhall -Demography:Many Vauxhall residents live in social housing. There are several gentrified areas, and areas of terraced townhouses on streets such as Fentiman Road and Heyford Avenue have higher property values in the private market, however by far the most common type of housing stock within... VX4/90 |
171 | ||||
10 | Dave Sullivan | 40 | Studebaker Lark Studebaker Lark The Studebaker Lark is a "compact car" which was produced by Studebaker from 1959 to 1966.From its introduction in early 1959 until 1962, the Lark was a product of the Studebaker-Packard Corporation. In mid-1962, the company dropped "Packard" from its name and reverted to its pre-1954 name, the... |
Touring Cars Over 2600cc | 1 | 169 | ||
11 | B McKay | 76 | 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... |
168 | ||||
12 | Bill Downey, Stuart Campbell | 79 | Hillman Minx Hillman Minx The Hillman Minx was a series of middle-sized family cars produced under the Hillman marque by the Rootes Group between 1932 and 1970... |
167 | ||||
13 | Lionel Beattie, Jack Ayres | 0.9 | Repco-Holden | Sports Cars 2001 to 3000cc | 1 | 166 | ||
14 | Terry Cunliffe, Warren Matthews | 54 | Simca | Touring Cars 1001 to 1300cc | 1 | 163 | ||
15 | Max Butt, Lloyd Trezise | 109 | 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.... |
162 | ||||
16 | Eddie Williams, Brian Lemon | 49 | Volkswagen Volkswagen Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer and is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and Škoda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania.Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is... |
155 | ||||
17 | George Wakelin, Dave Williams | 42 | Holden | Grand Touring 2001 to 2600cc | 1 | 155 | ||
18 | John Wileyman, P Teede | 107 | Simca Aronde 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... |
153 | ||||
19 | Wally Knox, Alois Visich | 72 | Holden | 150 | ||||
20 | Tom Rice, Dick Ward | 36 | Austin-Healey Sprite | 148 | ||||
21 | David Sadique, Warren Matthews | 100 | Skoda Felicia | 147 | ||||
22 | Bob Biltoft, Rod Mitchell | 46 | Peugeot Holden | 144 | ||||
23 | Wally Higgs, Vin Smith | 102 | Austin Freeway Austin Freeway The Austin Freeway is an automobile which was developed by the Australian division of the British Motor Corporation , based on the British Austin A60 Cambridge... |
138 | ||||
24 | Dick Roberts, Bob Avery | 70 | Holden GT | 132 | ||||
25 | Tim Bailey, Graham Purchas | 51 | Renault 750 | Grand Touring Up to 750cc | 1 | 130 | ||
26 | Rod Donovan | 52 | Holden | 106 | ||||
27 | Syd Negus | 25 | Plymouth Plymouth Plymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound... Sports |
Sports Cars Over 3000cc | 1 | 65 | ||
28 | Harley Pederick, Stan Starcevich | 64 | Holden | 31 | ||||
29 | Dick Roberts, Bob Avery | 104 | Chrysler Valiant Chrysler Valiant The Chrysler Valiant is a passenger car which was introduced by Chrysler Australia in 1962 with production ceasing in 1981. Initially a rebadged locally assembled Plymouth Valiant from the U.S., the Valiant range was sold throughout Australia and New Zealand, as well as South Africa... |
29 | ||||
DNF | Murray Thomas | 103 | Simca Aronde 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... |
133 | ||||
DNF | Rod Cutting, Bruce Abbott | 101 | Holden | 51 | ||||
DNF | John Glasson | 61 | Datsun Datsun Datsun was an automobile marque. The name was created in 1931 by the DAT Motorcar Co. for a new car model, spelling it as "Datson" to indicate its smaller size when compared to the existing, larger DAT car. Later, in 1933 after Nissan Motor Co., Ltd... |
38 | ||||
DNF | Vic Watson, John Collins | 65 | Ford Custom 272 | 44 | ||||
DNF | L Matthews, Guiseppi Fazio | 106 | Holden | 16 |