1965 Six Hour Le Mans
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The 1965 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 open to Sports Cars, Improved Production Touring Cars & Series Production Touring Cars. The event was staged at the Caversham 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, 7 June 1965. Results were as follows:
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Position Drivers No. Car Entrant Laps
1 Spencer Martin
David McKay
David McKay (journalist)
David McKay was an Australian journalist and prominent motoring identity.While most well known as a journalist, specifically as a motoring writer, McKay was also a prominent figure in motor racing as both a driver and a race team owner...

1 Ferrari 250LM
Ferrari P
The Ferrari P series were prototype sports cars in the 1960s and early 1970s.Although Enzo Ferrari resisted the move even with Cooper dominating F1, Ferrari began producing mid-engined racing cars in 1960 with the Ferrari Dino-V6-engine Formula Two 156, which would be turned into the Formula...

Scuderia Veloce
Scuderia Veloce
Scuderia Veloce was an Australian motor racing team founded by journalist racer David McKay that competed in many motor racing categories in the 1960s. The team is regarded as the first professional motor racing operation in Australia....

223
2 Ron Thorp 2 AC Cobra
AC Cobra
The AC Cobra, also known colloquially as the Shelby Cobra in North America, is an Anglo-American sports car that was produced during the 1960s.-History and development:...

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211
3 Vic Watson
Dave Sullivan
5 Hurricane V8 200
4 Max McCrackan
Vin Smith
7 Lotus Elite
Lotus Elite
Not to be confused with the Lotus Elise.The Lotus Elite name was used for two vehicles from Lotus Cars.-1957:The first Elite or Lotus Type 14 was an ultra-light two-seater coupé, produced from 1958 to 1963....

200
5 Ted Lisle
Mike Tighe
33 Morris Cooper S
Mini
The Mini is a small car that was made by the British Motor Corporation and its successors from 1959 until 2000. The original is considered a British icon of the 1960s, and its space-saving front-wheel-drive layout influenced a generation of car-makers...

193
6 P Capelli
Rick Lisle
36 Morris Cooper 188
Sports Cars 751-1100cc
1 Gary Griffiths
Jeff Dunkerton
25 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...

159
DNF Nev McBeth
Dick Ward
26 Austin-Healey Sprite
DNF Don Noack
Rod Slater
24 Renault 750
Sports Cars 1101-1500cc
1 Max McCrackan
Vin Smith
7 Lotus Elite 200
2 Jeff Dunkerton 4 Lotus Super 7
Lotus Seven
The Lotus Seven is a small, simple, lightweight two-seater open-top sports car produced by Lotus Cars between 1957 and 1972....

132
3 Don Baker 23 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...

122
DNF Warren Mathews
Lou Orton
22 Volkswagen
DNF Derek Vince
Jack Ayers
8 Elfin 27
DNF J Malhoney 21 Triumph Spitfire
Triumph Spitfire
The Triumph Spitfire is a small English two-seat sports car, introduced at the London Motor Show in 1962. The vehicle was based on a design produced for Standard-Triumph in 1957 by Italian designer Giovanni Michelotti...

27
Sports Cars 1501-2000cc
1 J Bavera
R Mitchell
17 MGB
MG MGB
The MGB is a sports car launched by MG Cars in May 1962 to replace the MGA. Introduced as a four-cylinder roadster, a coupé with 2+2 seating was added in 1965...

189
2 Bob Biltoff
T Barlow
9 Porsche Super 90 166
3 R Britton 18 MGA
MGA
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121
Sports Cars 2001-3000cc
1 Bill Dickson
R Fielding
14 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...

186
2 P Wilkins
G Abbott
12 Triumph TR4
Triumph TR4
The Triumph TR4 was a sports car built in the United Kingdom by the Standard Triumph Motor Company and introduced in 1961. Code named "Zest" during development, the car was based on the chassis and drivetrain of the previous TR sports cars, but with a modern Michelotti styled body. 40,253 cars...

184
3 J Lewis
D McKay
29 Holden 130
DNF Rod Donovan 11 Holden 82
DNF Rod Waller, Lionel Beattie 6 Repco Holden Sports 72
DNF John Glasson 10 Atlantis 13
Sports Cars Over 3000cc
1 Spencer Martin
David McKay
David McKay (journalist)
David McKay was an Australian journalist and prominent motoring identity.While most well known as a journalist, specifically as a motoring writer, McKay was also a prominent figure in motor racing as both a driver and a race team owner...

1 Ferrari 250LM Scuderia Veloce
Scuderia Veloce
Scuderia Veloce was an Australian motor racing team founded by journalist racer David McKay that competed in many motor racing categories in the 1960s. The team is regarded as the first professional motor racing operation in Australia....

223
2 Ron Thorp 2 AC Cobra 289 211
3 Vic Watson
Dave Sullivan
5 Hurricane V8 200
Improved Production Touring Cars 751-1100cc
1 Ted Lisle
Mike Tighe
33 Morris Cooper S 193
2 P Capelli
Rick Lisle
36 Morris Cooper 188
3 Stuart Kostera
Derek Fletcher
39 Ford Anglia 183
Improved Production Touring Cars 1101-1500cc
1 Max Butt
G Glatz
35 Ford Cortina
Ford Cortina
As the 1960s dawned, BMC were revelling in the success of their new Mini – the first successful true minicar to be built in Britain in the postwar era...

184
2 Ross Urquhart
Craig McAllister
34 Ford Cortina 170
DNF Owen Stringer
M Tighe
32 Ford Cortina GT 152
DNF Don O'Sullivan
R McDowell
33 Ford Cortina GT 6
Improved Production Touring Cars 2001-3000cc
1 J Piesse
H Vander Straaten
37 Holden 180
Improved Production Touring Cars Over 3000cc
1 Dick Roberts 30 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...

119
Series Production Touring Cars 751-1100cc
1 H De Klerk
M Cliff
42 Morris Cooper 176
DNF D Black
J Brewer
45 Vauxhall Viva
Vauxhall Viva
The Viva was a small family car produced by Vauxhall Motors in a succession of three versions between 1963 and 1979. These were known as the HA, the HB and the HC series....

16
Series Production Touring Cars 1101-1500cc
1 Leon Shenton
T Cuncliffe
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...

166
Series Production Touring Cars 2000-3000cc
1 John Hughes
D Black
40 Holden 168
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