The 1969 Australian Drivers' Championship

Australian Drivers' Championship

The Australian Drivers' Championship is a motor racing championship which has been contested annually since 1957 by drivers of cars complying with Australia's premier open-wheeler racing category as determined by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport. Since 2005 this category has been Formula...

was a CAMS

Confederation of Australian Motor Sport

The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport , has been the governing body of Australian motorsport since 1953. It is affiliated with the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile ....

 sanctioned national motor racing title for drivers of cars conforming to Australian National Formula

Australian National Formula

The Australian National Formula was an Australian motor racing category which was introduced by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport in 1964 and remained current until the end of 1969...

 or Australian 1½ Litre Formula

Australian 1½ Litre Formula

The Australian 1½ Litre Formula was a motor racing category which was current in Australia from 1964 to 1968. The formula specified racing cars with four cylinder unsupercharged engines using commercially available fuel and limited to 1500cc capacity...

 regulations. The title was contested over a six race series with the winner awarded the 1969 CAMS Gold Star.

Kevin Bartlett won his second Australian Drivers' Championship driving the Mildren 'Mono' car with either an Alfa Romeo V8 or a Waggott TC4V inline 4 for motive power. Bartlett won three of the six races to finish 16 points ahead of 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...

 (Lotus 39

Lotus 39

The Lotus 39 was a single seat racing car produced by Team Lotus. It was originally intended for use in Formula One, to be powered by the Coventry Climax 1.5 litre flat-16 engine...

-Repco

Repco

Repco is an Australian automotive engineering company. Its name is an abbreviation of Replacement Parts Company and it is best known for spare parts and motor accessories....

). Bartlett's Alec Mildren Racing team mate Max Stewart

Max Stewart

Malcolm Clarke Stewart was an Australian racecar driver....

 finished third in the points standings, driving the Mildren Waggott built by Rennmax Engineering.

In addition to Bartlett's three wins, single victories were taken by Jack Brabham

Jack Brabham

Sir John Arthur "Jack" Brabham, AO, OBE is an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in , and . He was a founder of the Brabham racing team and race car constructor that bore his name....

 (Brabham BT31-Repco

Repco

Repco is an Australian automotive engineering company. Its name is an abbreviation of Replacement Parts Company and it is best known for spare parts and motor accessories....

), John Harvey (Brabham BT23E-Repco

Repco

Repco is an Australian automotive engineering company. Its name is an abbreviation of Replacement Parts Company and it is best known for spare parts and motor accessories....

) and Garrie Cooper

Garrie Cooper

Garrie Clifford Cooper was the founder of the highly successful Elfin Sports Cars and a competitive racing driver in his own right, winning the 1968 Australian 1½ Litre Championship and the 1975 Australian Sports Car Championship...

 (Elfin 600C-Repco

Repco

Repco is an Australian automotive engineering company. Its name is an abbreviation of Replacement Parts Company and it is best known for spare parts and motor accessories....

).