The 1970 TVW Channel 7 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 for Sports Cars, Improved Production Touring Cars & Series Production Touring Cars. The event was held at the Wanneroo Park

Barbagallo Raceway

Barbagallo Raceway is a motorsport circuit located in Wanneroo, approximately north of Perth in Western Australia.The circuit was originally known as Wanneroo Park and the first race meet took place in March 1969. Initially the major race per year was a 6 hour Le Mans style race for sedans and...

 circuit in Western Australia on 1 June 1970 with forty cars lining up for the modified Le Mans type start. Results for the race are shown below.
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Position	Drivers	No.	Car	Entrant	Laps
1	Don O'Sullivan, Howie Sangster	2	Lola T70 Mk. II Lola T70 The Lola T70 was built for sports car racing, popular in the mid to late 1960s. Developed by Lola Cars in 1965 in Great Britain, the T70 was made for endurance racing...	Pinocchio's Racing Team	287
2	Stan Starcevich, Stuart Kostera	3	Graduate Mk. II	S Starcevich	277
3	Teddy Yip Teddy Yip Theodore "Teddy" Yip was a businessman from Indonesia who was instrumental in developing Macau as a tourist destination and who was a Formula One team owner in the 1970s.-Early life and business career:... , Henry Lee	5	Lotus Lotus Cars Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at the former site of RAF Hethel, a World War II airfield in Norfolk. The company designs and builds race and production automobiles of light weight and fine handling characteristics...  47 Lotus Europa The Lotus Europa was a two door mid-engined GT coupé built by Lotus Cars from 1966 to 1975. In 2006 Lotus began production of a totally new, Lotus Elise-derived design, a mid-engined GT coupé named Europa S....	T Yip	272
4	John Trowell, Don Hall	6	Lotus Elan Lotus Elan Lotus Elan is the name of two convertible cars and one fixed head coupé produced by Lotus Cars. The original Type 26, 26R Racing version , 36R Racing version , 36 Fixed Head Coupe, 45 Drop Head Coupe, and the "Type 50" +2 Coupe, circa 1962 to 1975, are commonly known as the '60s Elans...	J Trowell	272
5	Ray Thackwell, Jim Mullins	10	Morris Morris Motor Company The Morris Motor Company was a British car manufacturing company. After the incorporation of the company into larger corporations, the Morris name remained in use as a marque until 1984 when British Leyland's Austin Rover Group decided to concentrate on the more popular Austin marque...  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...	Jim Mullins Tuning	267
6	Dick Murphy, John Glasson	14	Bolwell Bolwell Bolwell is an Australian company that originally produced sports cars between 1962 and 1979. A new company of the same name began production of new cars in 2009 after several years of concept and show cars.-Mk IV:...  Mk. 7	R Murphy	250
7	Basil Ricciardello, Bernie Zampatti	18	Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of cars. Founded as A.L.F.A. on June 24, 1910, in Milan, the company has been involved in car racing since 1911, and has a reputation for building expensive sports cars...  GTA Alfa Romeo GTA The GTA 1300 Junior had a 1300 cc engine that was based on the 1600 engine but with a short stroke crankshaft. The GTA Junior in stradale form did not have many of the light weight features of the 1600 GTA, such as the plastic windows, magnesium engine components and alloy wheels. At start...	B Ricciardello	249
8	Dave Sullivan Jnr, Dave Sullivan Snr	12	U2 Mk. 8	D Sullivan Jnr.	243
9	Bill Russell, Tony Crowder	31	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...  SR 311 Datsun 1500, 1600, 2000 Roadster The Datsun 1500 Roadster SP310, also known as the Fairlady in certain markets, made its debut at the Tokyo Motor show in 1961, several months before the roll-out of the MGB. The SP 310 was powered by a 1.5 liter inline four cylinder OHV engine with a single carburetor producing 77 hp . The 1500...	W Russell	240
10	Nigel Barter, P Green	28	Morris Cooper S	N Barter	240
	Sports Cars Under 1100cc
1	Jim Brewer, Tony McAlinden	36	Ford Ford of Britain Ford of Britain is a British wholly owned subsidiary of Ford of Europe, a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. Its business started in 1909 and has its registered office in Brentwood, Essex...  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....
2	Gordon Mitchell, Alan Richards	22	Austin-Healey Austin-Healey Austin-Healey was a British sports car maker. The marque was established through a joint-venture arrangement, set up in 1952 between Leonard Lord of the Austin division of the British Motor Corporation and the Donald Healey Motor Company, a renowned automotive engineering and design...  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 1101-1500cc
1	Dave Sullivan Jnr, Dave Sullivan Snr	12	U2 Mk. 8	D Sullivan Jnr.	243
2	Don Baker, Judith Baker	33	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....
3	Murray Charnely, D Vince	25	Lotus 23 Lotus 23 The Lotus 23 was designed by Colin Chapman as a small-displacement sports racing car. Nominally a two-seater , it was a purpose-built for racing with a driver alone. The 23 used a wider version of the Lotus 20 space frame, with the same suspension, clothed in a fibreglass body...
	Sports Cars 1501-2000cc
1	Teddy Yip, Henry Lee	5	Lotus 47	T Yip	272
2	John Trowell, Don Hall	6	Lotus Elan	J Trowell	272
3	Bill Russell, Tony Crowder	31	Datsun SR 311	W Russell	240
	Sports Cars 2001-3000cc
1	Bob Corbett, A Steen	23	Triumph Triumph Motor Company The Triumph Motor Company was a British car and motor manufacturing company. The Triumph marque is owned currently by BMW. The marque had its origins in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann of Nuremberg initiated S. Bettmann & Co and started importing bicycles from Europe and selling them with his own...  TR5 Triumph TR5 The Triumph TR5 was built for a 13 month period between August 1967 and September 1968 by the Triumph Motor Company in Coventry, England....
2	Mike Francis, Laurie Egan	32	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...
3	Rod Lording, Kim Ledger	39	Holden
	Sports Cars 30001-5000cc
1	Don O'Sullivan, Howie Sangster	2	Lola T70 Mk. II	Pinocchio's Racing Team	287
2	Stan Starcevich, Stuart Kostera	3	Graduate Mk. II	S Starcevich	277
3	Dick Murphy, John Glasson	14	Bolwell Bolwell Bolwell is an Australian company that originally produced sports cars between 1962 and 1979. A new company of the same name began production of new cars in 2009 after several years of concept and show cars.-Mk IV:...  Mk. 7	R Murphy	250
	Improved Touring Cars 1101-1500cc
1	Ray Thackwell, Jim Mullins	10	Morris Cooper S	Jim Mullins Tuning	267
2	Rick Lisle, John Alford	9	Morris Cooper S	Shell Racing Team
3	Bill Nuske, Rick Henderson	34	Morris Cooper S
	Improved Touring Cars 1501-2000cc
1	Basil Ricciardello, Bernie Zampatti	18	Alfa Romeo GTA	B Ricciardello	249
	Improved Touring Cars 2001-3000cc
1	Phillip Brodie-Hall, John Evans	29	Holden HR Holden HR The Holden HR is an automobile that was produced by General Motors-Holden's in Australia from 1966 to 1968.-Introduction:The Holden HR range was released in April 1966, replacing the Holden HD series which had been in production since 1965...
	Improved Touring Cars 3001-5000cc
	No Starters
	Improved Touring Cars Over 5000cc
1	Tim White, William Lee	19	Ford Ford Australia Ford Australia is the Australian subsidiary of Ford Motor Company and was founded in Geelong, Victoria, in 1925 as an outpost of Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. At that time, Ford Canada was a separate company from Ford USA...  Falcon GTHO Ford Falcon (Australia) The Ford Falcon is a full-size car which has been manufactured by Ford Australia since 1960. Each model from the XA series of 1972 onward has been designed, developed and built in Australia and/or New Zealand, following the phasing out of the American Falcon of 1960–71 which had been re-engineered...
	Series Touring Cars Under 1100cc
	No Finishers
	Series Touring Cars 1101-1500cc
1	Nigel Barter, P Green	28	Morris Cooper S	N Barter	240
2	David Hipperson, Jeff Power	30	Morris Cooper S
3	Tom Burge, Lance Barrett	38	Morris Cooper S
	Series Touring Cars 1501-2000cc
1	Leo Stubber, Bob Kingsbury	20	Porsche Porsche Porsche Automobil Holding SE, usually shortened to Porsche SE a Societas Europaea or European Public Company, is a German based holding company with investments in the automotive industry....  911S Porsche 911 The Porsche 911 is a luxury 2-door sports coupe made by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. It has a distinctive design, rear-engined and with independent rear suspension, an evolution of the swing axle on the Porsche 356. The engine was also air-cooled until the introduction of the Type 996 in 1998...
	Other known starters
	Dick Roberts, Rod Donovan	15	Holden Monaro Holden Monaro The Holden Monaro is an automobile that was produced by GM Holden Ltd, an Australian subsidiary of General Motors, between 1968 and 1977 and between 2001 and 2005...
	Bob Holden, Rodney Collins	4	Ford Escort Twin Cam
DNF	Peter Briggs, Craig MacAllister	8	Morris Cooper S
	Owen Stringer, Noel Mitchell	24	Ford Cortina SL 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...
	Graeme Ibbotson, Ross Hogben	7	Jomax Ford	Snob Boutique
	Neil Moore, Peter Stanley	11	Morris Cooper S
DNF	Leon Shenton, Jan Shenton	16	Morris Cooper S
	David Bell, Clive Head	37	Morris 850
	Jack Kennedy, Bernie Zampatti	17	Morris Cooper Sports
	Alan Macdonald, Colin Cleaver	41	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...
	Mal McKiggan, George Cole	44	Toyota Corolla SL Toyota Corolla The Toyota Corolla is a line of subcompact and compact cars manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota, which has become very popular throughout the world since the nameplate was first introduced in 1966. In 1997, the Corolla became the best selling nameplate in the world, with over 35 million...
	Les Verco, Roy Prout	21	Holden