The 1975 Australian Drivers' Championship was the nineteenth 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...

. It was contested by drivers of Australian Formula 1

Australian Formula 1

Australian Formula 1 was a motor sport category for open-wheeler racing cars which was current in Australia from 1970 to 1983.AF1 was introduced by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport in 1970, initially restricting cars to unsupercharged engines of no greater than 2.5-litre capacity,...

 and Australian Formula 2 Racing cars

Racing Cars

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 over a five round series with points awarded on a 9, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 basis to the top six placegetters in each round.

Calendar

• Round 1, Australian Grand Prix
  Australian Grand Prix
  The Australian Grand Prix is a motor race held annually and is held to be the pinnacle of motor racing in Australia. The Grand Prix is the oldest surviving motor racing competition held in Australia having been held 76 times since it was first run at Phillip Island in 1928. Since 1985 the race has...
  
  , Surfers Paradise Raceway, Queensland
  Queensland
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  , 21 August
• Round 2, Sandown Raceway
  Sandown Raceway
  Sandown International Raceway is a motor racing circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, approximately south east of the city centre. It is considered a power circuit with its front straight being 899m long and back straight 910m long.-History:...
  
  , Victoria, 14 September
• Round 3, Oran Park Raceway
  Oran Park Raceway
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  , New South Wales
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  , 21 September
• Round 4, Calder Park Raceway
  Calder Park Raceway
  Calder Park Raceway is a motor racing circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The complex includes a drag strip, a road circuit with several possible configurations, and the "Thunderdome", a high-speed banked oval equipped to race either clockwise or counter-clockwise .-History:Calder Park...
  
  , Victoria, 19 October
• Round 5, Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
  Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
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  , Victoria, 23 November

The championship winner was awarded the 1975 CAMS "Gold Star".

Results

Results of the championship were as follows:
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Position	Driver	No.	Car	Entrant	Rd1	Rd2	Rd3	Rd4	Rd5	Points
1	John McCormack John McCormack (racing driver) ‎John McCormack is a former Australian racing driver. Originally from Tasmania McCormack became one of the leading Formula 5000 racers in Australia during the 1970s....	9	Elfin MR6 Repco-Holden Holden V8 engine The Holden V8 is an overhead valve V8 engine which was produced by the Australian General Motors subsidiary Holden between 1969 and 2000. The engine was used initially in the Kingswood and Monaro model ranges; it was later utilised in the Torana and Commodore ranges...	Ansett Team Elfin	3	-	9	9	6	27
2	Johnnie Walker Johnnie Walker (racing driver) Johnnie Walker is a former Australian racing driver. Born in Adelaide, he first raced Holden FE's in the 1960s. After competing in the Australian Formula 2 Championship he graduated to Formula 5000 where he drove an Elfin and a Matich A50 before switching to the Lola marque in late 1973.Walker...	25	Lola T332 Lola T332 The Lola T332 was a race car designed and built by Lola Cars for use in Formula 5000 racing and made its racing debut in 1973. Commonly using the 5.0L Chevrolet V8 engine, the T332 was successful around the globe with race victories in places such as Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and...  Repco-Holden	John Walker	-	9	3	6	4	22
3	Max Stewart Max Stewart Malcolm Clarke Stewart was an Australian racecar driver....	1	Lola T400 Chevrolet Chevrolet Small-Block engine The Chevrolet small-block engine is a series of automobile V8 engines built by the Chevrolet Division of General Motors using the same basic small engine block...	Sharp Racing Team	9	-	6	4	-	19
4	Kevin Bartlett Kevin Bartlett (race driver) Kevin Bartlett , often known by his nickname "KB", is an Australian former open wheel and touring car racing driver who won the CAMS Gold Star in 1968 and 1969, as well as the prestigious Bathurst 1000. Bartlett was named in Wheels magazine's annual yearbook in 2004 as one of Australia's 50...	5	Lola T400 Chevrolet	Shell Racing	-	4	1	3	9	17
5	John Leffler John Leffler John Leffler is a former Australian racing driver. Leffler is best known for driving open-wheelers and winning the Australian Drivers' Championship in 1976.Leffler drove Morris Coopers for many years in the 1960s...	7	Bowin P8 Bowin P8 The Bowin P8 was a Formula 5000 and Formula 2 class of race car, which was designed and built by John Joyce, the founder of Bowin Cars.-Specifications:...  Chevrolet	Grace Brothers Levis	6	3	4	-	1	14
6	Bruce Allison	62	Lola T332 Chevrolet		-	6	-	-	-	6
7	Ray Winter	27	Mildren Ford		4	-	-	-	-	4
8	Paul Bernasconi	6	Lola T330 Chevrolet	Sharp Racing Team	-	2	-	2	-	4
9	Enno Busselmann	10	Elfin 622 Ford Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK...	Enno Busselmann	-	-	-	-	3	3
10	Chris Milton		McLaren M22 Chevrolet		2	-	-	1	-	3
11	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...	2	Elfin MR5 Elfin MR5 The Elfin MR5 is an Australian Formula 5000 racing car produced from 1971-1972 by Elfin Sports Cars. John McCormack drove an MR5 to victory in the 1973 Australian Drivers' Championship, the 1973 New Zealand Grand Prix, the 1974 New Zealand Grand Prix and the 1974 Lady Wigram Trophy....  Repco-Holden	Ansett Team Elfin	-	-	2	-	-	2
	Ian Fergusson		Bowin P6 Bowin P6 Bowin P6 was a Formula Ford & Formula 2 class of race car which was designed and built by John Joyce founder of Bowin Cars.-Specifications:...  Ford	Ian Fergusson	-	-	-	-	2	2
13	John Goss John Goss (race driver) John Goss is the only Australian racing driver to win Australia's two most prestigious races, the Bathurst 1000 , and the Australian Grand Prix .-Early career:...	2	Matich A53 Repco Holden		-	1	-	-	-	1

Sources

• A History Of Australian Motor Sport, 1980
• Australian Competition Yearbook, 1976 edition
• CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, 1975
• Racing Car News, January 1976
• The official 50 year history of the Australian Grand Prix, 1986
• Confederation of Australian Motor Sport