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1952 Australian Grand Prix
Formula Libre race
Race details
Date 14 April 1952
Location Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, New South Wales
Course Temporary road circuit
Course length 6.12 km (3.84 miles)
Distance 38 laps, 234.8 km (145.92 miles)
Weather Sunny
Pole position
Driver
  • Australia Doug Whiteford
Talbot-Lago
Fastest lap
Driver Australia Doug Whiteford Talbot-Lago
Time 3'02
Podium
First
  • Australia Doug Whiteford
Talbot-Lago
Second
  • Australia Stan Jones
Maybach Special
Third
  • Australia Bill Murray
Alfa Romeo-Alvis
Doug Whiteford won the race driving a Talbot-Lago T26C
Stan Jones (Maybach) leads Whiteford early in the race. Jones placed second.
Bill Murray on his way to third place driving an Alfa Romeo Tipo B

The 1952 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula Libre motor race held at the Mount Panorama Circuit near Bathurst, in New South Wales, Australia on 14 April 1952. The race had 43 starters and was held over 38 laps of the six kilometre circuit, a total distance of 235 kilometres. A crowd of 15,000 watched the race,[1] which was organised by the Australian Sporting Car Club.[2]

The race, which is recognised by Motorsport Australia as the seventeenth Australian Grand Prix,[3] was won by Doug Whiteford driving a Talbot-Lago T26C Formula One car. It was Whiteford's second Australian Grand Prix victory.

  1. ^ Whiteford Wins Grand Prix Again, Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 15 April 1952, page 1, as archived at trove.nla.gov.au
  2. ^ Howard, Graham (1986). "1952". In Howard, Graham (ed.). The Official 50-race history of the Australian Grand Prix. Gordon, NSW: R & T Publishing. pp. 170–180. ISBN 0-9588464-0-5.
  3. ^ Australian Grand Prix, motorsport.org.au Retrieved 30 August 2023

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