Race 7 of 9 in 1958 Australian Drivers' Championship
Race details
Date
6 October 1958
Location
Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, New South Wales
Course
Temporary road circuit
Course length
6.12 km (3.84 miles)
Distance
30 laps, 183.6 km (115.1 miles)
Weather
Sunny
Pole position
Driver
Ted Gray
Tornado-Chevrolet
Fastest lap
Driver
Ted Gray
Tornado-Chevrolet
Time
2:45.4[1][2]
Podium
First
Lex Davison
Ferrari
Second
Ern Seeliger
Maybach-Chevrolet
Third
Tom Hawkes
Cooper-Holden
Motor car race
Lex Davison won the race driving a Ferrari similar to that pictured aboveThe WM Special was driven to 10th place in the 1958 Australian Grand Prix by its builder, Jack Myer
The 1958 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race for Formula Libre racing cars,[3] held at the Mount Panorama Circuit, near Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia on 6 October 1958. The race had 26 starters. It was the first Australian Grand Prix to specifically exclude sports cars from the entry.[4]
The race was the 23rd Australian Grand Prix[5] and the seventh race of the 1958 Australian Drivers' Championship.[6]
The race was won by Lex Davison driving a Ferrari. It was his third Australian Grand Prix win, equalling the record held jointly by Bill Thompson and Doug Whiteford.[5]
^John Medley, Bathurst - Cradle of Australian Motor Racing, page 230
^The Official 50-race history of the Australian Grand Prix page 246 gives the fastest lap as 2:25.5 and Bathurst - Cradle of Australian Motor Racing, page 230 quotes 2:45.4. The race report in Australian Motor Sports Review 1958-59 page 45 does not mention the fastest lap. The Official Programme, Bathurst 100, 30 March 1959 credits the Mt. Panorama lap record as 2:44.4 for Stan Jones (Maserati), which discredits the 2:25.5 claim.
^Peter Wherret, Motor Sport, The Sydney Morning Herald, Monday, 21 July 1958, page 9
^Howard, Graham (1986). "1958". In Howard, Graham (ed.). The Official 50-race history of the Australian Grand Prix. Gordon, NSW: R & T Publishing. p. 238. ISBN 0-9588464-0-5.
^ abThe Australian Grand Prix, Official Year Book of Motor Sport In Australia, 1959, Confederation of Australian Motor Sport, page 43
^"The CAMS Gold Star - 1958, as archived at web.archive.org". Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
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