Race 6 of 6 in 1962 Australian Drivers' Championship
Race details
Date
18 November 1962
Location
Caversham, Western Australia
Course
Airfield circuit
Course length
3.621 km (2.25 miles)
Distance
60 laps, 198.78 km (123.54 miles)
Weather
Sunny
Pole position
Driver
Bruce McLaren
Cooper-Climax
Time
1'19.6
Fastest lap
Driver
Jack Brabham
Repco Brabham-Climax[1]
Time
1'20.0
Podium
First
Bruce McLaren
Cooper-Climax
Second
John Youl
Cooper-Climax
Third
Bib Stillwell
Cooper-Climax
Motor car race
The 1962 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race for Formula Libre cars,[2] held at the Caversham circuit in Western Australia, Australia on 18 November 1962. It was the twenty seventh Australian Grand Prix and the sixth and final race in the 1962 Australian Drivers' Championship. The Grand Prix meeting was organised by the Western Australian Sporting Car Club Inc.[3]
Held at the former United States Navy air base in still remote Western Australia, the race had just ten starters, seven of which had made the long journey across the Nullarbor Plain from the eastern states, and three of which were local entries. It was the third of only four Australian Grands Prix to be contested in Western Australia with the next held in 1979.
Bruce McLaren won his first Australian Grand Prix, beginning a new era for the race in which the results would be dominated by professional drivers and teams rather than the gentleman amateurs who had won most of the post-war AGP races. It also began an AGP rivalry between the two senior drivers from the region, McLaren and Jack Brabham who were already long-time rivals in Formula One racing.
^Western Australian Motor Race Results 1962 Archived 3 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved from www.terrywalkersplace.com on 28 August 2012
^The Australian Grand Prix, CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, 1962 Edition, page 66
^Supplementary Regulations, Australian International Grand Prix, November 17th-18th, Caversham, Western Australia
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