Round 1 of the 1976 Australian Drivers' Championship
Race details
Date
12 September 1976
Official name
XLI Australian Grand Prix
Location
Sandown International Motor Racing Circuit, Melbourne, Victoria
Course
Permanent racing facility
Course length
3.100 km (1.926 miles)
Distance
47 laps, 145.70 km (90.522 miles)
Weather
Sunny
Pole position
Driver
Max Stewart
Lola-Chevrolet
Time
1'01.5
Fastest lap
Driver
John Goss Vern Schuppan
Matich-Repco Holden Elfin-Chevrolet
Time
1'01.1
Podium
First
John Goss
Matich-Repco Holden
Second
Vern Schuppan
Elfin-Chevrolet
Third
John Leffler
Lola-Chevrolet
Motor car race
The 1976 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race held at the Sandown International Motor Racing Circuit[1] in Victoria, Australia on 12 September 1976. It was open to racing cars complying with either Australian Formula 1 or Australian Formula 2.[2]
The race was the forty first Australian Grand Prix and doubled as Round 1 of the 1976 Australian Drivers' Championship. John Goss won the race driving a Matich A53 Repco-Holden, and in doing so became the only driver to win both of Australia's highest profile motor races, the Australian Grand Prix and the Bathurst 1000. Goss won the 47 lap race by just half a second from Australian international Vern Schuppan who was driving an Elfin MR8 Chevrolet entered by Ansett Team Elfin. Finishing third, over a lap behind, was John Leffler driving a Lola T400 Chevrolet.
^Official programme, Hang Ten 400 plus Marlboro presents the 41st Australian Grand Prix, 12 September (1976), page 22
^Conditions for Australian Titles, 1976 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, pages 80–81
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