Repco Trophy
Phillip Island, 14 Mar 1960
| Results | Laps | Time/Speed | |||||||
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| 1 | Jack Brabham | (2.5 F1) 2.5-litre Cooper Mk IV 'T51' [F2-4-59?] - Climax FPF 4 #4 (see note 1) |
16 | 34m 23s |
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| 2 | Bill Patterson | (2.5 F1) 2-litre Cooper Mk IV 'T51' [F2-15-59] - Climax FPF 4 (see note 2) |
16 | ||||||
| 3 | Bib Stillwell | (2.5 F1) 2-litre Cooper Mk IV 'T51' [F2-14-59] - Climax FPF 4 (see note 3) |
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| 4 | Austin Miller | (2.5 F1) 2.2-litre Cooper Mk IV 'T51' [F2-20-59] - Climax FPF 4 #60 (see note 4) |
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| R | Jon Leighton | (2.5 F1) 2-litre Cooper Mk III 'T45' [F2-10-58] - Climax FPF 4 |
2 | accident | |||||
| UNK | Keith Rilstone | (libre) 2.3-litre Zephyr Special - Ford 6 |
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| UNK | John French | (libre) 2.4-litre Faux Pas - Holden 6 |
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| UNK | Laurie Whitehead | (unknown) 1.6-litre Porsche Special 4 |
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| UNK | John Lanyon | (unknown) 1.4-litre MG Special 4 |
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| UNK | Ray Gibbs | (sports racing) 1.5-litre Cooper Bobtail 'T39' [CS/3/56] - Climax FWB |
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| DNS | Alec Mildren | (2.5 F1) 2.5-litre Cooper Mk IV 'T51' [F2-22-59] - Maserati 250S 4 (see note 5) |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Noel Hall | (2.5 F1) 2.2-litre Cooper Mk IV 'T51' [F2-16-59] - Climax FPF 4 (see note 6) |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Doug Whiteford | (2.5 F1) 2-litre Cooper Mk II 'T43' [F2-9-57?] - Climax FPF 4 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | John Roxburgh | (F2) 1.5-litre Cooper Mk I 'T41' [F2-3-56] - Climax FWB (see note 7) |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Arnold Glass | (2.5 F1) 2.5-litre Maserati 250F [2516] 6 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | David Piper | (2.5 F1) 2.2-litre Cooper-Bristol Mk II 'T23' [CBR-2-53?] - Bristol 6 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Len Lukey | (2.5 F1) 2.2-litre Cooper-Bristol Mk II 'T23' [CBR-2-53?] - Bristol 6 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Frank Coad | (2.5 F1) 2.2-litre Cooper-Bristol Mk II 'T23' [CBR-2-53?] - Bristol 6 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Ern Tadgell | (F2) 1.5-litre Sabakat (Lotus 12) [351] - Climax FWB |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Murray Carter | (unknown) 4.9-litre Corvette Special - Chevrolet V8 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Frank Coad | (unknown) Vauxhall Special - Holden 6 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Ian Thompson | (unknown) 1.3-litre MG TC 4 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Derek Jolly | (sports racing) 2.5-litre Lotus 15 [626/608] - Climax FPF 4 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Reg Smith | (sports racing) 1.5-litre Porsche 550 Spyder [056] 4 |
Did not start | ||||||
| Qualifying | |||||
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| 1 | Jack Brabham | (2.5 F1) 2.5-litre Cooper Mk IV 'T51' [F2-4-59?] - Climax FPF 4 | |||
Notes on the cars:
- Cooper Mk IV 'T51' [F2-4-59?] (Jack Brabham): "Works Car No. 2" according to the Cooper Register. Believed to be Jack Brabham's main car during the early part of 1959 and then became a spare car when 27-59 appeared at Zandvoort. According to Doug Nye's Cooper Cars, this would then appear to be Jack Brabham's 1960 NZ GP car.
- Cooper Mk IV 'T51' [F2-15-59] (Bill Patterson): Delivered to B Patterson less engine according to the Cooper Register. First raced by Bill Patterson at Port Wakefield in October 1960 where it was fitted with a 2-litre Climax engine. Raced by Patterson until crashed at Lakeside in 1961, after which Patterson raced an "ex-works" Cooper T51 that he had acquired earlier in the season. F2-15-59 was repaired and kept as a spare car being raced by Doug Whiteford on occasions. In 1962, the car was sold to Englishman John Brindley who raced it at Calder in April or May 1962. Brindley raced the car in minor events during 1962 until suffering a massive accident in a minor race at Sandown Park on 16 Sep 1962. The Autosportsman report on the race said "The car must be very nearly a complete write-off". The wreck sat in the yard behind Car World (Bulleen, Melbourne, Australia) the business in which Brindley was partners with Phil Trueman, for a couple of years. It was then passed on to Bill Patterson, and remained with him, still damaged, until it was acquired by Murray Richards from Patterson in 1988. Richards started to restore the car but this was incomplete when he died in early 2000. The car was still with Richards' sons in 2010.
- Cooper Mk IV 'T51' [F2-14-59] (Bib Stillwell): Delivered to Victa Consolidated Industries (Australia) according to the Cooper Register.
- Cooper Mk IV 'T51' [F2-20-59] (Austin Miller): Delivered to Stan Jones (Australia) according to the Cooper Register but with a note that it was transferred to R Stillwell.
- Cooper Mk IV 'T51' [F2-22-59] (Alec Mildren): Delivered to A Mildren (Australia) less engine in Oct 1959 according to the Cooper Register.
- Cooper Mk IV 'T51' [F2-16-59] (Noel Hall): Delivered to R Hall less engine according to the Cooper Register.
- Cooper Mk I 'T41' [F2-3-56] (John Roxburgh): Jack Brabham was allocated the second Mk I which first appeared in his hands at the Oulton Park Gold Cup in Sep 1956. After a second race in October, Brabham took the car to New Zealand and Australia and, after an impressive run of results, sold it to Alex Mildren. It was later owned by Arthur Griffiths, John Roxburgh and Lyn Archer. This car now bears the chassis plate F2-P-56. (Sources: Cooper Cars, Nye; Historic Racing Cars in Australia, Blanden)
Sources
Note that the identification of individual cars in these results is based on the material presented elsewhere in this site and may in some cases contradict the organisers' published results.
These results have been compiled by David McKinney from a wide rangle of sources, including his own magazine articles and books. The 1959-1963 results are complete but for the 1957 and 1958 seasons, the only cars currently shown in the results are the F1, Intercontinental and F2 cars that feature elsewhere on this site plus the major Australian specials.
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