Bathurst 100
Bathurst, 15 Apr 1963
| Results | Laps | Time/Speed | |||||||
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| 1 | Lex Davison | (libre) 2.7-litre Cooper T62 ["CTA/BM/2"] - Climax FPF 4 #4 Ecurie Australie |
26 | 1h 06m 05.0s |
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| 2 | Tony Shelly | (libre) 2.5-litre Cooper T53 [F2-17-60] - Climax FPF 4 #3 Ecurie Australie |
24 | ||||||
| 3 | Charlie Smith | (FJ 1.5) 1.5-litre Elfin Junior [625] - Ford #6 |
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| 4 | Doug Kelley | (libre) 1.5-litre Cooper Mk I 'T41' [F2-2-56] - Climax FWB #60 (see note 1) |
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| R | David McKay | (libre) 2.7-litre Brabham BT4 [IC-1-62] - Climax FPF 4 #1 Scuderia Veloce (see note 2) |
9 | overheating | |||||
| R | Ralph Sach | (unknown) 2.5-litre Nota Din - Holden 6 #34 |
0 | head-gasket | |||||
| UNK | Greville Edgerton | (sports racing) 3.8-litre Cooper 'T38' [CJ/1/55] - Jaguar 6 #45 |
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| UNK | Les Howard | (sports racing) 1.1-litre Lotus 11 [303] - Climax FWA #15 |
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| DNS | Arnold Glass | (libre) 3.6-litre BRM P48 [482] - Buick V8 #77 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Arnold Glass | (libre) 2.5-litre BRM P48 [482] s4 #7 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Bill Patterson | (libre) 2.5-litre Cooper T53 [F1-5-61] - Climax FPF 4 #9 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Jim Palmer | (libre) 2.5-litre Cooper T53 ['F2-8-60' (III)] - Climax FPF 4 #12 Scuderia Veloce |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Frank Matich | (sports racing) 2.5-litre Lotus 19 [950] - Climax FPF 4 #87 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Jesse Griffiths | (libre) 1.5-litre Maserati 4CL [1555/1579] - s/c 4 #27 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Gordon Stewart | (unknown) 1.6-litre Stewart-MG MG #11 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Barry Collerson | (libre) 1.5-litre Jolus [3] - Hilllman 4 #21 Jim McGuire |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Ian Geoghegan | (FJ) 1.1-litre Lotus 22 [22-J-49] - Ford #8 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Lionel Ayers | (FJ) 1.1-litre Lotus 20 [20-J-959] - Ford #11 1 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Ken Milburn | (FJ) 1.1-litre Lotus 20 [20-J-965] - Ford #43 |
Did not start | ||||||
| DNS | Tom Corcoran | (libre) 1-litre Lola Mk2 [BRJ18] - Ford s/c 4 #2 |
Did not start | ||||||
| Qualifying | |||||
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| 1 | Lex Davison | (libre) 2.7-litre Cooper T62 ["CTA/BM/2"] - Climax FPF 4 | 2m 27.7s | ||
| 2 | David McKay | (libre) 2.7-litre Brabham BT4 [IC-1-62] - Climax FPF 4 | 2m 28.4s | ||
| 3 | Tony Shelly | (libre) 2.5-litre Cooper T53 [F2-17-60] - Climax FPF 4 | 2m 31.3s | ||
| 4 | Bill Patterson * | (libre) 2.5-litre Cooper T53 [F1-5-61] - Climax FPF 4 | |||
| 5 | Charlie Smith | (FJ 1.5) 1.5-litre Elfin Junior [625] - Ford | |||
| - | Frank Matich * | (sports racing) 2.5-litre Lotus 19 [950] - Climax FPF 4 | 2m 37.0s | ||
| - | Gordon Stewart * | (unknown) 1.6-litre Stewart-MG - MG | 2m 58.9s | ||
| * Did not start | |||||
Notes on the cars:
- Cooper Mk I 'T41' [F2-2-56] (Doug Kelley): The fouth and final Mk 1 built for 1956 went to Ken Wharton and was then shipped out to New Zealand for the Internationals. Ater Wharton's death in a sports car race, the Mk 1 returned to the UK and was sold to Bill Whitehouse for the early 1957 races. When Whitehouse took delivery of his Mk II, the ex-Wharton Mk I went to Paul England, on holiday from Australia. England later sold the car to Austin Miller, another Aussie over in Europe and he shipped it back to Australia. It ran as the Miller Special for several seasons and remained in Australia with later owners. (Sources: Cooper Cars, Nye; Historic Racing Cars in Australia, Blanden)
- Brabham BT4 [IC-1-62] (David McKay): New for Jack Brabham to drive at the November 1962 Australian GP. Used by Brabham in the New Zealand Internationals in January 1963, winning at Levin, then sold to Dave McKay's Scuderia Veloce for the Australian International races the following month. Raced by Graham Hill for McKay in the 1964 Tasman series, winning the Longford race in March. To Len Southward's Lesco Racing Team for Kerry Grant to drive during the 1964/65 season, and for Neil Whittaker in 1965/66. Sold to John McCormack (Davenport, Tasmania) and raced on through the next three seasons. From McCormack to John Blanden (Adelaide, South Australia) in 1978 and extensively rebuilt. To Ken Messenger (Adelaide) March 1982, then to Art Valdez (Torrance, CA) in 1986, and remained in his collection for many years, until sold to a UK consortium in 2017.
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.
All comments, clarifications, corrections and additions are most welcome. Please email Allen (allen@oldracingcars.com) if you can help in any way with our research.