1961 Australian Grand Prix
Pos No Driver Entrant Car / Engine Laps
1 4 Lex Davison B.S . Stillwell Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.2L 50
2 6 Bib Stillwell B.S . Stillwell Cooper T55 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L 50
3 14 David McKay Scuderia Veloce Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L 50
4 9 Bill Patterson Bill Patterson Motors P/L Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L 48
5 15 Murray Trenberth M Trenberth Alta / Holden 2.5L 46
6 20 Eddie Clay E Clay Cooper T23 / Bristol 2.2L 45
7 26 Alan Jack Briefield Motors Cooper T39 / Coventry Climax FWB 1.5L 48
8 45 Trevor Ellis T Ellis Austin 8 Special / Austin Supercharged 0.9L 38
9 16 Mel McEwin M McEwin Tornado Mk II / Chevrolet 4.6L 35
10 60 Peter Wilkinson P Wilkinson Elfin Steamliner / Ford 1.2L 35
Ret 5 John Youl Scuderia Veloce Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L 46
Ret 8 Keith Rilstone K Rilstone Zephyr Special / Ford 2.3L 33
Ret 19 Doug Whiteford Bill Patterson Motors P/L Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L 30
Ret 11 John Ampt J Ampt Cooper T38 / Jaguar 3.8L 25
Ret 30 John Newmarch J Bruggeman Ricardian / Holden 2.4L 14
Ret 56 Helene Bittner H Bittner Vitesse / Ford 100E 1.2L 1
Ret 3 Laurie Whitehead L Whitehead Ausper T2 / Ford 1.0L 0
DNS 2 Stan Jones Stan Jones Motors Pty Ltd Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L
DNS 29 Garrie Cooper Elfin Sports Cars Elfin Formula Junior / Ford 1.1L
DNS 44 Dud Dansie Bakewell Bridge Motors BBM rotary valve special / Holden - Dunstan Rotary Valve
Classification
Results as follows . [ 4 ]
The 1961 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula Libre motor race held at the newly completed Mallala Race Circuit in South Australia on 9 October 1961. The race, which was Round 5 of the 1961 Australian Drivers' Championship, had 17 starters. The race was the twenty sixth Australian Grand Prix and would be the last to be held in South Australia until the first Formula One World Championship Australian Grand Prix was staged at the new Adelaide Parklands Circuit in 1985. Lex Davison won his fourth and final AGP setting a record for wins that still stands today, having only been equalled by Michael Schumacher. David McKay actually crossed the finish line first but had been assigned a one-minute penalty, for a jumped start, which relegated him to third position behind Davison and Bib Stillwell. Davisons Australian Grand Prix victory would be the last for a domestically-based Australian until Frank Matich won the 1970 AGP at Warwick Farm in Sydney driving a McLaren M10B Formula 5000 car, although British-based Australian Jack Brabham had won the AGP in both 1963 and 1964.