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1960 Australian Grand Prix

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Date
  
12 June 1960

Weather
  
Sunny

Course length
  
4.54 km (2.82 mi)

1960 Australian Grand Prix

Location
  
Lowood circuit, Tarampa, Queensland

Course
  
Permanent racing facility

Distance
  
36 laps, 163.44 km (101.52 mi)

The 1960 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race held at Lowood in Queensland, Australia on 12 June 1960. The race had 16 starters.

It was the twenty fifth Australian Grand Prix. Alec Mildren won his only AGP, which was also the second AGP victory for a rear-engined racing car. Mildren eschewed the more usual Coventry Climax FPF engine in favour of a Maserati sports car unit to power his Cooper T51, one of many competitors at the time who tried sports car engines in racing car chassis. Davison's Aston Martin DBR4 too had a DB3S three litre sports car engine replacing the 2.5 litre powerplant.

Classification

Results as follows.

References

1960 Australian Grand Prix Wikipedia