1949 Australian Grand Prix

  1949 Australian Grand Prix
Race details
Formula Libre race
Date 18 September 1949
Location Leyburn, Queensland
Course Airfield circuit
6.92 km (4.3 mi)
Distance 35 laps, 242.2 km (150.5 mi)
Weather Sunny
Pole position
Driver Frank Kleinig Kleinig-Hudson
Fastest lap
Driver John Crouch
Frank Kleinig		 Delahaye
Kleinig-Hudson
Time 2'52
Podium
First John Crouch Delahaye
Second Ray Gordon MG
Third Arthur Rizzo Rizzo-Riley

The 1949 Australian Grand Prix was motor race held at a circuit made up from the runways of a World War II airbase near Leyburn, Queensland on 18 September 1949. The race was held over 35 laps of the 7.0 kilometre circuit for a race distance of 242 kilometres.

It was the fourteenth Australian Grand Prix and the first to be held in Queensland. It was also the first to feature a mass start of the entire grid with grid positions decided by qualifying times. John Crouch won the Australian Grand Prix driving his Delahaye. Ray Gordon finished second ahead of Athur Rizzo.

Classification

Results as follows.[1]

Pos No. Driver Car Laps Time
1 4 John Crouch Delahaye 135 / Delahaye 3.6L 35 1h 49m 25.2s
2 20 Ray Gordon MG TC Special / MG s/c 1.3L 35 1h 54m 12.2s
3 8 Arthur Rizzo Riley Nine Imp / Riley 1.5L 35 1h 56m 56.8s
4 19 Peter Critchley MG TB Special / MG 1.3L 35 1h 59m 40s
5 7 Alan Larsen Cadillac Special / Cadillac 5.7L 35 1h 59m 53s
6 29 Curley Brydon MG TC / MG 1.3L 35 2h 00m 08s
7 38 Irwin Luke Bugatti Type 37 / Bugatti 35 2h 07m 07.4s
8 24 Theo Trevathan Special / Ford 3.9L 35 2h 11m 14.4s
9 40 H. McGuire MG TC / MG 1.3L 35 2h 16m 53s
10 32 Col Robinson MG TC / MG 1.3L 35 2h 20m 59.6s
11 33 Jack Wright Special / Ford 4.0L 35 2h 24m 36.8s
Ret 36 Vic Johnson MG TC / MG 1.3L 27
Ret 2 Dick Bland George Reed Special / Ford 4.0L 26
Ret 1 Frank Kleinig Kleinig-Hudson 8 Special / Hudson 4.4L 21
Ret 21 John Nind MG TB Special / MG 1.3L 20
Ret 18 Garry Coglan MG TC Special / MG 1.3L 16
Ret 34 Ken Tubman MG K3 / MG s/c 1.1L 12
Ret 10 Snow Sefton Strathpine Special 11
Ret 11 Charlie Whatmore Studebaker Special 10
Ret 23 Les Taylor MG TC / MG 1.3L 10
Ret 15 Keith Thallon Jaguar SS100 / SS 3.6L 10
Ret 25 Doug McDonald Bugatti / Dodge 9
Ret 9 Keith Saunders Cadillac Special 8
Ret 5 Rex Law Buick Special 8
Ret 17 Dick Cobden MG TC Special / MG 1.4L 6
Ret 3 Arthur Bowes Hudson Special / Hudson 5
Ret 6 Ross Gray GK Special / Ford 4.0L 4
Ret 22 George Pearse MG TB Special / MG 1.3L 2

Notes

References

  1. ^ Howard, Graham (1986). "1949". In Howard, Graham. The Official 50-race history of the Australian Grand Prix. Gordon, NSW: R & T Publishing. pp. 138–147. ISBN 0-9588464-0-5. 
Preceded by
1948 Australian Grand Prix		 Australian Grand Prix
1949		 Succeeded by
1950 Australian Grand Prix