1974 Australian Grand Prix

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1974 Australian Grand Prix
Round 5 of 6 of the 1974 Australian Drivers' Championship
Track map for Oran Park--Grand Prix circuit.svg
Race details
DateNovember 17, 1974
Official name XXXIX Australian Grand Prix
Location Oran Park Raceway, Sydney, New South Wales
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 2.620 km (1.628 mi)
Distance 61 laps, 159.82 km (99.308 mi)
Weather Sunny
Pole position
Driver Lola-Chevrolet
Time 1'05.2
Fastest lap
Driver Flag of Australia (converted).svg Warwick Brown Lola-Chevrolet
Time 1'05.2
Podium
First Lola-Chevrolet
Second Elfin-Repco Holden
Third Lola-Chevrolet

The 1974 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race held at Oran Park Raceway in New South Wales, Australia on 17 November 1974. It was open to Racing Cars complying with Australian Formula 1 or Australian Formula 2. [1] [2] [3] The race, which was the thirty-ninth Australian Grand Prix, was Round Five of the 1974 Australian Drivers' Championship.

Contents

Australian driver Max Stewart won the race, ahead of John McCormack and Graeme Lawrence. [4] It was Stewart's first Australian Grand Prix victory.

Classification

Results were as follows: [4]

Qualifying

PosNoDriverCarQualGap
16 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Max Stewart Lola T330 / Chevrolet 5.0L V8 1:05.2
2 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Warwick Brown Lola T332 / Chevrolet 5.0L V8 1:05.3+0.1
35 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Kevin Bartlett Lola T332 / Chevrolet 5.0L V8 1:05.9+0.7
41 Flag of Italy.svg Lella Lombardi Matich A51 / Repco Holden 5.0L V8 1:07.0+1.8
54 Flag of Australia (converted).svg John McCormack Elfin MR5 / Repco Holden 5.0L V8 1:07.5+2.3
614 Flag of New Zealand.svg Graeme Lawrence Lola T332 / Chevrolet 5.0L V8 1:08.0+2.8
712 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Garrie Cooper Elfin MR5 / Repco Holden 5.0L V8 1:09.2+4.0
8 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jon Davison Matich A50 / Repco Holden 5.0L V8 1:09.2+4.0
97 Flag of Australia (converted).svg John Leffler Bowin P8 / Hart 1.6L I4 1:09.7+4.5
10 Flag of Australia (converted).svg John Goss Matich A53 / Repco Holden 5.0L V8 1:11.9+6.7
11 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ken Shirvington March 732 / Hart 1.6L I4 1:14.4+9.2

Race

PosNo.DriverCarEntrant [5] LapsTime
16 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Max Stewart Lola T330 / Chevrolet 5.0L V8Max Stewart Motors611h 08m 43.0s
24 Flag of Australia (converted).svg John McCormack Elfin MR5 / Repco Holden 5.0L V8Ansett Team Elfin611h 09m 43.3s
314 Flag of New Zealand.svg Graeme Lawrence Lola T332 / Chevrolet 5.0L V8Air New Zealand60
4 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jon Davison Matich A50 / Repco Holden 5.0L V8Jon Davison59
5 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Garrie Cooper Elfin MR5 / Repco Holden 5.0L V8Ansett Team Elfin58
Ret5 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Kevin Bartlett Lola T332 / Chevrolet 5.0L V858fuel pick up
Ret Flag of Australia (converted).svg Warwick Brown Lola T332 / Chevrolet 5.0L V849harmonic balancer
Ret1 Flag of Italy.svg Lella Lombardi Matich A51 / Repco Holden 5.0L V847oil pump
Ret7 Flag of Australia (converted).svg John Leffler Bowin P8 / Hart 1.6L 4cyl26valve
DNS Flag of Australia (converted).svg John Goss Matich A53 / Repco Holden 5.0L V8engine bearing
DNS Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ken Shirvington March 732 / Hart 1.6L 4cyltoo slow

Notes

Notes & references

  1. Conditions for Australian Titles, 1974 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, page 84
  2. The 1974 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport indicates that Australian Formula 1 in 1974 was for Racing Cars with V8 production pushrod engines of up to 5000cc or free design engines of up to eight cylinders and up to 2000cc. The former are commonly referred to as Formula 5000 cars.
  3. The 1974 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport indicates that Australian Formula 2 in 1974 was for Racing Cars with engines of up to 1600cc
  4. 1 2 3 Wilson, Stewart (1986). "1974". In Howard, Graham (ed.). The Official 50-race history of the Australian Grand Prix. Gordon, NSW: R & T Publishing. pp. 380–387. ISBN   0-9588464-0-5.
  5. 1 2 Ray Bell, Lucky Stewart Bags AGP, Racing Car News, December 1974, pages 60-61
Preceded by
1973 Australian Grand Prix
Australian Grand Prix
1974
Succeeded by
1975 Australian Grand Prix

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