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1955 Queensland Road Racing Championship
The 1955 Queensland Road Racing Championship was a motor race held at the Southport, Queensland, Southport circuit in Queensland, AustraliaAmes and Alfa are Queensland champs, Wheels (magazine), January 1956, pages 46 & 47 on 6 November 1955.Alf Cummings, Grand Prix win at 22, Modern Motor (magazine), January 1956, pages 22, 23 & 84 The race was held over 20 laps of the 5.7 mile (9.17 kilometre) circuit, a total distance of 114 miles (247.6 km). The meeting was conducted by the Queensland Motor Sporting Club in association with the Pacific Car Club. The race was won by Steve Ames driving an Alfa Romeo. Classification Notes * Attendance: nearly 15,000 * Starters: 11 * Finishers: 6 * Winning margin: 27 seconds * Fastest lap: Jack Brabham, 3m 53s (88 mph) * Handicap placings (over the first twelve laps): Griffiths, Taylor and Mossetter References

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Southport, Queensland
Southport is a coastal Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb in the City of Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. In the , Southport had a population of 31,908 people. It contains the Gold Coast central business district. Geography Southport is bounded to the south-east by the Nerang River (), where it flows into Gold Coast Broadwater, The Broadwater, the southernmost end of Moreton Bay, which then bounds the suburb to the north-east. King Reach is a reach () of the Nerang River. It was named in honour of Jeremy King (3 March 1935 - 13 October 2010) for his coaching, involvement and dedication to the sport of rowing within the Southport district. He was involved with rowing for over 50 years. It was gazetted on 28 November 2014. Ray Newlyn Channel is a channel () in The Broadwater. It is an east-to-west channel across The Broadwater to Main Beach, Queensland, Main Beach avoiding two large sandbanks. Raymond Paul (Ray) Newlyn was a Southport resident and a Commander in ...
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1955 In Australian Motorsport
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