The 1958 Australian Drivers' Championship was a
CAMS sanctioned
Australia
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n motor racing competition for drivers of
Formula Libre
Formula Libre, also known as Formule Libre, is a form of automobile racing allowing a wide variety of types, ages and makes of purpose-built racing cars to compete "head to head". This can make for some interesting matchups, and provides the oppor ...
cars. It was the second
Australian Drivers' Championship
The Australian Drivers' Championship was a motor racing championship contested annually from 1957 to 2014 by drivers of cars complying with Australia's premier open-wheeler racing category as determined by the Confederation of Australian Motor ...
. The title was contested over a nine race series with the winner awarded the 1958 CAMS Gold Star.
The championship was won by
Stan Jones, driving a
Maserati 250F
The Maserati 250F was a racing car made by Maserati of Italy used in '2.5 litre' Formula One racing between January 1954 and November 1960. Twenty-six examples were made.
Mechanical details
The 250F principally used the SSG 220 bhp (@ 7400 rpm) 2 ...
.
Calendar
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Winning driver not awarded points for races 1 and 8
Points structure
Championship points were awarded on an 8-5-3-2-1 basis to the top five finishers in each race.
However, as overseas drivers were ineligible to qualify for championship points, no points were awarded for placings scored by these drivers.
[Australian Motor Sports Review 1958-59, pages 35-51] Similarly drivers of sports cars which on occasion raced amongst the Formula Libre cars, were not eligible for points, although Doug Whiteford's Maserati 300S appears to have been an exception.
Results
Championship points were not awarded for the following:
*
Jack Brabham
Sir John Arthur Brabham (2 April 1926 – 19 May 2014) was an Australian racing driver who was Formula One World Champion in , , and . He was a founder of the Brabham racing team and race car constructor that bore his name.
Brabham was a R ...
(Cooper T43 Climax) : First place in Race 1
*
Bill Pitt (
Jaguar D-Type
The Jaguar D-Type is a sports racing car that was produced by Jaguar Cars Ltd. between 1954 and 1957. Designed specifically to win the Le Mans 24-hour race, it shared the straight-6 XK engine and many mechanical components with its C-Type ...
) : Fourth place in Race 1
* Bill Pitt (Jaguar D-Type) : Fourth place in Race 5
* Bill Pitt (Jaguar D-Type) : Fourth place in Race 6
* Merv Neil (Cooper T45 Climax) : Fourth place in Race 7
*
Stirling Moss
Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss (17 September 1929 – 12 April 2020) was a British Formula One racing driver. An inductee into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, he won 212 of the 529 races he entered across several categories of comp ...
(Cooper T45 Climax) : First place in Race 8
* Jack Brabham (Cooper T45 Climax) : Second place in Race 8
References
Further reading
* Australian Grand Prix - The 50-race history, 1986, pages 236 to 246
* The Advertiser, Monday 7 April 1958, Page 19
External links
Australian Drivers’ Championship – CAMS Gold Star, motorsport.org.au, as archived at web.archive.org
Open Wheelers 1958, autopics.com.au
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