The 1960 Australian Tourist Trophy was a motor race for sports cars, staged at the

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on Monday, 7 March 1960.Longford Races, Australian Motor Sports, March 1960, pages 108–110 & 118 It was the fourth in a sequence of annual

Australian Tourist Trophy The Australian Tourist Trophy is a Confederation of Australian Motor Sport-sanctioned national motor racing title, contested between 1956 and 1979 by Sports Cars and, since 2007, by GT cars. The trophy is currently awarded to the outright winner ...

races, with each of these being recognized by the

Confederation of Australian Motor Sport Motorsport Australia, formerly the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS), is the nationally recognised governing and sanctioning body for four-wheeled motorsport in Australia. It is affiliated with the Federation Internationale de l'Au ...

as the Australian Championship for sports cars.''National Titles'', 1961 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, page 53 The race was won by Derek Jolly driving a

Lotus 15 The Lotus 15 is a front-engine sports racing car designed by Colin Chapman of Lotus, built from 1958 until 1960. Series 1 The 15 is a two-seater, front-engine, rear wheel drive sports racer with an aluminium body over a space frame configuratio ...

Results

Notes

* Attendance: 12,000 * Pole position: Ron Phillips * Starters: 22 * Race distance: 24 laps – 108 miles * Race time of winning car: 69 minutes 20 seconds * Fastest lap: Derek Jolly & Doug Whiteford – 2 minutes 50 seconds,''S Australian wins Tourist Trophy'', The Mercury, Tuesday, 8 March 1960, Page 5 (95.29 m.p.h., a sportcar record)F.G.N. Ewence, Longford: Another Triumph!, Sports Car World, May 1960, pages 48 & 49

References

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External links

1960 Australian Tourist Trophy…, primotipo.com

Start of the 1960 Australian Tourist Trophy, aussieroadracing.homestead.com, as archived at web.archive.org

1960 race images, www.oldracephotos.com
Australian Tourist Trophy Tourist Trophy Motorsport in Tasmania