The 1975 Australian Sports Car Championship was a
CAMS sanctioned
Australia
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n motor racing title open to
Group A Sports Cars Group A Sports Cars is an Australian motor racing category that Confederation of Australian Motor Sport, CAMS formulated for sports car racing in Australia. Introduced in 1964, it continues today under the name Group 2A Sports Cars.
On introduction ...
and
Group D Production Sports Cars {{short description, CAMS motor racing category
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. The championship was contested over a single race staged at the
Phillip Island circuit in
Victoria
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,
Australia
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on 30 November 1975.
[Sports Car Championships, Australian Competition Yearbook, 1976 Edition, pages 86-87] The race was run over 30 laps of the 4.76 km circuit, a total race distance of 143 km.
[ It was the seventh ]Australian Sports Car Championship
The Australian Sports Car Championship was the national title for sports car racing drivers sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport from 1969 to 1988. Each championship was contested over a series of races with the exception of ...
, and the only one in the twenty-year history of the title to be contested over a single race rather than over a series of races.
The championship was won by Garrie Cooper
Garrie Clifford Cooper (22 December 1935 - 25 April 1982) was the founder of the highly successful Elfin Sports Cars and a competitive racing driver in his own right, winning the 1968 Singapore Grand Prix, the 1968 Australian 1½ Litre Champi ...
, driving an Elfin MS7.[
]
Results
* Number of entries: 66[
* Number of starters: Unknown][The Racing Car News race report lists 41 cars in its grid line-up. Australian Competition Yearbook infers that there were 40 starters and names 29, including two (Gymer and Cesario) who are not included in the Racing Car News listing]
* Number of finishers: 20[
* Pole position: Garrie Cooper ( Elfin MS7), 1:47.2
* Winner's race time: 54:44.6
* Fatstest lap: Garrie Cooper ( Elfin MS7) 1:45.6
]
Notes & references
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Further reading
* Jim Shepherd, A History of Australian Motor Sport, 1980, pages 173-174
External links
www.autopics.com.au
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Australian Sports Car Championship
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