1952 Australian Grand Prix

1952 Australian Grand Prix
1952 Australian Grand Prix
Formula Libre race
Race details
Date	14 April 1952
Location	Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, New South Wales
Course	Temporary road circuit
Course length	6.12 km (3.84 miles)
Distance	38 laps, 234.8 km (145.92 miles)
Weather	Sunny
Pole position
Driver	Doug Whiteford;
Fastest lap
Driver	Doug Whiteford
Time	3'02
Podium
First	Doug Whiteford;
Second	Stan Jones;
Third	Bill Murray;

The Maybach Special in which Stan Jones placed second

The 1952 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula Libre motor race held at the Mount Panorama Circuit near Bathurst, in New South Wales, Australia on 14 April 1952. The race had 43 starters and was held over 38 laps of the six kilometre circuit, a total distance of 235 kilometres. The race, which was the seventeenth Australian Grand Prix, was won by Doug Whiteford driving a Talbot-Lago T26C Formula One car. It was Whiteford’s second Australian Grand Prix victory.

Classification

Results as follows.^[1]

Pos	No.	Driver	Car	Laps	Time
1	1	Doug Whiteford	Talbot-Lago T26C / Talbot-Lago 4.5L	38	1h 57m 44s
2	3	Stan Jones	Maybach Special Mk.1 / Maybach 4.3L	38	2h 02m 04s
3	13	Bill Murray	Alfa Romeo Tipo B / Alvis 4.4L	38	2h 05m 08s
4	5	Jack Murray	Allard J2 / Cadillac 4.4L	38	2h 06m 04s
5	30	Harry Monday	Mercury Special / Mercury 4.0L	38	2h 09m 34s
6	15	Tom Sulman	Maserati 4CL / Maserati 1.5L	38	2h 11m 05s
7	27	Clive Adams	Prad / Ford 2.2L	38	2h 11m 16s
8	41	David McKay	MG TC Special / MG 1.3L	27	2h 13m 21s
9	43	Peter Critchley	MG TB Special / MG 1.3L	27	2h 13m 21s
10	33	J.S. Moody	Jaguar XK120 / Jaguar 3.4L	37
11	19	Arthur Griffiths	MG TC Special / MG 1.3L	36
12	44	Ron Ward	MG TC Special / MG 1.3L	35
13	35	Bill McLachlan	Bugatti Type 37A / Ford 3.6L	34
14	32	John Calvert	Jaguar XK120 / Jaguar 3.4L	34
15	16	Peter Menere	Bugatti Type 35B / Bugatti s/c 2.3L	34
16	11	Jack Saywell	Cooper Mk.V / JAP 1.0L	32
17	40	Silvio Massolla	HRG Special / HRG 1.5L	29
Ret	42	John Nind	MG TB Special / MG 1.3L	34
Ret	39	T.G. Humphries	HRG Special / HRG 1.5L	33
Ret	46	Phil Harrison	MG TD Special / MG 1.3L	27
Ret	18	Curley Brydon	MG TC Special / MG s/c 1.3L	27
Ret	38	Ron Reid	Terraplane Special / Terraplane 3.6L	24
Ret	36	Alec Mildren	Riley Nine Imp / Riley 1.5L	24
Ret	26	Bill Willcox	Dodge Special / Dodge 4.0L	24
Ret	22	Harry Thompson	HRG / HRG 1.5L	24
Ret	21	Ian Mountain	MYF / Ford 4.2L	24
Ret	34	Frank Roberts	Jaguar XK120 / Jaguar 3.4L	23
Ret	17	Julian Barrett	BWA Special / Frazer Nash 1.5L	19
Ret	28	Peter Lowe	Bugatti Type 37 / Holden 2.2L	17
Ret	11	Stan Mossetter	Rizzo Riley Special / Riley 1.5L	16
Ret	4	Wally Feltham	Alta / Alta 2.0L	15
Ret	7	John Crouch	Cooper Mk.V / JAP 1.1L	15
Ret	25	George Pearse	MG TC Special / MG	12
Ret	12	Dick Bland	Dixon Riley / Riley 1.5L	11
Ret	20	Jesse Griffiths	George Reed Special / Ford 4.0L	11
Ret	24	Vin Maloney	MG TC Special / MG 1.3L	11
Ret	23	Dick Cobden	Cooper Mk.V / JAP 0.5L	10
Ret	14	Eldred Norman	Maserati 6C / Maserati 1.5L	10
Ret	8	Wayne Hirst	Cooper Mk.V / JAP 1.1L	8
Ret	10	Mischa Randall	Cooper Mk.V / Vincent 1.0L	7
Ret	6	Bill Craig	Cooper Mk.V / JAP 1.1L	6
Ret	9	Frank Kleinig	Kleinig-Hudson 8 Special / Hudson 4.4L	4
Ret	31	Ken Tubman	MG K3 / MG 1.1L	1

Notes

Fastest lap: Doug Whiteford – 3'02

References

^ Howard, Graham (1986). "1952". In Howard, Graham (ed.). The Official 50-race history of the Australian Grand Prix. Gordon, NSW: R & T Publishing. pp. 170–180. ISBN 0-9588464-0-5.

Preceded by 1951 Australian Grand Prix	Australian Grand Prix 1952	Succeeded by 1953 Australian Grand Prix

[1] Howard, Graham (1986). "1952". In Howard, Graham (ed.). The Official 50-race history of the Australian Grand Prix. Gordon, NSW: R & T Publishing. pp. 170–180. ISBN 0-9588464-0-5.

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