1957 Australian Grand Prix

  1957 Australian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 1 of 8 in 1957 Australian Drivers' Championship
Date	4 March 1957
Location	Caversham, Western Australia
Course	Temporary airfield circuit
Course length	3.621 km (2.25 mi)
Distance	70 laps, 253.47 km (157.5 mi)
Weather	Sunny
Pole position
Driver	Stan Jones	Maserati
Fastest lap
Driver	Lex Davison	Ferrari
Time	1'34.8
Podium
First	Lex Davison Bill Patterson	Ferrari
Second	Stan Jones	Maserati
Third	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax

The 1957 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula Libre motor race held at Caversham Circuit, Western Australia on 4 March 1957. The race had 24 starters.

It was the twenty second Australian Grand Prix. Lex Davison won his second AGP a victory he shared after using Bill Patterson as a relief driver. The extreme heat of the Western Australian summer saw several teams utilise two drivers over the 245 kilometre race distance.

The race was also the first ever round of an Australian Drivers' Championship, which was held for the first time in 1957.

Classification

Results as follows.^[1][2]

Pos	No.	Driver	Car	Laps	Time	Points
1	2	Lex Davison Bill Patterson	Ferrari 625 F1 / Ferrari 3.0L	70	1h 56m 24.7s	6 [3] 2 [3]
2	1	Stan Jones	Maserati 250F / Maserati 3.0L	70	1h 57m 7.6s	5
3	3	Jack Brabham	Cooper T41 / Climax FWB 1.5L	69		3
4	9	Len Lukey	Cooper T23 / Bristol 2.0L	67		2
5	6	Alec Mildren	Cooper T20 / Bristol 2.0L	66		1
6	14	Syd Taylor	TS Special / GMC
7	11	Derek Jolly	Decca Special Mk.2 / Climax FWA 1.1L	60
8	19	Merv Dudley	BRM Morgan / Standard 2.1L
9	28	Barry Ranford	Morgan 4-4 / Morgan 1.2L
10	23	Neil Aldous	Austin-Healey 100/4 / Austin-Healey 2.7L
Ret	10	Ron Phillips	Austin-Healey 100S / Austin-Healey 2.7L
Ret	8	Tom Hawkes Ern Seeliger	Cooper T23 / Holden 2.3L	26
Ret	12	Syd Anderson	Alta GP-2 / Alta S/C 1.5L
Ret	16	Mick Geneve	Ballot Special / Ford 4.1L
Ret	21	Aubury Badger	BM Special / Holden
Ret	24	Eric Kinnear	Austin-Healey 100/4 / Austin-Healey 2.7L
Ret	22	David Van Dal John Cummins	Bugatti Type 57 / Bugatti 3.3L
Ret	5	Jack Myers	Cooper T20 / Holden 2.4L
Ret	17	John Walker	MG TC Special / MG 1.4L
Ret	29	George Wakelin	WS Mercury Special / Mercury 4.1L
Ret	15	Syd Negus	Plymouth Special / Plymouth 3.8L
Ret	20	Peter Bond	Bondley Special / Standard 2.1L
Ret	7	Tom Sulman	Aston Martin DB3S / Aston Martin 2.9L
Ret	18	Aub Melrose	Austin-Healey 100/4 / Austin-Healey 2.7L
Ret	25	Fred Coxon	Amilcar Special / Holden
DNS	4	Bill Patterson	Cooper T39 / Climax FP 1.5L
DNS	26	Vin Smith	Sevin / Peugeot 1.3L
DNS	27	Tony Carboni	Double V8 / 2xFord 8.2L

References

1. Howard, Graham (1986). "1957". In Howard, Graham. The Official 50-race history of the Australian Grand Prix. Gordon, NSW: R & T Publishing. pp. 228–235. ISBN 0-9588464-0-5.
2. "The CAMS Gold Star". Archived from the original on 15 June 2009. Retrieved 13 June 2009.
3. Graham Howard, Lex Davison - Larger Than Life, 2004, page 121