1976_Australian_Grand_Prix

1976 Australian Grand Prix

1976 Australian Grand Prix

Motor car race

The 1976 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race held at the Sandown International Motor Racing Circuit[1] in Victoria, Australia on 12 September 1976. It was open to racing cars complying with either Australian Formula 1 or Australian Formula 2.[2]

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The race was the forty first Australian Grand Prix and doubled as Round 1 of the 1976 Australian Drivers' Championship. John Goss won the race driving a Matich A53 Repco-Holden, and in doing so became the only driver to win both of Australia's highest profile motor races, the Australian Grand Prix and the Bathurst 1000. Goss won the 47 lap race by just half a second from Australian international Vern Schuppan who was driving an Elfin MR8 Chevrolet entered by Ansett Team Elfin. Finishing third, over a lap behind, was John Leffler driving a Lola T400 Chevrolet.

Qualifying results

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Race results

Vern Schuppan placed second in the race driving an Elfin MR8, similar to that pictured above
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References

  1. [1]
    Official programme, Hang Ten 400 plus Marlboro presents the 41st Australian Grand Prix, 12 September (1976), page 22
  2. [2]
    Conditions for Australian Titles, 1976 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, pages 80–81
  3. [3]
    Wilson, Stewart (1986). "1976". In Howard, Graham (ed.). The Official 50-race history of the Australian Grand Prix. Gordon, NSW: R & T Publishing. pp. 398–406. ISBN 0-9588464-0-5.
  4. [4]
    Official programme, Hang Ten 400 plus Marlboro presents the 41st Australian Grand Prix, 12 September (1976), page 39
  5. [5]
    Australian National Formula One Review, Australian Competition Yearbook, 1977 Edition, pages 84 to 93
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