1975 Australian Drivers' Championship
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The 1975 Australian Drivers' Championship was the nineteenth Australian Drivers' Championship
Australian Drivers' Championship
The Australian Drivers' Championship is a motor racing championship which has been contested annually since 1957 by drivers of cars complying with Australia's premier open-wheeler racing category as determined by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport. Since 2005 this category has been Formula...

. It was contested by drivers of Australian Formula 1
Australian Formula 1
Australian Formula 1 was a motor sport category for open-wheeler racing cars which was current in Australia from 1970 to 1983.AF1 was introduced by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport in 1970, initially restricting cars to unsupercharged engines of no greater than 2.5-litre capacity,...

 and Australian Formula 2 Racing cars
Racing Cars
Racing Cars are a Welsh pop band, formed in the Rhondda Valley, Wales in 1973.-Career:They were signed to one of the biggest British record labels of the time, Chrysalis Records. Racing Cars's debut album yielded their only hit single with "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"...

 over a five round series with points awarded on a 9, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 basis to the top six placegetters in each round.

Calendar

  • Round 1, Australian Grand Prix
    Australian Grand Prix
    The Australian Grand Prix is a motor race held annually and is held to be the pinnacle of motor racing in Australia. The Grand Prix is the oldest surviving motor racing competition held in Australia having been held 76 times since it was first run at Phillip Island in 1928. Since 1985 the race has...

    , Surfers Paradise Raceway, Queensland
    Queensland
    Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

    , 21 August
  • Round 2, Sandown Raceway
    Sandown Raceway
    Sandown International Raceway is a motor racing circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, approximately south east of the city centre. It is considered a power circuit with its front straight being 899m long and back straight 910m long.-History:...

    , Victoria, 14 September
  • Round 3, Oran Park Raceway
    Oran Park Raceway
    Oran Park Raceway was a motor racing circuit at Narellan in southwestern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia which was operational from 1962 to 2010....

    , New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

    , 21 September
  • Round 4, Calder Park Raceway
    Calder Park Raceway
    Calder Park Raceway is a motor racing circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The complex includes a drag strip, a road circuit with several possible configurations, and the "Thunderdome", a high-speed banked oval equipped to race either clockwise or counter-clockwise .-History:Calder Park...

    , Victoria, 19 October
  • Round 5, Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
    Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
    The Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit is a motor racing racing circuit on Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia. The circuit was opened in 1956.-Road circuit:...

    , Victoria, 23 November

The championship winner was awarded the 1975 CAMS "Gold Star".

Results

Results of the championship were as follows:
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Position Driver No. Car Entrant Rd1 Rd2 Rd3 Rd4 Rd5 Points
1 John McCormack
John McCormack (racing driver)
‎John McCormack is a former Australian racing driver. Originally from Tasmania McCormack became one of the leading Formula 5000 racers in Australia during the 1970s....

9 Elfin MR6 Repco-Holden
Holden V8 engine
The Holden V8 is an overhead valve V8 engine which was produced by the Australian General Motors subsidiary Holden between 1969 and 2000. The engine was used initially in the Kingswood and Monaro model ranges; it was later utilised in the Torana and Commodore ranges...

Ansett Team Elfin 3 - 9 9 6 27
2 Johnnie Walker
Johnnie Walker (racing driver)
Johnnie Walker is a former Australian racing driver. Born in Adelaide, he first raced Holden FE's in the 1960s. After competing in the Australian Formula 2 Championship he graduated to Formula 5000 where he drove an Elfin and a Matich A50 before switching to the Lola marque in late 1973.Walker...

25 Lola T332
Lola T332
The Lola T332 was a race car designed and built by Lola Cars for use in Formula 5000 racing and made its racing debut in 1973. Commonly using the 5.0L Chevrolet V8 engine, the T332 was successful around the globe with race victories in places such as Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and...

 Repco-Holden
John Walker - 9 3 6 4 22
3 Max Stewart
Max Stewart
Malcolm Clarke Stewart was an Australian racecar driver....

1 Lola T400 Chevrolet
Chevrolet Small-Block engine
The Chevrolet small-block engine is a series of automobile V8 engines built by the Chevrolet Division of General Motors using the same basic small engine block...

Sharp Racing Team 9 - 6 4 - 19
4 Kevin Bartlett
Kevin Bartlett (race driver)
Kevin Bartlett , often known by his nickname "KB", is an Australian former open wheel and touring car racing driver who won the CAMS Gold Star in 1968 and 1969, as well as the prestigious Bathurst 1000. Bartlett was named in Wheels magazine's annual yearbook in 2004 as one of Australia's 50...

5 Lola T400 Chevrolet Shell Racing - 4 1 3 9 17
5 John Leffler
John Leffler
John Leffler is a former Australian racing driver. Leffler is best known for driving open-wheelers and winning the Australian Drivers' Championship in 1976.Leffler drove Morris Coopers for many years in the 1960s...

7 Bowin P8
Bowin P8
The Bowin P8 was a Formula 5000 and Formula 2 class of race car, which was designed and built by John Joyce, the founder of Bowin Cars.-Specifications:...

 Chevrolet
Grace Brothers Levis 6 3 4 - 1 14
6 Bruce Allison 62 Lola T332 Chevrolet - 6 - - - 6
7 Ray Winter 27 Mildren Ford 4 - - - - 4
8 Paul Bernasconi 6 Lola T330 Chevrolet Sharp Racing Team - 2 - 2 - 4
9 Enno Busselmann 10 Elfin 622 Ford
Ford Motor Company
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Enno Busselmann - - - - 3 3
10 Chris Milton McLaren M22 Chevrolet 2 - - 1 - 3
11 Garrie Cooper
Garrie Cooper
Garrie Clifford Cooper was the founder of the highly successful Elfin Sports Cars and a competitive racing driver in his own right, winning the 1968 Australian 1½ Litre Championship and the 1975 Australian Sports Car Championship...

2 Elfin MR5
Elfin MR5
The Elfin MR5 is an Australian Formula 5000 racing car produced from 1971-1972 by Elfin Sports Cars. John McCormack drove an MR5 to victory in the 1973 Australian Drivers' Championship, the 1973 New Zealand Grand Prix, the 1974 New Zealand Grand Prix and the 1974 Lady Wigram Trophy....

 Repco-Holden
Ansett Team Elfin - - 2 - - 2
Ian Fergusson Bowin P6
Bowin P6
Bowin P6 was a Formula Ford & Formula 2 class of race car which was designed and built by John Joyce founder of Bowin Cars.-Specifications:...

 Ford
Ian Fergusson - - - - 2 2
13 John Goss
John Goss (race driver)
John Goss is the only Australian racing driver to win Australia's two most prestigious races, the Bathurst 1000 , and the Australian Grand Prix .-Early career:...

2 Matich A53 Repco Holden - 1 - - - 1

Sources

  • A History Of Australian Motor Sport, 1980
  • Australian Competition Yearbook, 1976 edition
  • CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, 1975
  • Racing Car News, January 1976
  • The official 50 year history of the Australian Grand Prix, 1986
  • Confederation of Australian Motor Sport
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