1965 Armstrong 500
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The 1965 Armstrong 500 was the sixth running of the Bathurst 500 touring car race. It was held on 3 October 1965 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. The race was open to Australian assembled or manufactured vehicles and, for the first time, to imported vehicles, of which at least 100 examples and 250 examples respectively had been registered in Australia.[1] Cars competed in four classes based on the purchase price of the vehicle in Australian pounds. Prize money was on offer only for class placings however the Armstrong Trophy was presented to the entrant of the outright winning car, this being the first time in the history of the event that there had been an official award for the outright winner.[1]
The outright winning car was the Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 entered by Fairfield Motors and driven by Barry Seton and emerging young driver Midge Bosworth. Second was another Ford car dealer entered Cortina driven mainly by Bruce McPhee with one lap driven by Barry Mulholland. Third, and one lap behind the two Cortina was the factory entered Morris Cooper S of Brian Foley and Peter Manton.
Class structure
Class A
The smallest class was for cars under £920. It was made of Datsun 1300, Fiat 850, 1.5 litre Ford Cortina 220, Morris Mini de Luxe and Vauxhall Viva, although all the Datsun's were withdrawn prior to race start due to wheel cracking failures.
Class B
The £921 to £1,020 class featured 1.5 litre Ford Cortina 240, Isuzu Bellett, Morris Cooper, Renault R8 and Toyota Corona.
Class C
The £1,021 to £1,300 class was dominated by the Morris Cooper S, but also contained Chrysler Valiant, Ford Cortina GT and Holden HD X2.
Class D
The £1,301 to £2,000 class featured the first of what came to be known as the 'Bathurst specials', the Ford Cortina GT500 named for the race. The class also contained Fiat 2300, Humber Vogue, Studebaker Lark, Triumph 2000 and Volvo 122.
Results
Pos | Class | Class Pos |
No | Team | Drivers | Car | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | D | 1 | 11 | Fairfield Motors Pty Ltd | Barry Seton Midge Bosworth |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 130 |
2 | D | 2 | 4 | Grawill Motors Pty Ltd | Bruce McPhee Barry Mulholland |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 130 |
3 | C | 1 | 29 | BMC | Brian Foley Peter Manton |
Morris Cooper S | 129 |
4 | C | 2 | 21 | L and D Motors Pty Ltd | Lindsay Little Stan Pomroy |
Morris Cooper S | 129 |
5 | D | 3 | 12 | Hunt Bros. Pty Ltd | Jack Murray Bill McLachlan |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 128 |
6 | C | 3 | 30 | BMC | Paddy Hopkirk Timo Makinen |
Morris Cooper S | 128 |
7 | C | 4 | 18 | Marque Motors | Bill Stanley Ralph Sach |
Morris Cooper S | 128 |
8 | C | 5 | 19 | College Auto Port | Ray Kaleda Graham Moore |
Morris Cooper S | 125 |
9 | C | 6 | 24 | Killara Motor Garage | Greg Cusack Bob Holden |
Morris Cooper S | 125 |
10 | D | 4 | 7 | Australian Motor Industries | Max Stewart Bob Young |
Triumph 2000 | 124 |
11 | C | 7 | 26 | Ford Motor Co | Barry Arentz Geoff Russell |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT | 124 |
12 | D | 5 | 3 | British & Continental Cars | Bill Ford Des West |
Volvo 122S | 121 |
13 | D | 6 | 2 | Continental & General Distributors Pty Ltd | Fred Sutherland Allan Mottram |
Studebaker Lark | 120 |
14 | A | 1 | 45 | Ford Motor Co | Harry Firth John Reaburn |
Ford Cortina Mk.I 220 | 119 |
15 | A | 2 | 54 | Ray Morris Motors | Bruce Maher Ray Morris |
Ford Cortina Mk.I 220 | 119 |
16 | D | 7 | 5 | Graham Ward Barry Collerson |
Volvo 122S | 118 | |
17 | B | 1 | 40 | Ford Motor Co | Glyn Scott Max Volkers |
Ford Cortina Mk.I 240 | 118 |
18 | B | 2 | 39 | Australian Motor Industries | Brian Reed Des Kelly |
Toyota Corona | 118 |
19 | A | 3 | 53 | H and G Taylor | John Hall Herb Taylor |
Ford Cortina Mk.I 220 | 118 |
20 | B | 3 | 41 | Australian Motor Industries | Bill Buckle Neil McKay |
Toyota Corona | 117 |
21 | C | 8 | 22 | Alton Boddenberg Digby Cooke |
Chrysler Valiant | 116 | |
22 | C | 9 | 31 | Don Smith Bruce Stewart |
Holden HD X2 | 116 | |
23 | B | 4 | 36 | Australian Motor Industries | Brian Sampson Ern Abbott |
Toyota Corona | 116 |
24 | B | 5 | 29 | BMC | Barry Ferguson Charlie Smith |
Morris Cooper | 115 |
25 | A | 4 | 43 | Griffith Barke Service | Ken Harrison Bruce Hodgson |
Ford Cortina Mk.I 220 | 114 |
26 | A | 5 | 52 | G Shoesmith | Gary Shoesmith Tony Robards |
Vauxhall Viva | 113 |
27 | D | 8 | 10 | Warren Weldon Bill Slattery |
Studebaker Lark | 112 | |
28 | A | 6 | 55 | BMC | Kevin Bartlett Ron Haylen |
Morris Mini de Luxe | 111 |
29 | A | 7 | 47 | John Marchiori Arnold Ahrenfeld |
Ford Cortina Mk.I 220 | 111 | |
30 | B | 6 | 32 | John Rhodin Pty ltd | Arthur Treloar Colin Bond |
Isuzu Bellett 1500 | 109 |
31 | A | 8 | 50 | P.Taylor T.Egan |
Morris Mini de Luxe | 109 | |
32 | B | 7 | 34 | John Connolly Rex Emmett |
Renault R8 | 108 | |
33 | A | 9 | 49 | Bill Daly Ray Heffernan |
Fiat 850 | 106 | |
34 | D | 9 | 6 | Peter Brown Ray Gulson |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 106 | |
35 | A | 10 | 44 | BMC | Steve Harvey Laurie Stewart |
Morris Mini de Luxe | 105 |
36 | B | 8 | 37 | Peter Cray Don Holland |
Morris Cooper | 99 | |
37 | D | 10 | 13 | Bob Salter Ken Wiggins |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 94 | |
38 | C | 10 | 28 | Evan Thomas Lionel Williams |
Holden HD X2 | 84 | |
39 | B | 9 | 35 | George Forrest Frank Hann |
Morris Cooper | 81 | |
40 | D | 11 | 8 | Carl Kennedy David Walker |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 64 | |
DNF | D | 23 | Bill Barnett Don Johnston |
Humber Vogue | 106 | ||
DNF | D | 16 | Fred Otten Mick Crampton |
Fiat 2300 | 65 | ||
DNF | D | 9 | Keith Russell Colin Wear |
Triumph 2000 | 60 | ||
DNF | D | 14 | Ford Motor Co | Bob Jane George Reynolds |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 58 | |
DNF | D | 15 | Ron Hodgson Bob Beasely |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 54 | ||
DNF | A | 46 | Bill Burns Brian Lawler |
Fiat 850 | 54 | ||
DNF | A | 58 | Don Mudd Tony Kavanagh |
Vauxhall Viva | 48 | ||
DNF | B | 38 | Brian McGrath David Frazer |
Renault R8 | 42 | ||
DNF | B | 33 | Ron Clarke John Prisk |
Morris Cooper | 25 | ||
DNF | C | 25 | BMC | John French John Harvey |
Morris Cooper S | 24 | |
DNF | D | 17 | Arthur Davis Paul Mander |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 14 | ||
DNF | C | 20 | Ian Cook Ken Lindsay |
Morris Cooper S | 11 | ||
DNF | C | 27 | Doug Chivas Phil Barnes |
Morris Cooper S | 10 | ||
DNF | A | 59 | Trevor Meehan Pat Holmes |
Fiat 850 | 6 | ||
DSQ | D | 1 | Ford Motor Co | Ian Geoghegan Leo Geoghegan |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 130 | |
DNS | A | 46 | Scuderia Veloce Datsun Racing Team |
Spencer Martin Bill Brown |
Datsun 1300 | ||
DNS | A | 48 | Scuderia Veloce Datsun Racing Team |
Tony Simmons Mike Champion |
Datsun 1300 | ||
DNS | A | 51 | Scuderia Veloce Datsun Racing Team |
Bruce Demuth Bill Orr |
Datsun 1300 | ||
Statistics
- Fastest Lap - #29 Brian Foley - 3:13.7 (lap record)
- Average Speed - 110 km/h
- Race Time - 7:16:45.1
References
- Greenhalgh, David; Thomas B. Floyd; Bill Tuckey (2000). "1965 Ah-so; maybe next year". Australia's Greatest Motor Race 1960-1999 The first 40 years. Hornsby: Chevron Publishing Group Pty Limited. pp. 130–137 & 453. ISBN 1-875221-12-3.
Further reading
- Australian Motor Manual, December 1965, page 47
External links
- CAMS Manual reference to Australian titles
- www.touringcarracing.net
- race results
- Autopics Bathurst images