1932 Australian Grand Prix

The 1932 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race held at the Phillip Island circuit in Victoria, Australia on 14 March 1932.[1] It was the fifth Australian Grand Prix and the fifth to be held at Phillip Island.[1]

The race was organized by the Light Car Club of Australia, formerly known as the Victorian Light Car Club and was limited to cars having an engine with a piston displacement of 2000cc or less.[1] It was contested using a straight handicap system with the winner being the first car to complete the 31 laps and the previous practice of cars contesting four classes was discontinued.[1] The race, in which there were 18 starters, was won by Bill Thompson driving a Bugatti.[1][2] Thompson was also awarded the Herald Trophy for recording the fastest time of the race.[1]

Classification

Race winner Bill Thompson (Bugatti Type 37A) contesting the 1932 Australian Grand Prix
Pos [3] No. [1] Driver [3] Entrant [1] Car [1] Laps [3] Handicap time [3] Actual time [3]
1 1 Bill Thompson Woolworth Tyre Co Bugatti Type 37A s/c 31 3h 15m 11s 2h 40m 11s
2 12 Geoff Disher G Disher Salmson 31 3h 19m 11s 3h 00m 07s
3 5 Cyril Dickason Austin Distributors P/L Austin 7 Ulster 31 3h 24m 28s 2h 57m 28s
4 9 Mert Wreford M Wreford Bugatti Brescia 31 3h 28m 51s 3h 08m 51s
5 3 Carl Junker C Junker Bugatti Type 39 31 3h 34m 27s 3h 03m 27s
6 22 Bill Northam J Wall Austin 7 s/c 31 3h 36m 24s 3h 30m 24s
7 20 Les Jennings L Jennings Morris Cowley 31 3h 39m 31s 3h 30m 31s
8 18 Clarrie May Austin Distributors P/L Austin 7 s/c 31 3h 40m 36s 3h 31m 36s
9 14 Bill Williamson W Johnson Riley 31 3h 58m 07s 3h 41m 07s
10 4 Barney Dentry G Dentry Riley Ulster 31 4h 11m 55s 3h 41m 55s
Ret 16 Graham Tucker Rhodes Motor Co. P/L Triumph s/c 16
Ret 7 Harold Drake-Richmond [1] H Drake-Richmond Bugatti Type 37 ?
Ret 2 Arthur Terdich AJ Terdich Bugatti Type 37A s/c 8
Ret 15 Alan Chamberlain A Chamberlain Chamberlain Special 4
Ret 11 Ken Hopkins K Hopkins Bugatti Brescia [4] 3+
Ret 6 Bill Lowe WH Lowe Lombard AL3 [5] 3+
Ret 19 Ken McKinney K McKinney Austin 7 2
Ret 8 Albert Edwards A Edwards Alvis FWD s/c 1
DNS (#) [4] 21 Jack Sidebottom [1] J Sidebottom Singer [4] -

(#) Sidebottom's Singer was excluded at scrutineering.[4]

Notes

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 John Blanden, The 1932 Australian Grand Prix, A History Of Australian Grand Prix 1928-39, pages 75 to 90
  2. W Thompson's great drive, The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Wednesday 23 March 1932, page 2, via trove.nla.gov.au
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 1932 Australian Grand Prix, www.formula1results.co.za, as archived at web.archive.org on 4 June 2015
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 1932, The official 50-race history of the Australian Grand Prix, 1986, pages 52 to 59
  5. John B Blanden, Historic Racing Cars in Australia, 1979, page 191
Preceded by
1931 Australian Grand Prix
Australian Grand Prix
1932
Succeeded by
1933 Australian Grand Prix
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