Midge Bosworth

Midge Bosworth, (born 23 June 1941),^[1] is a former Australian racing driver.

The Ford Cortina GT500 in which Bosworth and Barry Seton won the 1965 Armstrong 500 at Bathurst

Bosworth raced in the 1960s and is most remembered for winning the 1965 Bathurst 500, co-driving with Barry Seton in a Fairfield Motors entered Ford Cortina GT500. It was Bosworth's second, and last, start in the Bathurst 500, giving him the distinction along with Harry Firth (1967) and Graham Bailey (1986), of winning the event in his last drive at Mount Panorama.

Bosworth was only 24 when he won Bathurst in 1965. He held the honour of being the youngest driver to win the race for no less than 31 years, until Craig Lowndes won the 1996 AMP Bathurst 1000 in a Holden VR Commodore when he was 22.^[2]

Notes

↑ telephone conversation with Bosworth on 25 February 1988
↑ "Youngest winners" in Normoyle, Steve (Ed.) The Great Race 1996 (Chevron Publishing 1996, ISSN 1031-6124) p. 229.

Sporting positions
Preceded by Bob Jane George Reynolds	Winner of the Bathurst 500 1965 (with Barry Seton)	Succeeded by Bob Holden Rauno Aaltonen

Bathurst 1000 winners

Nine-time	Peter Brock

Seven-time	Jim Richards

Six-time	Craig Lowndes Larry Perkins Mark Skaife

Four-time	Harry Firth Bob Jane Allan Moffat Greg Murphy Steven Richards Jamie Whincup

Three-time	Dick Johnson Garth Tander

Two-time	John Bowe John Goss Allan Grice Russell Ingall Rick Kelly Tony Longhurst

One-time	Aaltonen Bailey Bargwanna Bartlett Bond Bosworth D. Brabham G. Brabham Bright Coad Davison Dumbrell Fitzpatrick French Geoghegan Gibson Hahne Hansford Harvey Holden Ickx T. Kelly McLeod McPhee Mezera B. Morris P. Morris Mostert Mulholland Parsons Percat Percy Reynolds Roberts Roxburgh Rydell Sampson Seton Winterbottom

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