1962 Australian Grand Prix

1962 Australian Grand Prix
Race 6 of 6 in 1962 Australian Drivers' Championship
Race details
Date	18 November 1962
Location	Caversham, Western Australia
Course	Airfield circuit
Course length	3.621 km (2.25 miles)
Distance	60 laps, 198.78 km (123.54 miles)
Weather	Sunny
Pole position
Driver	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax
Time	1'19.6
Fastest lap
Driver	Jack Brabham	Repco Brabham-Climax[1]
Time	1'20.0
Podium
First	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax
Second	John Youl	Cooper-Climax
Third	Bib Stillwell	Cooper-Climax

The 1962 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race for Formula Libre cars,^[2] held at the Caversham circuit in Western Australia, Australia on 18 November 1962. It was the twenty seventh Australian Grand Prix and the sixth and final race in the 1962 Australian Drivers' Championship. The Grand Prix meeting was organised by the Western Australian Sporting Car Club Inc.^[3]

Held at the former United States Navy air base in still remote Western Australia, the race had just ten starters, seven of which had made the long journey across the Nullarbor Plain from the eastern states, and three of which were local entries. It was the third of only four Australian Grands Prix to be contested in Western Australia with the next held in 1979.

Bruce McLaren won his first Australian Grand Prix, beginning a new era for the race in which the results would be dominated by professional drivers and teams rather than the gentleman amateurs who had won most of the post-war AGP races. It also began an AGP rivalry between the two senior drivers from the region, McLaren and Jack Brabham who were already long-time rivals in Formula One racing.