# 1975 Australian Sports Car Championship

The 1975 Australian Sports Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title open to Group A Sports Cars and Group D Production Sports Cars. The championship was contested over a single race staged at the Phillip Island circuit in Victoria, Australia on 30 November 1975. The race was run over 30 laps of the 4.76 km circuit, a total race distance of 143 km. It was the seventh Australian Sports Car Championship, and the only one in the twenty-year history of the title to be contested over a single race rather than over a series of races.
The championship was won by Garrie Cooper, driving an Elfin MS7.

## Results

| Position | Driver | No. | Car | Entrant | Laps |
| 1 | Garrie Cooper | 12 | Elfin MS7 Repco-Holden | Ansett Team Elfin | 30 |
| 2 | Henry Michelle | 1 | Elfin 360 Repco | Henry Michelle | 29 |
| 3 | Fred Gibson | 33 | Alfa Romeo T33 | Alfa Romeo Dealers | 29 |
| 4 | Paul Gibson | | Rennmax Repco | Shell Racing | 28 |
| 5 | Stuart Kostera | 9 | Matich SR3A Repco | Stuart Kostera | 28 |
| 6 | Barry Singleton | | Elfin 360 Repco | Barry Singleton Motors | 28 |
| 7 | Greg Doidge | | Elfin 300 | GSD Sheetmetal | 27 |
| 8 | Andrew Roberts | | Roberts S2 | Andrew Roberts | 27 |
| 9 | Peter Jones | | Cheetah Clubman Toyota | Motor Improvements | 27 |
| 10 | Bob Romano | | Elfin 360 | Bob Romano | 27 |
| 11 | Jim Davidson | | Lotus Elan | | 26 |
| 12 | Vince Gregory | | ASP 342 Clubman | | 25 |
| 13 | Peter Middleton | | Nganti Ford | | 25 |
| 14 | Jim Doig | | Motorlab ASP | | 25 |
| 15 | James Bidstrup | | ASP Clubman | | 25 |
| 16 | Reg Byrne | | MGB | | 24 |
| 17 | Geoff Walker | | GP Datsun | | 24 |
| 18 | Steve Webb | | Bolwell Nagari | | 24 |
| 19 | Ray Gymer | | Triumph TR5 | | 23 |
| 20 | Gay Cesario | | Fiat 124S | | 23 |
| DNF | Tom Tymons | | Farrell C1 | | 23 |
| DNF | Jim Phillips | | Rennmax Repco | | 22 |
| DNF | Graeme Baird | | Kregol Ford | | 22 |
| DNF | Russell Collis | | Gordon Clubman | | 22 |
| DNF | Ray Bell | | Hustler SC1 | | 22 |
| DNF | Peter Hopwood | | Lotus Elan | | 21 |
| DNF | Kevin Norden | | Elfin | | 14 |
| DNF | Alan Gissing | | Gissing Holden | | 12 |
| DNF | Grant Gibson | | Lotus 23B Oldsmobile | | 10 |
| DNF | Keith Poole | 37 | McLaren M8D Chevrolet | C&C Autos | |
| DNF | Geoff Watson | | Watson Corolla | | |
| DNF | Rex Colliver | | Lotus 47 | | |
| DNF | Chris Hocking | | Gordon C2 | | |
| DNF | Peter Beasley | | Jensen Healey | | |
| DNF | Doug Clark | | Wright Renault | | |
| DNF | David Phillips | | Lotus 23 | | |
| DNF | Peter Woodward | | Lotus 47 | | |
| DNF | Ross Wemyss | | Farrell | | |
| DNF | Doug Sheath | | Bolwell | | |
| DNF | Bob Kennedy | | Triumph TR5 | | |
| DNF | Tim Trevor | | MG Midget | | |
| DNF | Richard Warland | | ASP | | |
| DNF | John Latham | | MG Midget | | |
* Number of entries: 66
* Number of starters: Unknown
* Number of finishers: 20
* Pole position: Garrie Cooper (Elfin MS7), 1:47.2
* Winner's race time: 54:44.6
* Fatstest lap: Garrie Cooper (Elfin MS7) 1:45.6

## Notes & references

* ↑ CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, 1975, pages 86-87
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Sports Car Championships, Australian Competition Yearbook, 1976 Edition, pages 86-87
* ↑ Australian Titles, www.camsmanual.com.au via web.archive.org Retrieved on 1 November 2015
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Cooper Captures Sports Title, Racing Car News, January 1976, pages 70-71
* 1 2 3 Australian Sports Car Championship Philip Island, Australian Auto Action, 4 December 1975, page 11
* ↑ The Racing Car News race report lists 41 cars in its grid line-up. Australian Competition Yearbook infers that there were 40 starters and names 29, including two (Gymer and Cesario) who are not included in the Racing Car News listing