page_title: Australian Formula Junior Championship
section_title: Champions
hierarchical_section_title: Australian Formula Junior Championship / Champions
caption_attribution_description: English: The Elfin Formula Junior of Doug Anderson competing at Wakefield Park on 8 February 2009. This is chassis no 625, first raced by Frank Matich at Warwick Farm Raceway on 16 October 1962. Matich won the 1962 Australian Formula Junior Championship in a sister car, chassis no 627.
context_page_description: The Australian Formula Junior Championship was a short-lived motor racing championship held in Australia for drivers of open-wheel racing cars conforming to Formula Junior regulations. The championship was sanctioned by the Australian governing body CAMS and held for just two years. While Formula Junior cars began appearing in Australia as early as 1960, the category did not get a national championship until 1962. Both championships held were single event championships and were held in 1962 and 1963. The main distinguishing feature of Formula Junior in this period was its engine capacity, which was set at 1100 cubic centimetres, with engines being sourced from a regularly available production road car with the Ford engine available in the Ford Anglia amongst the most prolific. For 1964 Formula Junior was combined into the newly established Australian Formula 2 which also featured 1000 cc engined cars with specialist racing engines. This championship was the first major title in Australia to be held to an international set of regulations.
caption: An Elfin FJ similar to the car in which Frank Matich won the 1962 Australian Formula Junior Championship
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