birth_place nationality year titles wins article_title name retired
brisbane , qld. , australia australia australian 1961 australian touring car championship australian touring car champ . 1 bill pitt -lrb- racing driver -rrb-
 bill pitt 1963
bill pitt -lrb- racing driver -rrb-

william -lrb- bill -rrb- pitt is a former australian racing driver and motor racing official .
for most of his racing career pitt was associated with jaguars , competing with xk120 and d-type sports cars , a mark viii rally car and a mark 1 touring car with the assistance of queensland 's jaguar agents cyril and geordie anderson of westco motors .
pitt first became involved in racing as an official at the 1948 australian grand prix , but gradually moved into competing himself .
by the mid 1950s he was a front running sports car driver .
pitt co-drove a jaguar xk120 to a four lap victory in what for 48 years was australia 's only 24-hour motor race , the 1954 mount druitt 24 hours road race , driving with geordie anderson and charles swinburne .
in 1956 anderson purchased a jaguar d-type in which pitt placed fourth behind two factory-entered maseratis and a ferrari in the australian tourist trophy at albert park in november of that year .
the car was badly damaged the following weekend , but was rebuilt and , with pitt driving , became the dominant feature of australian sports car racing .
frequently , because of his domination of sports car racing , pitt raced the d-type against grand prix type machinery in search of competition , finishing third in the 1957 queensland road racing championship , a race which counted towards the 1957 australian drivers ' championship .
the d-type was sold in 1959 and pitt and anderson next invested in a jaguar mark 1 saloon to race in the growing touring car category .
after finishing second behind david mckay in the 1960 australian touring car championship , pitt became the first queenslander to win the title , achieving the victory at his home circuit , lowood , in 1961 .
pitt retired from racing in 1963 but continued in his role as a queensland representative of the national control council of the confederation of australian motor sport until 1964 .
