Brabham Racing

Roly Levis reunited with his winning car, photo supplied by Dave Currie

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Even at this stage the race was losing a lot of interest.  Clark was well in front, driving immaculately, Attwood was safely second, with Hulme next and Brabham a drifting fourth.  Well slicked with rubber and oil, the circuit was in no condition for the 100 m.p.h lap unless one of the leaders was prepared to chance his arm, so it all boiled down to a race to finish.  Clark drew out 19 sec on Attwood.  Brabham decided that there was another day and stopped to try and remedy the heating trouble, while Hume plugged on steadily, increasing his advantage, in third place.

With ten laps left, Clark doubled Hulme and all that remained was to see whether the Flying Scot would attempt to bolster his bank account by trying for the 1 min 22.8 sec lap.  But with four Australian Tasman races still to go and 15 points virtually in his pocket he decided that discretion was the order of the day.  Thus he sailed home well clear of Attwood, while Hulme, Gardner, Bartlett and Levis were flagged off some miles behind.  Brabham, who had briefly returned to the scene after his long stop, was credited with the fastest lap of the race, 1 min 25 sec, and was classified as 13th—appropriate in the light of his dismal experiences in the two Tasman races.

Wathch it, Richars there’s a Kiwi close behind you! But as things turned out, Denis Hilme in his Brabham-Repco finished a lap behind Attwood’s BRM.

They put them together and pull them apart and rush them together again for the start. At least that’s what happened to the Mildren Brabham at Wigram.

                                                                                                                       Laps                          min          sec

1 J. Clark                                  2.0 Lotus-Climax V8                             44                              62             34.1*

2 R. Attwood                           2.1 BRM                                                     44                              63             51.0

3 D. Hulme                              2.5 Repco-Brabham V8                        43

4 F. Gardner                           2.5 Brabham-Climax                             42

5 K. Bartlett                            2.5 Brabham-Climax                             41

6 R. Levis                                 1.5 Brabham-Ford                                 40

Fastest lap: J. Brabham, 2.5 Repco-Brabham V8, 1min 25sec (97.41 m.p.h.)

J.Stewart, 2.1 BRM, 1 min 23.8sec (98.8 m.p.h.) in heat* * record

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