1958 Australian Grand Prix 1958 Australian Grand Prix The 1958 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race for Formula Libre racing cars, held at the Mount Panorama Circuit, near Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia on 6 October 1958. The race had 26 starters. It was the first Australian Grand Prix to specifically exclude sports cars from the entry. The race was the twenty third Australian Grand Prix and the seventh race of the 1958 Australian Drivers' Championship. Lex Davison won his third AGP, equalling the record held jointly by Bill Thompson and Doug Whiteford. Results as follows. '# New Zealander Merv Neal was
Aintree Motor Racing Circuit to the Grands Prix, which were organised by the British Automobile Racing Club, the circuit also held eleven non-championship Formula 1 races, known as the Aintree 200, first won by Stirling Moss in 1954 with the last winner being Jack Brabham, in April 1964 (Brabham had made his Formula One debut at the circuit in the 1955 British GP). Aintree was the location for the famous race in 1955 in which Stirling Moss won his first British Grand Prix, driving a Mercedes. Two years later, he and Tony Brooks (sharing the Vanwall) became the first British drivers to win both