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
New Zealand Grand Prix most notably when it was a part of the Tasman Series. In this era, several contemporary Formula One drivers would compete in the race, often with great success. Six Formula One World Drivers' Champions have won the New Zealand Grand Prix, including three-time champions Sir Jack Brabham and Sir Jackie Stewart. In the years following the demise of the Tasman Series, Formula One drivers did not regularly compete in extra-curricular races, and as such the New Zealand Grand Prix lost many of its big-name entrants. It was run for smaller local or continental formulae in the 1990s and 2000s such