Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The 1962 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula Libre motor race held at Caversham in Western Australia on 18 November 1962. It was the twenty seventh Australian Grand Prix and the sixth and final race in the 1962 Australian Drivers' Championship. The race, held at the former United States Navy air base in still remote Western Australia, had just ten starters, seven of which had made the long trek across the Nullarbor Plain from the eastern states, joined by just three local entries. It was the second of only three Australian Grands Prix to be held in Western Australia and the next would not be held until 1979.Bruce McLaren won his first Australian Grand Prix, beginning a new era for the Grand Prix in which the results would become dominated by professional drivers and teams rather than the gentleman amateurs who had won most of the post-war races. It also signalled the beginning of an AGP rivalry between the two senior drivers from the region over the Grand Prix, between McLaren and Jack Brabham who were already long rivals racing Formula One overseas, a rivalry that with the growing influence of the two in Formula One would assist in the creation of the Tasman Series in 1964.. }
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- 1962_Australian_Grand_Prix abstract "The 1962 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula Libre motor race held at Caversham in Western Australia on 18 November 1962. It was the twenty seventh Australian Grand Prix and the sixth and final race in the 1962 Australian Drivers' Championship. The race, held at the former United States Navy air base in still remote Western Australia, had just ten starters, seven of which had made the long trek across the Nullarbor Plain from the eastern states, joined by just three local entries. It was the second of only three Australian Grands Prix to be held in Western Australia and the next would not be held until 1979.Bruce McLaren won his first Australian Grand Prix, beginning a new era for the Grand Prix in which the results would become dominated by professional drivers and teams rather than the gentleman amateurs who had won most of the post-war races. It also signalled the beginning of an AGP rivalry between the two senior drivers from the region over the Grand Prix, between McLaren and Jack Brabham who were already long rivals racing Formula One overseas, a rivalry that with the growing influence of the two in Formula One would assist in the creation of the Tasman Series in 1964.".