1955 Bathurst 100 Explained

The 1955 Bathurst 100 was a motor race held at the Mount Panorama Circuit near Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia on Monday, 11 April 1955.^[1] It was contested on a handicap basis with the first car, the MG TC Special of Jack Carter starting 13 minutes before the last car, the Maserati of Reg Hunt.^[2]

The race was won on handicap by Curly Brydon driving an MG Special.^[3] Reg Hunt driving a Maserati set the fastest race time, thus winning the Scratch section.^[3]

Race classification

Position	Driver	No.	Car	Entrant	Handicap	Handicap race time	Laps	Scratch Pos.	Scratch race time
1	Curly Brydon	9	MG Special	A. Brydon	5m 12s	88m 12s		4	83m 00s
2	Lex Davison	77	HWM Jaguar	Ecurie Australie	10m 24s	89m 43s		3	79m 19s
3	Ern Seeliger	2	Cooper Bristol	S. Jones	10m 50s	89m 43s		2	78m 53s
4	Ray Fowler	16	MG Special	R. Fowler	5m 12s	90m 22s		6	85m 10s
5	Reg Hunt	3	Maserati	R. Hunt	13m 00s	90m 55s		1	77m 55s
6	Frank Walters	41	So-Cal V8 Special	F. Walters	4m 20s	91m 00s
?	Jack Masling	5	Jaguar XK120 Special	J. Masling	9m 32s			5	84m 43s
?	Jack Carter	34	MG TC Special	J. Carter	0m 00s
?	Col James	44	MG Special	Barclay Motors	5m 12s
?	Don Wright	20	Citroen Special	D. Wright	?
?	John Ralston	23	MG Special	J. Ralston	0m 52s
?	John Boorman	6	Jaguar C-Type	J. Boorman	9m 32s
?	Bill Ford	22	RVM Riley	R. Evans	3m 02s
?	C. Dean	11	Cooper 1100	S. Jones	6m 30s
DNF	Gordon Greig, Tony Burke	7	Alfa Romeo Alvis	G. Grieg	9m 32s
DNF	Les Murphy	18	MG Q s/c	L. Murphy	?
DNF	Frank Tobin	12	Rizzo Riley	F. Tobin	1m 18s		15
DNF	Holt Binnie	15	MG Special s/c	H. Binnie	5m 12s		15
DNF	Austen Tauranac	48	Ralt	A. Tauranac	?		11
DNF	Bill Binning	49	MG Special	Dulwich Auto Sales	0m 52s		4
DNS	Stan Jones	1	Maybach	S. Jones	13m 00s

As there are known to have been 25 starters,^[3] the above listing is incomplete.

Notes

• Promoter: Australian Racing Drivers Club Ltd.^[1]
• Attendance: 35,000 ^[3]
• Number of starters: 25 ^[3]
• Number of finishers: Unknown
• Winner's average speed: 72.7 mph ^[3]
• Fastest time: Reg Hunt, 77 minutes 55 seconds ^[3]

External links

• Bathurst Races Easter 1955, www.youtube.com

Notes and References

1. Official Programme, Bathurst '100', Easter Race Meeting, Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst - Monday April 11, 1955
2. John Medley, Bathurst - Cradle of Australian Motor Sport, pages 157 to 159
3. Bathurst '100', Australian Motor Sports, May 1955, pages 185 to 187 plus page 192