| Type: | CUST |
| Description: | Race 6 of 6 in 1962 Australian Drivers' Championship |
| Grand Prix: | Australian |
| Country: | Australia |
| Location: | Caversham, Western Australia |
| Date: | 18 November |
| Year: | 1962 |
| Course: | Airfield circuit |
| Course Mi: | 2.25 |
| Course Km: | 3.621 |
| Distance Laps: | 60 |
| Distance Mi: | 123.54 |
| Distance Km: | 198.78 |
| Weather: | Sunny |
| Pole Driver: | Bruce McLaren |
| Pole Country: | NZ |
| Pole Team: | Cooper-Climax |
| Pole Time: | 1'19.6 |
| Fast Driver: | Jack Brabham |
| Fast Team: | Repco Brabham-Climax[1] |
| Fast Time: | 1'20.0 |
| Fast Country: | AUS |
| First Driver: | Bruce McLaren |
| First Country: | NZ |
| First Team: | Cooper-Climax |
| Second Driver: | John Youl |
| Second Country: | AUS |
| Second Team: | Cooper-Climax |
| Third Driver: | Bib Stillwell |
| Third Country: | AUS |
| Third Team: | Cooper-Climax |
The 1962 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race for Formula Libre cars,[2] held at the Caversham circuit in Western Australia, 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 Grand Prix meeting was organised by the Western Australian Sporting Car Club Inc.[3]
Held at the former United States Navy air base in still remote Western Australia, the race had just ten starters, seven of which had made the long journey across the Nullarbor Plain from the eastern states, and three of which were local entries. It was the third of only four Australian Grands Prix to be contested in Western Australia with the next held in 1979.
Bruce McLaren won his first Australian Grand Prix, beginning a new era for the race in which the results would be dominated by professional drivers and teams rather than the gentleman amateurs who had won most of the post-war AGP races. It also began an AGP rivalry between the two senior drivers from the region, McLaren and Jack Brabham who were already long-time rivals in Formula One racing.
Results as follows.[4]
| Pos | No.[5] | Driver | Entrant | Car | Laps | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 47 |  Bruce McLaren | Bruce McLaren | Cooper T62 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.7L | 60 | 1h 21m 58.4s |
| 2 | 5 |  John Youl | Scuderia Veloce | Cooper T55 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L | 60 | 1h 22m 40.0s |
| 3 | 6 | Bib Stillwell | B. S. Stillwell | Cooper T55 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L | 60 | 1h 22m 44.7s |
| 4 | 9[6] | Bill Patterson | Bill Patterson Motors | Cooper T51 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L | 57 | |
| 5 | 7 | Arnold Glass | Capitol Motors | BRM P48 / Buick 3.9L | 55 | |
| 6 | 14 | Syd Negus | S. A. Negus | Cooper T20 / Repco-Holden 2.3L | 47 | |
| 7 | 2 | Ted Edwards[7] | E. D. Edwards | T.S. Special / GMC 4.5L | 47 | |
| 8 | 4 | Lex Davison | Ecurie Australie | Cooper T53 / Coventry Climax FPF 2.7L | 46 | |
| 9 | 26 | Jeff Dunkerton | Reimann Motors | Lotus Super 7 / Ford 1.5 | 46 | |
| Ret | 1 | Jack Brabham | Ecurie Vitesse | Repco Brabham BT4[8] / Coventry Climax FPF 2.5L | 50 | Accident |
| DNS[9] | 10 | Ron Downey[10] | Sporting Cars | Ferrari 166 F2 / Chevrolet 4.6L | - | Engine[11] |
| DNS | 12 | Ron McCormack | Ron McCormack | Maybach 3 / Chevrolet 4.6L | - | |
| DNS | 15 | Jack Ayers | Superior Cars | Alta F2 / Holden 2.4L | - | |
| DNS | 17 | Dave Gordon | Dave Sullivan Motors | DJ Special / Holden 2.5L | - | |
| DNS | 11 | Wally Higgs | W. Higgs | Peugeot Special / Peugeot 1.1L | - | Engine |
| DNS | 18 | Don Willison[12] | Don Willison | HRD Special / Vincent 1.0L | - | |