1956 Australian Tourist Trophy

The 1956 Australian Tourist Trophy was a 100-mile motor race for sports cars,[1] staged at the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 25 November 1956.[2] It was the first in a sequence of annual Australian Tourist Trophy races, each of these being recognised by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport as the Australian Championship for sports cars.[3] The race was won by Stirling Moss driving a Maserati 300S.[4]

  1. ^ Australian Tourist Trophy (Entry list), First Day Programme, Australian Tourist Trophy (1956), page 47
  2. ^ "RACE FANS SEE DRIVER HURT IN CRASH". The Argus (Melbourne). Victoria, Australia. 26 November 1956. p. 5. Retrieved 22 May 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ National Titles, 1961 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, page 53
  4. ^ Athol Yeomans, Moss in walkover win, Behra second, Wheels (magazine), January 1957, pages 60 & 61.