1959 Australian Grand Prix

1959 Australian Grand Prix
Race 3 of 12 in 1959 Australian Drivers' Championship
Race details
Date	2 March 1959
Location	Longford Circuit, Longford, Tasmania
Course	Temporary road circuit
Course length	7.242 km (4.501 miles)
Distance	25 laps, 175 km (110 miles)
Weather	Sunny
Pole position
Driver	Stan Jones	Maserati
Fastest lap
Driver	Arnold Glass	Maserati
Time	2'27
Podium
First	Stan Jones	Maserati
Second	Len Lukey	Cooper-Climax
Third	Arnold Glass	Maserati

The 1959 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula Libre motor race^[1] held at the Longford Circuit in Tasmania, Australia on 2 March 1959.

The race, which had 13 starters, was the twenty fourth Australian Grand Prix and the third race of the 1959 Australian Drivers' Championship. Stan Jones won his only AGP, breaking through after years of trying with the Maybach series of specials to win in his Maserati 250F, in what would be the last Australian Grand Prix victory for a front-engined car.

The grid for the Grand Prix was determined by race times set in two qualifying races on the Saturday prior to the main race. The first heat was won by Doug Whiteford from Arnold Glass and Bill Patterson. The second heat was won by Jones in a race time almost 20 seconds shorter than Whiteford's, giving him the pole position, from Len Lukey and Alec Mildren.