Lowood

The flat and disused Lowood Airfield was venue for the 1946 Queensland Grand Prix and was used for racing intermittently for the next ten years. It was nominated to host 1949 Australian GP before a local religious group objected to racing on a Sunday. The Queensland Racing Drivers’ Club eventually took control of Lowood in 1956 and developed it into the state’s premier racing facility. 11 years after its aborted first attempt, Lowood held the Australian GP in hot and dusty conditions on 12 June 1960, which Alec Mildren’s Cooper T51-Maserati won by half a second after a frantic final lap dice with Lex Davison Aston Martin DBR4/300. Bill Pitt led a Jaguar 1-2-3 when Lowood held the following year’s Australian Touring Car Championship race. It closed to racing in November 1966.