John Roxburgh (racing driver)
John Roxburgh, (25 April 1932 – 2 August 1993) was an Australian racing driver, and motor sports administrator.
Roxburgh's career was highlighted by taking victory in the original
Datsun Racing Team. He won Class A at Bathurst in 1967 driving a Datsun 1000 (B10 series), and Class B in 1968 in a Datsun 1600 (510 series), co-driving with triple Australian Grand Prix winner Doug Whiteford
on each occasion.
Roxburgh also won the 1962 Six Hour Le Mans at Caversham in Western Australia driving a Lotus 15 with Derek Jolly.[1]
He later turned to the administration of the sport, serving as
FIA where he also served as a track safety inspector and chairman, famously not passing the street circuit for the inaugural Wellington 500 in 1985, forcing the organisers to re-write the race regulations to make it a national rather than international race to allow it to proceed.[2][3]
Roxburgh died in 1993, aged 61. He was the first winner of the Bathurst 1000 and its predecessors to die.[4]
References
- ^ Lotus wins in six hour Le Mans race at Caversham WA, Australian Motor Sports, August 1962, pages 40 & 41
- ^ CAMS Report, Issue no 107, September 1993
- ^ 1985 Wellington 500
- ^ "Death of first Great Race winner" in Normoyle, Steve (Ed.) The Great Race 1993/1994 (Chevron Publishing, 1993) p. 74.
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