Racing a Grand Prix Maserati around the short, tight Darley circuit outside Melbourne would have been somewhat akin to racing in ‘yer backyard…
Reg Hunt pretty much became-the-pace when he imported this 2.5-litre Maserati A6GCM (chassis ) to Australia, he was stiff not to win the ‘AGP at Port Wakefield, South Australia with it in 1955.
These two Australian Motor Manual excerpts highlight the controversy surrounding the selection of Port Wakefield as the AGP venue that year given its short length – only the Goulburn course used for the first AGP in 1927 was shorter – and put in the electronic public domain Hunt taking the Darley lap record in his lead up preparation to the AGP.
See here for details of the A6GCM; https://primotipo.com/2017/12/12/hunts-gp-maser-a6gcm-2038/ and here for a piece on Darley; https://primotipo.com/2019/12/31/darley-bacchus-marsh-victoria/ and the 1955 AGP here; https://primotipo.com/2017/07/28/battle-of-the-melbourne-motor-dealers/
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