The 1949 Australian Grand Prix was motor race held at a circuit made up from the runways of a World War II airbase near Leyburn Queensland on 18 September 1949. The race was held over 35 laps of the 7.0 kilometre circuit for a race distance of 242 kilometres.It was the fourteenth Australian Grand Prix and the first to be held in Queensland. It was also the first to feature a mass start of the entire grid with grid positions decided by qualifying times.
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