{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2012}} {{sources needed|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox racing driver | name = Doug Whiteford | image = | image_size = <!-- defaults to 180px unless a value is entered --> | caption = | nationality = {{flagicon|AUS}} Australian | birth_name = <!-- Only if different from name --> | birth_date = {{Birth date text|1914}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and given age|df=yes|1979|1|15|64}} | death_place = | retired = <!-- year of retirement --> | relatives = <!-- list of notable relatives with line breaks --> | last_series = Australian Drivers' Championship | years_active = 1957–1960 | teams = | starts = | wins = | poles = | fastest_laps = <!-- if known --> | best_finish = <!-- if a final championship placing has been recorded --> | year = <!-- use piped link if season article exists --> | prev_series = <!-- previous series with line breaks --> | prev_series_years = | titles = <!-- championship titles --> | title_years = | awards = | award_years = }}
'''Douglas Seymour Whiteford'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Motorsport Memorial - Doug Whiteford |url=http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/LWFWIW/focusLWFWIW.php?db=LWF&db2=ms&n=157|access-date=17 June 2024 |website=Motorsport Memorial}}</ref> (1914 – 15 January 1979) was an Australian racing driver.
Whiteford raced from the mid-1930s through to 1975 with a short period of inactivity during the 1960s.<ref name=Bell>Ray Bell, Vale – Doug Whiteford, Racing Car News, February 1979, page 11</ref> He was best known as a competitor in the Australian Grand Prix which he won three times in four years. He raced a Talbot-Lago T26 Formula One car which he used to win his second and third Grands Prix. His third win was at the first Albert Park street circuit which today hosts the modern Australian Grand Prix. Whiteford first contested the Australian Grand Prix in 1948<ref>The official 50 race history of the Australian Grand Prix, R&T Publishing, 1986, page 135</ref> and continued to compete in the race regularly up to 1961 with a final appearance in the 1964 event.<ref>The official 50-race history of the Australian Grand Prix</ref> Whiteford also raced touring cars well into the 1970s.<ref>Bill Tuckey, Australia's Greatest Motor Race, 1981</ref> As a regular member of the Datsun Racing Team he was a fixture in small capacity Datsuns, usually as partner to John Roxburgh.
Whiteford died on 15 January 1979.<ref name=Bell/>
==Career results== [[File:Ford of Doug Whiteford (1950 AGP).jpg|thumb|Whiteford won the 1950 Australian Grand Prix driving a Ford V8 Special]] [[File:Talbot Lago T26C of Doug Whiteford.jpg|thumb|Whiteford won the 1952 Australian Grand Prix driving a Talbot-Lago T26C]] [[File:1973 Datsun 240K Coupe Race Car (22958780905).jpg|thumb|Whiteford drove this Datsun 240K in the 1974 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, placing seventh. The car is pictured in 2015.]] {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;" |- ! Season ! Series / race ! Position ! Car ! Entrant |- | 1950 | Australian Grand Prix |align="center" | 1st | Ford V8 Special | D. Whiteford |- | 1950 | New South Wales 100 |align="center" | 1st | Ford V8 Special | |- |1951 |Redex 50 Mile Championship |align="center" | 1st |Talbot-Lago T26C | |- | 1952 |Australian Grand Prix |align="center" | 1st |Talbot-Lago T26C | |- | 1953 |Australian Grand Prix |align="center" | 1st |Talbot-Lago T26C | |- | 1955 | Argus Trophy |align="center" | 1st | Talbot-Lago | |- | 1955 | Moomba TT |align="center" | 1st | Triumph TR2 | |- | 1956 | Moomba TT |align="center" | 5th | Triumph TR2 | |- | 1957 | Australian Drivers' Championship |align="center" | 11th | Maserati 300S | |- | 1957 | Victorian Tourist Trophy | align="center" | 1st | Maserati 300S | D Whiteford |- | 1958 | Australian Drivers' Championship |align="center" | 5th | Maserati 300S | |- | 1958 | Victorian Tourist Trophy | align="center" | 1st | Maserati 300S | D Whiteford |- | 1959 | Australian Drivers' Championship |align="center" | 6th | Maserati 300S | |- | 1960 | Australian Drivers' Championship |align="center" | 13th | Cooper T51 Climax | |- | 1960 | Australian Tourist Trophy |align="center" | 2nd | Maserati 300S | |- |} {{Clear}}
==References== {{reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-sports}} {{succession box | before = John Crouch | title = Winner of the Australian Grand Prix | years = 1950| after = Warwick Pratley}} {{succession box | before = Warwick Pratley | title = Winner of the Australian Grand Prix | years = 1952 & 1953| after = Lex Davison}} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Whiteford, Doug}} Category:Australian racing drivers Category:Grand Prix drivers Category:1979 deaths Category:Tasman Series drivers Category:1914 births