in a pointer towards the future the race results outright order was dominated by the new xl series ford falcon were three of the first four cars home, led by the factory supported car of defending race champions harry firth and bob jane. on the same lap as firth/jane was the class a winning studebaker of fred sutherland and bill graetz, who won the class by four laps, defeating the factory supported ford zephyr being driven by geoff russell and david anderson, denying them of a third consecutive class victory. the performance of the big studebaker was noteworthy in that while larks continued to be entered into the race until 1968 this was as close as they would get to an outright victory.