Championships, he became the only driver to ever win the Australian Grand Prix in both World Championship and Australian domestic formats (the 1982 AGP also counted as a round of the 1982 Australian Drivers' Championship, though none of the overseas drivers were eligible for series points).

The 1983 race, while only attracting one current F1 driver in Jacques Laffite, as well as Alan Jones who had made an abortive F1 comeback