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The battle for pole position for the 1977 Australian Grand Prix at Oran Park was held over three qualifying sessions, with the top 8 places separated by only 2 seconds. Pole position would be set by Warwick Brown in a Lola T430 with the time of 65.7s. The cars were set to race, with the starter flag lifted to its highest pointJones’ Lola took offseconds before the flag had dropped. Knowing his mistake Jones pressed hard to try and limit the damage from his inevitable I min stop-go penalty. With Jones seemingly out of contention the race was between Brown in his Lola, Peter Gethin in a Chevron and John Goss in a Matich. Jones charged from the back of the field, on his way setting the fastest lap of 66.4s. He was able to catch up to Goss who sat in 3rd place but his climb through the field was halted when he ran out oflaps. Jones finished forth only 2s behind Goss, Brown won the race with Gethin finishing 15s behind in 2nd.
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