Barry Mulholland

Barry Mulholland (14 June 1940 – 28 April 2006) was an Australian racing driver.

While a skilled racing driver, Mulholland was more infamously known as Bruce McPhee's 'contractual obligation' co-driver. In endurance production touring cars McPhee raced in during the 1960s which required two drivers, Mulholland would drive one lap at approximate mid-distance before handing the car back to McPhee. Mulholland holds the record for fewest completed laps to win a Bathurst 500 when he co-drove with McPhee to win the 1968 Bathurst 500. (Current rules limit driving to 3 hours, 30 minutes of consecutive driving, and a maximum distance a driver may run, and since 1987, a driver must complete between 52-109 laps each, with no driver completing more than two-thirds distance, 109 laps currently, of the race.) Mulholland later owned the car that won the race in 1968, and died aged 65.^[1]

Mulholland drove just 5 racing laps in the Bathurst 500 between 1963 and 1968 (missing the 1967 race), with the enviable finishing record of 6th (1964), 2nd (1965), 3rd (1966), 1st (1968) and finally 2nd in 1969.

Career Results

Complete Bathurst 500 results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1964	Frank Delandro Motors	Bruce McPhee	Ford Cortina Mk.I GT	C	126	6th	6th
1965	Grawill Motors Pty Ltd	Bruce McPhee	Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500	D	130	2nd	2nd
1966	Regal Motors	Bruce McPhee	Morris Cooper S	C	129	3rd	3rd
1968	Wyong Motors Pty Ltd	Bruce McPhee	Holden HK Monaro GTS327	C	129	1st	1st
1969	Kloster Pty Ltd	Bruce McPhee	Ford XW Falcon GTHO	D	130	2nd	2nd

Notes

1. Normoyle, Steve (Ed.) The Great Race 2006 (Chevron Publishing, 2006) p. 62