Leo Geoghegan

Leo Geoghegan is a retired Australian racing driver.

Geoghegan is the elder of two sons of New South Wales car dealer Tom Geoghegan, who went on to become two of the dominant names in Australian motor racing in the 1960s. While his brother Ian "Pete" Geoghegan had much of his success in touring car racing winning five Australian Touring Car Championship's, Leo spent much of his racing career in open wheel racing cars and sports racing cars. In addition to being a multi-Australian championship winning driver, Geoghegan has the rare distinction for an Australian of having won an international grand prix, specifically the 1969 Grand Prix of Japan.

Leo also drove Group E Series Production Cars and Group C touring cars at the annual Bathurst 500/1000 endurance race for the Ford Works Team, Chrysler Australia and the Holden Dealer Team.

His best finish at Bathurst for the endurance race was second in 1967 driving a Ford XR Falcon GT with his brother Ian. The pair were flagged in first, but a protest by team mate Harry Firth saw the brothers relegated to second after a re-count of the lap charts. Unfortunately for Leo and Pete, just two hours after the start their Falcon ran out of petrol after it had passed the pits. Leo, who in the car at the time, was able to drive through the back gate into the pits to be refueled, which led the lap scorers to mistakenly credit the #53 Ford with a lap it did not complete. The race was then awarded to Firth and his co-driver Fred Gibson.

Other career highlights included victories in the following:

• 1960 Australian GT Championship
• 1962 Bathurst Six Hour Classic
• 1963 Australian Formula Junior Championship
• 1968 Surfers Paradise 6 Hour
• 1970 Australian Drivers' Championship
• 1973 Australian Formula 2 Championship
• 1974 Australian Formula 2 Championship

Leo Geoghegan was the principal driver for Chrysler Australia during the period (1970–1972) when the company supported Valiant Pacer and Valiant Charger Series Production touring car teams.

Today Geoghegan is an enthusiastic supporter of historic motor racing.

• Geoghegan finished 2nd in Class D in the 1971 Hardie-Ferodo 500 in this Chrysler VH Valiant Charger R/T E38

• Geoghegan won the 1974 Australian Formula 2 Championship in this Birrana 274