29-1-49 29-1-49 THE CHRISTCHURCH STAR-SUN. SATURDAT. JANUARY 29, 1949 29, THIS RACING CR is being built in the city for the 100 mile New Zealand road racing championship, Which will be held at Harewood in February. It will be driven by P. M1. Hoare, a well-known Christchurch "porting motorist. Interest Mounting Among Entrants in Major Road Race WITH four weeks to go before the New Zealand 100mile road racing championship at Harewood, interest is running high among the teams entered. Scouts are out tring to break through the curtains of secreet that surround the camps of rivals, and to glean what information they can of the possibilities of their cars. The tense atmosphere felt in racing motorists' workshops in England and on the Continent before the big International Grand Prix races has become known in New Zealand at last. The body responsible for the wave of enthusiasm which has swept the Dominion is the Canterbury Car Club. It was successful in obtaining authority to hold the race, the principal event in the New Zealand motor world, and the first contest of its type to be held here. Entries have been received from clubs in Auckland, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch and Dunedin, all of which are affliated to the Association of New Zealand Car Clubs, under whose rules the race will be run. several factory-bulit ¡ racers will be brought down to the south Island by northern teams, while the cars which are being built : in clubs members' garages and workshops in various parts of the • Dominion will add special interest to the big race. An Auckland contingent pians to arrive in Christchurch a few days before the date of the contest (February 26), by chartered Dakota aircraft. will see the race from roadside The thousands of spectators who paddocks made available by property owners in the district should not expect displays of dare devil driving and stunting. Grand Prix racing has no place for the exhibitionist. The three-mile course has been chosen for the test of driving skill it offers. The roads, which are in the Waimairi County, will be in good two-hour test for cars and order, and will present a gruelling drivers. Auckland's hopes will lie in factory built super-charged Austin i which has been entered by the C. and R. team. IC. Chatteris and K. Roycroft), two well-known racing motorists. Their car is reputed to have reached 120 miles an hour. Fitted in its nose, the Rootes type supercharger is much larger than the tiny engine, which has been tuned to reach exceptional speeds. From Wellington will come Brooklands Riley to be driven by M. Procter. Built specially for the famous English racing track, this car won a two-days 1000-mile event in the early 1930's. It was picked up a few years ago in a second-hand car saleroom in the North Island by .... Procter, and since then has had marked success in competitions. The Nelson Car Club's entry is a Logan Special, a car with a Singer Le Mans engine in a Fiat 500 chassis. This light car recorded 17 3-5sec for a standing quarter-mile at Nelson recently. That is an outstanding performance for a 9 horse-power. 972 c.c. engine. Logan has had considerable success in competition driving in Canterbury, wellington, and Dunedin. One of the fastest cars competing will be H. Green's Wolsely special, powered by a 14 horse-power motor. This well-known Christchurch motorist has met with a large measure of success with his car in Canterbury during the past two years. Winner of the South Island light-weight championship on the New Brighton beach last season. J. of Rangiora, prominent Tutton, Canterbury sportsmansi North will! occupy one of the starting positions in his T.A. M.G. Another car of the same type will be entered by R. B. Shand, a member of the Vintage Car Club. Shand probably will be the youngest driver competing. 29-1-49 Car Being Built in City of the Association of New Zealand P. M. Hoare, who is the chairman | Much public interest will centre Car Clubs, will on the performance of Mrs Sibil be driving a car Lupp, of Dunedin, who has made a powered by a Singer engine which has performed consistently well ir name for herself throughout the Canterbury competitions since before Dominion during the last year or so. the war. Previously it was owned She has entered her new ' T.C. M.G., and raced by the late Mr Jack Tench. which she is preparing herself. Dur- Oi advanced design, this entry will ing the past few weeks she has been represent the " new look " in racing practising on country roads near her cars. Built in a Ferry Road work- father's property in Marlborough. shop, it has a tubular steel chassis, From Mrs Lupp's racing career it : independent front-wheel suspension would appear that she will not be of the wish-bone type, hydraulically found wanting in skill or pluck. A damped, and quarter-elliptic springs, stylish arıver, she has not been friction damped. The propeller shaft beaten in her own class in the is connected to the rear axle by an Dominion. Mrs Lupp is related to unconventional system of sprockets Mrs K. Petrie, who was one of Eng. and chains. land's foremost women drivers be- Similar in appearance and size to fore the war. She will be Dunedin's this car, the Simca Fiat. of France, principal hope, and can be given and the Cisitalia, of Italy, have swept every chance of filling a place. all before them in 1100 c.c. class in Her husband, who is also a driver Europe since the war. of no mean ability, will be her co- C. A. C. Ransley has built a racing driver. body on his Riley for the race, and - G. Wheeler has entered Ford special which should attract a great deal of interest. With a Model A Ford engine converted to overhead valves, this car, to be driven by R. Hutchen. may create one of the surprises. Fitted with similar engines. midget racing cars in the United States have turned out 100 brake horse-power. One of the most familiar figures in motor-car competitive events Chrise is type 1G win what he has filled places in many contests.