25-2-49 25-2-49 ONLI WOMAN IN TO-MORROW'S BIG RACE <30-463 MRS S. LIPT, OF OTAGO, is the only woman among the twenty-two entries in the 100 mile New Zealand Road Racing championship, organised by the Canterbury Car Club, which will be held to-morrow at Wigram. Here Mrs Lapp is shown checking over her 10 hop. car this morning. Big 100-Mile Road Race on Course at Wigram To-morrow Complete plans for two major motor races have had to be made by officials of the Canterbury Car Club who have been charged with the organisation of the 100-mile New Zealand Road Racing Championship, which will be staged at Wigram Air Station to-morrow afternoon. Several months ago they • began negotiations for a course in the Waimairi County, obtained permission from the council and the Transport Department for its use, and drew up arrangements for the event, the largest to be: staged in the Dominion, to be held in the district. Just when the final touches to their pians were being made a major upset occurred when it was discovered that no legal authority existed for the closing of the roads in the district. A deputation from the club and the Papanui sub-committee of the Christchurch Returned Services' Association. which will benefit from the proceeds. received a sympathetie hearing from the Prime. Minister (MIr Fraser) when it conveyed its difficulties to him and he lost no time in authorising the use of the perimeter track at the Wigram Air Station. Beorganised in Ten Days This entailed a complete reorganisation of arrangements to be compieted in ten days. Twenty-two competitors from Auckland to Invercargill had to be advised of the change of venue, but no hitches occurred, because of the co-operation given by the Commanding Officer of the station (Wing-Commander A. B. Greenway) and his officers. The main gates of the station will be closed to the public to-morrow afternoon. Entrances to be used will be the Symes Road, Vickerys Road, and Smiths Road gates. Direct access to parking areas will be available through these. Five hundred bales of straw will be placed at corners which will ¡present difficulties to the drivers taking part in the contest, and the places on the track at which drivers will need to cut out and brake will be indicated by coloured dises on the inside of the circuit. A race of this type calls for the utmost stamina from drivers and cars, and it is expected that markers of this type will be of great assistance to • competitors in • the latter stages of the race especially. Guidance From Pits Spectators will find particular interest in the way in which pit staffs and drivers will work as teams as is done in international Grand Prix motor races. Signals which will be exhibited to drivers by members of their staffs will be their only guide of their progress. Sound pit work is considered to be the key to success in races of this type.