9-349 Speeding Cars Thrill Crowds climbs to which they had been accus- Racing Motorists Introduce tomed. Perhaps the only racing association devoted solely to motor-cary before the A New Sport war was the New Zealand Motor Racing Drivers' Association in Auckland, which was primarily concerned with contests By a Special Correspondent staged at the Western Springs speedway stadium. Sporting car enthusiasts who were members Automobile Associations in several of the Dominion's cities had rallies periodically and, in some cputros, annual beach raced and hill climbs conducted, often con- Junction motor-cycle elibs. Association of Car Clubs DELEGATES from tho Now Zealand Drivers' Association. the Northern Sports Car Club (Auckland), the New Zealand Sports Car Club (Wellington), the Canterbury Car Club and the Ongo Sports As Chat now et tew meetings Association which is Mr P.M. Hoare, of Christ Zealand Car of ('hristchurch. Vice-chairman is Mr R. Grierson, of Auckland, and the prest dent that lumpire-famous racing motorist. Mr C. W. l'. Hamilton, now of Fairlie. Mr Hamilton, who has won rares « Brooklands with his large Bentles, well known to Christchurch sporting motorists, is in England at prescut and the course of arranging thur M. Proctor (Wellington) after winning the New Zealand road' race New Zealand association to he s' to the Royal Automobile Chb. i championship. This important step in the co-operation of the Prime Minister an ronce just when motor-racing in Now of motor racing int New Waland nas cirçuit at Wigram airport Zealand has leaped away to & great been practically finalised. It will alternative oficial recognition by the was provided. As it happened this start. Thousands of people who packed New bonand championship winners and turned out to the advantage of the the two mile perimeter at Wigram had will provide Dominion clubs with rules club so far as taking provision for spec- their introduction to the sport, and that have stood the test of time tutors was concerned. Officials found it they trailed off the ground late in the A Major much easier to eater for the public at afternoon satished that it has a placo in Mrs Lupp being congratulated after taking fifth place in the championship the air station than they would have Now Zealand. and fourth in handicap events and winning the prize for the best-turned-out Difficulty had they held the race on the country entry. major difficulties to rouds with paddocks as the only spaces Few Were ONE of the Disappointed estublished contosts hell on she Conti- faced by the association within the for spectators. 22 contestant in the New Zen- sent and ends read nhout by New Zean next few months is the situation which Had the race been staged on the has arisen over the closing of ronds for Harewood course drivers would have THE club estimated the attendaner st land road racing championship, land sporting motorists until pow. The of the betwren 25,000 and 30,000, Tlero racing expersence been habie prosecution ns soon a held at the Royal New Zealand Air The Association of New Zealand Cur Canterbury Car Club in discovering that and would be low among this mumber who Clubs, under whose rules the lace a road circuit acar Harowood, five miles they excended 50 miles a hour, wero disappointed. Force Station, Wigrant, near Christ- chero would have been nothing to prochurch, is any criterion of the level was run, was lormed only two yours from the centre of Christchurch, could The racing was spectacular, especinot be used for the vent the general publio using the roads ally at the corners, one of them a tortuof competition in this country, this after sporting ear clubs in the big taco because while the race was in progress. there was no legislation to allow the oug S-bond, and it demanded the highcomparatively new sport enn have main centres of the Dominion had ex- Waimairi County C'ouncil to close tho Great est skill and greatest judgment from nothing but a bright future. pressed a desire to have thair events drivers and utmost reliability from under some control by & body that roads for racing has been brought to •Start The 105-mile event marked the in- the and cars. tho cars were notice of the Prime Minister models-the Most filey which M. Proctor auguration of properly-controlled road would receive national recognition. Cabinet, and it is expected that amend- are that the New the main the supporters of the clubs REPARCUSSIONS . of Wellington, drove to victory raring in the Dominion. trom the drop were young men and women who had ments will be made to existing laws to Zealand Grand Prix motor-cycle: 1000-mile. two-day raco at Brooklands of the Now Zealand Ensign, which sent the scale on which motor racing enable races to be staged before this race at Chut and the 100-mile Hamilton in 1932 seen the field away in one body on the tick conducted during their time next year, when an international motor-cycle race, major events each WAs overseas Proctor, perhaps , the least spectacuof the scheduled time, until the last of service in the United France road race is planned for Canterbury. year for motor-cyclists, will have to be |lar driver in the field, was the steadiest the placed curs swept over the finishing and Italy the States i their The difficulty over the Harewond abandoned unless authority close The largest enr 4500cc line 95 minutes later, the went they wanted more than the course arose only ten days before the ronds is given by the Government. driven by I. B. Bennett of This would be an unfortunate occur- Invicta, with the precision expected of the old- I locally organised beach races and hill'idate of the event and thanks to the | Christchurch, was second, and C. A. O inn Riley also of Christchurel, was third which had saloon body several weeks before. Nore! Proctor Bennett and Mrs S. Lupp, of Dunedin, the sole woman entrant, were the only contestants who completed the gruntling journey without a call at the pits. 109 Milcs An Hour T' clashes betwen Lip tiny super. charged Austin i from Aneklamd driven by R. d. Royerolt, amid the tou Wolsely Special, driven by I Green, #i Christehurch, will be long bored. Time and time again Roycroft pulted his small car against the more powerful Wolsoley, but an almost every arcasion he oll. Green's speedomeler read 109 miles an bour at one stage, but his car could not bavo been fully extended becanse he wild without the assistance of a mechanical petrol pump. lor most of the race he pampod by band. His lap time of just over 72 miles an hour was the best performauce of the day. 1h10 romering of both men Wits of the higlest order. They thrilled the spectators continually as they entere the bends at high speeds, jockeying for positions, racing wheel to wheel Green filled fourth place in the championship event, three minuios behind the winner after losing four minutes by a pit stop. Roycroft Wild sixth in the main event and first in Cars negotiating the 5-bend on the Wigram track. the handicap section.