13-50 4-3-50 Had Their Revenge Many people were envious of the vantage point of one young man at the motor-racing at Wigram last Saturday. He had brought a ladder with him. and from this had an excellent view of the corner near the hangars. During one of the races his excitement got the better of him. When a car approached the corner faster than it should have and heeled over in an alarming he shouted out "He's over, manner However, the car continued on its way, while the spectators viewed the young man with some repugnance for putting them wrong. They had their revenge some little time later when the young man went over-nis ladder had collapsed. Car Race Inquiry An inquiry as to why H. G. R. Sedgley was not informed that had been disqualified in the motorcar reliability test at Wigram last Saturday until ten minutes before the presentation of prizes is contained in a letter received from Mrs D. M. Thomson by the Editor of the "Star-Sun." The president of the Canterbury Car Club Mr H. D. Christie) said that Sedgley was disqualified for taking on water during the running of the high-speed reliability trial, having contravened a rule of which he admitted knowledge. In this particular event, there was no definite period for lodging protests, and the protest had been received | just before the prizes were awarded. 2-3-50 Special Aircraft for Car Race Members of the Canterbury Car Club have chartered a special Douglas aircraft from National Airways Corporation to carry them to Ohakea on March 18 for the 100-mile car race which will be held on the aerdrome that day. The aircraft will leave Harewood at 8 a.m. and will arrive at Chakea two hours later, which allows ample time before the beginning off the first event. The aircraft will leave Ohakea about 5 p.m. after the final! Australian Drivers Like Road Courses "MOTOR spurt should have keen roung dri abiliti, but ther lack the e said the Australian racing resterday: • Your bors are three races each rear to bri to compete on equal terms drivers." WIGRAM is capable of being lapped at 100 miles an hour— I know several Australian drivers who would do that easily-but Wigram is not the type of circuit we like in Australia. There we prefer a road circuit, which is more interesting from the spectator point of view. and demands more skill from the drivers, said Cogian. Cogian said the topline Australians were able to race almost every week-end, and were invited to enter at meetings all over Australia. Although the New Zealand drivers were keen and had the ability they lacked experience. He had noticed this particularly last Saturday when he saw competitors braking on the corners. 'One must brake before one reaches the corner and accelerate through it. This is the only really safe method and is easier on the car and its tyres," said Cogian. For local racir thought a hand based upon time satisfactory. in fastest cars would would have to slower ones. ng conditions, he dicapping system would prove most • this way the d set off last and 'ace to catch the Handicap THE time nandi proved most tralia and it main ping capping system had successful in Austained public inter- boom in this countr!: you ivers mho obriously have the 'sperience in race driving." car driver Garry Cogland keen, but they need at least ing them up to the standard with our lesser Australian est, which after all was the only thing that could Keep motor sport going. In Australia, crowds comparable with that at Wigram last week would come to normal club races. There would be six of the best Australian drivers competing in the road racing championship next year and among them would be Frank Kleinig. who drove a car of his own design powered by a Hudson motor. Kleinig used water induction and the car would do about 150 miles an hour. "If the race is held on Wigram next year, the site of the pits will have to be changed, because if Frank looked to his pit for a signal. by the time he turned his eyes back to the track he would have gone right through the hangar at the end of the straight," said Coglan with a smile Best Driver COGLA.! though easily the bes course last week sorry that his car! as well as he har He had thought he able to have a "ve t Hec Green was st driver the and he was only had not performed d hoper it would e would have been ry nice dice " with Green. Commenting on the cars. Coglan said he thought New Zeaand drivers had concentrated too much upon getting maximum speed and not enough reliability. He was surprised that it was not compulsory for all drivers to have safety straps to keep them in their cars for this was a strict 'regulation in Australia. 83-50 Car Race at Wig WHAT looked lit ing finish to New Zealand mot championship at 1 Christchurch. was crack Australian Coglan. was forcec had covered 47 laps. He had losi was driving despe ram keil to be a thrilithe seconă annual or-car road-racing Wigram aerodrome, spoilec when the ariver. Gary : to retire after he f the 50 two-mile t time earlier. but eratelr to overhanl the leader. Hee. Green, Christchure who coasted hem Second place wen Dunedin. who dr ageous race. Gree 91 minutes for the Coglan was avera hour on some of moncertal speed f le to an easy win it to Mrs. S. Lupo, rove a most couren took just under e 100-mile journey. aging 75 miles an i the later laps, a for a road race. 43-50 16 GARRY COGLAN, the crack Australian racing motor driver, flashes past the control tower building at the R.N.J.A.F. Station. Wigram, in the second national road racing championship on Saturday. Coglan's driving was . all oi the same line thr he lost on the tur up against the bu bject lesson in consistener. He drove practically on ough all the bends, and this picture shows how little ns. for here he is travelling at 60 miles an hour right ilding, and is looking out the side calculating a turn the right less than a chain further on. Car Road Race Winner Found His Luck in Dogged by misfortune in the first! New Zealand car road racing cham-! pionship at the Royal New Zealand Air Force Station, Wigram, last year, Hee Green, of Christchurch, would be the first to admit that that fickle jade fortune. which spoiled his chances on that occasion must have been an unseen passenger in Garry! Coglan's car at the second championship a week ago. Last week, it was Cogian, the only Australian starter, who had all the bra luck, whereas things went com-i paratively well for Green—he had driven so well that when a broken fuel lead forced the Australian to retire, he had the race in safe keepjing That statement does not cast any up a good show. Motor racing can bè a succession of " ifs," and the biggest "if" is what would have happened if Cogian had not been compelled to make those two pit stops. Coglan made a bad start and tailed the field into the hangar bend, but within the first lap he had worked his way through the field to be sithangar bend at the end of the first: has on Green's tail as they took the lap. Then the pair settled down to a battle royal, and it was evident that Coglan had an advantage over Green as tar as speed and roadability were concerned. Even after his first stop Cogian could still have won the race. In fact he would have beaten Green bs about half-a-mile. Green. no doubt, could have driven faster, if he had been pressed, after Cogian's second stop, but if he had done so he would have had to pull into the pits to change his right-hand front wheel, if not both front wheeis. as his tyres took a terrific flogging in the eariy stages. His tvres would not have seen cut the distance if he had been compelled to chase Coglan or if he had tried to keep ahead of him. On the other hand, Coglan's tyres Kuld have seen the race out, which goes to show that the supercharged M.G. was kinder to its driver and tyres on the bends than was Green's Wolseley Special.