3-2-54 3-2-54 3-2-54 INTERNATIONAL LADY WIGRAM TROPHY RACE 100 MILES and Supporting Races SEE ENG K. WHA P. N. WHITEHEAD (Ferrari) LAND'S BEST RTON (B.R.M.) F A. O. GAZE (H.W.M.) ALSO OF NEW ZEALAND RON ROYCROFT JOHN MCMILLAN (Alfo Romeo) (Alfa Romeo) FRANK SHUTER (Edelbrock Special) Admission: Adulis 5/-; Children and Cars 1/6. City Traffie use Vickery's or Middle Lineoln Roads. Gates Open 9am. Racing Commences 10 a.m. CATERING: BY C.C.L. FOOD SERVICES. Hot Water, Pies and Package Lunches Available. W Saturd Promoted GR AM ay, Feb by MOTOR ruary 6th RACING CLUB Mechanics Interested fern-mechanic: were amang ihe r en Mir. lina B.R.M. WILL DO 150 vu. The moment the sienk racers the at with • si! !0a" merhanies came at the per their work hangars •wried around the rar. Chidden tron hardin M.P.H. ON EN WHARTON is o racing drivers, and man with a ready smile. than enough fascination to "Once you get into it grinned, when talking in h 3-2-54 BRITTA famo drisen he the F Bristol freighter ent a raring car, the B.R.SL., which will he glish driver Ken Wharton in the Lady arp on Saturday, being unloaded from a the Mn. 41 Transport Squadron, R.N.J.A.F.. ristchurch Airport yesterday. SATURDAY one of Britain's foremost he is a dark, fresh-faced His occupation has more attract any man with spirit. you can't get out of it," he his hotel this morning. On Saturday at Wigram. he will race his B.R.M. pver 100 miles of perimeter track. Wharton expects that this will be 48 laps. He ronsiders that the track will allow a speed of 150 m.p.h. on the straights. Banked turns are not to be found on the perimeter-and they are. noi wanted: his car is built for roadracing. and it is the ordinary roads which are used on • the Isle of Man where many of the contests are held in the United Kingdom. This is Wharton's first visit to New Zealand, and by the time he flies back home on February 9 he will have been in the country for six weeks. He hopes to return next year. Of car racing in New Zealand he says: "It is of course on an entirely different scale here from at home. It is new, and as with most new things you have got to start at the bottom. "Auckland put on a good show. It is a pity the resulls were bandied about, but every. thing went like clockwork; and for the drivers and spectators all went off well. There were no accidents." He is out here with mechanics. and has four "willing New Zealand helpers." he said. The man behind the B.R.M. is Raymond Mays. and Wharton hopes that next vear he will be able to bring him out. Wharton's racing is never finished. and he likes it that way-when he returns to England. Easter will be approaching. and thai means for him the racing at Goodwoon. And so it goes on for the rest of the English summer.