21-9-56 21-1-56 SETTING FOR TODAY'S INTERNATIONAL CAR RACE THE CIRCUIT TO BE USED FOR THE LADY last Thursday. The trophy race will be ONITATE 1956 • 7... wv... ..po •..- ... wsiar- WIGRAM TROPHY CAR RACE at the B.N.Z.A.F. station, Wigram, is outlined in white of 71 laps, just over 150 miles. The start and finish are indicated by a dotted line. All race You are the guest of the Motor Racing Club Inc. MOTOR RÁCING al cE Ball and Prize-Giving to be held in the May/air Lounge Noreaster dired, on Saturday, 2187 January: 1950 и! У р.т. FORVAL OR DARK SUIT ESSENTIAL. on this aerial photograph taken es will be anti-clockwise. Keen Racing Expected For Lady Wigram Trophy With six overseas drivers compet-| than the lap record for the circuit as ing and several New Zealand drivers it is now, established in 1953 by R. White- Gibbons in a 1100 c.c. Cooper. in late model European racing cars, head's lap speed was abolt 86.6 miles the Lady Wigram Trophy race today an hour. mare, with Imin 31.3sec, and may be one of the keenest ever held Gaze, with Imin 32sec, were also faster on the two-mile Wigram airfield cir- than Gibbons's 1min 33sec. cuit. Favourites for the race are Peter and, unless faster laps are returned in Whitehead and Tony Gaze, who will be driving similar Ferrari cars, which practice this morning, these four will may reach 140 miles an hour on . the be in the first row of the starting grid longest straight. Leslie Mart,, with the for the race. British Connaught, should be well up Parnell's best lap was Imin 34.5sec, the for his car is well same time as that of S. H. Jensen, of with the leaders, Palmerston North, in a tiny 500 c.c. suited to the track. Reg Parnell has Next best was R Roycroit, doubts about the capabilities. of his Cooper. Grand Prix Aston Martin, but at last who returned 1min 37sec in a Jaguarevening's practice his car was perform- engined Bugatti. ing well and his lap times were not N.Z. Drivers much slower than those of the Fer- The Kennett challenge trophy for the raris. first New Zealander to finish is likely fo be hard Roycroft and S.H. kay and I. Sulman, will drive DB3S two Aston Martin competition sports cars land Grand Prix at Ardmore weeks ago, which Roycroft finally won in the race. Though they have not the top speed of the Grand Prix cars, they to be placed sixth in the race and to have proved themselves extremely re- be the leading New Zeel ands rivasident Jensen's practice time was liable. This year New Zealand drivers will ably better than Roycroft's last evenwith ing, and they were both well beaten be racing on more equal terms • Clark. Other serious New Zealand the visitors. Many will drive real by racing cars--only three are pinning contenders will be P. Hoare in a supertheir faith In locally-constructed charged 4CLT Maserati, who, however, specials-but with the English and had mechanical troubles during prac- Australian drivers possessing greater tice, and R. N. J. Archibald in a Jaguar of victory XK120 with a C-type motor. experience, the chances Grid positions for the race could not must weigh heavily in their favour. _ several en- With the distance increased to 150 be decided to riga their eves trom trants were to bring miles this year and a new fine chip the North Island on the steamer exsurface on the track, many of the cars • press. Among these, R. Crowther's 6c are expected to have to make pit stops Maserati from Auckland, and A. for tyie changes. In a closely. con- Freeman's big Lago Talbot from Weltested race the speed and efficiency lington might be up with the leaders. of the pit crews would be a deciding Besides the Lady. Wigram Trophy factor. race, which is to start at 1.30 pm., the Record Lap Speed programime today will include three Fastest lap in practice last evening i motor-cycle races, an open car race, a was returned by Whitehead, with 1min sports car race, and a race for saloon 27.8sec. This is more than 5sec faster i cars.