19-7-57 Wigram Car Race.-January 25 will be the date for the 1958 Lady Wigram Trophy car race. This will be a fortnight after the New Zealand International Grand Prix at ducktand. 9-8-57 Car Race Conditions Unchanged The Motor Racing Club has made a firm decision to run the Lady • Wigram Trophy race on! Saturday, January 25, next year at the Royal New Zealand Air Force Station, Wigram. The club will not follow the example of 'the organisers of the New Zealand Grand Prix by running the race in a series of heats. The race will be over a distance of 150 miles, as it was this year. Members of the executive met this week to start planning for the trophy race and I this morning the club president (Mr Jacki Brewer) said i the executive in tended to recommend to thei sub-committee, which will arrange the programme, that a similar series of races to those held this year be planned for next year. This means that as well as the trophy race there will be al race each for sports and saloon! cars and two motor-cycle races. Last year the motor-cycle races , were run on a handicap basis, but this year they will probably i be scratch events. From Overseas Overseas drivers will take ¡part in the trophy race, but who they will be will depend upon the result of negotiations noW going on between the drivers and the organisers of the New Zealand Grand Prix and the local club. The Grand Prix organisation' is reported to be negotiating for an overseas contingent that. will consist of a United Kingdom driver, two or three Continental drivers from Germany, France, or Italy, and an American. The same team will come south to race at Wigram. The well-known Christchurch racing driver, Pat Hoare, is at present overseas and he will visit Italy in the near future to make arrangements for a new mount for the coming season. This car will most likely be a 250F Grand Prix Maserati. While he is away, Mr Hoare will, if possible, hold discus sions with some of the drivers to whom invitations have been issued to compete in New Zealand. 9-8-57 Formula I Cars Up to the present it has been the policy of New Zealand racing promoters to arrange i contracts only with the overseas | drivers. year, drover Racing cito has decid that the contracts should include not only the driver but! the car. In the past drivers have been! able to bring whatever type of car they have considered fit for the job, but Mr Brewer explained that with so' many Grand Prix class cars run by New Zealand drivers now it was felt necessary to ensure that overseas arivers brought with them Grand Prix Formula I cars, or at least cars of similar capabilities. It is unlikely that. Peter Whitehead, who has won the last three Lady Wigram Trophy, races, driving Italian Ferraris each time, will compete in next year's race. 20-9-57 Smoother Run For Cars Lady Wigram Trophy drivers in 1958 will have the right of choice and that has nothing to do with their milk preferences! Up to now drivers have had to contend • with a bad bump caused by a drain running across the course before the sweeping left-hand bend beyond the control tower. It has been a teal hazard for drivers of low-slung cars. Horace Gould's Maserati "grounded" there each time round this year, and George Palmer's Cooper Bristol did not take kindly to it, either. By. moving the straw bales to the left to the grass verge the Motor Racing Club will give drivers the option of crossing the drain diagonally at an easy point and swinging into the left-hander on a bad Line, or contending with the bump further out on the track and maintaining a good line on the bend. The right of choice should make drivers of low cars much happier. 21-9-57 LAP MONEY TO BE PAID IN WIGRAM RACE Prize money for the Lady Wigram Trophy race and supporting events has been fixed by the Motor Racing Club. This season the club has decided that the total stake on the trophy shall be £1500. The outright winner of the trophy will receive £150 and the other five place getters £75, £50, £25, £15 and £10. The first six New Zealand finishers' money will be £50, £30, £25. $20, E15 and £10. In addition prizes will be paid out to class winners. There will be two classes—up to 1500 C.C. and over 1500 c.c.-anа there will be a payout to the first five finishers in each class, the rates being £25, £20, £15, £10, and £5. Added Incentive AS an added incentive This lap money will also be paid. will be at the rate of 10s for each man for each lap with a minimum payout of £10 for North Island drivers. The concession to North Islanders should help them defray ex. penses. The sports car race will be reduced in distance from seventy-five to fifty miles for next year's race, and the club has adopted a novel prize money scheme on the basis of 18 per car per class. Thus if there are ten cars in the up to 1500 c.c. class the total stake. will be £80 and it will be split on the basis of 50 per cent for first, 30 per cent for second and 20 per cent for third. Three Classes In this event there will be three classes—up to 1500 c.c., up to 3000 c.c. and unlimited. Class winners in the twentyone-mile saloon car race will receive £20 each. There will be no minor place money. The final event will be a twenty-five-mile open car handicap race with prizes of $25, $20, £15, £10 and £5. 10-10-57 RACING DRIVER WITH ONE ARM 1020 "Probably the world's mast colourful racing driver. Archie Scott-Brown, of Britain, seems certain to come to Wigramn for the international motor race early next year. The only. onearmed racing driver: in the worid, Scott-Brown has established & reputation in England and on the Continent for forceful driving, and has many major race victories to his credit His car, Lister- Jaguar, is one of the most powerful of its type. 19-10-57 Crippled Driver May be Seen At Wigram A racing driver who was the centre of one of the biggest controversies im British post-mar racing will most likely be seen in action in the Lady Wigram Trophy race here next January. The driver is Archie Scott- Brown. He had the misfortane to be born with a badly deformed hand. Nevertheless this did not prevent him from becoming one of Britain's most conrageous and skilful drivers. However, abont three years ago he was stopped from racing because it mas considered be did not meet the medical requirements to hold a competition licence. Scott-Brown did not take the decision lying down. Motor sport magazines took up his case, and the unfortanate driver was finally able to show competition licence examiners that his deformity was no handicap. His subsequent racing record has proved the contention. Scott-Brown has the fall ase of both his arms and one good hand, and he has used what he has to good effect as a Grand Prix Connauglat "works" driver, and lately as the pilot of a Lister-Jaguar sports car. He will be probably the only orerseas driver to use a sports car during the New Zealand season. The Lister- Jaguar, sith Scott-Brown at the wheel, should be able to show a clean pair of heels fo many Grand Prix cars. 31-10-57 WIGRAM MOTOR RACING With entries assured from some of the world's most famous motor drivers, the international event for the Lady Wigram trophy™™ January should live up to the high standard of skill seen in the race in the last few years. Final arrangements with overseas drivers have yet to be made. but already it seems certain that the two widely-known Englishтед, the dashing Archie Scott- Brown, and Stuart Lewis-Evans. will come to Christchurch for the race. Scott-Brown will bring a, Lister-Jaguar and Lewis-Evans a! Connaught. Other drivers who mas visit Christchurch to take part in thel race are Roy Salvadori (Con-! naught), Jack Brabham (Con-. naught), and Ivor Bueb (vaserati). Both Carol Shelby, the United States driver, and the Ger-' man ace, Wolfgang von Tripps, may also drive at Wigram. Two New Zealand drivers will appear in high-class machines. R. L Duncan, of Auckland, has a recently-imported Connaught, and P. M. Hoare, of Christchurch, has a 3-litre Ferrari.