SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1959 Py DESPERATE DUEL WON BY FLOCKHART = ...:. VERSEAS drivers took the major honours al the fifth international Lady Wigram Trophy race at Wigram this afternoon. The young Scoltish ace Ron Flockhart, in his B.R.M., took an early lead and the only one to seriously challenge him was the Australian driver J. Brabham. ABOVE: Flockhart's powerful B.R.M. is clearly ahead. BELOW: A garlanded Flockhart watches Brabham (who came second) celebrate. B RITAIN'S B.R.M. vindicated itself at Wig the fresh-faced 35-year-old Scotsman. brought it home to a record breaking victory. He set a new race record of 101min Asec fo a speed of about 86 miles an hour. Only 27sec behind him Brabham in a Works 2200 were the only drivers to comp Third man home was the Bruce Melaren, with the 196 completed sixly-nine laps. Then came the Palmerston North Cooper exponent, Sid Jensen, who turned on a magnificent exhibition with & 1500 c.c. rar. It was the bert race ovor seen at Wigram. The crowd must have been a record one and it was kept on its toes from the drop of the starter's flag • and Mockhart finally eceived the chequered flag The Scotsman and the Australian outclassed the field. No one could get near them, and MeLaren and Sid Jensen real ised that. The B.R.M. and Brabham's Cooper were running just as sweelly at the end of the race as they were at the start, Lap Record To Brabhai went the distinction of setting a new lap record for Wigram. He covered one lap in I TEEN 22.1 sec—an avernge came the Australian Jack c.c. Cooper-Climax. These plete the seventy-one laps. • brilliant young Aucklander 60 c.c. Cooper-Climax. He sperd of 92.0sec miles an hour. That was the sixty• seventh lag. Two laps later Pickhart put In a lap only 0.lsee slower. As as Brabham and Flockhart were concerned it was lace from start to finish. Neither asked for quarter nor gave it. Flockhart led off and Brabham parsed him In the sevens.h lap. Flockharl took Brabham in the twentieth lap. Brabham look him again in the thirty-ninth. It was not until the fifty-first lap that Plockhart finally took the lead, which he held narowly for the rest of the race. For the other fancied drivers it was not a good day. Ross Jensen VEI Salvador Maserati) went out alter lour laps with transmission trouble. It was a bitter blow for the Auckland driver had shown a lot of promise in practice. He was handily placed when he retired. The local driver, Pat Hoare, was well also well up when his Ferrari's pugs oiled un after six 24-1-59 gram to-day when Ron Flockhart, or the 150 mile... laps. He made a pit stop, changed the plugs, set off again, but retired a lap later. Courageous Tom Clark drove a courageous race in his Squalo Ferrari. He was well up until he had to stop to clear paper away from the radiator. The WAR such cracker that pit stops were out of the question for those who hoped for even a minor placing. Perhaps the luckiest man of the day was Wellington's young Tony Shelly. Me was golng well in his 1500 Cooper when a steer- Ing arm broke in the tricky chicane. This could have had even tragie results. However, Shelly held the car and pulled up. Forced Out Frank Shuter (Maserati) and Frank Cantwell (Tejeiro Jaguat) also went well but were forced out with mechanical troublesthe gearbox in Shuter's case and the clutch in Cantwell's.