16 - 1-60 6th International LADY WIGRAM TROPHY RACE RNZAF STATION WIGRAM SATURDAY, 23rd JAN. OVERSEAS DRIVERS World Champion JACK BRABHAM - Gt. Britain, Cooper Climax. BRUCE McLAREN GI. BRITAIN IAN BURGESS. GT. BRITAIN COOPER CLIMAX COOPER CLIMAX TED GRAY. TORNADO DAVID PIPER, LOTUS LEN LUKET, COOPER CLIMAX AUSTRALIA GT. BRITAIN AUSTRALIAN GOLD STAR WINNER 1959- PLUS THE PICK OF N.Z's DRIVERS AND CARS - INCLUDING GEORGE LAWTON JOHN MANSEL HOARE RON ROYCROFT COOPER MASERATI FERRARI DENIS HULME HECTOR GREEN JIM PALMER MAURICE STANTON COOPER CLIMAX R.A. LOTUS STANTON SPECIAL A RECORD ENTRY IN ALL EVENTS PROGRAMME: 10 G.m. MOTOR RACING CLUB TROPHY SCRATCH RACE. .. 20 laps 11 a.m. 350cc MOTOR CYCLE RACE. =50+ 8 laps 11.40 o.m. SPORTS CAR RACE. 94.. 20 laps 12.30 p.m. 500cc MOTOR CYCLE RACE. 8 laps 1.45 p.m. LADY WIGRAM TROPHY RACE. soone, 150 miles 4 p.m. SALOON CAR RACE. 80 laps ADMISSION ADYANCE BOOKINGS AT D.I.C BOOKING OFFICE ONLY. ROYAL TOUR GRANDSTAND SEATS 10/• (plus admittancel ADMISSION TO COURSE: ADULTS 7/8, CARS 2/6, CVILDREN 2/6. CONCESSION TICKET ADMITS Private Car and 6 Adults, 30/-. FAMILY TICKET ADMITS Private Car, 2 Adults and Children Free, 20/-. ADMISSION AT GATES: ADULTS 7/6 - CARS 2/6 - CHILDREN 2/6 CATERING TEA - HOT WATER PACKAGE LUNCHEONS ICE CREAM PIES HOTOR RACING SOFT DRINKS 16-1-60 MCLAREN PREDICTS SIZZLING PACE FOR WIGRAM TROPHY Bruce McLaren WORLD champion racing driver Jack Brabaam and his New Zealand team-mate Bruce NcLaren will probably lap the circuit in next Saturday's Lady Wigram Trophy at speeds approaching 97 miles an hour-about 4 miles an hour better than Ron Flockhart's fastest lap with the B.R.M. last year. This is the forecast McLaren made in the city this morning. MeLaren, who arrived in Christchurch yesterday fresh from his second place in the New Zealand Grand Prix at Ardmore last Saturday, beneves that the factory entered Cooper- Climaxes he and Brabham will be driving in the trophy race are at least sec a lap faster than the B.R.M. "I believe that our cars with their power output will be 2% sec a lap quicker than the B.R.M. and the improved tyres we will be using will trim off another Itsec. 160 m.p.h. For the Monaco race he and Brabham will have completely new cars with newly designed chassis and bodies of a different shape. "We will need new cars to hold off the Italian Ferraris this season," he explained. Although he and Brabham have tried out the new rearengined B.R.M., they both intend to stick to Coopers. McLaren, like many other top drivers, is not very keen sports car racing which he feels is dangerous. He hopes to be able to race his own Cooper in Formula II events during the European season and would like, if possible to have a New Zealand mechanic to look after his car. McLaren believes that the works Coopers will reach 160 miles an hour on the half-mile back straight. This means that they will be entering it througn the sweeping left-hand bend about 100 miles an hour. This means that the works Coopers are going to be overwhelmingly superior to ally other car at Wigram, Will the and it poses the big question: Cooper Car Company's two works drivers really fight it out, both driving to win, or will they sort it out before the race starts? Chubby-faced McLaren's grin broadened when the question was put to him. "We will both be trying to Blow Up? When it was suggested that they might drive each other into the ground in a wheel-to-wheel duel and possibly blow up their cars. McLaren inferred that it really would not matter a great deal as it was the last race of their New Zealand season. If he can get in Brabham's slipstream McLaren thinks he should be able to get ahead of the Australian-born champion on the straight and that Brabham will adopt the same tactics. One deep regret McLaren has about his New Zealand visit this time is that he will not be able to race at Dunedin, Invercargill and Waimate. This is because he and Brabham have to race in the first event of the 1960 worid championship series in the Argentine. McLaren will leave New Zealand about January so, and arter the Argentine race wil returr to England and compete at a number of minor meetings fore the Monaco Grand Prix.