advert6th International Lady Wigram Trophy Race
Advertisement for the Lady Wigram Trophy at Wigram on Saturday January 23, 1960, listing overseas entrants, New Zealand drivers, programme and admission prices.
newsRush to complete Stanton Corvette for trophy race
Charles and Maurice Stanton of Parlane Street, Christchurch, were rushing to finish their Stanton Corvette for Maurice to drive in the Lady Wigram Trophy. The engine had been run for the second time, and a coachbuilder was making the body panels for fitting on Friday night. Bruce McLaren arrived in the city with his fiancee Patricia Broad of Timaru and George Lawton withdrew from the race.
Facts
- Lawton and Hulme were to leave for England in early February 1960 to race in Europe.
- The Stanton Corvette was built by Charles and Maurice Stanton and was being finished days before the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy.
Photos
- Bruce McLaren's Cooper, entered in the Lady Wigram race by the Cooper Car Company, on the wharf at Lyttelton after being unloaded from the Waikare.
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18-9-60
6th International
LADY WIGRAM
TROPHY RACE
RNLAF. STATION
WIGRAM
SATURDAY SATURDAY
NEXT NEXT
OVERSEAS ENTRANTS
WORLD CHAMPION - JACK BRABHAM — COOPER CLIMAX
BRUCE MCLAREN (Great Britain) COOPER CLIMAX
IAN BURGESS (Great Britain) COOPER CLIMAX
DAVID PIPER (Great Britain) LOTUS CLIMAX
LEN LUKEY (Australia) — Australian Gold Star Winner, 1959 COOPER CLIMAX
TED GRAY (Australia) TORNADO
PLUS THE PICK OF N.Z. DRIVERS AND CARS
GEORGE LAWTON, HECTOR GREEN, PAT HOARE,
Cooper Climax
DAVID HULME, MAURICE STANTON,
Cooper Climax Stanton Special
JOHN MANSEL, JIM PALMER, RON ROYCROFT,
Maserati Lotus Ferrari.
PROGRAMME:
10 g.m. MOTOR RACING CLUB TROPHY SCRATCH RACE. 20 laps
11 a.m. 350cc MOTOR CYCLE RACE. .... .... 9004 8 laps
11.40 g.m. SPORTS CAR RACE. 20 laps
12.30 p.m. 500ec MOTOR CYCLE RACE. 9099 8 laps
1.45 pm. LADY WIGRAM TROPHY RACE. band 150 miles
4 p.m. SALOON CAR RACE. •.. .... 10 laps
ADMISSION
ADVANCE BOOKINGS AT DIC BOOKING OFFICE ONLY.
ROYAL TOUR GRANDSTAND SEATS 10/ (plus admittance)
ADMISSION TO COURSE: ADULTS 7/6, CARS 2/6, CHILDREN 2/6.
CONCESSION TICKET ADMITS Private Car and & 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 MOTORRAC SOFT DRINKS
Rush To
Corvette
Complete
For Troph
Stanton
y Race
NOTICE at the entr
Al Addington motor
states " Closed to January
At first sight it looks
enthusiasts Charles and M
in rather a long annual
Street neighbours know be
Although the Stantons a
oser for business, it is douh
l if ther have ever worke
They are putting the finishin
touches to their Stanton Co1
rette, which Maurice will driv
in the Lady Wigram Trophy rac on Saturdar
This morning they started
the engine for the second
time and a succession of loud
bangs and gurgies, before
rance to the premises of an
engineering business baldly
• 25."
as though the motor racing laurice Stanton are indulging
holiday. But their Parlane
etter.
e. the engine settled down to
T- tick orer with a deep
¿ rumble, brought Parlane
Street housewives away
from their washing machr- ines and clothes lines for a
re look at the new car.
Even though the Stanton
brothers have been working on
the car for many months, there
is going to be a last-minute
rush to get it to the starting
line on Saturday.
BRUCE MCLARENS
» sit otra entered in the Lady Wigram race by the
Cooper Car Company, stauds un the wharf at Lyttelton this morning after heing unloaded from
the Taikari
city coach-bullding firm
began work on the body panels
this morning, and has undertaken to have them ready for
fitting on Friday night. Then
the car will have to be painted.
Drivers Arrive
Although the Stantons are not
expecting great things from the
new car in the tough field of
overseas and New Zealand
drivers, they are confident that
the car will be ready in time to
appear.
In the meantime the drivers
and cars are beginning to reach
the city.
Bruce Mclaren, the New
Zealand Cooper Car Company driver, was in the city
at the week-end with his
fiancee, Miss Patricia Broad,
of Timaru, and they have
gone on to Timaru to spend
a few days with Mclaren's
sister before the race.
The Englishman, Ian Burgess,
and his wife will arrive in the
city with his 2.2-litre Cooper tomorrow, and it is expected that
the world champion, Jack Brabham, who made a brief visit
back to Australia after winning
the New Zealand Grand Prix at
Auckland, will fiy from Australia to Christchurch on Wednesday.
Lawton Out
The worst news to date is that
20-vear-old George Lawton, the
promising, Whangarei driver,
who, with Denis Huime, of Te
Puke. has been selected to race
in Europe this season, has had
to withdraw from the trophy
race.
Lawton and Hulme will
leave for England early in
February.
Lawton notified the Motor Rac
ing Club this morning that he
would be unable to start at Wigram. The club has had no word
from Hulme and at present assumes that he will he able to
bring his 1960c.e. Cooper-Climax
to Wigram.
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