• = u.-.. TWENTY-FOUR IN FIELD AFTER FRIDAY ELIMINATION "LIMINATION trials at the training session o Gray (Australia), Tornado. friday afternoon will bring the held for the Lad j. Palmer (Hamilton), Lotus. McLaren (Auckland), Wigram Trophy down to a maximum of twenty-four. Cooper Climax. The entrants are: Malcolm (Huntly), Im Burgess (Ingland), Cooper Maserati. Shuter (Christchurch), cooper fear Lawton (Whangarel), Cooper-Climax. J. Brabham (England), Cooper- Mansel (Glen Murray), R. J. Royeroft Glen Murray), Ferrari, F. Stanton (Chrlatchurch), | D. Piper (England), Lotus. B. R. Webster (Havelock McBeath (Otakl), Normac Ferrari. Hoare (Christchurch), North), Cooper-Porsche. R. Smith (Waltakaruru), 1 Other Races A. Freeman (Wellington), Ferrari. Lago Talbot. R. Jensen (Auckland) Maser- W. M. GIll (Auckland), Lycom- atl The trophy race of 150 miles H. Green (Christchurch), R.A. is the main event on the pro- C. Moore (Christchurch), A. Moffatt: (Ashburton). Toje- gramme, but there is a full pro. R.A. Vanguard. Iro-Jaguar. pgramme of minor events and Le F. Bulcralg (Kawakawa). W. Li. Thomasen (Huntly), they have drawn attractive and Cooper Climax. large fields. Lukey (Australla), Cooper Gilbert (Hamilton), Wisely, the Motor Racing Cooper-Bristol. Club has deckded to stage s M. Windleburn (Maunga- Hulme (Te Puke), race for open I Cooper-Climax, Beaters and sports models to provide some racing for drivers with carg unable to foot it with the entrants for Wigram Profiles This race has drawn twentyone starters and among them are some of the country's best sports models as well ag a number of very potent specials. Pat Hoare needs no introduc- Then there is a race for sports ried, and has a 5-year-old tor racing cars only, and this has attracted son. He is the principal and at every held will be a saloon car chief instructor of the Cooper speciai Dult de Hector start with a which there are twenty-five en- Car Company's racing drivers' tries which means that the slow. and Jack brewer and then gra- est car will be eliminated in the training division. He had al duated segsion to bring the bad crash on the Avus circuit That was followed by the 3-litre field down to twenty-four. in Berlin in 1958 and last 625. This car has been Of particular interest in this and race will be the performance of season undertook a limitot developed during the last win- the Australlan, amount of racing, when he ter and should good He is, reputedly the oldest drive showing at Wigram. Hoare racing in the world to-day. Ager had recovered, driving for thei Italian Scuderia Centro Sud. Ings nas laken numerous minor plac- 71, Kingsley drives a very special events Holden sedan. It 1s fitted with a He will drive the 2.2-litre in the Dominion. Brake trouble Jaguar four-speed gearbox and Cooper-Climax that he used Ardmore circuit brake booster. left him well down in the list in the New Zealand Grand in the New Zealand Grand Prix, Kingsley has had numer- Prix. In that race, he retired but his car is more sultable for ous successes in Australla the faster Wigram circuit. with the car and will be one with clutch trouble after hold- of the major attractions ing fourth position for a short bedly Near Zealad: Wigram. 1 driver. He is second- In addition to the car races two motor-cycle David Piper' is a' young events that have drawn very English driver who has per. pion Jack Brabham in the Company's representative entry of New Zea. land riders. meetings Britain racing team and has had a has entered Grand Prix rac- meteoric career in interng matry recently. Driving national a Formula Il Lotus, he weni went to furope in 1958 twell in the British Grand Zealand Inter- Prix although outclassed natlonal by the bigger Formula I carf, Colin Chapman, Europe" scheme and made a aging director of the for himself when Lotus firm. has given him won the Formula II sectlon one of the latest Formula I of the German Grand Prix care to race in New Zealand this Piper held ahead of much more powerfourth place in the New Zea- ful Formula I cars handled land Grand Prix In the early by "name" drivers. otages of the race and then the last European season he etired with tranamission finished third In the British trouble. Grand Prix and shared the Jack Brabham the 33-year-old He rounded the sea- Australian-born world cham- son off by winning the last plon driver needs no introduc- race in the world champlontion • to motor racing en• thuslasts. He has been a regu- of the United States. lar competitor in New Zealand International events for some le the done more than any other indi worky' driver. He won - vidual driver to put Christon the map In motor last season and took a racing. Now he is making a re number of places. The other appearance after a break of sev. pay ne•won the New Zealand eral years during which he has Grand Prix. As well as being been looking after the Ferrari the champion driver, Brabham that used to be raced by Tom 18 orilliant automotive Clark. Green is best known for engineer and has played a con- hig series of R.A. cara which siderable develop- kept Christchurch to the fore. no stage where i had won. front in New Zealand racing. has won the He won the Wigram race in world racing car constructors' 1950 AS well ag being a fine champlonship. In the 1050 Lady steady driver he Is a brilliant Wigram Trophy, he waa beaten engineer, the first place the young R.A., bristles and hia new cat, sea- with Scottish Ron tures. Pleton trouble kept It out Flockhart. of the New Zealand Grand Prix. Ranked sixth in the world championship last deason, Bruce McLaren is New Zealand's No. I racing motorist and No. 2 driver in the Cooper Car Company's team. The big question now is: Can he beat his team-mate Jack Brabham and win the Lady Wigram Trophy? Brabham, Will make Festival McLaren Trophy a f Speed garages about the city, New Zealand and overseas drivers are preparing for what promises to be the fastesi-run race yet to be held on New Zealand's fastesl circuit. Brabham and McLaren could possibly send the lap record up to something like 97 miles an hour-four miles an hour faster than that set by Flockhart last year and ran out the race at an average speed of about 94 miles an hour-five miles an hour faster than the Scotsman's 1959 average. On paper, there is nothing that can touch these two, and for the spectators they shouid provide a fes- ' tival of speed such as has never been seen at Wigram before. There has been a lot of talk : about team driving and the "old chums cluh" spirit as far as Brabham and McLaren are concerned. After all they have the same employer and virtually the same cars. It is illogical to think that they would race one another into the ground for the sake of winning and possibly putting chances other day that he would be rac ing to win and so would Brabham. 'This is something the experts will have to judge for themselves on Saturday. But. it is always worth rememhering that if these two Cooper works drivers engage in a bitter wheelto-wheel struggle and throw caution to the winds, neither of them might see out the 150 miles. In the New Zealand Grand Prix at Ardmore Brabham took Btirling Moss to the cleaners and int the effort came home with a car badly overheated and with a alowly deflating tyle, McLaren who finished second only 0.6sec behind Brabham said after the race that hig gear• box might not have lasted more than another twenty-five miles. Narrow The margin between success and fallure is often very narrow and Brabham and tet ran at along with the rest realise it.