14-10-60 15-10-60 FAMOUS AMATEUR DRIVER WILL COMPETE AT BRITALY'S most famor Tony Brooks, will co Trophy in Christchurch on a 2}-litre Yeoman Credit C the support of a team-mate Grand Prit and rally driv will drive a similar car. The sponsors of the 150-mile classic car race, the Motor Racing Club, received confirma• tion by cable from London this morning of the feoman Credit entries. With these two drivers in the race it means that seven top fight overseas arivers will face the starter at Wigram. Dentistry His Job Runner-up to Jack Brabham in the 1959 Formula I World Championship, Tony Brooks is a dentist by profession and is not the schoolboy's idea of racing motorist. However his record in Grand Prix racing leaves no doubt about his ability. He was a member of the Vanwall team and notched up a number of rictories for the marque. In 1959 he was Ferrari riser in the italian lo. 1 team and won the French Grand Prix as well as the German Grand Prix. Brooks was also associated ith the Aston Martin sports cing team and was the archi- us amateur racing driver, mpete in the Lady Wigram January 21. He will handle ooper-Climax and will have e in the shape of the Belgian ser Olivier Gendebien, who tect of many of the victories of this famous British marque. At the same time, Brooks has never attempted to make his living as a racing driver. He has a successiul dental practice in London and, indeed, during his racing career he also studied to obtain his degree in dentistry. He is married to an Italian model and has a young daughter Gendebien's Career Olivier Gendebien made his ¡entry into motor sport by way of European international motor rariss He generally driving Ferraris. still competes very successfully in these events. This season, homerer, he has been driving for the Yeoman Credit stable in most world championship eTents. The Motor Racing Club has also been informed that John Cooper who, with his father Charles, heads the Cooper Car Lemand for will come to New Zealand the international racing season to manage the Cooper team of Brabham and Bruce McLaren. The Lotus team Ireland which will • consist oi Innes and world motor-cycle champion John Surtees, will be controlled br the head of the Lotus Car Company, the brilliant designer Colir Chapman. The other overseas entrant for Wigram is Stirling Moss. who will drive the Lotus Climax of the millionaire patron Rob Walker. Moss will have the services of one of the best racing mechanics in the world. Tony Robinson WIGRAM Tony Brooks LADY WIGRAM TROPHY British Driver's Entry Christchurch motor-racing enthusiasis will see Tony Brooks, one of Britain's most notable racing drivers, in action at the Lady Wigram Trophy race at Wigram on January 21. Brooks, who will drive a Yeoman Credit Cooper- Climax, will have the support of OEver Gendebien. the Belgian Grand Prix and raily driver, who will enter with 2 similar car. Confirmation of their entries was received yesterday. A dentist. Brooks was runner-up to Jack Brabham in the 1959 Formula 1 world championship, and was number one driver for the Italian Ferrari team which won the French Grand Prix as well as the German Grand Prix in the same year. Gendebien began his motor racing career by driving in Eurobean international motor rallies. events in which he still takes part with considerable success. Hè bas competed this season most worid championship events, driving the Yeoman Credit Cooper- Climax. Other entrants of note are Brabham. Bruce McLaren, and Stirling Moss. 3-11-60 Na. Champion Driver Racing This Season The 1959-60 New Zealand champion racing motorist, Syd Jensen, Palmerston North, has notified the Christchurch the Lady Wigram he will be competing South Island race meetings during the coming season. Thus Jensen dispelled rumours that he is retiring from motor sport. In Cooper-Climax Driving a Cooper-Chmax, Jensen won the Association of New Zealand Car Clubs' road racing Gold Star last season. Among his victories were the Dunedin road race and the Ohakea Trophy race. He finished the season a point ahead of the Christehurch driver, Pat Hoare. Jensen, who did • not start in the New Zealand Grand. Prix this year, has lodged an entry for the 1961 race. He has not advised the Motor Racing Club oi the type oi car he proposes to drive this season, but it will most likely be a Cooper Climax 26-19-60 Ine amazing reliability of the works Coopers in the 1960 world championship races makes them firm favourites for wins in the New Zealand Grand Prix and Lady Wigram Trophy. Iwo cars were entered in eight of the nine races in the series, and Jack Brabham, who won five races in a row, retired on only two occasions. Brace McLaren, the No. 2 driver, retired only once. Poorest placings the works cars had were two fourths. Here Brabham is seen winning the British Grand Prix.