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Records should topple in big Wigram race

With seven top drivers entered, including Brabham, McLaren and Moss, records are expected to fall at the January 21, 1961 Lady Wigram Trophy. Brabham's 1960 lap record was slightly under 95 mph and his race average 89.46 mph; Ron Flockhart predicted 100 mph laps. The article assesses the Lotus and Yeoman Credit cars, Salvadori, Bonnier, and local drivers Hoare, Gill, Gilbert, Palmer, Shuter, Mansel and Hyslop, with the field limited to 24 cars.

Lap times

  • Jack Brabham (Cooper-Climax): 95 mph lap record
  • Jack Brabham (Cooper-Climax): 89.46 mph other

Facts

  • The field for the 1961 Lady Wigram Trophy was limited to 24 cars in the interests of safety.
  • Syd Jensen, the NZ road racing champion, was reported not racing at Wigram in 1961.

Photos

  • Three champions at Ardmore: Bruce McLaren (17), Stirling Moss (7) and Jack Brabham take their lines at the start.
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17-1-61 Records Should Topple inChampions Jockey for Position Hyslop.: to who put up ury cel fost all to secure a tai tench las Wigram. too great a mar- Big Wigram Race. drine: a Gram Pres smailer his first single-seater capacity of that the : gin between the fastest and siowest cars can be danger- and Motor could Racing Club well Cooper-Climax will | will necessary place him? at disadvan- field WITH seven of the worlds' leading racing motor- tage. than The 24-car maximum in the ists taking race has attracted interests of safety. part, including world champion exceptionally en- who uhau this means that Jack Brabham, runner-up Bruce MeLaren and third will given the drivers al-! opportunity of place man Stirling Moss, it is safe to prediet that Fieids which to twenty-four cae entry like aiso attracted records will topple in the 150-mile Lady Wigram and many driers will stricted the other suphare porting events. Trophy next Saturday. Ye beete year records, John Surtees and ¡ reputedly The tartact fronthave been a feature Clark, Team engine Grand Prix-style has excertionally to-day, comes the trophy race and the strong 23-litre cont satan and expectations. factorv-entered the Cooper-Climaxes much the liking The duckand Surtees land university stu- Lotuses, together with nappier on the fas- dent Malcolm Gil WOn Moss's Rob Walker ter circuits. the sports at Lotus and the Yeoman Ardmore and finished Yenman Credit has ninth in the Guard Puir Credit Racing Stable's fne drivers Swed Lycoming Cooper - Climax Bon Special. Lotus will inevitably nier Roy This is a much improved who HITOOT truly des- car which make for a very fast the one Mcthe film fan's Laren drove into ideal racing driver. pace at Wigram last The race should be con- Bonnier who could- be siderably faster than {ANT to "OD" year's his when Brabhar won "Of" days. at trigram Table will nor ge Sponse so sports attempt, has an "on" day at seater than did Ardlictating his own terms the could be a thorn 9.46 miles an hour lot people's ho After winning the saree veis a really aggres| Maserati 1959 trophy Ware with y sive driver. B.R.M. Hittor Ron Flockhart predicted Experience Hamilton's Lennie Gilbert that the Motor Racing had ine distinction of set. Club's 2.116-mile circuit ting the fastest lap was capable of ever HATERO Sam. lapped 100 Tri Son an Salvadori. wao has been 250F Maserati hour boring for fourteen years Grand Prix and Then the by what he called now and is one of the most! the daces! experienced the The "aces" will be at Wig. game, was well in the hunt Gilbert has been workram next Saturday and The lorr ing solidly to get works Zealand Grand in shape again for thigran with the Lotus for and Lotuses are at least four quite a time. and that miles an faster than looks a promising will perform better here Coopers that ap- than in the north peared at wigran looks Top New Zealand drivers The other Hamilton IeDas too con well corns pre though Flockhart's pre should take a fairly resentative will Manor icant part _Tha proceed- Forings, judging their mula Junior Lotus. ex- Untroubled ¡tremely little CAT Grandriver Pat Hoare Local driver i pretty not drove first-class TaRA Grand Prix feld but per- Last Brabham his new V12 Ferrari exceedingly well in untroubled to set a new lap at Ardmore and as the minor Ardmore events record of sligntiv less than over geared i be heard the face Palmer 95 miles an hour. thai circuit better wIl things with tho It is true that the over- can reasonably na agnantor bigger cars seas stars Tigraye but he should turned the comhination on the disappointing performances factor Christchurch cir- have better than a runner's for the most part in the New cuit. chance Zealand Grand Prix at Ard- It would not be at all sur- Frank Shuter, the more recently, but the faster prising veteran Meridahrant Wigram circuit which amongst the overseas generally should prove much billiard. mon brings is mother ho kinder to the cars and He has a decided advan- Wigram experience to that the race. the liking of the drivers circuit like the back of his It appeared that Ardmore the icht Ardmore hand, having raced on it Fourse which was extremely mander to date rough Aücklander date at was the Ferrari is liking with Ferrari 625, Although there Man. this Hoare's. not shtoin delivery should tandonat to view between may be a sel his new fertec in time Wigram un hotton st contess Of Brabham. the for the Grand Prix. It reached Auckland from champion Wigear Zealand road racing and McLaren and loa in| Italy two days too late. last season, the blue Jensen Palmerston unlikely that Considered North will not be racing at trio have things all Bese Wigram. Three of the chamnions as ther were Armn driver Hic nop haa been taken seen at Ardmore earlier this month Bruce McLaren (17), Stirline Moss (7) and lack Brakham (ll tate their lines part in

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