BRABHAM Although he is not as colourful a - figure as Moss, JACK BRAB- HAM nevertheless has proved himself a worthy world racing drivers champion. Last season he won five grand epreuves, in a row-the. most successful record" of any world champion since Alberto Ascari won all six championship events in 1953. Brabham has freely acknowledged that Moss is the fastest driver in the world today, and is typically reticent about his own successes. Brabham's technical knowledge and his ability™ to nurse an engine are part of the key to his amazing run of success on the circuits of the world. Brabham's strategy is to win' a race with the minimum of effort on the part of car. and driver, rather than to streak miles into. the Iead.and perhaps drop out with engine trouble. So mach reliance is placed on Brabham's skill as a designer that the type of suspension and position of disc brakes on the latest Coopers are the result of his work. Brabham's rise from a Sydney garage mechanic to world champioin could - have been from a story book, but all the way along the line he has planned carefully and used shrewd judgment to carry him to the top. Of all the world's racing drivers, STIR- LING MOSS is the best-known and most revered. Every race promoter in the world seeks him as an entrant -his participation alone almost ensures the success of a meeting. Moss has won morè international motor races than any other driver racing today. He has won more grande epreuves than Jack Brabham, who has twice been world champion, yet so far the coveted honour has eluded Moss. MOSS * Motor racing has made Moss a very rich man, and he invests his money wisely, spending a good deal of his time furthering his financial interests when he is npt actually racing. Moss does not drink and he smokes very little. He appreciates more than most that physical fitness is most important in his profession, and he avoids anything which could impair his fitness. He is an excellent dancer in both jiving and ballroom dancing. Few men have recovered as quickly as Moss did after his crash at Spa last June; still fewer would have. returned immediately tob "motor racing. His highspeed crashes, oftes the result of mechanical defects, should have killed him more than once, yet he has had remarkable escapes to remain the world's fastest driver but the man of mixed Runner-up for the world championship in oniy his second season of Formula I racing, BRUCE MCLAREN is a driver of which New Zealand can be proud. Aged 23, be has been the youngest international driver in Formula I racing for the last two years. McLaren has an outstanding record for finishing in almost every race he enters. He is a driver who prefers to "wait and see" rather than force the pace early in a race, but if the need arises later, he can be one of the fastest on the circuit. Stirling Moss found this out at Monaco last May, when McLaren snatched the lap record. Like so many other Jeading drivers McLaren comes from a motor racing family. One of his earliest successes was achieved with his father, Mr Les McLaren, in a Hepolite trial in the North Island. From an Austin Seven Special MeLAREN and tan Austin Healey sports, McLaren learnt the radiments of racing drivis, and from the time ¿John Cooper invited him to drive the works cars, McLaren bas never Booked back. .... McLaren, like Brab: ham, has been involved in much of the develop. ment wrork for the allconquering Coopers. He shares b flat near the Cooper works with Phil Kerr, a New Zealander, who is manager for Jack 18-9-61 JOACHIM BONNIER is perhaps the most interesting. of the drivers competing, being an Oxford graduate and an accomplished linguist, capable of speaking five languages fluently. He is the only driver ever to win a grand prix at the wheel of the inconsistent BRM. As well as driving for BR.M. in Formula I Foes he also drives it 'and sports car races. He has been with B.R.iv. since 1959 and will probably be driving again for B.R.M. this season. Bonnier first raced in 1953 in Sweden with a 1946 Citroen and then later with an H.R.G. In 1955 he drove in the Mille Miglia, the famous Italian classic road race which has now been abandoned, and in the same year won the Swedish Grand Prix for sports cars diving an Alfa Romeo. Later he went over to England and together with Andre Loens, won the twolitre class of the Tourist Trophy with a Maserati. For much of 1956, Bonnier concentrated on a form of racing which is most popular Sweden-driving on ice. He then teamed up with the British driver, Mc- Kay Fraser, and by the end of the season had ment. great improve- Although aged 30, Bonnier's beard gives him an appearance of even greater maturity. He was married last year. Four times world motor-cycling champion, JOHN SURTEES had never driven a racing car until he tested an Aston Martin at the end of 1959;- and had not raced one until early last year. Yet today, this stocky: young English-: man is mentioned in the same breath as Stirling Moss and Jäck Brabham. He began racing in a Formula Junior Cooper- B.M.C., and was -SO obviously talented that Colin Chapman, the Lotus designer, offered him a works Formula I: car for the international race at Silverstone last May. Surtees drove a great race and was lying third when his car developed a fault. The British Grand. Prix at Silverstone • on July 16 brought Surtees. his first real luck. He disputed third. place with his Lotus teammate, Jim Clark for much of the distance and towards the end of the race went on to pass Ireland, the number one driver for Lotus,, and . finish second behind Brabham. Surtees is an engineer by trade, having served his apprenticeship with Vincents and later a year on development work at Fergusons. He is 26. He has been world motor-cycling champion virtually seven times over. in 1956 he won the world 500 c.c. title for the first time, and since 1957 he has proved unbeatable, JIM CLARK is one of the newcomers to bigtime motor racing, having first caught the eye last year as a rising star in the Lotus team in his first season of grand prix racing. Clark, aged 25, started by driving sports cars on his own account. and in 1958 drove a Porsche 1600S -and D-type Jaguar • owned by the Border Reivers stable. : In. Scotland, Clark was unbeatable, and when his farming ties allowed, he made successful sorties across the border into England. In 1859, he drove s Lister-Jaguar and Lotus Elite, in both of which he gained many successes, including tenth place at Le Mans with John Whitmore. After a period in : Formula Junior racing, " Clark made a grand entry into grand prix events when he put sp -some fast times. for Aston Martin at the beginning of last year. Joining Lotus as No. 3 CLARK driver to Innes Ireland and Alan Stacey, Clark had his first drive at Spa, and came fifth. At Rheims last year he showed both sense and judgment to finish fifth once more,' and improved further in the Portuguese grand prix at Oporto to finish third. In between grand prix = races, be: continued to shine is Formula Junior, gaining many gins. Clari Is airmarried, and cemes from Ber- One of the most experienced competitors in Saturday's race will be ROY SALVADORI, who is an old hand at driving a variety of marques. He may not have the skill of a Moss or Brabham, but on certain circuits he is a most difficult driver to beat. He is as adept at sports car, grand touring, and saloon car driving as he is at the wheel of a single seater. Salvadori is ranked with the French cham- SALVADORI pion, Maurice Trintignant, as one of the most consistent drivers today in motor racing. Salvadori however, is a crowd-pleaser, a driver who begins to work his hardest as soon as the flag drops. Some of his greatest ¡ sucçesses have been at the wheel of Aston Martin cars, for which he was the leading driver.: .:: • At Ardmore, Salvadori remained thé Lotus after the two team cars of Surtees and Clark had retired. He worked his way up to third place after about 33 laps, and seemed set for a high placing when transmission failure finished HULNE The late entry of the promising New Zealander, DENIS HULME, has been widely. wel comed. Although not regarded as an overseas driver for the. international circuit of races this season in the same way as McLaren, Hulme showed in the New • Zealand Grand Prix that he is a world-ranking prospect Hulme was the first New Zealander to finish at Ardmore and gained fifth place over all. This performance was all the more creditable because he had had only one previous drive in a 24-litre Cooper Climax, at Snetterton in a minor race. His car is a 1959 model with 1960 modifications and is only slightly inferior to the works cars of Brabham and Mctaren. Aulme gained his big opportimity last season when, together with the laté George Lawton, be was sponsored on & trip to Europe under. the New - Zealand Grand' Prix "driver to Europe" scheme. Hulme impressed a great many persons there with his driving. and he. had several successes in