photoLotus for Moss
Photo of English mechanic Tony Cleverley working on the Lotus-Climax to be driven by Stirling Moss in the Lady Wigram Trophy race, on display at a Christchurch garage.
Photos
- Tony Cleverley, from England, at work on the Lotus-Climax racing car to be driven by Stirling Moss in the Lady Wigram Trophy race on Saturday, on display at a city garage.
newsBrabham's plane lost contact with airport
Control tower staff at Christchurch Airport diverted incoming aircraft when world champion Jack Brabham's plane lost radio contact about 40 miles out on its return from Queenstown. Brabham, Bruce McLaren and two mechanics landed safely and he said there was no drama.
Facts
- Jack Brabham's plane lost radio contact about 40 miles from Christchurch while returning from Queenstown ahead of the January 1961 Wigram meeting, but landed without difficulty.
featureRacing driver's wife
Profile of Mrs Jocelyn Hoare, wife of Christchurch driver Pat Hoare, who would drive his new Ferrari in the Lady Wigram Trophy. His new Ferrari arrived from Italy a fortnight earlier and reached 144 mph at the NZ Grand Prix; he also owns a 1935 Maserati.
Lap times
- Pat Hoare (Ferrari): 144 mph top speed
Facts
- Pat Hoare's new Ferrari arrived from Italy about a fortnight before the January 1961 Lady Wigram meeting and was driven in the NZ Grand Prix at Ardmore, reaching 144 mph.
- Pat Hoare first raced in 1949 in a home-built car and made two trips to Italy.
- Hoare also owned a 1935 Maserati, one of his earliest cars, which he hoped to sell in America.
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19-1-69
B
Tony Clererley, from England, at work the
Lotus-Climax racing car to
be driven by Stirling Moss
the Lady • Wigrama
Trophy Race on Saturdas.
The car is on display at a
city garage, where it is
rabham's 'Plane Lost being tuned up for the big
event.
Contact With
CONTROL TOWER staff at Christchurch Air- . port were worried about world champion
racing driver Jack Brabham the other day. In
fact they took emergency steps to deal with the
situation.
The weather at the airport had deteriorated and all
incoming aircraft were told
not to land until the "Brabham situation" was dealt
with.
over Christchurch
pilot But grabham few on toi
the airport completely unaware of any emergency and
not in the least worriednot as much as the control
tower stati, anyway.
Brabham was on his
way back from Queens.
toWE with the world's
No. 2 driver, Bruce
McLaren, and two mechanics, Mike Grohmann
and lim Wall.
"There was no drama,"
AbOut 40 miles from Christ- Brabham to-day.
church the radio packed up.
"We kept on coming and
found airfield and
landed. There was no difficulty.
Experienced
"The control tower tried
to divert us to another airfield earlier on because of
Airport
Jack Brabham
bad weather. But they • forgot I'm flying in stuff like
that all the time in England.
"Of course, I never got
the message. But then
everything was all right."
said Brabnam with nis soit
smile.
Race
river
Wife
Pen Maserati trident and the Ferrari horse with the broken tail are two important trade symbols in the life of Mrs Jocelyn Hoare. She
acknowledges their importance by saying she would like large photographs of them both.
Mrs Hoare's husband, Pat, Butterflies Mrs Hoare is naturally in-
Christchurch's terested in car racing,
leading racing car drivers, "When 1 hear the five enjoys this spectator sport
and he will be competing minutes warning there was
Wigram was not
Trophy Race. he and Mrs cigarette - 1 go content with being a mere
Hoare are hoping that his through packets, must Naturally laughed spectator.
Her great interest
new Ferrari, with its horse Mrs Hoare, has to be hockey, and she was a
steering started, though I don't Canterbury
wheel, will be the first New! really worry. I know Pat player.
Zealand car over the finish- not do anything however, her home
ing line. and family take up her time,
sill He's older than a lot of with baking and gardening
Vintage Model the other boys, past being two main interests.
taking unnecessary risk."
trident Overseas Trips;
svmbol also has an impor-?
tant place in the Hoars although 144 miles an hou seems a frightening speed! She likes to go with her
life. In their garage behind in a car, it can't really belhusband to watch his races,
the gleaming new Ferrari kept up. and went with him on his
which arrived from Italy a "The_ needle just flickers/recent trip to Australia.
fortnight ago, is an old, 1935) hat it, and then another bend! She was unable
model Maserati. company him on either of
circuit comes his two trips to Italy be
The car is one of Mr and you have to slow down
Hoare's earliest, and he cause she would have bad
hopes to sell it in Amer- Bends come up very quickay to leave their two young
at that speed.
ica, where vintage cars entered his daughters behind
and. has We are hoping to
first race in 1949
collectors' racing consistentlyla trip to Italy very
ever since. said Mrs Hoare.
The Ferrari, however, started in a home 1У"T should like to
the more important car made car and *the places Pat
has had a Maserati and two and
It arrived in on his two trips since then."
Zealand just in time for Pat Ferraris.
Hoare to give it two In the meartime, the most
Carpet Clear important
Prix at Ardmore.
It was a little difficult tol At odd times, various bits tam
drive at first because it had This year Jers Hoare will
a different wheel base from their way into the dining not be entertaining any of
the other Ferrari he drove. the Hoare's Papa- the drivers, as a big cock
race it- tail party and dinner
self, the car reached a speedi men are very con- the race have been arranged,
of 144 miles per hour, i siderate. They never waik
much as Stirling Moss around on the carpet
Jack Brabham got out Joily shoes, or leave bits of
thank goodness," Mrs Hoarei
Tractors Better As the cars have to be
rs Hoare has no desire stripped and checked after
a car up to such a speed.
Apart from the fact that!
driver in the family feels one racing car Change Tyres
enough, she also does not
racing about!
so delicate and
brittle.
"You only need to rev
much or put them into • is, and oi course sne ca
the wrong gear for lange a tyre if need b
something to go wrong,"
she said.
However, she never reall
vorries about ner nusband
driving racing cars-except
for the last brief minutes
before a race is due to start.
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