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Brabham does it again

World champion Jack Brabham led from start to finish in a Cooper to win the Lady Wigram Trophy in appalling wet weather, the race being cut by 50 miles to about 100 miles. Bonnier challenged early before dropping out after 18 laps, and Jim Clark spun off after 20 laps; Frank Shuter's Ferrari crashed into a timekeeper's box after colliding with a saloon car.

Lady Wigram Trophy (shortened to about 100 miles)

1Jack Brabham (Australia)Cooper77:18.5
2Stirling MossLotus
3A. Hyslop (Hastings)Cooper
4Bruce McLarenCooper1:22.3 behind
5Denis HulmeCooper
6Len Gilbert2.5 Maserati44 laps
7Hec Green (Christchurch)R.A. Special43 laps
8Malcolm Gill (Auckland)Lycoming Special41 laps
DNFJoachim Bonnier (Sweden)Yeoman Credit Cooper
DNFJim Clark (Scotland)Lotus

Lap times

  • Jack Brabham (Cooper): 1:33.0 fastest race lap
  • Stirling Moss (Lotus): 1:33.2 fastest race lap
  • Jack Brabham (Cooper): 1:20.8 lap record

Facts

  • The 1961 Lady Wigram Trophy was cut by 50 miles to about 100 miles because of appalling weather.
  • Jack Brabham led from start to finish to win the 1961 Lady Wigram Trophy in a Cooper.
  • Brabham's fastest lap in the 1961 race was about 1:33, an average of 81.9 mph, well short of his 1:20.8 record.
  • Frank Shuter's Ferrari crashed into a timekeeper's box in the 1961 Lady Wigram race; Shuter escaped with cuts and abrasions.

Photos

  • Bruce McLaren leads John Surtees into the Hangar Bend soon after the start of the Lady Wigram Trophy race at the aerodrome this afternoon.
  • Jack Brabham sits in his car surrounded by other drivers before the start of the Lady Wigram Trophy race today.
Read the OCR text
BRABHAM DOES IT AGAIN Bruce Melaren lends John Surtees into the Hangar Bend goon after Clear-Cut Win to World Champion the Wigram Жідтат start Prophy Race at Acrodrome of the Lady this alternoon. WORLD champion racing driver Jack Brabham displayed his virtuosity Moss was next with 1min Under Appalling 33.2sec. once again to notch an uncompromising As a point of interest, win in the Lady Wigram Trophy race Brabham's time meant on average speed for the lap of under the most appalling weather condi- 81.9 miles an hour. It was a race full of incitions to-day. Driving a Cooper, he led dent, but the most dramatic from start to finish and completed about 100 miles, the race having been short- Race Conditions driver, Frank Shuter, off the track on was when the Christchurch the shot back ened by 50 miles because of the condi- straight and struck a time- Bruce Mclaren, lon's Len Gilbert (2501 Mas- Brabham, who holis the keeper's Call. tions. other Cooper works erati, 44 laps; Christchurch's Wigram lap record of imin Shuter's Ferrari and the driver, who completed Hee Green (RA. Special), 43 20.8sec-04.28 miles an hour little saloon were badly He was timed at 77mln seven. laps, and finished damaged, but the occupants forty-six laps, is did the laps and the young Auck- -made the fastest lap to- 1 18.5ree-un average speed 1min 22.3sec behind Brab- fifth henris land University stulent, ray in Imin 33scc, which of the saloon and Shuter of X0 miles an how: ham. Halme. Malcolm (Lyroming real indication of escaped with cuts and abra- Barly in the lace he gives a In fourth placo came Next in line were Hamil- Special, 41 laps. the driving conditions. sions. staved off a strong challenge from Sweden's doachim Bonnier in the Yeoman Credit Cooper. However, the Swede dropped: out after eighteen laps; having previously made à stop to clean his gorgles. Scotland's Jim Hark made bit and harrassed seabhana for some time, bat spun off when he stuck patch water the back straight after twenty laps. That let Brabham's loam- Melarry, into suffered lap. Moss the 1101:111 1018 his 110 Be a maderly display of Now Mealand point. the exhibition thind place man Angus Hyslop WIN the hichlicht br lie other drive to capele du fords- Jack Brabham sils in his car surrounded by other drivers before the start of the Lady Wigram Trophy race to-day

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