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F. SHUTER'S WRECKED FERRARI and an official car which was badly damaged
in the crash. No-one was injured.
Trophy, A. Scott-
Browa Memorial M.
Gill: Motor Assemblies Trophy,
Brabham First, H. Green; D. W. Wild Trophy,
R. Levis; Brooklands
Irophy,
Green
Invitation motor-cycl face,
• Wentzel
Moss Second in 18sec, 1; B. 7318 AJS-)enke (290 Norton) Wellington 12min
• Imit
Rush Amat.S.), 3 Christ
church, 12min 39sec, 3.
Saicon (10
der 1300 Mullins
Big Wigram Race (Simaca) 30sec, A40) Paimerston West se North, act 20st 20min SCI,
2Imin 11.9sec
1300 .c.C.-2000 c.c.: H. J. Heas
AFTER staving off three serious challenges, the world champion racing driver Jack Ley 2sec, • 20min 36.72, 20min 7Sec, ora 2. 2min B.
Mills (Humber) Blenheim, 2min
Brabham won the Lady Wigram Trophy in a 2sec, Over 20min 2000 56 sec 2.
works Cooper in appalling weather conditions c.c.: Jensen
(Jaguar) Auckland, 2min 22sec,
on Saturday. 2amin 1.5sec, 7; F. (Zephyr) E. Sprague,
Because of the weather, 21min Timaru, 22sec,
The only Christchurch 15.3sec,
the race was reduced from Fastest time: Heasley, 18mim
100 to tractionally less than flec Green, driver to finish the race was 34.7sec, Jenser *:18min 39.5
miles length and his R. came home/sec, 2; Sprague, 18min 53.3sec,
seventh in his R. A. Special,
Brabham's average speed of having completed 43 laps. about 78 miles an hour madel J. Mullins.!
the race the slowest one run him the Motor
on the 2.116-mile Wigram Challenge
circuit since 1952. frst New Zealand built car,
held But it was spectacular and and the Brooklands Trophy! the interest of about for being the first
right to trenched spetators facing Club member to fin- right to the end.
man was
Stirling Loss in the Rob Fastest Lap
Walker Lotus.
He drove virtually Brabham made fastest lap
the whole race with a in Imin 33sec-81.9 miles an
bent steering arn, Moss put in a lap!
which made the car dif- only 2sec slower
ficult to handle, and Joachim
after half distance the • Clark and McLaren all spun'
engine appeared to be off the track. McLaren was
misfiring also. the only one able to con-
Moss never constituted a Results:
threat to Brabham, Motor Racing Club Championgained places as other con- ship (20 laps outright)-D.
testants fell out of the race Lawrence (Cooper), Wanganui,
made mistakes. 35min 33.6sec, I; A.
and the first New Hastings, 36min
Zealander home, was Angus sec, черпут) (Jaguar 'Fabristchurch, Rutherford 37min (R.A.-
Hysiop, of Hastings, in a 12.9sec, 3; D. G. Young (Jaguar)
1960 c.c. Cooper. Timaru, 37min W.
Gardiner (Tojiero),
with a car with a His was a brilliant effort churass smaller 19 laps, to 1500
capacity than C.S), Hamene (Lo
thing else that was in the
picture at the end. 3000 c.c.: Rutherford
Johnson, Auckland, 18
3001 c.c and over: Hyslop
Three Completed Young 2
-NO's (20 laps outright) Auck-
Brabham, Moss, and Hys- lan Jamary 35min 52.7sec
lop were the only drivers of Hastings,
the twelve who were still 35,ec. engani, D. Lawrence (Coop
er) 36min 48.8sec,
running at the end of the Young (Jaguar) Timaru
race to complete the forty- 3 min 26.9sec, 4; W. R. Gardseven laps. iner (Tojiero) Christchurch, 19
Brabham's Cooper team- flaps
Class Winners.-Ünder 1500 g
mate, Bruce McLaren, and c.c: Lawrence. Over 1500 c.c..
the other Cooper Formula I Gill.
driver, Denis Hulme, each Lady Race
completed forty-six laps, Mc-outright).-J. (reduced to ed to at map5, 9945 Ries, 47 laps,
Laren just shading Hulme. Brabham
The first Continental Moss
Tomin 7sec, 2.
car to finish was Len Hystop (Cooper) Hastings,
Gilbert's 250F Maserati, 178min 40 sec, i (Cooter)
which finished sixth, Zealand, 46 laps, 7 rain 46.4sec, McLaren New!
three laps behind the
winner.
and, min 1425 7a laps, 78min 14.2sec.
L. R. Gilbert (Maserati 250F)
Hamilton, 44 laps, 6.
h. Green (R.A. Special) 7, M. F
(Lycoming Special)
Levis _(Cooper) J.
(H.W.M.) 10.
Fastest lap: J. Brabham,
1min 33sec.
_ Lady Wigram Trophy, J
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