16-1-62 Crowd See Some ot the World's Fastest Racing Cars SOME of the fastest racing cars in the world will be faking part in the 1100c.c. Lotus sports-! Lady Wigram Trophy race. They are what are known as Inter- This was followed by a! continental Formula cars and have engines up to twice the size of those 2000c.c. Lotus used currently in the world racing drivers' annual championship. i and last season he tried his hand at single-seater racing Intercontinental Formula Similarity Unique Formula Junior cars are fitted with engines ranging capacity from towards the For Wigram this year 2000 to 3000 c.c. mounting of the engine be- Long and low, the Hoare grand Ferrari has an engine note with the exception of driver in ¡all of its own and it is an Lotus, but it is one with the Italian Lorenzo intercontinental engine that probably devel- a difference. Bandini who will be formula racing cars has led ops as much if not It is basically a Formula racing a Cooper-Maser- to a questionable degree of power tnan the Coventy! Junior model, but its frame ati — that is a Cooper uniformity has been modified and it is chassis in which is fit- ance of the cars. So has the Climax engines of the fastted the latest 2800 c.c. Coventry est overseas cars. reloped Ford Consul Classic Italian Maserati en• rear-engin- Climax engine. ed design has proved supergine — the drivers from But by way of variety, Durope wil be empioy• lior in all respects, and this Built in N.Z. the wealthy Australian is the handicap under which ing the famous Coren- amateur driver, Arnold try Climax engines in Hoare will labour in the Any review of the cars in their cars whether they rear-engined car with a trophy race. this year's be Coopers or Lotuses. difference. Last year's "Driver to incomplete if mention were The engine capacities I not made of the two New It is a 2i-litre B.R.M. A Hastings farmer, Zealand-built specials that For example, New Zea- former works team car, the is one of the few Angus Isslop, will be have been entered. another One is the famous lander Bruce VcLaren will privately yet Lrcoming in the Cooper-Climax. which, be using an engine of 2700 in the worid to-day and Is hands of the Aucklander c.c. It is actually the engine This is an exceptionally Malcolm Gill, nas ın recent the B.R.M. team used in the Zealand Grand fine car fitted with the re. rears proved to be one oi veloped for Jack Brabham liable, but powerful 2500c.c. the country's most successto use in the Indianapolis ful sports-racing cars. 500 race last year and is! Unlike the Coopers This is the car that generally credited to be the One of Best McLaren drove into a Coventry: Climax on all four wheels, the B.R.M. has dise brakes magnificent fourth place engine in existence. Aucklander, John Mansel in the 1960 trophy race on the front wheels and a after he had Worn up transmission is regarded by many obser.: 2700 c.c. Units vers as one of the finest! his morks Cooper durbrake at the rear. ing practice. New Zealand drivers in the Brabham is using in his game to-day. He has been This year the Lycoming is Hoare's Entry racing a variety of cars for being handled by Forrest Cooper an engine of similar a number of years now, and Cardon who is better known Some of the New Zea- had some of his most not. capacity: Yeoman ¡landers have able successes with a 250F for his successes in motor- cycle racing. Cardon showed Stable Coopers of John Sur- interesting and Maserati. powerful cars for the trophy This was the car in which promise at the Grand Prix tees and Roy Salvadori are meeting and should go well race, and for those who still Moss won at Wigram. Stirling Moss, who drives hark back to the days when Zealand Grand Prix. for the wealthy British rac- prix racers Green's Car individuality Mansel took over a 2has a choice of two cars. One of the most attractive really sounded like racing litre Cooper-Climax, but and best-finished cars racing found that it lacked the in New Zealand machine likely to be seen po cer reutred to make the sleek green rear-engined which he won in such at Wigram will be the 3- competitive in big• Christchurch convincing fashion the ¡litre Ferrari of the Christ- R.A. of the I church driver, Pat Hoare. veteran driver and special- Prix and the other is On the eve of the New builder Hector Green. c.c. Cooper- Enzo Ferrari, chief of Zealand Grand Prix he took Fitted with a 210c.c. the famous Italian rac- the second Cooper- Maserati of the Italian con- engine built entirely by Green, the R.A. is Moss will probably Hoare as the most suc- cern, scuderia Centro-sud. equipped with cars during Fri- single - seater earlier model Ferrari driver who races injection system. day's training of Centro-Sud's whoi he considers on his own account and representative in the trophy havel most suitable. and is fitted seen the car purely as admitted face of it, in the morld to-day. Maserati i could be the engine. Nevertheless. design and finish are up to The Ferrari is fitted with land might even surpass facdeveloped version sel gave a good account of ¡tory-built European racing • ram, unlike the New Zea-l himself in the Grand Prix Testa Rossa sports and the car could be ideally is a power-driv- Its chassis is tailor-made ing circuit and by current suited Hamiram lad Jim engine capacity could be a standards of racing drivers, Palmer, has driven a succesdecided advantage. is an exceptionally big man. sion of lotus cars since ne •Nevertheless the chassis started racing at the . basically the same Ferrari employed early experience front-engined with a Ford engined Buckler sports car. he graduated to LADY WIGRAM TROPHY COURSE MISPECTATOR BARRIER→ RES MT WT WT ESCAPE ROUTE Bomb-Bay Bond KEY The M Main Straight Hairpir M -FLAG MARSHALL. MIT TOILET-MEN. WT TOILET-WOMEN." R = FULL REFRESHMENTS. AMI- AMBULANCE INSIDE Back CIRCUIT. AMZ- AMBULANCE OUTSIDE NO SPECTATORS Straight CIRCUIT-TRAVELLING. Vickerys PERMITTED ON I HOSPITAL. INSIDE OF CIRCUIT FT&- FIRE TENDER. Mo M Club COMBETITORS' Curre Control ENTRANCE LAPSCORING AND DUBUC Tower ANO ADDRESS BOX Bend M Chicare. TIMING STAND AMT NT VIckeryS FT ONLY CREWS L ARTIFICIAL CHICANE ELIMINATES OTHERWISE SPACED OIL DRUMS HIGH SPEED SUMP ... MT WT R GRANDSTAND START -FINISH BARRIER Hangar Bend LADY WIGRAM TROPHY RACE ANUARY 20 Heavy motor vehicles will not re admitted to the Spectator Area or the above race. 19