16-1-62 Race Rivals Are Evenly Matched This Year NEVER before hare so many evenly matched overseas drivers drivers and cars been entered for the Lady Wigram Trophy race. Stirling Moss. John Sur! Newcomer to the ranks of tablished such a reputa. tees, Jack Brabnam, Bruce the top Grand Prix drivers tion that this European McLaren and Roy Salvadori is the 21-vear-old Italian season he will be a memare members of the small| champion, Lorenzo Bandini.i ber of the Ferrari team. and select band of racing He received his early Sole Australian represen. motorists who, from year to motor racing. education in tative in this year's trophy year gain high places on the Formula Junior events,! world racing drivers cham. graduated to sports car rac. race field is Arnold Glass. Glass has raced all man. pionship ladder. ing and then, more recently, ner of cars for a number of In to Grand Prix races outside vears now and is no stranger a long racing the world career the morid title series. championship to Wigram. He is the poshas eluded Moss by the sessor of one of the few narrowest of points In comparatively rivately owned B.R.M.s ir margins on many occa. brief intertal he has es The world sions, but there are ferr competent observers of motor - racing anywhere In the world who would not rank him as the finest driver in the game today. Surtees. five times world motorcycle racing champion, is regarded as one of the men most likely to win the worid racing drivers championship within the next year or two. One of Best BIC DAY AT-WIGRAM Brabham, world champion: JANUARY 20 in 1959 and 1960, did not nave such a good season last year sam ply because the Formula It-litre Cooper Climax could not foot it with the new Ferraris. Stirling Moss, the finest driver in the game to-day, Bruce Mclaren is, of talks with mechanic Tim Wall. lew Jens Zealanders hare followed no stranger who to South Island Debut his meteoric career in international motor sport with the keenest interest Of the Mini-Cooper отег the past three years. In 1960 he finished runnerup to Brabham in the cham.! TE initish Motor Corporation's high-performance "mini" cars, the Mini-Coopers, will make their debut in the South Island in saloon pionship and headed off thei Australian in last year's car events at the Lady Wigram Trophy meeting on Saturday. title series. Developed from the Mor-, New Zealand Mini-Coopers ris Mini-Minor and Mini-appearances can decep- appear at Wigram Bad Luck Austin by B.M.C. in con- live. them will be driven Twice a member of the Junction with the Ther engine of the Min- none other than world-rank. capacity ling racing driver Bruce Mcwinning team in the famous us racing car manufactur of 997 c.c. and is fitted with Le Mans 241hour sports cari ing concern, the Cooper twin carburettors as well as: Scotsman Car Company, the Mini-la special cyclinder head and erably race, Flockhart Coopers has perhaps not had thei in standard form exhaust system. breaks his ability deserves have a top speed of about stopping mum speed in the in Grand Prix racing. :90 miles an hour. are Some in driver! salvadori, the tall, Deceptive front wheels. Ron handsome Londoner of provide spectacular another that has not been Italian parentage, There is little to disting-lacceleration there is'a close quite developed, probably the most ex- (uish the Mini-Coopers from ratio gearbox operated by a and the third one will perienced driver racing the prosaic little saloons sports car-type remote con- handled by the local racing today. that are now so common on troi gear lever. • driver Bob Blackburn. GET HOME QUICKLY, SAFELY MIDDLE LINCOLN CITY BOUND TRAFFIC EXITS PARKING AREA ROAD ENTRANCE CLOSED RACING CIRCUIT AFTER NOON PARKING AREA NO RIGHT TURNS FTER MEETING PARKING SOUTH BOUND AREA TRAFFIC WIGRAM EXIT STATION SPRINGS ROAD MAIN ENTRANCE ROAD Railway SOUTH ROAD The Motor Racing 3. Traffic in the southern Club, Transport De- parking area can use the partment and staff of southern exit and turn left BN.Z.A.F. Station Wig to join Middle Lincoln Road,' have this year right to join Springs evolved a "departure Road. movement order" that everyone wil find effective and COLo venient if they hate 4. No restrictions are bethe good sense to follow ling placed upon motorists wishing to drive around the ¡circuit AT THE CONCLU- The "Parking, Ezit Plan" 805 of the (above) is virtually seites- across the aerodrome planatory, but in the bustle reach any of the exits. and excitement at the end of the day plans are apt to be forgotten. So here the facts. 5. Entry to the circuit at the start of the day presents to the the real problems, yet le comers 1. Cars returning Vickerys city, and points north of it, Road entrance will be closed should leave the station by all vehicle trafic from one of the four exits on the midday and, maybe, a little eastern side of aerodrome leading on to Middle Lin- earlier a has aled up bark ing area has filled up. coln Road. in the day cars arriving by Middle Lincoln Road will be permitted 2. South • bound tratic through the parking area should leave the aerodrome there to the one adjacent to Vickerys Road. This area by the main entrance and exit to the station. No right fronts the Pit Straight: hand turns wil permitted at the station entrance.