20-1-62 Moss Led F Win rom S S Lad tart to W igr Set New Record of 96 min 38.7 sec TAKING the lead from the drop of the starter's flag, Stirling Moss, driving the 2.5 litre R.R.C. Walker Lotus, won the eighth international Lady Wigram Trophy race from start to finish this afternoon. : "It was as greasy as a pork In a masterly display of driving he com- chop." pleted the seventy-one laps of the 2.116-mile Moss elated by his victory cireuit in 96min 38.7sec to set a new race record. said: "It may have looked Moss made his forty-! Moss took a desperate like a procession to those eighth lap his fastest. gamble to-day and it paid who weren't in the race, but Brabham and McLaren had I can assure you it wasn't." He decided to use the done it earlier, on their high hysteresis tyres forty-third lap. which drivers gener- Second ally use when a racing McLaren 4th circuit is wet These tyres do, howerer, give In second place was_ the greater adhesion than ¡ former world champion Jack normal road racing •Brabham, twice a trophy tyres on a dry circuit. ¡race winner, who drove one laps was New Zealand's 2.7-litre Cooper and cut out Bruce McLaren, who However, they heat up the distance in 96min 55sec. finished fourth. and Lon- and wear more quiekly. Englishman John Surdoner Roy Salvadori, who The tyres on the real tees, also driving a 2.7was fifth. They drove 2.7- Wheels of the Moss Lotus litre Cooper, finished litre Coopers. were bald at the end of the third in 96min 56.3sec. race and there was not very much tread left on the front These three drivers set a ones. nEW Wigram lap record of It could have been that oil imin 20.Isec—just 0.7see indropped on the circuit saved side the record set by Brabthe day for Moss. ! ham in the 1960 race. After the race was over Brabham said of the circuit: Trophy Race Result S. Moss (Britain), 2.5litre Lotus, 96min 38.7sec, 1. J. Brabham Australia), 2.i-litre Cooper, 36min assec, 2. J. Surtees (Britain), 2.7litre Cooper, 96min 56.3 sec, 3. B. McLaren (New Zealand), 2.7-litre Cooper, 97min 33.5sec, 4. P. Salvadori (Britain), 2.7-litre Cooper, 97min 57.1ser, 5. A. Hyslop (New Zealand), 2.5-litre Cooper, 69 laps completed, 6. 4. Glass (Australia), B.R.JI., 67 laps, 7. Fastest lap: Moss, Brabham, Surtees, 1min 20.1 sec (a new record). Trophy- Race Start STARTING grid positions for the Lady Wigram Trophy race to-day were: B. Mclaren J. Brabham S. Moss J. Surtees (N.Z.) (Australia) (Britain) (Britain) Cooper Cooper Lotus Cooper R. Salvadori L. Bandini R. Flockhart (Britain) (Italy) (Scotland) Cooper Cooper-Maserati Lotus A. Glass A. Hyslop T. Shelly J. Mansel (Australia) (N.Z.) (N.Z.) (N.Z.) B.R.M. Cooper Cooper Cooper- Maserati P. Hoare C. Amon (N.Z.) (N.Z.) Ferrari Maserati J. Palmer W. Thomasen J. Histed R. Greenville (N.Z.) (N.Z.) (N.Z.) (N.Z.) Lotus Cooper Lola Lotus A. R. Eade. (N.Z.) Maserati am rophy Garlanded with laurel leaves, Stirling Moss looks well pleased with himself after winning the Lady Wigram Trophy race this afternoon. Stirling Noss, who held the lead ail the way, zoons past the control inwer during : this afternoon's lady Wigram Tare.