16-1-65 30-9 1064 11th INTERNATIONAL LADY WIGRAM SAT 23r0 BAN 65- TROPHY RACE 12- 1 - 65 GRANDSTAND SEATS TWO GRANDSTANDSONE OPPOSITE START- FINISH AND PITS; NEW STAND AT THE LOOP. 11th INTERNATIONAL LADY WIGRAM SAT 23rd JAN 65 TROPHY RACE Bookings now open at D.I.C. Grandstand Seats and the Loop (Includes admissiot Mail Orders send Stamped at Start-Finish 20/- each. ci gate.) Addressed Envelope. am hy Car Race Has a Wide HE crashes that coloured the New Ze last Saturday and the ultimate victory o are the factors which should combine to ma next Saturday one of The 1963 world cham-! pion Jim Clark never had a chance to show his real form for he was eliminated in a "shunt" with Bruce MeLaren about half-way through the second lap. As far as McLaren and his team-mate Phil Hill were concerned, it looked very much as though the race was going to be very much a track test using on their Cooper this season. However. as McLaren wrecked his car in the morning preliminary heat and took over Hill's for the Grand Prix the most open in the lo and then went out with gearbox troubles after 13 laps. that tyre testing was delayed until to-day at the Vic Hudson Mem-! orial meeting at Levin. The tight Levin circuit. which is fairly rough, does not provide a good indication of what may be expected at Wigram, so the result should not be taken as a reliable Wigram guide. Graham Hill had things very much his own way with the Scuderia Veloce Repco-Brabham-Climax in the Grand Prix. However, other commitments forced him to return to Britain immediately after the race so it looks as though MeLaren, Phil Hill. Australian GRANDSTAND SEATS TWO GRANDSTANDS-ONE OPPOSITE START- FINISH AND PITS; NEW STAND AT THE LOOP. 11th INTERNATIONAL LADY WIGRAM SAT 23rd JAN 65 TROPHY RACE Bookings now open at D.I.C. Grandstand Seats at Start-Finish and the Loop 20/ each. (Includes admission at gato.) Mail Orders send Stamped Addressed Envelope. CONCESSION TICKETS 40/- (ADMITS PRIVATE CAR AND 6 ADULTS) FAMILY TICKETS 30/- (ADMITS PRIVATE CAR AND 2 ADULTS) CHILDREN FREE. N.B.: CONCESSION CONCESSION AND FAMILY TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AVAILABLE ONLY FROM THE D.I.C. THEY ARE NOT ON SALE AT THE GATES. pen Look aland motor racing Grand Prix at Pukekohe f the former world champion Graham Hill ke the Lady Wigram Trophy race at Wigram ng series. Trand Cas, and and wil the as our lap et have bles. some a spot man ner aga agorablame max sion times showed that there Last year Denis Hulme, drivvery little to pick and covered a lap in min 26.7sec chose between this quartet. in his preliminary beat. in tact, as ony sec sepat-i In the race itseif the winner ated the first 11 qualifiers for Bruce McLaren returned the preliminary heat grid positions fastest lap in Imin 25.9sec— at Pukekohe, it would appear 95.28 miles an hour—in his that the leading New Zealand Cooper-Cumax. ers could well have a finger I priver will have to put in one To collect that £300 prize a the pie at Wigram. 'tour of the circuit in 1min 22. 8sec-an improvement Lost Ground 3.9sec on what Hulme accomplished. The_reigning national champion Jim Palmer, first resident Formidable driver home in Grand Prix, should be able to give the overseas men a very good; Although this is a formidrur for their money at Wig-' able task, it is by no means impossibie. Moreover, although Racing tvre improvements Riley and Rex Flowers finished since the last Wigram race three laps behind the Grand will probabiy give leading con- Prix winner they too should tenders an advantage of Zsec make a much better showing a lap, while improvements in lost some ground at power output and suspension the start because of the melee and road-holding could conceivon the starting grid that relably produce yet another 2sec. sulted when Bruce Abernethy's Certainly, the manner in Cooper rode up over a rear which Clark went in wheel of Roly Levis's Brab- preliminary beat at Pukeham-Ford. kohe last Saturday Ted Dawson was another seemed to indicate that the New Zealander who would fast might not be nearly have fared better at Pubekohe! so difficult as it appears on if the nose of his Cooper had paper. not been crushed at the start. In any event, when Wally Fearing engine beating {Willmott learnt of the prize problems because of the soon after his arrival in New closed-up air intase, Zealand to head the mechanics took things comparatively in the Bruce McLaren motor easily to finish in eighth racing team, he expressed the place. opinion that 1min 22.8sec was Just behind him was the not beyond the capacity of his reigning saloon car champion chief and the new Tasman Kerry Grant 1.5 Formula Cooper. litre Lotus-Ford. If the supporting events at the Grand Pris were any indi cation, saloon car racing is go Going Again ing to keep the fans on their toes again this season. None; of the old hands has lost his Grant was forced to drive the Because of engine trouble, dash and there are some pro mising newcomers. smaller car instead of his 2.5 litre Brabham-Chmax at Pukekobe. With the big car going Modifications again he should be very much In 1 the running at Wigram. An added incentive for Whereas some people thought that the decision to introduce the Lady Wigram Trophy more regulations to limit modicontestants will the ¡cations to saloons would pare £300 side prize ofered by - the a Christchurch business opposite seems to have man for the first driver to the case. Racing at Pukekobe average IN miles an how in the race itself. Taken by and large, Iwo years ago the overseas New Zealand Grand Prix meetstars were within fractions of ing showed that there should the magic figure in the train-be some surprises and plenty, ing sessions and, no doubt, ifjot action on the considerably the tricky Loop bad not been faster Wigram circuit.-Peter incorporated in the circuit for Greenslade.