19-1-66 FRANK GARDNER has been racing cars for more than 10 years. He made made a name for himself in Europe, and .. was one of the overseas drivers to race in New Zealand last season. An Australian, his first sports were boxing, swimming and rowing. He did some notor-cycle racing on a Many Norton, but turned to cars in 1954, his first competition car being a Jaguar XK120. In 1956 he won the Aus tralian sports car champio ship with a • C-type Jagua. winning 28 races in 34 starts. The next year he raced a D-type Jaguar, and again won the champic ship GARDNER He went to Britain as a mechanic for the Aston Martin sports car team, and later worked as a mechanic at a motor racing school. He did some competition driving in the school's cars. gaining several wins, and subsequently Jack Brabham signed him to build and race the first formula junior Brabham. Since then he has driven both sports cars and singleseaters in Europe. and last year took part in several formula one events with a 1964 V8 B.R.M.. owned is the Willment racing lean. Recently Gardner has also raced for the team owner Ales Mildren in Australia, and last year Mildren bought one of the latest 2.5 litre Repeo Brabham JIM CLARK, present der of the world dr championship. winner of the Indianapolis 500, and winner of the Hasman championship last season, is known the world over, and generally acknowledged the best driver on today's Grand Pris circuits. Clark is now aged 28, and has won the world chanpenship for Lotus twice, in 1963 and 1965. It is only seven vears since he cane on the racing scene. His fre* race was at a local race track ... he was aged 20 and used a borrowed DKW. The next year, in spite of parentas opposition, he raced a Porsche, and consistently won his class in events in Northern England and Scotland. He first attracted widespread attention when he became associated with the Border Reivers team in Berwickshire, and it was in the team's D-type Jaguar that he scored his first major wins. He was signed to drive for Aston Martin in thei formula one team, but a car was not available for him and ne secured his release and signed with Colin Chap man to drive Lotus formula junior and formula two cars during the 1960 season. He risited New Zealand for the first time in 196L, and came sixth in the Grand Prix at Ardmore. He was already proving himself a first class driver, and in 1961 also won the unofficial fromula three championship in Europe. His big formula one opportunity came in 1962 when, as nunber one driver for Team Lotus, he won his first world championship event at Spa, in the Be!gian Grand Prix. That year he lost the championship 1o Graham Hill (B.R.M.) in the last race of the series, in South Africa, when a drain plug dropped from his gearbox when he was well in the in 1963 he won the championship in uncertain manner, but he was not quite so fortunate in 1964 mechanical troubles rob bing him of the champion ship. Last rear, however be again won the championship in a convincing manner, and also won the famous Indianapolis 500 race in the United States. RICHARD ATTWOOD is tle known in New Zea- land. but his reputation in Britain has been growing leadil. He is aged 25, and in the European season which has just finished he scored world driver's championship poinis in two events. in the Italian and the Mexican grands pri Attwood has done consid erable driving of sports cars, formula two and three cars and also saloons. Last year ne WOR the Ronre Grand Prit at the wheel of a formula two Lola owned by the Midland Racing Pari nersh Attwood was an apprentice with Jaguars for four years. and the 1965 season was his first as a full-time driver. He drove the Lotus- B.R.M.'s of the Parnell team, but unfortunately the cars were not competitive Richard Attwood's first racing experience was in 1959, when he drove Standard Eight. In 1960 ne started racing a Triumph TR3, and then he did a considerable amout of fornula junior racing, and had the occasional drive fur works team?. including drives for B.R.M. This European season Attwood is likely to drive for the Cooper works team, and he has already been testing the team's V12 Maserati-engined 3-litre car. JIM PALMER, aged 24, is New Zealand's national single-seater champion, and has held the championship for two years in succession. Palmer, who comes from Hamilton, has been driving since he was 15. He is a son of the veteran racing and speedboat driver, George Palmer. He started racing with a Ford-engined Buckler, and then competed with a Lotus Il. It was with this car that he had his first major successes. He raced it throughout New Zealand in the 1959-1960 season, finishing the season with three wins at Levin. Since those days Palmer has remained closely associated with Lotus cars, and his nest car was a Lotus 15. a former works car with a 1960 c.c. Coventry Climax engine. With this car be finished seventh in the New Zealand G.P. of 1: "0, and 100k fifth place on the New Zealand gold star table. His next car was a formula junior Lotus 18. It dia not perform as hoped during that season, and Palmer finished in seventh place on the gold star table. The next seasr? he drove a Lotus 20 with a 1475 c.c. Ford engine, and once the car was going properly he scored a fourth at Teretonga, second at Dunedin. and first at Waimate. He finished third on gold star points. He improved again the next season, finishing equal second on the gold star table, and the nest season. driving the Cooper 2.5 litre previously raced by Angus Hyslop, he won the championship, a performance he repeated last year in a Brabham. Now driving the Lotus -.5 litre previously raced in New Zealand by Jim Clark. ne is well on the was to winning the New Zealand gold star for the third suecessive vear. The best New Zealand sports car driver and likely winner (for the second time) of the New Zealand Racing Drivers club sports car championship iS the Auckland driver JIM BOYD. who will race the Lycoming Special. Boyd started racing in 1932 with a Morris Minor. He was then aged 26. He also drove in hillelimbs and rallies. but his main interest was racing. After the Mor- ris Minor he drove a Ford 18, a Singer sports, and a TR2, and in 1956 he won the New Zealand sports car championship in a Buckler. In 1957 he drove a HWM. and then gave up racing for three years. He returned to hillclimbs with a Cooper Holden, coming second in the 1962-63 hillelimb series. He drove a Valour in 1963 and 1964 and last season drove the Lycoming. one of the most successful New Zealand speciais. With this car he not only won the sports car racing award but also gained numerous hillclimb records throughout the North Island. Climaves for Gardner to rare in the Tasman seriei