17-1-67 Dy iRe M Biograph Dennis Marwood ically Speaking Denis Hulme After a very successful career In saloon cars, Dennis Marwood switched to single-seaters for the 1965 season and drove the Ecurie Rothmans Cooper- Climas, the car which he will be driving in the trophy race on Saturday. This sea son he is leading the Motor Sport Association of New Zealand's Gold Star series running. An exceptionally steady and heady driver he has settled well into singleseaters and must be reckoned one of the best of the local hopes for a Wig- Dickie Winner of the Levin inter. national race last season and second in the Lady Wigram Trophy, Richard Attwood is No. Z driver in the B.R.M. team and he opened his account in this year's Tasman Championship by finishing third in the New Zealand Grand Prix. A topline Formula II driver as well as extremely skilled conductor of Grand Touring and sports-racing prototype cars, Attwood is the ideal No. 2 in any team ram placing. Attwood Frank G One of the leading Austra lian international drivers, Frank Gardner does net receive the publicity that some lesser men obtain simply because he mainly drives private entrants' cars in Grand Prix, sports and saloon car events overseas. An excelient aliround sportsman, Gardner graduated from motorcycles to cars and enjoyed many Australian successes with Jaguars before he went to Europe. Now he has been engaged as a driver-tester by the Ford concern. Formeriy of Te Puke, Denis Hulme is No. 2 driver in the Repco-Brabham team and is rated among the world's five top drivers. He aided Jack Brabham greatly towards his. worid championships last year and has many lap records and winning drives to his credit. Now aged 30 and married, he has been racing overseas for a number of years now and got his first break when he won the New Zealand Driver to Europe award some years - ago. ardner PHY ReCE 196 Jackie Stewart Like Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart is a Scotsman and of similar build. At 28 he leads the B.R.M. team after a brilliant start in International racing Just two seasens ago. Tasman Champlonship winner last season, Stewart won the 1966 Lady Wigram Trophy setting new race and lap records. Married, Stewart was formerly a champion clay pigeon shooter and is now being freeiy tipped as a future world champion racing motorist. Winner of the Italian Grand Prix when he narrowly beat his team leader Graham Fill in 1965, Jimmie Palmer Top New Zealand racing motorist is Jim Palmer, the national champion for the last three seasons and usually the first resident driver home in International races here. Palmer, who hails from Hamiton, began racing at the age of 15 and celebrated his 21st birthday by finishing third in the 1963 New Zealand Grand Prix in a 2.7-litre Cooper-Climax entered by the late Reg Parnell, father of Tim Parnell who is managing the B.R.M. team in New Zealand this season. Palmer races regularly in Australia and finished fourth on the ladder in the 1965 Tasman Championship.