17-1-67 Car Racing Big Saturday Event Hot e purge fumes th exterists and tee, the pungent fumes of exhausts and the chance to see world-famous racing aces battling to win Christehurch's only big motor racing trophy ... all this can be experienced on Saturday at the Wigram circuit as some twenty drivers compete for the Lady Wigram Trophy. Last year's winner of the 100mile event, Jackie Stewart (he won the New Zealand Grand Prix at Pukekohe on January 7), is due to compete together with Dickie Attwood (second in the trophy race last year), champions Jim Clark and Jack Brabham, New Zealand's Denis Hulme and Australian Frank Gardner. All have raced in this South Island classic. Drivers will take part in two preliminary events on Saturday morning to determine their grid positions for the big race, which is to be flagged away at 2.30 p.m. Practice On Friday sleek, low-slung racers will be whining along the straights as drivers get used to the course and its hazards and weigh up their chances. On Saturday the first 100mile-an hour lap of the race might be achieved. If this speed is reached, the driver will get a side prize of £ 400 from a local car firm. The fastest lap for the race is 97.41 miles an hour, set up by Stewart. In prac tice he has reached 98.8 miles an hour. Stewart's time last year was 1 hr. 3 mins. 44.1 sec. Attwood Enished 44 seconds later. Until a few days ago, when this year's Grand Prix was held, the Wigram circuit was the fastest in the country. Winners of the trophy include the late Les Moore, the speedway rider and father of Ronnie Moore, Peter Whitehead, and! one-armed Archie Scott-Brown, winning in 1958, when the event was last won by a sports car. £100 to Winner The winner of the race gets £100 and the first New Zea lander home collects £50. UNUSUAL CARS TO BE SEEN AT SHOW NARy at nicer, Court from no otie man Till be a dis play at Canterbury Court from to-morrow until Friday, when the Christchurch Boys' High School Car Club will be holding its motor show. The show, which stems from preparing the show. Cars (cars, with one female passenan idea thought of after last from many parts of the ger, will be entered. The cars year's Lady • wigram tropny South Island had been lent will depict various themes is organised by • the by private owners for dis such as winter sports, motor school club and sponsored by play. racing, going skiing and going the Motor Racing Club, the Among modeis at visiting. pre+ organising body for the Wig- sent being gathered at ram events. Canterbury Court are a Swe- Opening Mr i. 1. Walton, assistant dish Volvo 1800, an Italian master at the High School and Alfa Romeo Giula sprint and The show will open at 2 p.m. president of the school club, the recently developed Gordon on Wednesday, continuing said the show was essentially Keeble, an English-built tour- through until 10 p.m. and from one for motoring enthusiasts ling car with American chassis 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. the following and was not a trade exhibi- and engine. two days. tion. › Utters include & Jaguar t- The official opening is to be He said that many Type - the latest type incor- performed by Mr C. F. S months work had gone into porating tear seating and Caldwell, head master designated the 2-plus-2a Christchurch Boys" High School Pontiac Parisienne convertible and one of the patrons of the and Chevrolet models, the club. Impala and the Nova. Mr Walton said it was also hoped to have the Scottish rac IN.Z.-made Cars ing driver, Jino Clark, recent winner at the Levin motor rac- There will also be sections ing, at the opening, along with Zealand designed single-seater racing cars to be vehicles horne built road cars raced at Wigram on Saturday. and racing cars and a . display of customised cars. One of the highlights, said armerly driven by racing ace eter Collins and Salvadori Japanese modeis supplied by lealers will include the Prince "and for those interested there will be a hot-rod," said Mr Walton. During . the three-day show a Queen of the Motor Show contest and a fashion parade will be staged and for those keens favourite television pro. rammes orner is to be provided The climax of the display oil bey course die vance Wigram Motor- Cycling Should Be Memorable RING in the motor-eyele events at the Lady Wigram Trophy meeting on Saturday is likely to give a memorable demonstration of the tremendous power of the lightweight machinery at present sweeping • the world. For added spice, three of the most talented motor-cycie racers in • New Zealand will ride almost identical machines in the two motor-cycle races scheduled. Bob Haldane, just back from Isle of Man and European competition, will ride a 250 Bultaco, on which he is sure to show the form that makes him a top-line competitor. Brian Scobie, New Zealand multi-junior champion, is the second rider up on a Bultaco. The third rider is the New! Zealand Light-weight Grand Prix wimer, Kevin McCleary: of Christchurch, who also has a new Bultaco. McCleaty, who had an Injured hand, never really got going at Levin, but on the long Wigram circuit McCleary will be able to wind up the Bultaco to the red line. Tremendous performances at Wigram in past years on his famous Silverstone Greeves have made McCleary something of a Wigram specialist, and, with the needle of the Haldane - Scobie competition, these three will whirl the field along at a tremendous pace. Dave Mortimer will also ride ¡his very fast Norton, and this talented North Islander is, another entry that could spark up the New Zealand Airfeld Open event. Other riders included in big fields are Don Damiano, winner the "King of Ruapuna" title, Jom Hubbard, Graeme Stapleton, on the Haris Veloceite, Sonny Ciarke, Keith Hanham, Phillip Wilson, Rex Ingram, from Invercargil, and plenty oi ther men and pienty of other men capcapable of staying with the torrid pace sure to be set by the flying Bultacos.