18-1-68 Motor racing as a sport had 14th INTERNATIONAL LADY WIGRAM TROPHY RACE! R.N.Z.A.F. STATION, WIGRAM - SATURDAY 20th JAN. GRANDSTAND SEATS $2.30 ea. ENTRANTS INCLUDE: INCLUDING ADMISSION Now on sale at D.I.C Booking Office. TWO STANDS, one opposite start/finish and one at the "loop" DENIS HULME • • JIM CLARK .. .. •• CHRIS AMON .. BRUCE MCLAREN .. PEDRO RODRIGUEZ FRANK GARDNER Full day's racing, including Soloon Cars, Sports Cars and Motor-cycles. BRABHAM COSWORTH IOTUS FORD FERRARI B.R.M. B.R.M. BRABHAM ALFA ROMEO BE helped to put New Zealand on the map, and New Zealand drivers were to be congratulated on the success they had achieved, the Mayor (Sir George Manning) said to-day, when welcoming six of the world's leading drivers to the city. Ine drivers included three New Zealanders, Denis Hulme, the present world champion, Chris Amon, winner of Rothmans International Tasman Championship at Levin last Saturday, miner or rente Cot present were Jim championship races, Frank Gardner,. and the Mexican driver, Pedro Rodriguez. Replying to Sir George, the president of the Motor Car Club (Mr J. Brewer) spoke of the large amount of driving talent-out of all proportion to the country's size which New Zealand had contributed to the sport. •The picture shows Sir George with, (from left), Jim Clark, Denis Hulme, Tim Parnell (B.R.M. team manager), Frank Gardner, Chris Amon, Confident of 100 Miles An Race VERSEAS drivers contesting the fourteenth international Lady Wigram Trophy race here on Saturday are almost unanimous that the first 100 miles an hour race lap will come up and that one of them will finish the day with the $1000 side prize to bolster his bank account. Highly rated to collect the cash, which has been donated by a local motor firm, Manchester Car Sales, Lotus-Ford V8 driver Clark, twice world champion winner of more world championship races than any other driver. "It should be no problem," said Clark. "Last year I managed 101.2 miles an hour in practice. This year most of us have much faster cars." he said. But Clark will not have it all his own way. He said he thought New Zea- -: land Ferrari driver Chris Amon and the Australian Brabham - Alia Romeo driver Frank Gardner would be very much in the running for the money. Burly, amiable Tim Parnell, manager of the B.R.M. team said: "Of course it's got to go." But he did not enter into any discussion on the chances of his two drivers, New Zealander Bruce McLaren and Mexican Pedro Rodriguez. However, Parnell and his drivers, although not giving anything away, appear to be rather more confident about their Wigram chances than they were at the New Zealand Grand Prix and Levin meet. ings where both cars failed in finish, mainly because of over heating of fuel and ignition systems. prises a new Formula 2 Brabham chassis flown out from England and the very good Cosworth-Ford FVA engine, which ¡had him up in third place in the Grand Prix at the time of his 140-miles-an-hour tangle : with Southlander Laurence Brownlie, put in some test runs on . Ruapuna Park circuit this atternoon. Gardner was also out at Ruapuna Park with Hume. Hulme's car is, to all intents and purposes, a new one and Gardner damaged the suspension of his Brabham-Alfa Romeo when he ran off the course and went out of the race at Levin last Saturday. Late arrivals in Christchurch for Saturday's meeting were Clark and Amon, who reached the city from Wellington early to-day. Certainty World chamPion Denis Huime, now recovered from his crash in the Grand Prix, is looking forward to the Wigram race and he, too, is confident that the 1min 22.8sec lap -which represents 100 miles an hour—is a certainty on Saturday. CAR RACE DRIVERS WELCOMED Top overseas racing drivers were welcomed at a reception at the United Service Hotel last night, in a relaxed atmosphere quite remote from that of race day—which for the South Island is this Saturday on the occasion of the 14th: Lady Wigrar Trophy Race. At the buffet party last night! the president of the Canterbury Motor Racing Club, Mr Jack Brewer, welcomed overseas drivers and expressed the hope that this year's Lady Wigram would be as successful as in! previous years. Mr Piers Courage, an inde pendent British driver, related to the English brewing family, i who on Saturday wil drive: under his own colours, replied! on behalf of the overseas drive i ers competing at Wigram. The only world drivers, ew Zealand, and Jam Caro ot scotiana, who are expected! arrive in Christchurch to-day. About 150 people attended the welcome.