20-1-68 First He was attended to by St John Ambulance men, subsequently admitted to hos pital for a routine check. He was not seriously injured. Eliminated It may have been in this incident that New Zealand's leading 1.5-litre driver, Graeme Lawrence, was also eliminated from the race. He spun to the in-field in his Brabham Ford and was unable to resume. The smaller 1.6 litre cars of Hulme and Courage were no match for the Tasman Formula machines of Clark and Amon, but these two provided an exciting race within a race, and some measure of their skill and the power of thesel smaller cars was to be seen in the fact that Hulme put in a lap at 102.48 miles an hour and Courage managed one at 100.35 miles an hour. All Clark But as far as the race was concerned it was Clark from "go" to "whoa." He snatched the lead from the start and held it very narrowly from Amon through to the middie stages of the race, and then managed to draw away in the late stages. Hulme made a good start Points for Clark and so did Courage, and these two ran through the race in third and fourth places, Courage being particularly impressive in that he managed to keep the world champion in his sights the whole way. Gardner made a poor start, but worked his way up into fifth place behind Courage before retiring in lap seven. Rodriguez was next in iner followed ey Mclaren and then there was a fair gap back to Palmer, who drove out the race very much on his own and comfortably clear of Levis, Dawson and Stone, who kept together for almost the entire distance. Clark and Amon were lapping the tail-enders after they covered about 15 miles. FROM PAGE I and this process of lapping slower cars continued with monotonous regularity. Howlever, the slower men gave the leaders plenty of room to work in and despite the big speed differential, there was no incidents. Rodriquez looked as though he might be out of the ruming when he was forced to make a pit stop in lap 19. A sticking throttle slide was the trouble but the BRM mechanics had the diminutive Mexican on his way almost before he had 'stopped. However. the delay was enough to let McLaren up into the fifth place which he held comfortably to the end of the race. There were eighteen starters To Race In Team Colours Lady Wigram Trophy Race winner Jim Clark will be racing in the colours of red, white and gold in Australia, and entered with an international permit by Gold Leaf Team Lotus. Relaxing in a caravan aiter his record-breaking _race win Clark said that following the $160,000 tie-up between Team Lotus and John Player, the British tobacco manwacturing concern, an international permit had been taken up under the name of Gold Leaf Team Lotus. If he raced in Australia Gold Leaf Team Lotus would be on the car. It would be painted in! the colours of the tobacco company. The insignia of the company features on the Lady Wigramwinning Lotus Ford, V&, and includes a portrait of a sailor smoking a pipe. Said Clark: "I don't know, we might nave to take that little man out, but if we are racing in Australia we will certainly be racing with the Gold Leaf Team Lotus label on the cars." Other advertisers featured on the Lotus include a tyre manufacturer, an oil company, and an American oil additive organisation. . *As far as they are con- and apart from those already mentioned others who struck trouble included the young Aucklander David Oxton, who was well up with the 1.5 litre cars when he had to abandon the race in lap 10 with a damaged head gasket in his Brabham Ford Don Macdonald dropped out of the running in the twentythird lap with a slipping clutch in his Brabham Ford Four laps earlier Brian Faloon had departed the scene for reasons which even he could not determine, but the : cause was probably lack of oil preshis 2.5 Brabham Climax. Earlier in the race: he had made a stop to replace a burst water-hose. Perhaps the most ignominious fate of all was suffered by Ken Smith whose Lotusi Ford ran out of petrol afteri 36 laps. Conditions could not been better for racing at Wigram today. The sun shone, so shere, but moderate wind not only helped to keep temperatures reasonable, but also helped speed competitors on their way down the long back straight. The president of the Motor Racing Club (Mr J. A. Brewer) estimated that the crowd was the largest to attend a Wigram meeting for five or six and said he thought there would have been at least 30,000 spectators. Motor-cycle Win to L. May Lloyd May of Manurewa took the main honours in the open 25-mile motor-cycle race at Wigram to-day with his 500 c.c. Norton. After passing Sonny Clarke on the second lap, May had a good battle with Brian Scobie, also on a Norton, before winning by 100 yards. After a tight battle, B. Adams (Norton) beat D. Mortimer (Matchiess) for thira placing First motor-cycle гасе - - Clarke (Norton). May (A.J.S.). 2: T. Discomb (A.J.S.), 3 second motorercle race t (Norton). Scobie (Norton). 2: B. Adams (Nor- Wigram Results Lady Wigram Trophy Race_ First Preliminary (11 laps): R. Levis (Repco Brabham) 16min 21 5sec. 1; B. Stone (Brabham Ford) sec. 4; G. MicRae (Brabhan1) min ++sec. Macdonald (Brabham) 17mln 38sec, G. Lady Wigram Trophy Race Second Preliminary (11 laps): J. Clark (Lotus) 14min 55.3sec, 1: C. Amon (Ferarri) 14min 56.3sec, F. Gardner (Bran ham-Alfa 2 Romeo) 15min 10.2 sec, 3; D. Hulme (Repco Brabhanı) 15min 11.6sec, 4: P. Courage (McLaren Cosworth) 15min 19.6sec, Rodriguez (B.R.M.) 15min 21.2sec, 6. Motor Racing Club Championship (11 laps) - B. Keen ‹Begg) 18min 8sec, 1; R. Ruth ertord (Lotus) 18min 8.4sec, 2: Tosh (Begg) 18min 21.6se:. 3: . N. Stuart (Stuart-Corvette 1Smin 32sec, G. Baker (Lotus) 5; R. West (Lotus) 6. Sports Cars over 1500 c.c.- A. Buchanan (Elfin) 16min 47.8sec, 1; G. Mardon (Stanton) 16min Hawes (Begg) 1îmin strong Lots t 30.65eC. 23sec, 3: J. Arm- Collins ‹ Farina Ford), 5; N. Doyle (Corrette). 6. Fastest lap: Buchanan, 1min 30sec (a record). Rothinans Saloon Car Race- 1300 c.c.: A. Hyslop tRustin Cooper); 17min 37.9 vel. 1: Stewart (Austin (ooper).. 15 min 38.4sec. 2; Kettelwell ‹Morris Cooper), 17min 50sec. 3; L. Veilson (Austin Cooper), limin 5+÷ec. 4; B. Benzie (Morris Cooper S). 18min 32.2sec, 5; R. Anderson (Austin Cooper), 18min . 32.3ser. 6. Fastest lap: Hyslop, Imin 41sec (a recordl tady Wigram International Trophy Race (44 laps), 101.5 miles.-J. Clark (Scotland' Lotus Ford VS, 59min 10.8ser. C. Amon (New Zealand). Ferarri V6. 59min 18.5sec, 2; D Hulme (New Zealand). 1.G Brabham Ford, 43 laps, 3: Courage (England), 1.6 3ic- Laren 43 laps, 4: B Laren Few Zealand) 2, Bri V12, 43 laps, P. Rodriguez laps 60) J Palmer 2.0 B.R.V. laps. (New land) 4: R. Leris New Zealanai.- McLaren Ford, aps, 1.5 Brabham Ford, 40 laps, 8. Fastest lap: Clark and Amon. 1min 19.6sec. (104.02 miles an hour-record). Rothmans Saloon car raceover 1300 c.c.: P. Fahey (Ford Mustang). 16min 45.4sec, 1: P. Bryan (Ford Mustang), 17min 48sec. 2: R. Coppins (Ford Mustang), 17nin 48.8sec, Ward (Lotus Cortina), 1Smin 20sec, 4; ฿. Phillips (Lottis Cortina), 18min 42.4sec. 3: E Lataa (Triumph 2000) G. Rothmans Saloon Car Final —F. Bryan (Ford Mustang', 1: Doyle (Corvette), Sprague (Anglia). 3; L. -ellson (Austin Cooper). 4: A. Hyslop (Lustin Cooper),. 5: J.. Richards ( Anglia). 6. dinner's 13min 25 3sec.