15-9-69 THE FAST AUSTRIAN DRIVER, Jochen Rindt, at Pukekohe in his Lotus-Ford. Rindt was second in the Grand Prix after a spin and after driving for much of the race with no cluteh. He will be a force to be reckoned with at Wigram. GRAHAM HILL-Cham Graham Hill, the gentleman with the clipped moustache and lively turn of phrase is morid champion motor racing driver for the second time. He has also won the N.Z. Grand Prix twice and driven in New Zealand four times. Hill, awarded the O.B.E. for his services to motor sport after winning the championship for BR.M. in 1962. has an outstanding record as a driver, particularly over the way in which he has battled good-humouredly against adversity so many times. He is the prime example i of the instinctive driver who comes to the game late: he did not have a driver's licence until be was 20 (he had been an artificer in the Royal Navy) and did not go motor racing for another four years. And it was only determination which got him into the cockpit of a singleseater for the first time, at a driving school at Brands Hatch. Within a few months of: that he was driving for Colin Chapnian • of Team. Lotus in his earlier, less successful days with front-engined cars. Hill's ability was quichir ¡noticed by others. and B.R.M. i snapped him up in 1960: his engineering and development skill made a big contribution to the marque's first world championship win by whisker from the late Jim Clark in South Africa right at the end of the year. The failure of B.R.M. to mark with design led leaving them for Team Lotus once again for the 1967 sea-. Ison as and equal number one with Clark, and be took over the leadership in 1968 after Clark's tragic death at Hockenheim. Driving, tne 3-litre V8 Lotus Ford fast and as! cleanly as ever—be is a copy-: book driver-he WOn the championship like a cham-l pion, by a big margin. Hill, aiso a London representative oarsman (his helmet 1S ‚banded in the colours of the' London Rowing Club), won at Pukekohe in 1965 driving the ¡Scuderia Veloce Brabham 2.5 and the following year in a B.R.M. 2-litre V8. pion =-54 THE FAST MINIS always give the crowd, plenty of thrills, and local driver Clyde Collins, in this P.D.L team Mini, has been going particularly mell this season Popular Formula Formula Ford, the 11725 c.c. Rootes engines for the 100 m.p.h. Sunbeamn relatively low cost rackapier Hizo, nave recenty ing car elass for compieted a marieting agreesingle-seaters power- ment with Lotus for the sale ed by Ford Cortina the Holbay modified engines introduced in Formula Ford engines. the middle of 1967, is In fact, engine modifications are strictly limited in one of the fastest Formula Ford racing to keep growing racing ciasses down the costs of this speciin urope. ally evolved "budget" class. LOTUS ON TIMES MAY Balancing the reciprocating But already more than 200 components, equalising the FALL drivers are competing in combustion chambers and Formula Ford events in Bri- porting and changing the SHOW tain. During its first year 30 carburettor jets are virtually Is last year's race Jim races were held in the United the only engine "mods" per- Graham Hill's world-beat Clark and Chris Amon shared Kingdom, and last year there mitted. fastest lap of Imin! ing Lotus is the centrepiece were more than 90. During! By carefully carrying outjof a display of last season's 19.6sec, which shattered she 1968, Formula Ford spread to these basic changes Hoibay Formula 1min 22sec (100 miles an hour the continent of Europe and raises cars-including average) barrier and gained the Cortina 1600 c.c. Jackie Stewart's Tyrell Matra, three races have bees held in engine's normal 86 b.h.p. a Cooper and a B.R.M.-at Clark a special prize, as he Belgium, one in Sweden and gross power output to 105 te Racing Car Show now oni was the first to record a lap оде in Denmark. issue alat Olympia, London. lin this time. ib.h.p., and they But this year even this time According to Nick Brittan dynomometer test certificate addition the show fea of Formula Ford Interna- with every unit to guarantee tures one of the world's is likely to be beaten, and tional, this year's calendar the output. record prize-winning cars, the: given good weather last years! ¡includes 12 events in Belgium, McLaren M&A in which record race average of 102.6 The specification includes Denny Hulme won the 1968 miles an hour should also be fire of them open to inter- Holbay dry sump equipment, national participation, three (cog-belt assemblies Can-Am series which belped bettered. pulley the McLaren racing team gain some indication of the speeds and one in Germany. Plans! Practice on Friday will give in Holland, two in Sweden and a lightweight diaphragm i$170,000 in prize money. clutch. The units will bel For the first time the show that can be expected on the are aiso being made to open marketed by Lotus Compo- has this year been organised 2.3-mile circuit. If you have a British-operated racing ments, Limited, exclusively, jointly by the British Racing a stop watch, bring it to the drivers school at tae German and will be available to all land Sports Car Club and the circuit and try taking lap Hockenheim cireuit with alother constructors of Formula Society OF Motor Manufac times and also time the inter- "stable" of 10 Formula Ford Ford cars as well as private turers and Traders. It is the vals between the leading cars. cars. ¡entrants. About 15 drivers in Belgium biggest exhibition totally de- Often this can show that a and Sweden have As yet no true formula voted to motor sport and driver is starting to lauzch a already Ford cars have appeared on performance motoring held challenge against the "gone Formula Ford" and New Zealand circuits. anywhere in the world. ahead before this is notice- interest is continuing to able to other spectators. grow among both drivers and manufacturers. Holbay Racing Engines, who are specialists in advanced development of performance engines and who modify the SAFETY MOVES Asked to select the most dangerous sport in the world many people would choose motor racing, but few realise the efforts made to reduce the risks. The considerable efforts which have been made to reduce the injury to drivers include the use of fireproof overalls, roll-over bars, crash helmets and full harness seat belts. At a meeting such as Wigram both drivers and officials are concerned with safety. There are fire extinguishers at appropriate points around the circuit, and men of the St John Ambulance are in attendance in case injury should occur. Spectators can help with safety by obeying the instructions of spectator marshals, and by keeping behind bar-