17-9-70 Nir Sleem MATI ABOVE Fans gather around Aastralian Frank Match affer he won the Lady Wigram trophy Race this afternoon BELOW: A victory kiss for Frank from his attractive wile Joan matich Agair Australian Frank Matich completed a New Zealand Grand Prix-Lady Wigram Trophy race double this afternoon when he drove his McLaren M10A across the finish line with a virtually dry petrol tank, 10.3sec ahead of American Ron Grable, who was similarly mounted. The race recordi Then, each with forty-one ¡laps completed, came another established by Austrian American, Michael Campbeil Jochen Rindt (2.5. Lotus Forsgrini. Ford), New Cosworth Ford) of lander Bran Falloon 125 Ror 102.5 miles - an houri (stan Climax) and yet another American, Pierre Phillips, in a New Zealand-built Begg remains: intaci- Chevrolet:? "Matich's winning aver- As "was. the case in the age was: 101.35 miles Grand Prix at Pukekohe last Saturday, it was Matich from an hour. go to whoa. Third and only 2.5sec behind Slippery Grable came max stewart, of the Australian Mildren Racing "I thought it would be more Team, in a 2-litre Mildren ¡of a fight," he said after the Waggott. race, adding that the circuit These were the oly ones to!was terribly slippery with oil run out the forty-four-lap, 101.2 which had helped hin! catch mile race. Grable in the seventh lap. Two laps down, the Ameri- In the concluding stages of cans, Bill Simpson (Eagle the race, the big 5-litre Cher- Chey) and Mike Goth (Surtees rolet engine was spiuttering TS5), were fourth and fifth. and Matich laughingly ex- plained: "There's nothing wrong with it-I was just out of petrol "We thought we had enough, but I ran across the line dry. Fastest race lap was shared by Stewart and Wellingtonian Graham MeRae, who was an early retirerent in his Me- Laren MI0A. Their time was 1min 19.8sec. However, a new Wigram lap record of 105.34 miles an hour i was set this morning by McRae in the trophy race preliminary. His time of imin 18.6sec was 0.2sec better than the 1969 figure set by Rindt and the New Zealander. Chris Amon :2.4 Ferrari VG). A crowd estimated at 21.009 was on hand to see Matich rob Grable of the lead after six laps, and the : Englishman. Derek Bell (2.5 Brabham Cosworth Ford V8), settled into third place, which he held for twenty-six laps. At that stade. Matich bad Grable and next time round Bell moved through to second pia e and held it to the end of lap thirty-three when he was forced out with either dropped valve or a broken pistons. There was not too much drama in the race itself, but there certainly was minutes before it was due to start. Laren caught fire on a warm?up lap. An over-ful fuel tank leaked petrol. which ignited on the hot engine, and the fire melted and - water lines. The minor blaze was quickly extinguished and the race was held up while McRae's mech- • anies made hurried repairs.