6-1-71 11-1-71 17th INTERNATIONAL LADY WIGRAM TROPHY RACE GRANDSTAND SEATS STAND AT START/FINISH $2.50 each STAND AT THE LOOP. $2.50 each AVAILABLE MOW AT D.I.C INCLUDES ADMISSION AT GATE. SAT., 16th JAN., '71 BOOK NOW AT D.I.C • MAIL ORDERS TO D.I.C PLEASE ENCLOSE STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE 11-9-79 17th INTERNATIONAL LADY WIGRAM TROPHY RACE ROUND 3 TASMAN CHAMPIONSHIP 1971 R.N.Z.A.F. STATION, WIGRAM-SATURDAY, next 16th JAN ADULTS $1.50, CHILDREN 50c, CARS 50c ENTRANTS INCLUDE JOHN CANNON (U.S.A.) ... MCLAREN MIOB GRANDSTAND SEATS $2.50 each CHRIS AMON (U.K.) MIKE EYRELY (U.S.A.) 4 то aaro S.T.P. MARCH aaro SURTEES TS8 INCLUDING ADMISSION LEO GEOGHEGAN (AUSTRALIA) = ... WAGGOTT LOTUS 59 FRANK GARDNER (U.K) •.. кара LOLA T192 Now on sale at D.I.C Booking TEDDY PILETTE (BELGIUM) MCLAREN MIOB Office KEVIN BARTLETT (AUSTRALIA) ... MILDREN CHEVROLET NEIL ALLEN (AUSTRALIA) McLAREN MI0B Race Day Sales at Booths behind FRANK MATICH (AUSTRALIA) - NCLAREN M10B REPCO Stands GRAEME MCRAE (N.Z) .... MCLAREN M10B GRAHAM LAWRENCE (N.Z.) FERRARI VG TWO STANDS, one opposite Start- Finish and one at the "loop" BE THERE! and Motor-cycles. the Formula A-500 cars, some ining. that is ikely to happen Records will fall again at Wigram, he finished a good sixth. If he runs as well again on Saturday he will pick up at ¡ least another Tasman point. Young David Oxton, fourth in the opening round at Levin in! at Wigram March 701, the car that gave the Lotus that Amon Is now; driving, has taken over STP's Amon a third at Levin, for the By PETER GREENSLADE remainder of the series. On his showing so far, Oxton If the New Zealand Grand Prix was anything to go by, race looks like being the next in the and lap records will take a pounding in the 101.2-mile Lady line of New Zealand drivers tol get a break in big-time inter- Wigram Trophy race here on Saturday. national racing. The first four Grand Prix Chev) with 56min 34.7sec, and | That Matich did not go in the finishers recorded race times Mike i Surtecs TS8 same manner was hardly short Going well better than the previous record Ches with somi: 59 7SEC of miraculous. set in 1969 by New Zealander| Ever ifth-placed Canadian Two pitstops to make adjust- The March lacks the power Chris Amon in a 2.4 litre Fer- John Cannon (McLaren M10B Aments to the aerofoil of the of the American V8s, as it has Chev) was only 29.6sec outside American STP Corporation's . Cosworth-Ford V8 engine Australian Frank Matich, Amon's 1969 record. newly acquired Lotus 70 Boss only half the size, but Oxton who drove a McLaren MI0A to I believe Sydney real-estate Ford 302 kept Amon out of con- driving it faster round victory last year, was 1min millionaire tention, after he had held a Pukekohe in practice and in 39.9sec slower than Amon, but Grand Prix won from promising sixth place about a the race than Amon had in the since then the big 5-litre For- moment he managed to get by third of the way through the early qualifying trials. mula A-5000 V8 cars have im- These are the drivers most proved in performance and McRae in the twenty-eighth of The Lotus 70 had been virthe 58 laps. tually rebuilt between the time likely to dispute the Lady Wig reliablity. ram Trophy. McRae is a hard charged who it was bought last Thursday Early in the action the exist- First four does not wilt under pressure, and the race and Amon, who ing lap record of 105.34 miles and he provided an effective had never driven a Formula hour, set by McRae in a The race times of the first barrier between Allen and the A-5000 previously, was left with flying Matich. MeLaren MIOB last year, will four in the Grand Prix under- little time to get to know it. certalnly go. line the fact. In the fiftieth lap Matich set: For him the Grand Prix was And I'm picking that at least Niel Allen (McLaren M10B a track record of 111 miles an, really a familiarisation course four drivers will have beaten Chey) averaged 107.895 miles hour - 56.7sec - and at that and he should be extremely the existing race record by the an hour for a race time of stage only 4sec bridged the competitive with the car by time the chequered flag falls on 56min 27sec. leading trio. Saturday. Saturday. Then came Matich (McLaren A lap later it was down to The 1970 Tasman champion, It currently stands in the Repco) 56min (3sec, but MeRae still held his farther back tenn eights in the name of the late Jochen Rindf 27.4sec. New Zealander Gra- place. who won at an average speed! ham MeRae (McLaren M10B Grand Prix and, though his 2.4 of 103.11 miles an hour in a Matich finally took McRae in •Ferrari V6 was outgunned by Lotus 49B Cosworth Ford V8 in the fifty-fourth lap, but he had Heft his run too late and Allen I got the decision by 0.4sec. Although speeds have been There is no doubt that Allen, consistently higher at Puke kohe since the shorter circuit Matich and McRae will again was introduced for the Grand mix it wheel to wheel at Wig- Prix there has always been a ram. strong body of opinion that But Eyerly, who is just get- ! Wigram is the faster circuit. ting to know his Formula Saturday's race should settle A-5000 car, could move up to be the argument once and for all. with them and expatriate Aus- Certainly on the basis of the tralian frank Gardner, who Grand Prix a race average of was moving in on Miatich after around 108 miles an hour and a 12 Grand Prix laps, will also be lap record around 110 miles an out to make amends and has hour do not look far-fetched at the ability and car to win Wig- , this stage. ram. Luckiest man Matich was sin be Grand luckiest man the Grand Prix. With Gardner's Lola T192 Chev only feet behind him, Matich had to brake suddenly to avoid a spinning back-marker he was just about to lap. The Lola climbed up the back of Matich's MeLaren and then went spinning to the grass, one wheel becoming detached and another sagging limply.