12-1-71 13-1-71 13-9-71 CAR RACE Meanwhile this weekend brings the South island's first direct telecast of motor racing, with CHT 3's outside unit at Wigram for the Lady Migram Trophy event. "We're down for an hour and 20 minutes out there and officials have timed the race start to fit in with us. • just after the 2om news, said Mir Allard. With three cameras in use this will be an intricate operation, too, and 3Ir Allard estimates about two miles of microphone cable will be laid. Thousands of feet of the heavier camera cable will also be needed, as to get a proper perspective of the race cameras wil be some 1200ft — the maximum possible - away from the outside broadcast van. The sports team will also videotape the main saloon race, with a view to playing some of the tape after the big event if time allows. Minor races will be shown On "Grandstand," and CATV3 also has to compile a "package" Lady Wigram gramme for the Australian Broadeasting Commission. Before the big race "The South Tonight" will devote most of its Friday night edition to a preview of the event. with drivers and officials setting the scene. THE MAN TO BEAT.—T. Discombe, of Hamilton, rounding Rothmans corner at Ruapuna Park during last season's New Zealand senior grand prix. Last Saturday Discombe became only the second rider to win both the New Zealand junior (350 c.e.) and senior (500 c.c.) T.T. championships at Pukekohe on the same day. On Saturday he will be in Christehurch for the New Zealand airfield championships, to be held at Wigram in conjunetion with the international car meeting. The only rider to have held the New Zealand senior and junior T.T. and senior and junior grand prix titles at the same time, Discombe will ride a works-supported Japanese 350 c.c. Yamaha two-stroke. Wigram racing cars held up Ererything points competitors in Saturd South Island's premier Shipping space is at a premium at present and a number of cars now in Wellington will not reach Christchurch until Friday morning. only two or three hours before the practice sessions are due to start on the Wigram airfield cireuit, according to the secretary of the Motor Racing Club Ine Mr Gordon F. Sheppard). •Everyone will be in Christ.! church in time to practise for the race, but mechanies will be flat-out preparing the cars, set- AMERICAN ROAD RACER Lady Wigram trophy race patrons will have the opportunity of seeing a genuine American road racing Chevrolet Camaro in action in saloon car events on Saturday. The Motor Racing Club Incorporated has received a late entry from Tauranga based Rorison Racing. The Camaro will be driven by Denis Marwood, one of the top North Island saloon car drivers The Camaro is the one that American Joe Chamberlain drove at the Bay Park, Tauranga, and New Zealand Grand Prix meetings. He raced it last year in the American TransAm series. It is a very fast and good handling car, but Marwood may have his work cut out for he will be coming up against the 1970 New Zealand saloon car champion Rod Coppins in his Camaro. Paul Fahey who has chosen to run his Escort PVA instead of the Mustang, and Christchurch's Cide Collins in the PDL Falcon, among others. By PETER GREENSLADE to a race before the race for a number of the lay' s international Lady Wigram Trophy. the car race. ting up suspensions and altering gear ratios and so on. despect. said Mir Sheppard. One driver who has beaten : the shipping problm is the cur- : rent Australian champion driver, Leo Geoghegan. His 2-litre Lotus 69, powered by the very successful Australian designed and built fourcylinder Waggott engine, was flown in from Sydnes early this afternoon on a regular Qantas flight and unloaded at Christchurch Airport. SPECIAL EFFORT Geoghegan ran at Wigram two years ago, but his ear broke down early in the race and, although he did not contest the Levin and Pukekohe Tasman races, he has made a special effort to come to Christchurch. In a telephone conversation with the president of the club MIr . A. Brewer, he said he felt he owed it to the club and to Wigram patrons to come over because of his poor previous showing. However. even if a number ot cars have yet to arrive in the city, the . majority of the drivers arrived today time for the reception that will be given them by club members tonight. Among the guests will be Mrs Pat McLaren, widow of the famous designer driver Bruce McLaren. who has altered her holiday plans specially to be in Christchurch for the meeting. Mrs McLaren is a director of the firm her husband founded and had the satisfaction of seeing McLaren cars take the first three places, as well as hith and eighth, in the New Zealand Grand Prix last Saturdav. COMMITMENTS Drivers will find pienty to occupy their time before • the serious business starts on f7iday. Tomorrow morning they will be entertained by the Mayor 'Mr A. R. Guthrey), a function that is a traditional part of "Wigram Week." the Tomorrow night they will be guests of the Jaguar Drivers* Club at a cocktail party, another traditional function. Sight-seeing tours and other entertainments have also been arranged for those who can spare the time.