16-1-71 Wigram race Amon's last in NZ series By PETER GREENSLADE New Zealand international motor racing star Chris Amon had his last race in the New Zealand section of the Tasman championship in the Lady Wigram Trophy today. Tuesday he will leaveland Pukekohe Tasman The programme began for Buenos Aires, where he he would have tried to get time at 10.45 am with the 25will drive a French Matra- a release from his contract mile race for motor-cycles up smea formula car next and attempted to regain theito 500cc. DALE WYLE! weekend in a non world cham- Tasman championship he won, By the lunch interval, the pionship race. president of the Motor Racing Amon, who joined the French However, Amon has only Club Mr J. Brewer) said STORMS team at the end of the 1970 four points, gained from a that the crowd looked "about European racing season, said third place in the Levin race normal in the region of today that if he had been with the STP March 701. 20.000 people. BACK TO better placed after the Levin Before the trophy race today! However, late arrivals were MeLaren M10B drivers Niel still coming to the circuit for BEST Allen (11 points) and Granam the main event, which started McRae (13) topped the ladder. FORMULA jast after 2pm. Returning to his home city, BLEW UP ABOVE: Paul Fahey (right) overtaking Ron Coppins during the the Canterbury champion LIBRE TO Dale Amon lost all chance of get- Bace meting today. Ples on are et et. a so Motor she read res Wylie, shrugged in- ting into contention when the race meeting today. Fahey won different form of the North THOMSON brand new Boss Ford V8 winning form in the motor-cycle race for machines up to 500cc. Island to storm away in the engine in the STP Lotus 690 500cc race at Wigram today. blew up after a few practice! After the dramatic saloon laps yesterday. Coppins stormed into the The 21-vear-old speedster championship the lead from the front of the grid! first man away in the car Amon subsequently went outi Escort field was formula libre event was an and qualifed the March which with Marwood and the Christlarge and never Clyde Collins headed during the 25-mile anticlimax at Wigram today. Aucklander David Oxton was! church driver 1alt. Invercargill's Thomson, to have driven today, leaving: (Ford Falcon) in hot pursuit. His 500cc works Suzuki Iriving a 5000cc FM2, took the the promising young New Zea- beats Then came Fahey and two showed obvious signs of lead from the start and fin- lander without a trophy race! fellow twin-cam Escort drivers his of ished well ahead second drive. Jim Richards (Manurewa) and crash Tauranga last Sur- place • getter Ian Bisman Oxton, however, will get his D. Halliday (Auckland). day but Wylie dragged enough (Christchurch) in his 1600cc chance the was taken by the power out of it to recompense next Sunday in Comaro Marwood Begg. final New Zealand Tasman: hard-charging Faney on lap for his failure there and Behind for much of the race round at other North Island meetings. Teretonga Park, three. Contrary to earlier expecta- D. Heney (Greymouth) driving vercargill, when he will drive Proof that brute force is not Fahey was hounding, Coptions, the brilliant Taradale in- his new Titan Mk 6 1600 came the March again. pins's Comaro in the tight but• third after the big Elfin 400 of Amon is going to France tol everything came in no uncer- the big car just had the edge ternational Keith Turner kept G. Harvey (Otahuhu) began to do some test driving after the! tain terms at Wigram today his 250cc machine up with the when Manurewa driver Paul down the long back straight. slow in the fourth lap. This was the was they were leaders to take second place, Fahey snatched the lead from win the New Zealand 250 Air- much bigger machinery to win right until the last lap when; field Championship and add to driving his big 7.7 litre Con-representative at Surfers Para Fahey took the lead through tinental Special, he dise. where the first Australian the Bank of New South Wales the hangar bend only to lose it! his ever-increasing tally in the designed and built himself, Tasman round will be run in! saloon car championship race. 250 points chase. stayed in fourth place for the three weeks. Fahey's twin-cam Ford Es- again in the back straight. Last year's runner-up in the first three laps and was last cort took over from the But he had not given up the: morld 500cc championsbip, Gin- of struggle and snatched the! blowing out clouds CROWD thunderous orange coloured ger Holloy (Huntly) followed! smoke down the front straight! Chev Comaro, of Gisborne's front position back again Wylie early in the race but in the fourth. The crowd started pouring. Rod Coppins with less Croppins braked for are hairs! the hard riding Turner slip. rormula Litre to saps) Begg): R. into the aerodrome circuit! half a lap to go, and gave pin. (Invercargill, Bank Cham pic"s rip Wales ped brilliantly past. Bisman Christchurch from 9 am today in time to Wigram patrons one of the Seloon nace He held third place until lap Begg), Henev (Grevmouth icee motor cucuss have train.! best grandstand inishes for Fahey alametal. nine when Hamilton's Trevor Titan), harvey (Otahuhu, ing runs for their two events; rears. For orce che? 14:27.8 Discombe porered his 350 Denis Marwood Tauranga) Gisborne, today before the main race! ‹Taurung.:. Chev Yamaha past to take third in cais came out for their final! in another Comaro looked like Richards Manuthe race, the New Zealand 350 practice runs. being a threat in the nine-lap Escort da Ford Airfield Championship, and top A cooling easteris wind was race but slioped back as the; Crosbie: points in the 350 class. fairly strong and was melcome! event sore on. ¡invercargill, intercargin. Ford Escort Wylie's win, in time of because was oniy! Trite for caced him fare. Lightly cloud-flecked and condi- 500cc Airield tions would have been most un- Championship and associated comtortable without the wind. series points in the open class race this afternoon.