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...and you're in the driver's seat

Shell advertisement for the Lady Wigram Trophy at Wigram on Saturday 20 January 1973, describing a lap from the driver's viewpoint and claiming four of seven Lady Wigram Trophies were won on Shell fuel.

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- 73 - 1 16 DATE: SATURDAY 20th JAN PLACE: WIGRAM EVENT: LADY WIGRAM TROPHY ...and you're in driver's seat the LADY WIGRAM TROPHY The track: 2.3 miles. Favourite track with drivers. A hairpin, fast corners and a straight that allows maximum speeds. Youre on thestarting gridin your 3000 surrounded by other Formula A singleiscaters The starting fagsals ang you accoun •howing. mob.on all sides of you Your foot is hard down, You change up as you pass other cars. The engine responding as if it were part of your own body. You round Bomb Bay bend at 130. You take the first left hander at 6o plus, the right hander at go. The hairpin and you go round at 45 in second: The laps go by. You're in top gear again down A bump in the road here and you're airborne. the main straight passing other cars. Your specd is 170 before you brake hard for the nest corner. Your pit signals that there are ten more laps to go The chequered flag. and that you're You've made it. Thanks 'THE ONE IN FRONT' leading by fourteen. to a good car, meticulous seconds. Engine preparation, Shell fucl, sounds good. Oil Shell Super Motor Oil and a fair helping of good luck. Four out of seven Lady Wigram Trophies pressure steady. have been won on Shell fuel and Shell Race-bred Motor Oils. 8,3

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