16-1-75 LA Tro phy The twenty-first Lady Wigram Trophy race. which will be the third round in this rear's eight-race Peter Stuyvesant international motor racing series, is shaping up to be one of the most open that has been held on the 2.2 mile power-driving aerodrome circuit in mans a ear The fieid. comprising the top New Zealand and Australian Formula. A-5000 drivers, is very evenly matched and although the 24-year-old Sydney driver Warwick Brown, who brought his Lola T332 home second at Levin and then went on to win the New Zealand Grand Prix at Pukekohe last Sunday. looks ilke being race favourite there are a number of other hard chargers who will be lining up for the rolling start on Sunday afternoon to keep him honest. An Australian has yet to win the series and the lasman Cup that goes with it and, on the results to date. Brown, who still walks witn a limp as a result of a borrific crash he had at Surfers' Paradise a couple of years ago. looks the man most likely to pui his country in the record book. But he won't have it easy at Wigram with drivers such as the international star Chris Amon. the currert New Zealand champion Graeme Lawrence, the current ray Stewart and 1973 Aus- champion tralian champion John Mc- Cormack lined up with him. FIERY Then there are that pair of fiery Australians. Kevin Bartlett and Jonnnie Walker and two very quick New Zealanders. Kennie Smith race and Jim Murdoch to be considered. Amon. one • of the elite corps of Grand Prix drivers -although he has never won a world championship race -is regarded as one of the quickest men in the game and his Taion MRi. which is an American-built replica of the well-known McRae G.12. should be ideally suited to Wigram because its suspension system is more suited to a fast open circuit ratner than the tighter ones, such as Levin and, to a lesser extent, Pukekohe. Amon has scored a second and a third in previous trophy races and is hoping for line honours this time. Like Amon, Lawrence is a previous Tasman Cup winner and at Levin he showed that he has now fully recovered from his 1973 New Zealand Grand Prix crash by winning the race in convincing fashion in his Lola T332 just as he did in 21st IN7 ERNA DY WIGRAM TRO Is WIde & Ferrari Dino back in 1970. In 1970, that was the only race Lawrence won, but consistently good placings in the subsequent rounds earned him the championship and, as he scored a good third in the New Lealand Grand Prix, he might well take this. series in similar fashion for his car is extremely reliable and well prepared. UNLUCKY Wigram has been an unluck! circuit for Lawrence bad luck surely cannot last for ever. On the other hand, it has been a lucky one for Adeiaide's VicCormack, for it provided him with his second successive New Zealand Grand Prix win last year. MeCormack is running a new lightweight Australian built Elfin MR fitted with a Repeo-Holden F5000 V8 engine, similar to that which Walker is using in his Lola 1332. The other major contenders are all pinning their faith in Chevrolet engines. From the technical viewpoints. the most advanced cars in the race will be the new Lola T100s of Stewart and Bartlett. The latter finished third at Levin and was forced out of the Grand Prix with gearbox trouble when comfortabl! secure of major placing. Whereas Bartlett's car is the well-tested prototype model. Stewart's is the first production model and the Australian champion is still open getting it sorted out. With two races already under his belt. Stewart could well spring a Wigram surprise. But the man most people will be watching ciosely on Sunday afternoon is former Aucklander Jim Murdoch, who drove the Begg 018 to second place at Pukekohe in one of the most impressive showings seen there in a number of years. Designed by Southland racing car constructor George Begg and built largely by Murdoch last year in Begg's factory at Drummond the 018 is the latest in a line of successiul Begg cars ONA PHY RACE The present leader in the eight-race Peter Stuyvesant series is Sydney's Warwick Brown who won the New Zealand Grand Prit.