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Feature saloon race

The feature saloon race at the Lady Wigram Trophy meeting will be the final 11-lap Radio Avon invitation event. Paul Fahey (Cologne Capri, a German works car with the latest Cosworth V6 engine) desperately wants to win it, with a $4000 side prize from the Motor Racing Club for a New Zealand winner, against Australians John McCormack (Repco Charger) and Allan Moffat (Union Travel Mustang).

Facts

  • The Motor Racing Club added a $4000 side prize for a New Zealander who won the 1975 Radio Avon feature saloon race at Wigram.
  • Paul Fahey's Cologne Capri was a German works racer fitted with the latest Cosworth V6 engine.

Photos

  • Paul Fahey in his Cologne Capri.
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Lady Wigram Trophy race meeting, Sunday 19 January

Advertisement for the Lady Wigram Trophy race meeting on Sunday 19 January 1975, Peter Stuyvesant series, with admission charges, first race at 12 noon.

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16-1-75 17-1-75 eus tenore The feature saloon car race at the Lady Wigram Irophy meeting on Sunday will be the final 11-lap invitation event sponsored by Radio Aron. The man to watch will be Paul Fahey (above) in his Cologne Capri, a German works racer which is fitted with the latest Il7 brake horsepower 21-valve Cosworth V6 engine. This is the one race Fabey desperately wants to win and not only because the Metor Racing Club has added a $4000 side prize for a New Zealand winner. Fahey beat off the big T8 Mustangs at Wigram a namber of years ago in a diminutive four-cylinder Ford Es. cort. The Mustangs are going much faster these days, as top Auckland saleon car man Jim Richards showed at the Grand Prit meeting last Sunday. Adding fire to Fahey's Wigram ambition is the presence of tro top Australian saloon car drivers in the feld - John McCormack (right), with the Repcoengined Charger and Alan Moffat with the Union Travel Mustang. Fahey can valso expect competition from Camaro driver Red Dawson and Don Halliday, who is also running 8 i 35r/ PETER SIUYVESANT serless WIGH TROPHY RACE SU JAN RAM MEETING N 19 See some of the world's top drivers racing some of the worid's fastest cars. You'll enjoy total motor racing excitement. here'll be something to thrill everyone.. -ormula Fords, Saloons, Motor Cycles, Vintage Cars and, of courss, those super-quick Formula 5000 machines! ADMISSION CHARGES Saturday Practise Adults $1.50 (Gates open 8.30am) Children .50 Sunday Adults $3.00 (Gates open 7am) Children .50 GRANDSTAND SEATS: $4.00 (includes Bookings at DIC admission) CONCESSION TICKETS: $2.50 Available from any branch of Bank of NSW. FIRST RACE STARTS 12 NOON SUNDAY: 3313

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