15 RITE MOTORAR! PETER STUN series NESAND "76 DATSUN WIGRAM 181h JAL Here's how you'll see the do RACE 1: A "Shellsport" Sal RACE 2: "Motorcraft" Forn RACE 3: The Super Saloon ( RACE 4: Lady Wigram Tropi RACE 5: Radio Avon Saloon RACE B: Go-Kart Exhibition RACE 7: Vintoge ond Histor RACE 8: Fostest Saloon Cur loon Car Chompionship Series Roce mula Ford Championship Roce Car Race hy Race Car Race for "O.S.C.A." or "Shellsp Race ric Racing Car Event rs olf the Meeting Race Saloon racing should be most spectacular so far T'he saloon racing at Wigram last year was some of the most exciting seen in New Lealand, and this yeur it is likely to be even better. The Motor Racing Club has arranged for such stars Torro our as Jim Richards (Mustang) and Allan Moffatt (Chevvy Monza) to race and as the events count towards the Shellsport championship a full field of the most competitive and interesting saloons in the country will be present: Before last week-end I would have lipped Leo Leonard. 1o win in the P.D.L. Mustang after his brilliant performance against Moffatt, Jack Nazer (Victor V8) and Richards at Bay Park. But at Bay Park Richards was running the Sidchrome Mustang on the narrower tralia, where he has been successful, Richards must have felt confident that even on the small rub- BONE SET CROCE her his car, and himself, SIOCHRONE were good enough to foot it with Leonard and the rest. changed his mind and fitted the big Bhall wheels before driving at Manfeild on Sunday. I: was русско raining, and although the hig Mustang mUsE have been a handful in the wet Richards had trouble passing Leonard on the first lap of both races, after Mighty Mustangs. Leo Leonard (top) and Jim Richards will be top contenders at Wigram. slarting frona the second row of the grid. Both cars have been developed to their full potential and should reach more than 150 m.p.l. Although Richards at Wigram. showed his superiority over leonard at Bay Park, he is not a certain Wigram, The wide, fast air» He took delivery of to rework the dry-sump lub a front-runner but the car cars of four times trek circuit gives to watch will he Reg Cook's vantage to the more power- but the motur was down on • little Datsun Cherry. Cherry is fuel-injected. power and he missed Man-, producing These east-west ful cars, and Nazer's very The drivers are all looklight machine could have an front-wheel-drive can argue with that sort of rare in New Zealand ing forward to Wigram beand although Cook's is a very special one Rul Moffatt has spent Wigram circuit is new lo having been pre- high-speed corners and the three weeks reworking his Bellis he should be among trw Monza, which seems to although he is pared by the Datsun works on in years, is a the front-runners. handie better than the Mustangs, and as Wigram will hard-charging: driver engineer is travelling with down to the loop after the he his only other gives no quarter. Whoever Cook to supervise the tun- New Zealend he will be out ing of the machine. spectacles in the world to At Manfeild Cook walked Apart from Bob Stewart's away with both heats for. five-year-old Mustangs, but P.D.L. car, the other Christ- cars up to 1300 c.c., fol- Jowed by Robbie Francevic to lay the demon to rest. should be in the running is Grant Walker, the For- Ford champion, Cortina. Bellis fitted a very sophisticated (four 1200 Datsun, was third in cylinder) Molloy remarkably fast litre V8 before the Bay Park the competition has become most astounding meeting but was disappoint- holter since last season and ed to find that the oil pres- Walker will find it difficult "big bangers" winning races, and another sure dropped whenever the lo pass the larger-engined revs rose about about: 4000. smaller classes, Allan Woolf (Escort) will be - and in iront of round of the championship