16-1-76 Warwick Brown here By RUSSELL JONES The reigning champion of the rich Peter Stuyresant motor-racing series. Warwick Brown, of Australia. is in Christehurch, although he will not compete in the Lady Wigram trophs race on Sanday. WARWICK BROWN Brown is very disappointed that he. along with two former Tasman series champions, Graham McRae (New Zealand) and Peter Gethin (Britain) could not afford to compete in this vear's fourrace New Zealand series, be ¡cause the promoters either ¡did not contact them or did not offer thera enough money to make it worth their while. But Brown will be racing in Christchurch. He has agreed to drive a Holden saloon car at Marlboro Raceway. Woodlord Glen, this evening. and as well as competing against the regular Marlboro drivers will meet one of the fastest road-racing saloon drivers in the country - Jim Richards. Brown has not raced on the dirt before but is a keen follower of speedway in Sydney and has driven a friend's midget car in practice sessions. He will try Dennis Bolt's very competitive HQ Monaro at Woodford Glen this aîternoon, and the driving skill which gained him fifth place in the American Formula 5000 series last year should mean that he will come to terms with the sliding surface of the track quickly. Richards, on the other hand, is a regular competitor at Auckland's stock car track, _Waikaraka Park, and has already raced successfully at Woodford Glen. He will drive Murray Burt's very potent Holden Torana SLR 5000. During the Stuyvesant series, which ends at Teretonga on Sunday week, and the four-race Rothmans series in Australia, which begins the next week, Brown is ¡acting as adviser to the brilliant young Australian driver, Bruce Allison. Brown's help could be one of the deciding factors in the series, as Allison is leading by one point after two races. Warwick Brown is still only a, and has a brilliant racing future before him. series by one the Tasman After winning point from Graeme Lawrence of New Zealand, he competed in the United States in a Talon, although this sesaon he intends to campaign a Lola T332. He has been invited to drive at Syracuse, New York, on a one mile dirt oval where the top drivers reach speeds of 135 m.p.h. - and this is one of the reasons he is keen to race at Woodford Glen. Monza in good trim Allan Moffatt, of Australia, will be hard to beat in the saloon racès at Wigram on Sunday. His new Chevrolet Monza, which Leo Leonard (P.D.L. Mustang) beat at Bay Park, has now been more carefully set up and Moffatt did a few practice laps at Ruapuna yesterday. He began circulating at 44.5 • seconds, just nudging the lap record, but later recorded the remarkable time of 42.7sec. Moffatt said the car was handling beautifully,. and he is confident of being able to contain Leonard and the other quick drivers at Wigram. The Motor Racing Club announced vesterday that Motiatt, Leonard, Red Dawson (Chev. Monza) and Jim Richards (Sidchrome Mustang) had agreed to open Sunday's meeting with a match race. The drivers will decide today whether to race over three or four laps, but however long the match race is, it semes likely that one, not all of the drivers, will break the magic 100 m.p.h. average speed for track. A few years ago only single seaters could approach this mark, and the saloon car lap record John McCormack set last year in the Ansett Charger seems almost certain to fall. DATSUN The works-prepared Datsun Cherry with the driver. Reg Cook (left), and the Japanese engineer, Mr Kodaira. Works c One of the saloons taking part in erents at a the Stuyvesant Series meetings throughout the country, and which will appear at Wigram. has not previously raced outside Japan. It is a works Datsun 100A Cherry. driven by Reg Cook, of Auckland. The Cherry • has been supplied by Nissan, and travelling with it throughout New Zealand is a Japanese engineer. Mr Masaru Koaaira. He is the man responsible for modifying the cars for racing in Japan. where they have scored many class wins. ar from The Cherry runs in the up to 1300 cu. cm class, although its specification is accordance with the trict international reğuations, and not the more iberal New Zealand saloon ules. The Cherry is owned by Vissan Motor Distributors N.Z.) Ltd, and the firm's Japan manager (Vir W. Bruadbent) said recently thai the New Zealand company was fortunate to be given the opportunity to enter the car in events here, as the Nissan company in Japan had withdrawn from motor sport events to concentrate on air pollution and safety research. factory vehicle like the Cherry would be unlikely to appear in New Zealand again, he said. Turbine car Chrysier of the United States has announced that it intends to test an experimental gas-turbine compact car this vear.