29-1-77 Gloy im oressive in W Igr ue quall A moderate crowd today round of the Peter Stuyvesant i The Motor Racing Club had worked overnight and this morning to lay out the circuit and it was soon after 10am that the saloon cars went out for testing. The Lady Wigram Trophy field then went out for the first of today's three qualifying sessions. The one-hour session endect about 12.30pm and although official times were not immediately available it appeared that Californian Tom Gloy ‹Tui 2; was fastest with a time of 1min T5sec - an average speed of 211.433kmh. Gloy is second on the Stuyvesant points table_behind Finland's Keke Rosberg Chevron B34 - yIn tr watched the qualifying trials for tomorr international motor-racing series. CORNERS On Wigram's long back straight. Rosberg was siower than Gloy but he made up ground by braking later at the corners and unofficiall! he was only fractions of a second slower than Glos: New Zealander David Jic- Millan •Ralt RTI: lapped at about 75sec, as did most of the likely front-runners tomorrow. They include Rosberg's compatriot and team-mate, Vikko Kozarowitzky i Cherron B34). Austra an Bruce Allison RT 1› and Richard Melville March 76B!. The 75sec mark is 4.9ser slower than the qualifying time of Englishman Brian Redman Chevron B29! last year. Redman's time. achiered in a two-litre car, was the standard at which tomorrow's entrants were aiming today. Their qualifying sessions were hampered by a strong north-easterly blowing up the main straight. The wind was to Gloy's advantage as his car has a smaller frontal area than those of most of the other drivers. ials row's fifth and final ROSBERG: YOU FOLLO By PETER GREENSLADE Subjugation of the opposition before the money earning part of the business starts would appear to be one of the important. ingredients in Keke Ros. berg's recipe for success in the Peter Stuyvesant international motor raeing series. Last Saturdas at Teretonga Park, Invercargill, the slim Fi.a cu his third wristwatch many weeks and gained pole position for the 62-lap penultiruate round in the series by putting one lap of the 3.575 neir it in 56.4s€c with his Fred Opert Cherron -34. This was in the qualiving session, and in the seco™ 1, Aucklancor Dar - MeMillan (F." I.T1) equalied Rost re's ti: . so he automatically became No " on the startir mid. The Stuyvesant drivers had three qualifying sessions in which to attempt to better Rosserg's time, but by the time it was all over the closest to it was o.Osec set by Jamaiea's Richard Melville (March 76B). Next was Rosberg's compatriot and team-male Milke Kozaro..izky with 57.2sec, also achieved, like Rosberg and Melville, in the first session. The 1976 Stuyvesant champion, Ken Smith (Auciland) equalled Kozarowitzky's figure later in the first session,. and. like the others, failed to better it in the next. Then in the final session, in what appeared to be a do-or-die effort, Smith shu ed his March 76B into a safety embankment at the hairpin and eliminated himself from the race. To be brutaily honest. "Ie Teretonga qualiying times sin., *y highlighted one of the blatant facts ahout this series - evers- one is off the pace except Rosberg. In the race, Resberg won from end to end and finished 35.1sec .whead Kozarowitzky. ADVANTAGE Although the driver who gets pole position does not always wi the race, does earn a psychological advantage. Rosberg hasi gained th advant- -- in ¿bree of the four Stuyvesant rounds held so far. in the opening round at Bay Park, he Lest through no fault of his own when battery failure sidelined him soon after the race start. In the New Zealand Grand Prix at Pukekohe, Kozzrow itzky was fastest qualifer with 65.5sec lap. But Rosberg was next with 65.6sec, 50 no one could argue • that he was off the pace. It was in the third round at Manfield. that Rosberg "out-psyched" everyone. W ME, Gloy (Tui BH2) was quickest in the first twe qualilying sessions with 65.42 and 65.3sec respectively.. Much to everyone's surprise Rosberg was eleventn fastest with 67.5sec in the first session and tenth with 66.84sec in the second.. In the third and final session, Gloy went out and did 65.39sec and that looked like pole position, until less than a minute before the session was due end, Rosberg shatteringly belted all the preconceived motions with a 65.08sec pole-gaining lap which put the rest back where they belonged once more. In this series, most drivers i- • striven for a good qualifying time to gain a good starting pesition, but in the actual races not very many have late 1 close to their qualifying times. Rosberg, whO ap pears to have tremendous powers of concentration CHAPS! has always run close to his qualifying times. It leads one to the . eonclusion that in qualifving he sets his own standard and races to maintain it rather than against his opponents. The others race against each other and their lap times rise and fall according to individual circumstances. Consequently they spend as much time off the pace as they do on it. Before the Teretonga race starter, Rosberg knew that he was going to make exactly 1070 gear changes in the hour — give or take a few seconds - that if was going to take him to win it. It is this cold-blooded aproach, plus 100 per cent determination and concentration, that has given the Finn this Stayvesant series. Under the circumstances. Rosberg will prebably make it four in a ros with a Lady Wigram Trophy race win tomorrow.