24-1-79 tyre PANDO SALVAGE - Paul MeLachlan never hangs about on two wheels. Here he is with his Yamaha 750 cu ent bike prepared for a Ner Zealand speed record attempt. Ron Boyeroft who won the Wigram race in 1953, will be in the same Alfa Romeo P3 on Sunday. The car has been completely rebuilt. 30 Years of Lady Wigram Twenty-five riders in 'big gun' 'bike race The organisers term it a and it is easy to see what they Twenty-five riders have ent ing promises to be extremely Top riders include Stuart Paul McLachlan. Unlike previous meetings. racing bikes, rather than a lib machines. The! will include St "big gun motor-cycle race," y mean with the line-up. tered the event, and the rac- Arant, John Woodley and the bikes this vear will be eral sprinkling of fast street izuki. Yamaha and Honda. STEPPING STONE TO BE TTER THINGS Formula Pacific has long been a sort of northern wit ter escape for budding overseas drivers scrabbling for the top drives in motor racing. And as it is used as a stepping stone for better things, we mostly have relatively unknown (in New Zealand) drivers coming here. Those ho make it in the series - such as Keke Rosberg -don't come back. This year, for example, many the overstas drivers who came last year, have not returned. At last year's meeting many • said they would come back, al though they did say ex- penses were against then. Notable accentees are Bobby Rabai, Pierre Dieudonne, lan Grob, and Danny Sullivan. Larry • Perkirs has come back, and Andrew Miececke was with us until his bad practice crash. Locai, crivers Dave McMillan. Stere Millen and Ken Smith have become firm regular favourites in the series. Proming Soung (21) North Island driver Stere Emson, who drove superbly last rear in his newis acquired car, has bad bad luck. He was injured at Timaru last year in a motor racing shunt.