29-11-84 Classic The Lady Were Trapery Roca la Nese Zeniazd's long est estabished tutersationai water roce Tse TeTy Ben mill bring beck to Cartet church peopie memortes di the mery cizaste motor. radeg battles that ban ees fought out on the that tbe erest las Bses beid. Some of the words top drivers here accepted ibe challenge of the Wigram drait Ditvers sach s Brabham, Mclaren, Moss Clark, Stewart aod Riadt, to name but & fer. Sadly, some of the drivers are Bow like the races past, nothing more than memories When thirding of some of se more memorable per formances that bare bee pot up on the Mitrem escut several come tramedatety to mine Peter Whitebead's tarte rictores in the gears lis 56, and 37, ortving Fer. raria, sequence taterropted valy by the resealing of the circult to 1955, were outstanding achievements The are arted driver Archie Scott-Brown's defeat of the single seaters with its big Lister Jaguar Is 1858 res a memorable occasion. while Ron Flockart's epic battle with Jack Brabam in 1958, wben be seatched a ere vin for the BRM marque with the tempera mental froat engined P2S sould beve bees one of tbe closest Trophy races bald wa the circatt. Stiring Moss, perteps the sost farous racing driver of all toe, was the miner * 1882, guiding big little dark bise Lotss sround a treat stress with water caused by constant rate Joces findt's erive & 1899 left the rest of the chess field Doendering to bats waka, he lead at the end of ibe fret lap almost defying belted. Riesty we in 1509 sigs Bed the end of an era of racing at Migram As the sort moved to the vi coming more professton as it went, top rate Formels One drivers fosed thereselves loo cozadited with race and test programmer, d were mabie to spar e time to vestire t0t under fos the Tasties Bertes, and mere lost to ea circeits es a resalt The year 1570 saW the racing battles beging of the Porasals 5600 Era st Migrant, att althongs the Astralian, Prans Matics, see the fire ace for tids category, tim ven Leslandes, Graban #else was the storted Itag of the 58e0 class, scor. ing 8 Attrick of wire ta the pears 1871, 77 Bad 78 In motor racing oppor mities to break tato tbe bis league of Formala One rac ing are fem and far be. weet Altsongs many Bar ried, only MoLaren, Bulo and Amos, el be Ner Zealanders, have ever really made the break trto Formals Oze Unforterstety. Nichise Bever got the right break and as quickly ss its same rose to promotence it faded into abacurity, bot be will ahays be associated Fitt te balycos days or for. mais 5000 ractog at the Wigram circuit Dia 5000 cars wore Bos fast aDd Dosalar wie tse spectatorz but the riskag soroded the death 50 304 knell for the cless within New Zealand and witimately the rest of the motor-sport worr In 1977, the Formala Pacifie class fras istroduced as New Zealasds preenies single seat formale, and the American, Tom Gloy, tron the inaugural Wigram Pact Calculating As a peseral rae, race commentators base lustfidest time to work out the Indridaal Lap spseds of the varior contestants to te they cas do is gire ibe las dmas of some on the froat remaing irivers spectstors, so wist to obtats a more compoets potare of what is gous on at "Wigram stoald arm themsetres with a stagestia and a pocket caleslater to work out the lap speeds for them. BEITER The formala suite simple Multiply the oldes! Losetrele lenges (3.44 Wigram's case) by sole sad divide by the tap those in secoats The master will be the lap spend in klometres per bon. Substandally the formula to sad to deter Tai MoreDO change that. The Arperters, part-time competition lap speeds into the average soste ei the race. In this case, mait ply the inp tengia by wit and by the womber of aps, and divide by the espses time in seconds The answer #ll Do the average speer Albour sec calcalatom might appesr compliested ben describod os paper, they are very sumbie ass ean be bose quickiy. soreover. the sassers they sine can be seed satei ¡gently to cetermise the outcome of a rece before it stages, Due front-termers are all mating the bids for Lady Wigrom Trophy bos That la, of corse, shrays astring that one or other of the troat-tomers does est mals a mitabe, love se socidzat is, for that master, suffer mochanical entalag. transe 17 The Ford Falo, trea by Broce Ander, of Auckland is an example ef the type el ear spectasors ess expert to me competig is the ser Greep A soaring ear eategory is the coring senora Wigram circuit A North Polytechnical Entry to this arel ls In Washbourne Rd Out of bounds David Crew Gers Loop → in Atraten Fid inor to this ared Gary Cockram Jopanes Car Comes Hortons Ad Infeld Spectators Race Control Entrance for officies Infradd spectators compatsors and (Emited number) official gross ordy Pits Out of bounds Lucas industrias Haipin Duntos Emory to this area is in Wigram Rd Entry for infield Wigrem Rd No spertatora will de silome so ester rosas the Migram Air Base mais gate Acceas te libe infield clones at le aun ee Saturday, 10.30 es Senday. Spertasors will saly be semitred at the Wigrass Resd gate Satardsy.