news · The Christchurch StarSkyline Garages sponsors Lady Wigram Trophy
After the Apple and Pear Board ended its Just Juice sponsorship of the international series, Skyline Garages stepped in as sponsor of the 1984 Lady Wigram Trophy race meeting. The sponsorship was described by the company's managing director as an exciting development in its history. (The OCR of this clipping is very garbled.)
Facts
- Skyline Garages sponsored the Lady Wigram Trophy race in December 1984, after the Apple and Pear Board's Just Juice sponsorship of the series ended.
Photos
- The Commodore V8 of Avon Hyde and the Starlet V8 of Trevor Crowe are sure to be to the fore in the Arbuckles OSCA races at Wigram on Sunday.
preview · The Christchurch StarNine saloon-car support races
Preview of the supporting races at the December 1984 Lady Wigram meeting, with nine saloon-car races among the programme. It covers the Shellsport two-litre saloons (Mark Rutherford, Warren Burt), South Island production saloons (Jim Little's Charger, Mike Small, Graham Jenkins, Barry Dryden), Laser Sports (Ed Lamont and others), and Motorcraft Formula Ford with John Crawford, Kevin Ingram and Steve Richards.
Facts
- The winner of the 1984-85 NZ Motorcraft Formula Ford series was to receive an expenses-paid trip to Britain to contest the Formula Ford Race of Champions supporting the 1985 British Grand Prix.
- Nine saloon-car support races were scheduled for the Lady Wigram meeting on 2 December 1984.
- John Crawford was disqualified at Teretonga the weekend before the December 1984 Wigram meeting, costing him points in the Formula Ford series.
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i see Arbuckle's OSCA races et Wigram os Serday.
Nine saloon-car support races
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races aume beta beld ou the
Wigram circatt, and, to fact,
to sote sgrectators
saisa car races are tae
mansgot of the cay.
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so fewer this mine salooz
гасть от сже варроть ртоsinume pim races for Por-
cycles.
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PRODUCTION SALOONS
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and get still keeps wiesing
Faces
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versatile arter.
Milke Small wito Esce
stroas competition from
Grabar Jenktes and Barry
Dryden with thets more
modera Commodores
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will prosabiy po to one os
these three, there will be Bo
isc's of acton furtber coma
the feld, where entries
range fram a Carnaro to a
Min
AGC LASER SPORTS
This years Laser Sport
Belda have a much benitbler
look about them, and the
competition should be close
betteen these road going
cars vich, by regalation,:
must be prepared to seattcal specifications
Last
challenge from the cars of
Ed Lamont and Murray
Starpes, with several ofbers
well in contention.
Local Dopes on Sandsy ai
Nigram will be pinned or
the Hatchinson Motors-sporsored car of the improving
Southoriage driver, frank
Meissen, who is the caly
Canterbury based driver to
be contesting the national
MOTORCRAFT
FORMULA FORD
Formula Ford racing i
usually extremely closely
contested, and isst season's!
races at Wigram were re
garded by many as the best
races of the day.
It is Hkely that New Zes.
Land's nest world champion
will emerge from the ranks
of the Formula Ford
drivers, and the drivers in
next Sunday's Formula Ford
races will have an added
incentive to do well.
The winner of this year's
New Zealand series will
receive an expenses pala
tríp to Britain to contest the
Formula ford Race of
Champions, which will sup
port the 1985 British Grand
Prix
John Crawford, will still be The Christchurch driver,
smarting from the effecte of
his disgualification last Surday at Teretongs, as the
points lost will be hard to
recover over the final four
rounds.
Crawford must still be
favoured to win sundays
races with his new Reynard,
but the field will tactade the
championship leader, Kevia
Ingram, who t bmsel a.
former national campion, /
and Steve Richards, the eur.
rent champion, who recently
retarDed trom racing t
Expload
With such a competitive
bless it sorid be foolisa to
bet agatest the Formala
Ford racer once again pra:
riding the closest racing at
Wigram on Sanday.
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