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Tireless Matsushita: tyre holds for Hiro to win

Front-page report that Japanese driver Hiro Matsushita did not realise until after the chequered flag how close he had been to a flat tyre, his Swift's right front wheel rim badly bent after a collision with something solid during the 1989 Lady Wigram Trophy race. He passed a fierce Dean Hall-Paul Radisich battle after Radisich's engine blew; Mark Smith finished ahead of Hall for second.

Facts

  • Hiro Matsushita won the 1989 Lady Wigram Trophy race with a badly bent right front wheel rim that nearly cost him a flat tyre.
  • Paul Radisich led the 1989 Lady Wigram Trophy race for about the first half before his engine blew.

Photos

  • A Japanese driver, Hiro Matsushita, displays his trophy and the badly bent wheel rim which could easily have put him out of the race after his win in the 1989 Lady Wigram Trophy race at Wigram airbase yesterday. Photo: Annette Dew
Read the OCR text
30-1-89 ALTE honor RAN "RAC anasonir GOOD TENTER Panasonic. KSON! A Japanese driver, Hire Matsushita, displays his trophy and the badly bent wheel rim which could easily have put him out of the race after his win in the 1989 Lady Wigram Trophy race at Wigram airbase yesterday. -Photograph by ANNETTE DEW. Tireless By NIGEL MALTHUS It was not until the chequer flag had fallen that the winner the Lady Wigram Hiro Matsushita. realised close he had been to a flat tyre. The badly bent right fro wheel rim of his swift w evidence of a something solid Japanese driver know how i had Surveying th pleasantiy-surp Anderson. collision with Should ha although the "I can: aid he did Matsush nappened. event was crowa, co damage aier. a fierce tus ed Mr Dwayne Dean Hali Lshita's ment of t racing 1c that the dire Radisich e been flat. believe it held air. tas win in the feati ling as it did aft with an Amer and the forced re local favourite. Radisich held the first half of pulled out with le Seconds later. had hasn nrei second piece hairpin to sn Ir pays off a clear lead for wins in ti he race. but then has not a biown engine. motor rac Matsushita. who of the or suring Hall for third yest assed him ai the American. 1 the lead and go in Further he first four races, but endeared himself to cing fans with criticisms ganisation. He finished terday. benind a fellow Mark Smith. report. results, back page

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