-1-93 LADY W G R M TROPHY RACE • WIGRAM CHRISTCHURCH SAT IGTH JAN SUN 17TH JAN GATES OPEN: 7.00 a.m. TRACK ACTION STARTS: 8.35am Saturday: 9.45 a.m. Sunday. ADMISSION: Weekend Pass Premiun $20 (inci Parking & Pit entry): Standard, Saturday $10 Sunday $15 Children under 13 free Discount Tickets Available From: •DONIOP GOODYEAR @ TOYOTA Continental Airilnes Her lackso SERIES Peter ackson INTERNATIONAL MOTOR RACING SERIES CARE 12 - 9-93 Noise r PA Hamilton The team of the Hamilton racing driver, Craig Baird, is calling for Sunday's controversial round of the international Formula Atlantic series in Invercargill to be declared void. Baird, aged 22, and gunning for his third straight Peter Jackson series title, was removed from Sunday's first race at Teretonga for allegedly exceeding noise limits by two decibels while leading "plack-flagging" incident has brought an angry response from the Baird camp, which claims the harsh measure taken was unacceptable and is seeking public clarification from the Motorsport Association of New Zealand. The decision cost Baird 30 points and severely set him back in his 1992 series campaign after uling angers Baird team suffering ignition problems in the opening rounds last week at Timaru, where he picked up only 34 points. He went on to score an emphatic win in Sunday's second race to leave him sharing fifth place over all, but was livid after being pulled from the first race. "It's absolutely incredible. There's nothing we can do, but it's a lot of bull. People forget that it costs $35,000 to do a race, Baird said. The administration director of Craig Baird Autosport, Roger Revell, said from Invercargill yesterday the whole team was very annoyed and the only fair thing for the organisers to do was to declare the race a non-event and no points be awarded from it. "We demand a public response to this from all levels of the governing body, Motorsport As- sociation of New Zealand," Mr Revell said. At no stage during any official or unofficial testing had Baird's Toyota-powered Reynard exceeded the noise limits set and when he was black-flagged he had been clearly winning. In unofficial practice Thursday the decibel reading taken by the MANZ technical officer on all cars had revealed Baird's car to be well within the 100-decibei limit with a reading of 93 decibels. Dutchman Jos Verstappen, who won Sunday's first race and was second to Baird in the second race in the Graeme Lawrence team Swift DB4, takes a 35-point lead over American Charies Nearburg to Christchurch for this weekend's Lady Wigram Trophy rounds. Baird is a further 13 points back. CRAIG BAIRD Wigram By DAVE WILSON A Spreydon woman is disappointed at the small public response to her plan to form a support group to retain Wigram as a flying base. Mrs Lois Short opposes air force plans to close the base and move its functions to Woodbourne and Ohakea, and believes a strong community response might help save Wigram. . She advertised last week seeking names to form. a wigram supporters' group. but said the public response had been slight. "Five telephone calls and two plan respo etters was the initial reply. I was ery disappointed at the response." Mrs Short said Wigram was too mistoric a base to be closed and the and carved up for other uses. 'It is the home of the RNZAF and that should mean something to them. Her father worked at Wigram, she had helped raise funds for the RNZAF Museum and her son was a pilot with the Friendship flight there before it was disbanded. "I know the impact on families of Wigram being phased out. My son had to shift to Whenuapai and my nse small two grand-daughters live up there now. Ciosing Wigram will have that kind of disturbing effect on many families in this area." Mrs Short said while a supporters' group might not be able to stop the air force leaving Wigram it could campaign for the base to continue as a place for flying training and other aviation-related activities. She is supporting plans by a local onsortium to develop such afaility at Wigram. Anyone wishing to support Mrs short's campaign can contact her a i Stourbridge Street. Spreydon.