Wigram TrophyMotor racing at Wigram airfield · Christchurch · 1949–2000
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Ferrari Super Squalo

Car · Ferrari · 1957–1959
5results
1wins
2podiums
5drivers
1:27.2best Wigram lap (1959)

Drivers

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Results

DateMeetingRacePosDriverTimeSource
26 Jan 1957Wigram 1957Lady Wigram Trophy Race (71 laps, 150 miles)1Peter Whitehead (England)1:50:0826 Jan 1957, 28 Jan 1957 +11
26 Jan 1957Wigram 1957Lady Wigram Trophy Race (71 laps, 150 miles)DNFReg Parnell (England) broken throttle linkage; out after seven laps26 Jan 1957, 28 Jan 1957
3 Jun 1957Southbridge 1957Southbridge 100 (100 miles, 24 laps, handicap)3John McMillan (Wellington)1:32:42 back-marker, ex-Parnell car4 Jun 1957
25 Jan 1958Wigram 1958Lady Wigram Trophy (71 laps, 150 miles)6Arnold Glass (Australia) 66 laps25 Jan 1958, 27 Jan 1958
24 Jan 1959Wigram 1959Lady Wigram Trophy (71 laps, 150.236 miles)9Tom Clark (Auckland)62 laps stopped to clear paper from radiator26 Jan 1959

Lap times and speeds

DateVenueDriverTimeSpeedWhatSource
26 Jan 1957WigramPeter Whitehead1:29.2practice · Lady Wigram Trophyclipping
26 Jan 1957WigramReg Parnell1:30.8practice · Lady Wigram Trophyclipping
24 Jan 1959WigramTom Clark1:27.2qualifying · Lady Wigram Trophy practice · grid 5clipping

In the clippings (19)

Peter Whitehead winner of Lady Wigram Trophy for third timePeter Whitehead won the 150-mile, 71-lap 1957 Lady Wigram Trophy in his Super Squalo Ferrari, his third successive…P. Whitehead's third win in Wigram motor classicPeter Whitehead won the 1957 Lady Wigram Trophy in 1hr 50min 8sec, two minutes slower than 1956, the first driver to…N.Z. driver fastest at Wigram practiceAuckland's Ron Roycroft set the fastest practice lap at Wigram before the 1957 Lady Wigram Trophy, 1:27 in his…G. Palmer romps home in Southbridge HundredGeorge Palmer of Hamilton won the Motor Racing Club's 24-lap Southbridge 100 in a 2-litre Cooper-Bristol, giving away…Lady Wigram Trophy won by Scott-BrownOne-handed Scotsman Archie Scott-Brown dominated the 1958 Lady Wigram Trophy in Brian Lister's Lister-Jaguar, setting…Scott-Brown wins Wigram Trophy raceArchie Scott-Brown won the 150-mile, 71-lap 1958 Lady Wigram Trophy in his Lister-Jaguar in 1hr 47min 27.4sec, a new…English drivers have won fourSummary of the nine Lady Wigram Trophy races since 1949 (none in 1955 while the track was resealed): four won by…Lady Wigram Trophy race to Flockhart in BRMRon Flockhart (BRM) won the fifth Lady Wigram Trophy at an average of about 89 mph, 2.7sec ahead of Jack Brabham's…Flockhart sets new Wigram lap recordIn practice on the evening before the race, Ron Flockhart (BRM) set a new Wigram lap record of 1min 21.6sec, about…Ten years of trophy winners at WigramA list of every Lady Wigram Trophy winner from 1949 to 1959 with distances, times and average speeds, plus the…These men won in past yearsList of Lady Wigram Trophy winners 1949-1960 and circuit and lap record details: lap record 1:20.8 (94.28 mph) by Jack…Climax of Motor Racing Club's plansMotor Racing Club president Jack Brewer's welcome message ahead of the January 1961 Lady Wigram Trophy, predicting…Fast times have been set at Wigram by past winnersTable of past Lady Wigram Trophy winners with race times, average speeds and fastest laps from 1949 to 1961.Costly cars racing at terrific speedsFeature on the history of the Lady Wigram Trophy ahead of the tenth race on 18 January 1964, with a table of every…Wigram fastest course: previous winnersHistory of Wigram racing: the Canterbury Car Club ran NZ's first long-distance race in 1949 before the Motor Racing…Previous Wigram event winnersList of winners of the main Wigram race from 1949 to 1966 with distances, winning times, average speeds and fastest…Today's speeds a far cry from those of first raceHistory of the Wigram main race since the Canterbury Car Club's first long-distance race in 1949, won by Wellington…The fastest circuit: Pukekohe or Wigram?Argues that a race average of 105 mph in the 1969 Lady Wigram Trophy would make the 2.3-mile Wigram circuit New…The trophy winnersTable of Lady Wigram Trophy race winners and their cars from 1949 to 1989; there was no race in 1955.

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