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Jaguar

Car · Jaguar · 1957–1964
Printed as: Jaguar 3.8, Jaguar 3.4, Jaguar 2.4
10results
4wins
8podiums
5drivers
1:37.1best Wigram lap (1963)

Drivers

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Results

DateMeetingRacePosDriverTimeSource
3 Jun 1957Southbridge 1957Saloon Car Handicap (25 miles)6R. B. Langley (Winton)29:084 Jun 1957
25 Jan 1958Wigram 1958Saloon Car Race (25 miles)1Ray Archibald (Christchurch)21:57.225 Jan 1958, 27 Jan 1958
25 Jan 1958Wigram 1958Saloon Car Race (25 miles)2Gavin Quirk (Te Awamutu)22min 50.8sec25 Jan 1958, 27 Jan 1958
24 Jan 1959Wigram 1959Saloon Car Race (25 miles)1Ray Archibald (Christchurch)22min 19.8sec26 Jan 1959, 26 Jan 1959
19 Jan 1963Wigram 196321-mile saloon car handicap1Ray Archibald (Christchurch) started from the back19 Jan 1963, 21 Jan 1963
19 Jan 1963Wigram 196321-mile saloon car handicap3Athol McBeath (Otaki)19 Jan 1963, 21 Jan 1963
19 Jan 1963Wigram 196321-mile saloon car handicap4Ian Dow (Geraldine)19 Jan 1963
19 Jan 1963Wigram 1963All-comers' saloon car race (10 laps)2Ray Archibald (Christchurch)19 Jan 1963, 21 Jan 1963
18 Jan 1964Wigram 1964I.G.A. Saloon Car Race, Heat 2 (approx 20 miles)1Ray Archibald (Christchurch)16:35.417 Jan 1964, 20 Jan 1964
18 Jan 1964Wigram 1964I.G.A. Saloon Car Race, Final2Ray Archibald (Christchurch) about 100 yards behind18 Jan 1964, 20 Jan 1964 +1

Lap times and speeds

DateVenueDriverTimeSpeedWhatSource
24 Jan 1959WigramRay Archibald120 mphtop speed · Saloon Car Race · back straightclipping
1962WigramRay Archibald1:41.9fastest race lap · Saloon cars (1962 handicap) · 1962 figureclipping
19 Jan 1963WigramRay Archibald1:38practice · Saloon cars · next fastest saloonclipping
19 Jan 1963WigramRay Archibald1:37.1fastest race lap · 21-mile saloon car handicapclipping
18 Jan 1964WigramRay Archibald1:48.6fastest race lap · I.G.A. Saloon Cars, Heat 2clipping

In the clippings (13)

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…Puncture spoils Frank Cantwell's sports car hopesKen Harris won the 50-mile Redex sports car race at Wigram in the ex-Wharton Monza Ferrari after Frank Cantwell's…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…R. Flockhart wins Wigram Trophy: fast time and thrilling finishFor the fifth year in five races a British driver won the Lady Wigram Trophy: Ron Flockhart's BRM beat Jack Brabham's…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…Maggs, Hyslop closeLap-by-lap account of the 1963 Lady Wigram Trophy won by Bruce McLaren, with a NE wind gusting to 30 mph down the back…Stanton wins Motor Racing Club championship; Archibald first home in saloon handicapMorning events at the 1963 Lady Wigram Trophy meeting.Two drivers break Wigram lap record at practiceIn qualifying trials for the 1963 Lady Wigram Trophy, John Surtees (Lola-Climax) and Jack Brabham (Brabham-Climax)…Saloon carsRay Archibald's 3.8 Jaguar won the morning saloon handicap despite a 55sec handicap, setting a fastest lap of 1:37.1…Saloons: heats and finalThe saloons matched the main race cars for interest.Saloon car race to GrantPalmerston North's Kerry Grant (Lotus-Cortina), after bad luck in the morning heat, won the I.G.A.Archibald had to fight hard for saloon car winChristchurch's Ray Archibald drove one of the finest races of his career to win the second I.G.A.Saloon-car race at WigramPhoto of F. E. Sprague's badly crumpled Zephyr, damaged when it spun into the hay-bales on the corner into the pit…

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