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Brent Hawes

Driver · 1966–1969 · from Timaru
5results
1wins
5podiums
1:29.4best Wigram lap (1969)
14clippings
Tojeiro 3Begg Corvette 3

Results

DateMeetingRacePosCarTimeSource
22 Jan 1966Wigram 1966Motor Racing Club Championship (25 miles)2Tojeiro Jaguar22 Jan 1966, 22 Jan 1966 +2
22 Jan 1966Wigram 1966Gold Leaf all-comers saloon, second heat2Tojeiro Jaguar22 Jan 1966, 22 Jan 1966 +3
22 Jan 1966Wigram 1966Gold Leaf all-comers saloon, final (7 laps)3Tojeiro Jaguar22 Jan 1966, 22 Jan 1966 +3
20 Jan 1968Wigram 1968Sports cars over 1500cc (11 laps)3Begg-Corvette17:2320 Jan 1968, 22 Jan 1968
18 Jan 1969Wigram 1969Sports cars (11 laps)1Begg-Corvette 5700cc16:34.918 Jan 1969, 20 Jan 1969

Lap times and speeds

DateVenueCarTimeSpeedWhatSource
18 Jan 1969WigramBegg Corvette1:29.4fastest race lap · Sports-car race, reported as a new recordclipping

Raced against most often

Jim Boyd 2Spencer Martin 2David Simpson 2Rod Coppins 2Warner Collins 2John Armstrong 2Barry Porter 1D. Bruton 1T. Shaw 1R. A. Miller 1Andrew Buchanan 1Geoff Mardon 1

In the clippings (14)

BRM aces both win heats for Wigram TrophyOn a drizzly morning BRM drivers Richard Attwood and Jackie Stewart won their 11-lap preliminary heats for the 1966…Saloon event to AustralianSpencer Martin's Ferrari won the seven-lap Gold Leaf all-comers saloon final from David Simpson's Lotus Anglia and…BRM duo had it all to themselvesContinuation of the 1966 Lady Wigram Trophy report: Stewart beat Clark's 1965 race record by 35.2 seconds and BRM took…Stewart wins after rivals' crashJackie Stewart (V8 two-litre BRM) won the 101-mile 1966 Lady Wigram Trophy in a new race record of 1:03:44.1, with…Mustang could not be caughtSaloon-car support races at the 1966 Lady Wigram meeting: Ian Segedin's Ford Mustang won the 30-minute production…Boyd wins club race; Porter had to pushJim Boyd (Lycoming Special) won the exciting 11-lap Motor Racing Club championship for sports cars and specials from…BRM team romps home, sets recordJackie Stewart and Dickie Attwood finished first and second in the 12th International Lady Wigram Trophy, both inside…Clark achieves 101 m.p.h. race average speedJim Clark (Lotus-Ford V8) won the second 11-lap preliminary for the 1968 Lady Wigram Trophy at an average of 101.7…Clark wins Wigram, collects side prizeAbout 30,000 people saw Jim Clark win his third Lady Wigram Trophy (after 1965 and 1967) at just under 103 mph in the…Other events: sports and saloon races at WigramPreview of the support programme at the 1969 Lady Wigram Trophy meeting: a sports car race featuring G.Wigram record set by RindtLap records were broken at Wigram in practice for the 1969 Lady Wigram Trophy, with Austrian Jochen Rindt's Lotus-Ford…Austrian driver sets Wigram lap record in heatGold Leaf Team Lotus laid a strong claim to the 15th Lady Wigram Trophy when world champion Graham Hill beat team-mate…Sports-car race to B. HawesTimaru driver B. Hawes won the Wigram sports-car race in his Begg Corvette despite strong pressure from J. Boyd's…South Island cars for Tasman seriesTwo South Island Formula A (5-litre) cars would compete in the 1969-70 Tasman series: Leo Leonard of Timaru in his own…

From the reports

  • Mardon's Stanton Corvette ran out of fuel on the last lap of the 1966 club race and Hawes took second. (24 Jan 1966)
  • Before the 1969 Wigram sports-car race Hawes had been worried about crankcase pressurisation blowing out oil, but the Begg Corvette performed excellently. (20 Jan 1969)
  • Leo Leonard's Chevrolet Begg produced about 400 bhp, using a Corvette engine and gearbox from the smashed sports car of the late Brent Hawes. (27 Nov 1969)

Built automatically from OCR of the clippings, so a name printed two ways may still be split across two profiles, and some results may be missing. Spotted a mistake?