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Des Drewery
Driver · 1949–1955 · from Christchurch
8results
2wins
5podiums
2:19.5best Wigram lap (1949)
11clippings
Results
- 1949P14Wigram · NZ Road Racing Championship (105 miles, 50 laps)MG Special
- 1951P5Wigram · 100-mile race (Lady Wigram Trophy)Singer
- 1952P1Hororata Racec · Race 2 (four laps)Singer
- P1Hororata Racec · Race 1 (three miles)Singer
- 1953P4Rakaia Domain · Fourth RaceSinger
- 1954P3Rakaia Domain · First RaceSinger
- P3Rakaia Domain · Eleventh RaceSinger
- 1955P2Rakaia Domain · Race Eighteen
| Date | Meeting | Race | Pos | Car | Time | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Feb 1949 | Wigram 1949 | NZ Road Racing Championship (105 miles, 50 laps) | 14 | MG Special | 847cc | 26 Feb 1949 |
| 31 Mar 1951 | Wigram 1951 | 100-mile race (Lady Wigram Trophy) | 5 | Singer Special | 1:43:16 | 31 Mar 1951, 2 Apr 1951 |
| 12 Apr 1952 | Hororata Racecourse 1952 | Race 2 (four laps) | 1 | Singer Special | 5 Apr 1952 | |
| 12 Apr 1952 | Hororata Racecourse 1952 | Race 1 (three miles) | 1 | Singer Special | 3:15 | 12 Apr 1952 |
| 17 Oct 1953 | Rakaia Domain 1953 | Fourth Race | 4 | Singer Special S/C | 2min 6sec | 17 Mar 1953 |
| 4 Dec 1954 | Rakaia Domain 1954 | First Race | 3 | Singer Special | 27 Nov 1954 | |
| 4 Dec 1954 | Rakaia Domain 1954 | Eleventh Race | 3 | Singer Special | 27 Nov 1954 | |
| 19 Feb 1955 | Rakaia Domain 1955 | Race Eighteen | 2 | 6 Nov 1954 |
Lap times and speeds
| Date | Venue | Car | Time | Speed | What | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Feb 1949 | Wigram | MG Special | 2:19.5 | qualifying · NZ Road Racing Championship · handicap 5 laps | clipping |
Raced against most often
Ron Roycroft 2Halsey Logan 2Des Wild 2Pat Hoare 2Frank Shuter 2Bert Sparrow 2A. Gallagher 2Morrie Proctor 1N. Proctor 1Frank Bennett 1C. A. C. Ransley 1Don Ransley 1
In the clippings (11)
Sixteen cars enter for road raceSixteen entries had been received for the 100-mile NZ Road Racing Championship to be held on a three-mile circuit in…
N.Z. championship event: motor car racingCompetitors in the New Zealand championship road race were timed over a flying lap of the 2.1-mile Wigram course the…
N.Z. championship road race, Wigram, 26-2-49: lap chartOfficial lap-by-lap position chart for the first NZ championship road race at Wigram, with a list of placings, car…
Car race to Les Moore in record timeDespite appalling weather, Les Moore set a record average of 68 mph to win the Motor Racing Club's 100-mile Wigram…
Road race at Wigram: L. Moore wins in Alfa RomeoL. Moore won the Motor Racing Club's 100-mile race on the Wigram airstrips in his 2.9 litre Grand Prix Alfa Romeo, in…
Rain did not keep drivers' speeds down in car raceDespite the rain, drivers at the 1951 Wigram race were nearly as fast as in the 1950 conditions: Moore's winning…
Racing cars use grass course in Hororata eventsAbout 4500 watched the Motor Racing Club's handicap races on Hororata Racecourse.
Many watch car racing at HororataMore than 2500 gathered before lunch at Hororata racecourse for the Motor Racing Club's meeting in aid of the Hororata…
Car racing held at RakaiaD. H. Rutherford won the D. W. Wild Challenge Trophy at the Motor Racing Club's Rakaia Domain meeting with a lap of…
H. Green breaks Car Club recordHec Green cut the Rakaia track record from 32.05sec to 30.2sec at the Rakaia Car Club meeting; the track was a shade…
Fastest lap in car race to ShadboltA. Shadbolt took the lap record and the D. W. Wild Trophy at the Rakaia Domain meeting with his home-made rear-engined…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?