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Dick Gibson

Driver · 1958 · from England
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11clippings

Results

DateMeetingRacePosCarTimeSource
25 Jan 1958Wigram 1958Lady Wigram Trophy (71 laps, 150 miles)8Cooper-Climax1:48:45.1 66 laps25 Jan 1958

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In the clippings (11)

Overseas drivers sign up for Lady Wigram TrophyAustralian Arnold Glass (Super Squalo Ferrari) and Englishman Dick Gibson (Formula I Cooper) signed for the 150-mile…Evenly-matched entries for Wigram on SaturdayFive overseas drivers (Brabham, Scott-Brown, Lewis-Evans, Gibson and Glass) and 28 entries made the fourth Lady Wigram…Racer in a rental carEnglish entrant Dick Gibson drove through Christchurch traffic in a small rental car before taking his 2-litre Formula…Planning the Lady Wigram Trophy meetingPhotograph of drivers and club executives planning organisation for the Lady Wigram Trophy meeting.Lady Wigram Trophy race could be fast and openThe ninth Lady Wigram Trophy race promised to be the most open and fastest, with Archie Scott-Brown's Lister-Jaguar…Veteran racing mechanic here for trophy raceDerrick Edwards, a mechanic with seven years of international racing experience and the British racing badge, was…Gibson not fast enoughEnglish driver Dick Gibson received two parking tickets from Christchurch traffic officers, who found his English…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…A 'Hardon' girl reporter in the pit of Dick GibsonA humorous first-person account by a girl reporter in the pit team of English driver Dick Gibson during the 1958 Lady…This English car set new traditionFeature comparing Scott-Brown's 1958 Lady Wigram win with the first Lady Wigram Trophy in 1949, won by Morrie Proctor…Overseas drivers for TeretongaLeading overseas and New Zealand drivers were to compete in the car races at Teretonga Park, Invercargill, on the…

From the reports

  • Dick Gibson's Cooper-Climax was lapping at about 1:35 in the 1958 Lady Wigram Trophy before a 30-second pit stop on lap 12. (25 Jan 1958)

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