DM
Don Macdonald
Driver · 1963–1969 · from Amberley
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Results
| Date | Meeting | Race | Pos | Car | Time | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Jan 1963 | Wigram 1963 | All-comers' saloon car race (10 laps) | 3 | Ford Zephyr | 19 Jan 1963 | |
| 20 Jan 1968 | Wigram 1968 | Lady Wigram Trophy, first preliminary (1.5-litre cars, 11 laps) | 6 | Brabham | 17:38 | 20 Jan 1968, 20 Jan 1968 +1 |
| 20 Jan 1968 | Wigram 1968 | Lady Wigram International Trophy Race (44 laps, 101.5 miles) | DNF | Brabham-Ford | slipping clutch, lap 23 | 20 Jan 1968 |
Lap times and speeds
| Date | Venue | Car | Time | Speed | What | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 May 1969 | East Eyreton | 3-litre Ferrari GTO | 152.3 mph | other · D class record attempt, average; 149.6 mph on the final run | clipping | |
| 24 May 1969 | South Eyre Road, Canterbury | Ferrari GTO 3-litre | 15.43 sec | 144.97 mph | other · 3-litre flying kilometre record attempt, first run | clipping |
| 24 May 1969 | South Eyre Road, Canterbury | Ferrari GTO 3-litre | 14.42 sec | 155.1 mph | other · 3-litre flying kilometre record attempt, easterly return run | clipping |
| 24 May 1969 | South Eyre Road, Canterbury | Ferrari GTO 3-litre | 149.6 mph | other · 3-litre flying kilometre record attempt, later run | clipping |
Raced against most often
Roly Levis 2Bill Stone 2Ken Smith 2David Oxton 2Graeme Lawrence 2Geoffrey Richardson 1Ray Archibald 1Graham McRae 1Jim Clark 1Chris Amon 1Frank Gardner 1Denny Hulme 1
In the clippings (9)
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…
Grid positionsGrid for the 1968 Lady Wigram Trophy listing Clark (Lotus-Ford V8), Hulme (1.6 Brabham), Rodriguez (BRM V8), Palmer…
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…
Points for Clark / Wigram resultsContinuation of the report on Jim Clark's win in the 1968 Lady Wigram Trophy: the smaller 1.6-litre cars of Hulme (lap…
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…
Record bid is likely in next few daysMotorview column reporting that an attempt on the New Zealand car speed record would be made within days in Canterbury…Driver to make bid for recordReport dated 16 May 1969 that D. McDonald of Matamata would try to break the New Zealand car land-speed record of…
Brownlie sets a new speed mark of 177 mphDriving a 5.9 litre Begg sports car for the first time, 25-year-old Laurence Brownlie of Kelso, West Otago, set a…
N.Z. speed record to Otago driverL. Brownlie of Kelso became the fastest man on four wheels in New Zealand on Saturday, breaking the national flying…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?