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Doug Lawrence

Driver · 1958–1963 · from Wanganui
7results
2wins
5podiums
17clippings

Results

DateMeetingRacePosCarTimeSource
25 Jan 1958Wigram 1958Open Car Handicap (25 miles)2TR3 Mistral handicap 3min 10sec25 Jan 1958
24 Jan 1959Wigram 1959Open Car Handicap (25.392 miles)4T.R.2 Mistral handicap 7min 10sec26 Jan 1959, 26 Jan 1959
23 Jan 1960Wigram 1960Motor Racing Club Trophy (20 laps, 42 miles)3Cooper35min 14.2sec23 Jan 1960, 25 Jan 1960
Jan 1961Wigram 1961Motor Racing Club Championship1Cooper35:33.6 1100cc Cooper; under 1500cc class winner20 Jan 1961, 23 Jan 1961 +1
21 Jan 1961Wigram 1961Sports car race (20 laps outright)3Cooper36:48.8 under 1500cc class winner23 Jan 1961, 23 Jan 1961
24 Feb 1961 1961Race for New Zealand specials and racing cars, Waimate (21 miles)1Cooper24 Feb 1961
19 Jan 1963Wigram 1963Motor Racing Club Championship (15 laps)DNFLola retired on the circuit about lap 1221 Jan 1963

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In the clippings (17)

Scott-Brown in lead at halfway at WigramArchie Scott-Brown's Lister-Jaguar led the 1958 Lady Wigram Trophy at half distance (75 miles) after 52min 30sec, with…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…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…Thrilling duel in sports car feature eventEighteen-year-old Jimmy Palmer (1960cc Lotus) won the 42-mile sports car race by the narrowest of margins from…Results of car races at WigramResults of the Lady Wigram Trophy meeting, January 23, 1960: Jack Brabham won the trophy from David Piper and Ian…Results: Lady Wigram Trophy meeting, 23 January 1960Full results of the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy meeting: the 150-mile trophy, the Motor Racing Club Trophy scratch race,…Fastest Wigram lap goes to ClarkWet qualifying for the seventh Lady Wigram Trophy meeting saw Jim Clark (Team Lotus) set the fastest time, 1:39.6,…Morning session at Wigram in appalling conditionsPhotos from the morning time trials in the wet: three cars (Johnny Mansell, Brian Blackburn and Bob Smith) ended in a…Big Wigram race: Brabham first, Moss secondJack Brabham won the 1961 Lady Wigram Trophy in a works Cooper in appalling weather, after staving off three serious…Brabham wins Lady Wigram TrophyReigning world champion Jack Brabham led from the first lap to win his second successive Lady Wigram Trophy, the race…Gill unlucky; drivers' club officers; Innes Ireland deer shooting; Bonnier on PorscheShort motor racing items: young Auckland student M.Brabham showed the way in the wetEditorial assessment of the 1961 Lady Wigram Trophy: Brabham, twice world champion and twice Wigram winner, made his…Rutherford's R.A. ZephyrProfile of Christchurch driver Rutherford's reliable home-built R.A.Racing Club Championship entriesEntry list for the Motor Racing Club Championship held during the January 1962 Lady Wigram Trophy meeting.Three cars in spectacular smash at WigramThree cars crashed at the hairpin at the end of the main straight in the main sports car event: Forrest Cardon's…Stanton wins Motor Racing Club championship; Archibald first home in saloon handicapMorning events at the 1963 Lady Wigram Trophy meeting.Cottle-Stanton duel in club championshipThe 32-mile Motor Racing Club Championship at the 1963 Lady Wigram meeting was won by M.

From the reports

  • Doug Lawrence, in an 1100cc Cooper, led the 20-lap Motor Racing Club open-car race from start to finish; Angus Hyslop (D-type Jaguar) was second. (20 Jan 1961)
  • Doug Lawrence of Wanganui won the Motor Racing Club Championship at the January 1961 Wigram meeting in his Cooper Climax. (21 Jan 1961)

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