Hec McLean

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13 Nov 1948Sixteen 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…26 Feb 1949N.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…25 Nov 1949National car road race: six Christchurch entriesFourteen final acceptances were received for the 25 February 1950 national road race at Wigram, with two Australian…19 Jan 1952Faster lap speeds expected in Wigram car race this yearThe Lady Wigram Trophy at the Motor Racing Club's meeting on Saturday 23 February 1952 will be run for the first time…16 Feb 1952Local drivers have done well in Wigram car racesReview of the first three Wigram races (1949 to 1951) with their top finishers, noting Christchurch drivers have won…22 Feb 1952Car races at Wigram: big entry of fast cars, tomorrow's eventsThe Motor Racing Club's 1952 Wigram race attracts one of the best entries yet, run as two 10-car 25-mile heats and a…23 Feb 1952Lap record at Wigram car race todayBob Gibbons of Wellington, in a 1000cc Cooper, easily won the first 25-mile heat of the Lady Wigram Trophy from…20 Dec 1952Hec Green winner of fifty-mile beach racing titleHec Green won the fifty-mile South Island beach-racing championship at South Brighton in his R.A.22 Dec 1952South Island car-racing beach championshipPhotographs from the South Island beach car-racing championship at South Brighton, showing H.22 Dec 1952South Island beach championship: H. Green wins easilyHec Green (rear-engined Vanguard Special), 1950 NZ 100-mile road race champion at Wigram, won the 50-mile South Island…26 Dec 1952Hec Green not hard pressed to win South Island beach car titleHec Green averaged under 60mph in his R.A.19 Dec 1952Crack drivers enter for Saturday's racePreview of the Motor Racing Club's meeting at McCormacks Bay-Sumner Causeway, a circuit of about two miles, with ten…12 Jan 1953Motor races on Causeway: club event for air race fundsThe Motor Racing Club will hold short races on a two-mile circuit using McCormacks Bay Road and the three-quarter-mile…16 Jan 1953First road events of motor-racing seasonPreview of the first road racing of the 1953 season, scratch and handicap races at McCormacks Bay, giving form for the…17 Jan 1953McCormack's Bay circuit provides good car racingA crowd estimated between 3,000 and 7,000 watched the Motor Racing Club's scratch and handicap races at McCormacks Bay…19 Jan 1953Motor racing on Causeway: Shuter drives wellFrank Shuter's lengthened, low-slung Ford V8 hot rod won two races at the Motor Racing Club's McCormacks Bay meeting…19 Jan 1953Motor-car races over new course at McCormack's BayCars before the start of the first scratch race at McCormacks Bay; F.24 Jan 1953Racing drivers found Sumner circuit easyFrank Shuter, Hec Green and Hec McLean made light work of the McCormacks Bay-Sumner Causeway circuit at the Motor…14 Feb 1953Roycroft has chance at WigramAfter winning the 150-mile Mairehau road race at 66mph, Auckland's Ron Roycroft (Grand Prix Alfa Romeo) looks almost…25 Feb 1953Motor racing: Wigram trophy events, record entriesRecord entries: 23 for the 50-mile Lady Wigram Trophy race and 22 for the 25-mile sports and saloon handicap at Wigram…27 Feb 1953Nelson driver takes first car raceHalsey Logan of Nelson (H.R.G.) won the under-1500cc 25-mile preliminary by a hair's breadth from Pat Hoare (R.A.28 Feb 1953Ron Roycroft in second big car race win to-dayRon Roycroft (Alfa Romeo, Auckland) won the 50-mile Lady Wigram Trophy in 38min 42sec, flawless as at Mairehau a month…17 Mar 1953Motor-racing surprisesThe first car racing meeting of the 1953-54 season (Rakaia Domain, 17 October 1953) drew a large entry for nineteen…31 Dec 1953Grand Prix at Ardmore: one Christchurch car withdrawnRon Symonds scratched his new S.H. car (Hec McLean to drive) from the 210-mile Ardmore Grand Prix on 9 January 1954…

From the reports

• Four cars averaged better than 60mph in race times at the 17 January 1953 meeting: Shuter, Moore, McLean and Green. (19 Jan 1953)
• The D. W. Wild Trophy was awarded to the first car home in the up to 1500cc category in the 1953 Lady Wigram Trophy; Hec McLean's Cooper won it. (28 Feb 1953)

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