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Ian Burgess

Driver · 1960 · from Britain
1results
1podiums
P3best finish
1:23.4best Wigram lap (1960)
29clippings

Results

DateMeetingRacePosCarTimeSource
23 Jan 1960Wigram 1960Lady Wigram Trophy (71 laps, 150 miles)3Cooper Climax1hr 42min 43sec23 Jan 1960, 23 Jan 1960 +3

Lap times and speeds

DateVenueCarTimeSpeedWhatSource
23 Jan 1960WigramCooper-Climax1:23.4practice · Lady Wigram Trophyclipping

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In the clippings (29)

Ten years of trophy winners at WigramA list of every Lady Wigram Trophy winner from 1949 to 1959 with distances, times and average speeds, plus the…Talent aplenty in overseas entries for Wigram TrophyOverseas entries for the January 23, 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy had been signed: Reventlow and Daigh in Scarabs, David…American racers to compete at WigramThe Motor Racing Club secured the entry of two Scarab cars owned by American Woolworth heir Lance Reventlow, to be…Brabham to driveJack Brabham, 33, seemed highly likely to start in the January 23, 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy with his works 2.5-litre…Cars arriving by sea for WigramThe cars of the overseas drivers for the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy were due in Christchurch aboard the vessels Kaipaki…6th International Lady Wigram Trophy RaceAdvertisement and programme for the 6th international Lady Wigram Trophy at RNZAF Station Wigram on Saturday January…Eliminations necessary from record Wigram Trophy fieldRecord entries were received for the 1960 Wigram meeting: 21 for the Motor Racing Club open-car championship, 25 for…Brabham and McLaren are favourites for WigramAfter Coopers took the first three places at the 1960 NZ Grand Prix at Ardmore, the works Coopers of Jack Brabham and…Either way, Coopers will winPeter Greenslade of the Star looks at the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy: Brabham and McLaren in the works 2.5-litre Coopers…Rush to complete Stanton Corvette for trophy raceCharles and Maurice Stanton of Parlane Street, Christchurch, were rushing to finish their Stanton Corvette for Maurice…Motor Racing Club sixth international Lady Wigram Trophy programmeProgramme-style advertisement for the Motor Racing Club's sixth international Lady Wigram Trophy, 150 miles, at RNZAF…Lap speeds to soar in Wigram battlePreview of the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy: the works Cooper-Climaxes of Jack Brabham and Bruce McLaren are in the box…Brabham's car on ship in stream: time running outJack Brabham's 2.5-litre Cooper-Climax was still on the Waikare in Lyttelton Harbour two days before the 1960 Lady…Lady Wigram Trophy entry listList of 28 drivers entered for the 1960 international Lady Wigram Trophy when entries closed, with car numbers, home…Coopers dominate Trophy race fieldTwenty-eight entries, five from overseas, were received for the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy, with seven Coopers plus three…Women in the pits stand byProfile of Mrs Ian Burgess, Swedish wife of English driver Ian Burgess, who scores the race and keeps pit signals for…Racing drivers quiz the MayorAt a reception for Lady Wigram Trophy drivers, Lou Kingsley, a 71-year-old Australian saloon car driver, asked Mayor…Coopers should shatter Lady Wigram race recordThe Star predicts the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy will be the fastest ever, with Brabham and McLaren lapping near 97 mph…Men and machines making speed at Trophy meetingPhotographs of Lady Wigram Trophy competitors in practice: Malcolm Gill in his Lycoming Special, Donny Gilbert in the…B. McLaren to drive Lycoming todayBruce McLaren's Cooper broke a piston and holed the crankcase in Friday's practice, so Auckland driver W.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…From the start into the hangar bendPhoto of the start of the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy: Jack Brabham leads David Piper (Lotus) and Ian Burgess into the…Brabham takes Trophy: armchair run in his fourth attemptJack Brabham led from start to finish in his works Formula I Cooper-Climax to win the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy in…At the start: grid for the Lady Wigram TrophyStarting grid for the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy: Row 1 Brabham, Burgess, Piper, Hoare; Row 2 Mansel, S.Brabham won race at just under 90 m.p.h.Jack Brabham won the sixth international Lady Wigram Trophy in his works Formula I Cooper-Climax at just under 90 mph,…Australian driver wins the Lady Wigram Trophy racePhoto page from the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy: winner Jack Brabham shows his winning style, Brabham, Piper and Burgess…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,…30,000 see Brabham's Wigram winA crowd of almost 30,000 watched Jack Brabham win the sixth Lady Wigram Trophy easily in a works Cooper-Climax from…Motor racing is fickle and heart-breakingPeter Greenslade reflects on the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy.

From the reports

  • Jack Brabham won the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy in a Cooper-Climax in about 100min 42sec, ahead of David Piper's Lotus and Ian Burgess's Cooper. (23 Jan 1960)
  • Ian Burgess finished third in 1960 despite damaged teeth on fourth gear and no spare gearbox. (23 Jan 1960)
  • Brabham set a Wigram lap record of 1:20.8 (about 95 mph) on lap 50 of the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy, while lapping Burgess. (23 Jan 1960)
  • Burgess said he had never seen a works-entered Ferrari as well prepared as Pat Hoare's in 1960. (30 Jan 1960)

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