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Malcolm Gill
Driver · 1960–1961 · from Auckland
3results
1wins
2podiums
1:32.2best Wigram lap (1960)
23clippings
Results
- 1960P2Wigram · Sports car race (20 laps, 42 miles)Lycoming Special
- 1961P8Wigram · Lady Wigram Trophy Race (99.45 miles)Lycoming Special
- P1Wigram · Sports car race (20 laps outright)
| Date | Meeting | Race | Pos | Car | Time | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Jan 1960 | Wigram 1960 | Sports car race (20 laps, 42 miles) | 2 | Lycoming Special | 30min 29sec class winner over 3001cc | 23 Jan 1960, 25 Jan 1960 |
| 21 Jan 1961 | Wigram 1961 | Lady Wigram Trophy Race (99.45 miles) | 8 | Lycoming Special | 41 laps | 21 Jan 1961, 23 Jan 1961 |
| 21 Jan 1961 | Wigram 1961 | Sports car race (20 laps outright) | 1 | 35:52.7 over 1500cc class winner | 23 Jan 1961, 23 Jan 1961 |
Lap times and speeds
| Date | Venue | Car | Time | Speed | What | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Jan 1960 | Wigram | Lycoming Special | 1:32.2 | practice · Lady Wigram Trophy | clipping | |
| 20 Jan 1961 | Wigram | Lycoming Special | 1:46.6 | qualifying · Lady Wigram Trophy | clipping |
Raced against most often
Angus Hyslop 3Len Gilbert 2Jim Palmer 1W. Thomasen 1Jack Brabham 1Stirling Moss 1Bruce McLaren 1Denny Hulme 1Hec Green 1W. N. Gill 1Roly Levis 1Jo Bonnier 1
In the clippings (23)
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…
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…
All vantage points at Wigram crowdedA bumper crowd filled Wigram for the opening of the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy meeting, with better gate and programme…
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…
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…
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,…
Wigram trophy organisation improvementSporting Notebook column: the Motor Racing Club ran the 1960 Lady Wigram meeting right to time after the previous…
Motor racing is fickle and heart-breakingPeter Greenslade reflects on the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy.
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,…
When Stirling Moss comes... a 100 m.p.h. lap in Wigram racePeter Greenslade looks ahead to the January 1961 Lady Wigram Trophy, recalling Morrie Proctor's first win at Wigram in…
Best Wigram field and G.P. no guidePeter Greenslade says the poor state of the Ardmore circuit in the 1961 NZ Grand Prix (won by Brabham) makes it no…
Records should topple in big Wigram raceWith seven top drivers entered, including Brabham, McLaren and Moss, records are expected to fall at the January 21,…
Seventh International Lady Wigram Trophy RaceMotor Racing Club advertisement for the seventh international 150-mile Lady Wigram Trophy at RNZAF Station Wigram on…
New Zealand producing many promising driversProfile of the New Zealand drivers expected at the January 1961 Lady Wigram Trophy: Pat Hoare (Ferrari, runner-up in…
Malcolm Gill in the Lycoming SpecialPhoto of Malcolm Gill of Auckland in the Lycoming Special.
World class cars and driversPreview of the 1961 Wigram motor races: seven overseas entrants, led by reigning world champion Jack Brabham and…
Brabham does it againWorld champion Jack Brabham led from start to finish in a Cooper to win the Lady Wigram Trophy in appalling wet…
Wigram race photographsPhoto captions from the 1961 Wigram meeting: Malcolm Gill and Jim Clark approach the hangar bend, Jim Palmer's…
Lucky escapes from injury at WigramThe 1961 Lady Wigram Trophy meeting had the worst accident record in its history, with four bad crashes on a wet,…
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.
Crowd to see some of the world's fastest racing carsGuide to the cars in the 1962 Lady Wigram Trophy: Intercontinental Formula Coopers and Lotuses with Coventry Climax…From the reports
- McLaren's Cooper sustained serious engine damage in practice and he would drive Malcolm Gill's Lycoming Special. (23 Jan 1960)
- Bruce McLaren finished fourth in the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy in Malcolm Gill's Lycoming Special after his own Cooper broke an engine in practice. (23 Jan 1960)
- McLaren averaged better than 87 mph in Gill's Lycoming Special to finish fourth in the 1960 Lady Wigram Trophy. (23 Jan 1960)
- Bonnier reached 128 mph on the back straight in practice for the 1961 Lady Wigram Trophy, ahead of Moss (120.8 mph) and Gill (about 120 mph). (23 Jan 1961)
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