RW
Ralph Watson
Driver · 1958
5results
1wins
4podiums
5clippings
Results
- 1958P4Pines Beach · NZ Beach Championship (30 miles)Austin-Healey
- P2Birdlings Flat · Race 1 (scratch)Morris Minor
- P1Birdlings Flat · Race 9Morris Minor
- P2Birdlings Flat · Race 12Morris Minor
- P3Birdlings Flat · Waitangi Trophy - first heatMorris Minor
| Date | Meeting | Race | Pos | Car | Time | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Jul 1958 | Pines Beach 1958 | NZ Beach Championship (30 miles) | 4 | Austin Healey | 39min 4.9sec | 15 Jul 1958 |
| 7 Dec 1958 | Birdlings Flat 1958 | Race 1 (scratch) | 2 | Morris Minor | 29 Aug 1958 | |
| 7 Dec 1958 | Birdlings Flat 1958 | Race 9 | 1 | Morris Minor | 3min 55sec | 29 Aug 1958 |
| 7 Dec 1958 | Birdlings Flat 1958 | Race 12 | 2 | Morris Minor | 29 Aug 1958 | |
| 7 Dec 1958 | Birdlings Flat 1958 | Waitangi Trophy - first heat | 3 | Morris Minor | 29 Aug 1958 |
Raced against most often
J. B. Satterthwaite 2B. G. Kinzett 2Wally Darrell 2Duncan Rutherford 1R. Tucker 1F. G. Fisher 1V. Blackburn 1J. Jones 1
In the clippings (5)
Lady Wigram Trophy may be most open race in series yetWith 25 entries received for the 25 January 1958 race, the Lady Wigram Trophy looked the most open yet.
Aero-engined special wins N.Z. beach eventCulverden sheepfarmer D. H. Rutherford won the NZ beach race championship at Pines Beach in his Lycoming aero-engined…Rutherford's easy beach title winOnly twelve cars started the 30-mile NZ beach championship at Pines Beach because 1957 champion Ron Roycroft did not…
Dust and stones hazard at Birdling's Flat racesAbout 3000 watched saloon, sports and racing cars on a one-mile grass circuit at Birdlings Flat, organised by the…
Wigram scratchings: N.Z. car racing statusPeter Greenslade argues New Zealand had arrived in international racing: the Scuderia Buell Piccolo Maseratis and…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?