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Lady Wigram Trophy 1958: Archie Scott Brown (Lister-Jaguar), International Formula Libre.

Wigram · Lady Wigram Trophy · 25 January 1958

Redex Sports Car Race (50 miles, 24 laps) · 24 laps

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1Ken Harris (Auckland)Monza Ferrari39:42.9 class winner up to 3000cc25 Jan 1958, 25 Jan 1958 +1
2Merv Neil (Auckland)Cooper-Climax40:51.8 class winner up to 1500cc25 Jan 1958, 25 Jan 1958 +1
3G. H. Pierce (Taumarunui)Austin Healey40:56.625 Jan 1958, 25 Jan 1958 +1
4M. C. Mayo (Auckland)Buckler 23 laps25 Jan 1958, 25 Jan 1958
DNFFrank Cantwell (Christchurch)Tojeiro-Jaguar punctured a tyre on the last lap while leading25 Jan 1958

Saloon Car Race (25 miles)

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1Ray Archibald (Christchurch)Jaguar 3.421:57.225 Jan 1958, 27 Jan 1958
2Gavin Quirk (Te Awamutu)Jaguar 3.422min 50.8sec25 Jan 1958, 27 Jan 1958
3J. Hayes (Auckland)Zephyr23min 45.2sec25 Jan 1958, 27 Jan 1958
4Harold Heasley (Rangiora)Consul25 Jan 1958

500cc Motor-cycle Race (17 miles)

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1N. McCutcheon (Dunedin)A.J.S. 7R13:50.225 Jan 1958, 25 Jan 1958 +2
2J. Swarbrick (Waiau)A.J.S. 7R25 Jan 1958, 25 Jan 1958 +1
2A. G. Holland (Christchurch)25 Jan 1958, 25 Jan 1958
2G. Holland (Christchurch)Norton27 Jan 1958
3R. Newbrook (Mangaroa)A.J.S. 7R25 Jan 1958, 25 Jan 1958 +1
4Bruce Benke (Ashburton)Norton25 Jan 1958, 25 Jan 1958 +1

Open Car Handicap (25 miles)

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1George Lawton (Whangarei)Austin-Healey24:25.3 handicap 3min 25sec25 Jan 1958, 27 Jan 1958
2Doug Lawrence (Wanganui)TR3 Mistral handicap 3min 10sec25 Jan 1958
3Barry Brown (Christchurch)Vauxhall Special handicap 3min 10sec25 Jan 1958
3J. Brown (Christchurch)Vauxhall Special24min 39.9sec27 Jan 1958
4Ryan (Christchurch)MG A handicap 1min 50sec25 Jan 1958, 27 Jan 1958
5Ron Rutherford (Christchurch)RA-Vauxhall25min 19.5sec27 Jan 1958

Lady Wigram Trophy (71 laps, 150 miles) · 71 laps

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1Archie Scott-Brown (England)Lister-Jaguar1:47:27.4 new race record; lap record 1:23.825 Jan 1958, 27 Jan 1958 +9
1Scott BrownLister Jaguar83.8 mph average speed18 Jan 1961
1Archie BrownLister Jaguar24 Jan 1990
2Ross Jensen (Auckland)Maserati 250F1:48:18.5 71 laps; first New Zealander25 Jan 1958, 27 Jan 1958
3Stuart Lewis-Evans (England)Connaught1:48:11.7 69 laps25 Jan 1958, 27 Jan 1958
4Pat Hoare (Christchurch)Ferrari 3-litre1:48:31.8 68 laps; first Motor Racing Club member25 Jan 1958, 27 Jan 1958
5M. C. Mayo (Auckland)Cooper-Climax67 laps 67 laps; drove Ron Frost's car25 Jan 1958, 27 Jan 1958
6Arnold Glass (Australia)Ferrari Super Squalo 66 laps25 Jan 1958, 27 Jan 1958
7Frank Cantwell (Christchurch)Tojeiro-Jaguar1:48:45 66 laps25 Jan 1958
8Dick Gibson (England)Cooper-Climax1:48:45.1 66 laps25 Jan 1958
DNFJack Brabham (Australia)Cooper Formula 1 gearbox trouble after about 30 laps while second25 Jan 1958, 27 Jan 1958
DNFBruce McLaren (Auckland)Cooper-Climax59 laps gearbox trouble after 59 laps while third25 Jan 1958, 27 Jan 1958
DNFFreemanLago Talbot36 laps transmission27 Jan 1958
DNFWally Darrell4 laps broken water pipe27 Jan 1958
DNFMardonR.A. Vanguard2 laps broken carburettor bowl27 Jan 1958
DNFE. Sprague (Timaru) went into hay bales at the pit entrance; later retired with engine bearing trouble27 Jan 1958

Sports Car Race - up to 1500cc

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1Merv Neil (Auckland)Cooper Climax27 Jan 1958
2M. C. Mayo27 Jan 1958
3Arthur Moffatt (Ashburton)Mistral27 Jan 1958

Sports Car Race - 1501-3000cc

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1Ken Harris (Auckland)Monza Ferrari27 Jan 1958
2G. H. Pierce (Taumarunui)Austin Healey27 Jan 1958
3George Lawton27 Jan 1958

Sports Car Race - over 3000cc

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1A. Bell (Palmerston North)Jaguar27 Jan 1958
2E. A. Kennard (Christchurch)Healey-Corvette27 Jan 1958

Reports: Road toll at race trials: unauthorised group's charge · Wigram car race: date set · Car race conditions unchanged · Formula I cars · Smoother run for cars · Lap money to be paid in Wigram race · Racing driver with one arm · Crippled driver may be seen at Wigram · Wigram motor racing · Overseas drivers sign up for Lady Wigram Trophy · Royal Tour grandstands · Lady Wigram Trophy may be most open race in series yet

Pines Beach · NZ beach racing championship · 20 July 1958

NZ Beach Championship (30 miles) · 30 laps

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1Duncan Rutherford (Culverden)Lycoming Special34min 42sec15 Jul 1958
2R. TuckerRiley37min 57.1sec15 Jul 1958
3F. G. FisherFord 10 Special38min 16sec15 Jul 1958
4Ralph WatsonAustin Healey39min 4.9sec15 Jul 1958

Saloon Car Race (12 miles)

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1David Young (Timaru)Jaguar XK120C15min 9.6sec15 Jul 1958
2B. G. KinzettStandard Vanguard17min 21sec15 Jul 1958
3B. Sprague (Timaru)Ford Zephyr17min 47.2sec15 Jul 1958
4M. J. F. KenyonFord Anglia19min 24.5sec15 Jul 1958

Reports: Sporting notebook: Roycroft's new Jaguar Special · More than twenty drivers for beach race · N.Z. beach title: R. J. Roycroft may compete · Beach motor race title on July 31 · N.Z. beach championship, 40 miles, and supporting events · clipping · N.Z. beach championship, 30 miles, and supporting events · Roycroft hardest to beat in beach race championship · Nineteen cars in N.Z. beach race · Aero-engined special wins N.Z. beach event · Rutherford's easy beach title win · clipping

Birdlings Flat · Birdlings Flat grass track meeting · 7 December 1958

Race 1 (scratch)

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1J. B. SatterthwaiteHillman3min 59sec29 Aug 1958
2Ralph WatsonMorris Minor29 Aug 1958
3V. BlackburnAnglia29 Aug 1958

Race 2 (scratch)

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1W. HarrisFord Special3min 17sec29 Aug 1958
2J. JonesAustin 729 Aug 1958

Race 3 (scratch)

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1Harold HeasleyHumber 803min 58sec29 Aug 1958
2F. E. SpragueZephyr29 Aug 1958
3B. G. KinzettVanguard29 Aug 1958

Race 4 (scratch)

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1Wally DarrellA.C.E. III3min 24sec29 Aug 1958
2Ron RutherfordZephyr Special29 Aug 1958
3Ron GrantAustin-Healey29 Aug 1958

Race 5 (scratch)

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1R. A. SylvesterChevrolet3min 51sec29 Aug 1958
2F. E. SpragueZephyr29 Aug 1958
3V. BlackburnAnglia29 Aug 1958

Race 6 (scratch)

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1Ron GrantAustin-Healey3min 28sec29 Aug 1958
2Wally DarrellA.C.E. III29 Aug 1958

Race 7

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1Harold HeasleyHumber 803min 40sec29 Aug 1958
2B. G. KinzettVanguard29 Aug 1958
3K. E. TuckerMinor 100029 Aug 1958

Race 8

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1F. PopeFord Special3min 27sec29 Aug 1958
2J. JonesAustin 729 Aug 1958
3W. HarrisFord Special29 Aug 1958

Race 9

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1Ralph WatsonMorris Minor3min 55sec29 Aug 1958
2J. B. SatterthwaiteHillman29 Aug 1958
3B. G. KinzettVanguard29 Aug 1958

Race 10

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1B. D. GardinerTR23min 39sec29 Aug 1958
2M. J. F. KenyonAustin-Healey29 Aug 1958

Race 11

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1K. E. TuckerMinor 10004min 1sec29 Aug 1958
2R. A. SylvesterChevrolet29 Aug 1958
3V. BlackburnAnglia29 Aug 1958

Race 12

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1J. JonesAustin 73min 36sec29 Aug 1958
2Ralph WatsonMorris Minor29 Aug 1958
3Wally DarrellA.C.E. III29 Aug 1958

Race 13

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1F. E. SpragueZephyr3min 36sec29 Aug 1958
2B. CrawMorris Minor29 Aug 1958
3B. G. KinzettVanguard29 Aug 1958

Race 14

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1J. JonesAustin 73min 42sec29 Aug 1958
2M. J. F. KenyonAustin-Healey29 Aug 1958
3W. HarrisFord Special29 Aug 1958

Waitangi Trophy - first heat

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1Wally DarrellA.C.E. III3min 29sec29 Aug 1958
2B. G. KinzettVanguard29 Aug 1958
3Ralph WatsonMorris Minor29 Aug 1958

Waitangi Trophy - second heat

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1W. HarrisFord Special3min 15sec29 Aug 1958
2K. E. TuckerMinor 100029 Aug 1958
3V. BlackburnAnglia29 Aug 1958

Waitangi Trophy final (six laps) · 6 laps

PosDriverCarTimeSource
1Wally DarrellA.C.E. III7min 47.4sec29 Aug 1958
2W. HarrisFord Special29 Aug 1958
3V. BlackburnAnglia29 Aug 1958

Reports: Local race meeting near Little River · Motor-car racing at Birdlings Flat Air Field · W. Darrell wins racing trophy · Dust and stones hazard at Birdling's Flat races · Racing grandfather

The 1958 clippings

Overseas drivers sign up for Lady Wigram TrophyAustralian Arnold Glass (Super Squalo Ferrari) and Englishman Dick Gibson (Formula I Cooper) signed for the…
Fourth International Lady Wigram Trophy RaceJack Brabham, winner of the NZ Grand Prix at Ardmore a week earlier in a bored-out 2.2-litre Formula I…
Evenly-matched entries for Wigram on SaturdayFive overseas drivers (Brabham, Scott-Brown, Lewis-Evans, Gibson and Glass) and 28 entries made the fourth…
Ross Jensen entry receivedRoss Jensen's entry for the Lady Wigram Trophy was received after earlier doubt.
Lady Wigram Trophy Race advertisementPhotograph of drivers and club executives planning organisation for the Lady Wigram Trophy meeting.
Traffic to car racingChief traffic officer E. Wilson appealed to motorists heading for the Lady Wigram race not to use the part…
Lady Wigram Trophy race could be fast and openThe ninth Lady Wigram Trophy race promised to be the most open and fastest, with Archie Scott-Brown's…
Fourth international race at Wigram todayA race-day preview noting the three-year overseas monopoly of the Lady Wigram Trophy could end, with…
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…
Scott-Brown wins Wigram Trophy raceArchie Scott-Brown won the 150-mile, 71-lap 1958 Lady Wigram Trophy in his Lister-Jaguar in 1hr 47min…
Clipping page 150Two photographs from the 1958 Wigram meeting: drivers, mechanics and officials discussing the approaching…
Clipping page 151Photographs of the start of the 1958 Lady Wigram Trophy: a general view of the back markers on the grid as…
Wigram circuit speed spectaclePictures of the opening scenes of the Motor Racing Club's January 1958 Wigram fixture.
New records set in the Lady Wigram Trophy racePhotographs of the fourth Lady Wigram Trophy race, a 150-mile car race on the Wigram circuit won by English…
Lady Wigram Trophy won by Scott-BrownOne-handed Scotsman Archie Scott-Brown dominated the 1958 Lady Wigram Trophy in Brian Lister's…
Holland's second placing meritoriousG. Holland's second place in the 500cc motor-cycle race at Wigram was meritorious as he had fallen heavily…
Road toll at race trials: unauthorised group's chargeThe Paparua County Council was to investigate reports that an unauthorised group blocked the intersection of…
Give local drivers a better placeFirst of two articles on the future of NZ motor racing after the 1958 international series.
N.Z. beach championship, 30 miles, and supporting eventsThe 40-mile NZ beach racing championship at the Pines was given Gold Star status by the Association of New…
Clipping page 159W. Harris in a Ford Special slides at the south end of the Pines Beach course after leading from the start…
Clipping page 160Photographs from the NZ beach championship at Pines Beach: W.
Sporting notebook: beach championship not truly nationalThe columnist argues the NZ beach racing championship held by the Motor Racing Club in July 1958 could…
Racing grandfatherProfile of Walter Darrell, probably Canterbury's most popular racing driver, whose long run of bad luck over…
Wigram race next year: date fixed for January 24The fifth international Lady Wigram Trophy race was set for 24 January 1959.
Lady Wigram Trophy to be competed for annually at WigramThe Lady Wigram Trophy won by the late Archie Scott-Brown in January 1958 was to be returned to New Zealand…
Sporting notebook: BRM for WigramAfter the Teretonga Park Gold Star meeting, BRM said it would bring its Formula 1 car for Ron Flockhart to…