Pit Stops

Press, Volume C, Issue 29435, 10 February 1961, Page 11

Pit Stops

! Johnnie Mansel, the ; Tuakau driver, has pur- ; chased the Yeoman Credit > Cooper-Climax that Denis I Hulme has had on hire ! during the New Zealand ; international racing season. > i However, Mansel will have , ’ to find an engine for the , car. The 2% litre CooperClimax engines are not for sale to private buyers. Mansel is toying with the idea of fitting the Cooper with either a Maserati or Ferrari engine, hansel is contem- ' plating a European racing campaign this season.

The programme for the I motor racing at Waimate; tomorrow is:—ll a.m.: ; Sports car race (21 miles). ■ Noon: Saloon car race, up I to 2000 c.c. (14 miles). 12.30 I p.m.: New Zealand specials ! and cars which have not qualified for the Waimate "50.” 2 p.m.: Waimate “50.” 4 p.m.: Saloon car race, over 2000 c.c. (14 miles). • With New Zealand’s leading saloon car drivers competing, the races at Waimate tomorrow will have special interest. Saloon car racing is always popular with spectators, and the Waimate circuit is a demanding one for both drivers and cars. In the race for cars over 2000 c.c., a great tussle should develop between F. E. Sprague (Timaru) and two other noted Zephyr drivers, I. Segedin and R. McDonald. The former New Zealand racing drivers’ champion, Ross Jensen, will have to work

extremely hard to gain much advantage from his powerful 3.8-litre Jaguar on this tight circuit & & 4” The Yeoman Credit Racing Stable team manager, Reg Parnell, believes that a flying stone jammed open the throttle of Joachim Bonnier’s Cooper-Climax in the Flying Farewell race at Teretonga Park, Invercargill, causing the car to run out of road on the turn at the end of the main straight Tyre marks on the tarmac ran in perfectly straight lines, thereby giving the lie to the conclusion of some observers that Bonnier had lost control of the car. The damage to the Cooper was greater than had been at first realised. The Stable mechanics removed the £2500 engine from the car to take back to England and left 'the broken remains behind them in Invercargill.