TIMES & SPEEDS

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30653, 20 January 1965, Page 11

TIMES & SPEEDS

Last year the Lady Wigram Trophy Race was won by Bruce McLaren driving a Cooper Climax, his average speed for the 100 miles final being 93.1 miles an hour. McLaren also set the fastest lap, at 1 min 26.9 sec., or about 96 miles an hour. Last year, for the first time, the race was run in two 25-mile heats and a final of about 100 miles, and this will be repeated this year. The circuit is 2.3 miles long. In 1963, the race was also won by McLaren in a Cooper Climax, and on the then 2.073 mile circuit he set a record average speed for the race of 93.82 miles an hour, the race being of 150.236 miles. The fastest lap was a record 97.5 miles an hour set by Jack Brabham in his Repco-Brabham. Stirling Moss in a Lotus Climax won In 1962, his race average being 93.27

m.p.h. and his fastest lap, which was equalled by John Surtees, was 95.1 m.p.h. In the previous two years, 1960 and 1961, the event had been won by Jack Brabham in a Cooper Climax. Taking last year’s figures as the record for the circuit which will be used on Saturday: The LAP RECORD is 1:26.9, or 96 m.p.h., set by Bruce McLaren last year. The record RACE AVERAGE is 93.1 m.p.h., also set by McLaren last year. A lap in 1:22.8 during the race will win the £3OO prize for the 100 m.p.h. lap. Also, if McLaren wins this year, he will be the second driver to have won the race three times in succession. P. Whitehead, driving a Ferrari, won it in 1954, 1956, and 1957. No race was held in 1955, as the aerodrome was being sealed.