Jim Palmer
There seems a strong chance that the first New Zealander to finish on Saturday will be last year’s champion, the young Hamilton driver Jim Palmer. Last year Palmer easily won the New Zealand Gold Star award and the New Zealand Racing Drivers Club championship award in a Cooper Climax, and he has already done very well indeed this year in the Brabham which he will drive at Wigram. Palmer started his racing career when he was 16, entering at first in small races and hillclimbs with a Buckler sports car. He did well, and later purchased a Lotus sports, and then a new 2 litre Lotus 15. In 1960 Jim Palmer’s father brought back a formula junior Lotus from England, and in 1961 Palmer drove a Lotus 20. It was in the 1963 season that Palmer really came into prominence, for he drove a 2.5 Cooper Climax in
At the beginning of the present season Palmer won the first event of the Gold Star series, the Renwick Road Race, and it seems quite possible he may retain the New Zealand championship this year. the New Zealand G.P. at Pukekohe and came third.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30653, 20 January 1965, Page 11
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