Pit Stops

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30900, 5 November 1965, Page 15

Pit Stops

; The Riley Car Club’s 41- : mile afternoon rally, held • recently, was won by J. • King-D. Barnard (1931 9 ; h.p. tourer) with R. Chis1 aall-W. Chisniall (1952 2{- ! litre) second and C. Hunt- • Mrs Hunt (1950 1 {-litre) : third. The route included : roads in the HalsweU and • Tai Tapu areas. : * * *

■ Many of New Zealand’s • leading drivers will take : part in the Dunlop SP race : meeting at Pukekohe to--1 morrow. It will be the first ; occasion Jim Palmer has • raced the Lotus driven in ; New Zealand last season : by Jim Clark, and he is ■ favourite for the main • race. No driver has yet : been announced for the ! Rothmans 2.5 litre Cooper. • * * * S' 1 Two Cortina-powered • • Minis, being built in the : • North Island, will take ! ; part in saloon events later j : this season. .- * ♦ * ; I; The Monterey G.P. for ! ; sports racers was won by ■ : W. Hansgen in a Lola- • • Chevrolet. He won both ; ■ 100-mile heats. H. Sharp, ; ;in a new Chaparral, • ! crashed when a track ■ • marker thrown up by; i■.

another car jammed his steering. He was not hurt, but the car was wrecked. * * * Jensen has announced a cheaper version of its VB, the Interceptor, which is a convertible. # * * One of the new Oldsmobile Toronado front-wheel-drive saloons has made the fastest ascent yet recorded by a production car of the Pikes Peak course in the United States. * * * The French Matra racing car firm, which has had several successes recently, in formula two events, is reported to be planning a 3-litre formula one car. ♦ # a The Ford rally team will use Goodyear tyres in all next season’s events. The “tyre war” which has become evident in racing is now obviously spreading to other branches of motor sport