Lap Record Broken
(N.Z. Press Association) ZANDVOORT (Holland). J. Brabham (Australia) again outclassed the opposition In Saturday’* dree* reheartal for the Dutch Grand Prix by breaking hie own lap record. Driving a Repco-Brabham. he clocked th* beat formula I time of imin 28.2 sec. for an average speed of 104.4 mile* an hour. Brabham already had won the pole position earlier thia week. D. Gurney (United States), ! who covered the 2.6 miles track in imln IS.Ssec in his American Eagle Climax, was second in the trials for the 9fl-lap race. Brabham's racing team had some bad luck when D. HuJm* (New Zealand) stopped at the pit* with an oil leak in b.s Repco-Brabham car. Hulme will start in th* reserve car.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31120, 25 July 1966, Page 11
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