Pit Stops

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33454, 8 February 1974, Page 5

Pit Stops

Britain’s Royal Automobile Club ' has announced the award of its Campbell Trophy to the Hesketh team Formula 1 driver. James Hunt. The trophy is awarded for the best performance by a British driver in a British car. and it was presented to the R.A.C. by the late Donald Campbell in memory of his father. Sir Malcolm Campbell. Previous winners include Stirling Moss. Jim Clark, and Graham Hill. Cars taking part in the Le Mans 24-hour race use 13.200 gallons of fuel, a British magazine has reported. It says that if this fuel were loaded into a jet airliner bound from Paris to New York, the aircraft would run out of fuel exactly half-way across the Atlantic. The same magazine has re-

ported proposals that racing cars be run on benzene (made from coal), or on methanol, (from wood alcohol). There have been 400 applications for the regulations for the World Cup rally from London to Munich which is due to start on May 5. The future of the rally has been placed in some doubt by the world fuel situation, but the organisers are going ahead with planning. The only man to win four United States national stock car championships, Kichard Petty, will again drive in such events for the STP team. The team will race Dodges. Last year Petty was fifth in the championship, and won $159,655 in prizemoney.