TROTTING Dates and venues for world drivers’ title

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33539, 21 May 1974, Page 9

TROTTING Dates and venues for world drivers’ title

♦lp xZl°7Mb^ ÜbS I" Du " edi "’ Christchurch and Auckland will run I the New Zealand section of the 1975 World Drivers’ Championship, according to a decision made last week by the executive of the TrottS Conference at a meeting m Christchurch. g

The tentative dates are Monday, April 7, in Dunedin, Wednesday, April 9, in Christchurch,( and Saturday, April 12, in Auckland The series will be shared with Australia, but dates for that section or the courses on which the drivers will compete have not been announced. It had been planned to stage the- series earlier in the year, but it was found that the European championships will not be held until March and this series

■ must precede the world championship. . : This will be the sixth time the world series lias been run and it will be the first time it has been run in the Southern : Hemisphere. The first three 1 senes were held in the United i States and Canada and the last two in Europe. On each occasion attendance and turnover records have been broken and the promotion has been an outstanding success. The series is conducted over

20 races, which will mean that there will be four races at each of the five meetings — two in; Australia and three in New Zealand. Eight drivers will contest the; ■ series and these will include the present world champion, J. Marsh, of the United States, plus the] : drivers of the greatest number of winners in the current season; lin Australia. New Zealand, i Canada and the United States, and the first three place-getters in the 1975 European Championi ship. The series will be an expensive i promotion, says a statement from the conference, and substantial sponsorships will be necessary to ensure the financial success of the venture.