Griffiths wins driver award

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34047, 10 January 1976, Page 14

Griffiths wins driver award

Gerald Griffiths was “The • Press driver of the night” at the meeting last night at the j i I Woodford Glen International ■I Raceway. Me won three eon-j •jsecutive stock car races, but was: put into the fence in the teams) race at the end of the meet-1 ; ing. Results were:--r Farrier-Waimak stocks < eight: 11 laps): Griffiths 1. Gannon (Hany. iltoni 2, Blackadder 3. Bank MN.S.W “B” grade saloons [ lapse Bolt 1, Penn 2, Bradlc> 3.: J Mangers Rentals mini stocks 'Six| • lapse Deal L Bell 2, Johnson 3. ‘Go Cola A grade saloons «12j Haps): Taylor 1, Hurst 2, Courts; 13 3ZM stocks < eight laps): Grif-; fiths 1. Hern 2. Tinkler 3. Auto Salvage B grade saloons <lO lapse) ’McDermott 1. Penn 2, Sinclair! ■3 P.D.L. A grade saloons: •Black 1. McGercher 2. Taylor 3. (Marlboro stock feature (eight laps): Griffiths 1. Blackadder 2, J Tinkler 3 Firestone invitation I saloon <l5 lapse Granger l. ( ! Hawke 2 ‘I Cricket. — The Australian test] ’cricket captain, Greg ChappelLi ; has called for an Australian tour • lof South Africa, claiming the i continued Australian boycott of i II sporting contacts between the: two countries could undo much J of the good achieved in break-i Hing down apartheid barriers. '■ Softball.— The South African! j softball team is preparing, ini Johannesburg for the world] I championships confident that | ' New Zealand will not withdraw I I its invitation. “We are prepari ing positively to participate,” Mr) ! Jan Crafford, president of the; ! South African Softball Associa-! •tion has said. I