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i PA- Auckland Pukekohe motar-racing cireuita notorious chicane bends a ' n *°?t certainly be scrapped there* big meeting TM» follows recommendations J? a<,e J ohn Corsmit, 6f motor-racing international track safety inspecvisited the circuit last chicane bends, one in the °I* e 011 the hiH the pits stra >Slht, were installed m 1973 as a safetv measure to slow the big F5OOO P T ,X C,M - The Z followed a 250 km/h crash in the 1972 New nd r. 9 rand Prix which left Bryan Faloon dead and Graeme Lawrence seriously injured. Since then Accident Compensa non has removed the huge personal injury liability that race promoters used to have to earn. and the new Formula Pacific cars are slower than their F5OOO predecessors. Mr Corsmit has told the Grand Prix organisers that they will require only a loose gravel run-off area beyond the end of the back straight to prevent car* getting into a stream and then the chicanes could go. Previously it was thought that five expensive catch tepees would be needed.
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Press, 12 April 1978, Page 6
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