Millen injures arm

Press, 15 January 1982, Page 22

Millen injures arm

PA Auckland The top New Zealand Formula Pacific driver, Steve Millen, has an injured arm with only 24 hours left until round three of the Aurora AFX series at Manfeild. Millen was helping lift the engine out of his Halt RT4 after the Grand Prix on Monday when he apparently overworked the left arm he smashed during his spectacular crash in the 1980 Grand Prix at Pukekohe.’ "It didn't hurt "at the time

but it's quite swollen now," he said. “There’s nothing I can do about it now. I've been spending some time in a friend's spa pool and putting some stuff on it to try to bring it down again.’’ However, Millen was confident his arm would be better in time for official practice at Manfeild tomorrow, although he might have to take it easy until then. “I'm pretty confident it

will not make any difference to my driving,” he said. If Millen does get fit in time for the third round on Sunday he will be hoping his pit crew are as skillful at metering the Ralt’s fuel consumption as they were during the second race of the Grand Prix. To make the cars as light and competitive as possible a careful check is made on the amount of fuel necessary to run a race and only the bare minimum put into the car. When the fuel tank was

drained on Monday, Millen discovered he had only half a litre of fuel left after his second race win. Any extra warm-up laps or delays on the start .g grid would have meant ne would run out of fuel, putting him out of the race and giving the Brazilian, Roberto Moreno, the chance he needed to scoop both Grand Prix heats. Millen will travel to Christchurch for the final round of the series at Wigram on January 24.