N.Z. saloon car title
The Christchurch driver. Doug Smith, finished runner-up in the New Zealand speedway saloon car championship at invercargill's Riverside ' Raceway last week-end. Smith, the 12-lap record-holder in the class at Woodford Glen, won his qualifying race and with two fourths and a fifth in the finals, he was forced to run-off against Dunedin's Dave Sangster for second place. Smith duly won the race to take ' second. nine
points behind Peter Woods, of Gore. Another prominent Christchurch driver. Tony Cardwell, who is the South Island champion. won his qualifying race but was plagued with steering problems in the finals. Warwick Leech, of Darfield. finished ninth in the 33-car event. The defending champion. Blondie Chamberlain, of Stratford, rammed his Rover racer into the safety fence and was forced to retire.
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