Race driver frustrated
PA Tauranga An American racing driver, Ross Cheever, was a frustrated young man yesterday as unofficial practice began for tomorrow’s first round of the international Formula Pacific series at Mount Maunganui’s Baypark Raceway. His new Kalt RT4 was still on an aircraft somewhere between New Zealand and Britain and not expected to arrive until today, too late for qualifying. The car, which will form
part of a three-strong team
entered by an Australian, Graham Watson, was expected to arrive in Auckland on Christmas Day but was held up for lack of shipping space. “I have spent a fortune on toll calls in the last two days," said Watson yesterday. “We finally got the car on a British Airways flight.” Cheever will probably miss today’s practice sessions and have to start from the back of the grid in an untested car.
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