Johnson in Wgtn race
The 1988 Australian Touring car champion, Dick Johnson, will compete in this year’s Wellington street race at Labour Day Week-end. Dick Johnson and his co-driver teammate, John Bowe, will bring their series-winning Shell Ultra Ford Sierra to New Zealand in mid-October to begin preparation for the race. Johnson is looking forward to a race he considers one of the most exciting of the year’s calendar. “The track is reasonably difficult, which means there is very little margin for error — it’s certainly one hell of a challenge,” he says. Recently, Johnson and his Shell Ultra car took two seconds off the track record at Silverstone, England. After the Wellington event the car will remain in New Zealand to be
driven by Robbie Ker in the New Zealand Group A Series in January. Robbie Ker, from Paraparaumu, has been des-
cribed by a motor racing writer and critic, John Coker, as New Zealand’s most improved driver of last season.
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Press, 23 September 1988, Page 39
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