Milan and Rhys, you certainly have brought back memories from that era.
I remember cheering on Brian Innes and also watching Jim Boyd lose control and sliding almost up the stairs to the church on the corner of Broadway and Hohaia !
I think Spinner Black drove a Triumph Spitfire at Matamata at one time.
http://www.theroaringseason.com/showthread.php?847-Matamata-Round-the-houses Before that we went to the Waharoa Aerodrome for the Grass Track Meet. That programme certainly has some well known names.
The description of the dust and the track was pretty accurate by Rex Bentham. " You couldn't see much of the racing, only the start, the rest of it was under a huge cloud of dust. By the end of the day the cars had dug a trench around each corner. Some great old cars tho', "
I can remember Denny Hulme being a guest speaker at the lunch break after his first season in Europe and describing a crash he was involved in and the tread marks were left on the top of his helmet !
(Ken Hyndman )
