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Scenes of Tasman Series, Wigram, 23 Jan 1965. Views of car racing on track. Cars being attended to in pit, Bruce McLaren testing tyre, standing by car. Small boy putting on helmet and sitting in race car belonging to Bill Thomasen. [Bruce McLaren] sitting in car. Jim Clark sitting in car talking to crew. Views of cars, drivers and crew at the track side. Cars; 1, 11, 25, 9, 17 & 41’ and their drivers including Jim Clark, Bill Thomasen, Jim Palmer. Bruce McLaren with woman [Pat McLaren]. Saloon car races.
Racing cars parked with name plaque in driver’s seat including cars of Bruce Abernethy, Johnny Riley and car #8. Group of people in cars at service station.
“The Tasman Series was a motor racing series held from 1964 to 1975, in Australia and New Zealand, and named after the Tasman Sea between the two countries. The Tasman Series races were held in January through to late February or early March of each year, during the Formula One off season, taking advantage of winter in the Northern hemisphere to attract many top drivers to summer in the south” - Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_Series; retrieved 27/09/2016.