The series of 100-mile races held in New Zealand and Australia for the Tasman Championship saw Peter Gethin win on points with two wins, two seconds and a third place in the eight events. The races were run to Formula 5000, single-seaters powered by push-rod production 5-litre engines, a form of racing that has a good following in the Southern Hemisphere. Gethin went out there with the Belgian Team VDS with Teddy Pilette and although Pilette scored a win and a second place, the local drivers also shared in the winnings.<\/p>\n
Levin Races-84 laps-171.9 kms \u2014January 5th<\/strong><\/p>\n 1st:<\/strong> J. Walker (Lola-Repco) 64 mm. 19.6 sec.<\/p>\n 2nd:<\/strong> A. McCully (Begg-Chevrolet)<\/p>\n 3rd:<\/strong> M. Stewart (Lola-Chevrolet)<\/p>\n Pukekohe-58 laps-163.3 kms.\u2014January 13th<\/strong><\/p>\n 1st:<\/strong> P. Gethin (Chevron-Chevrolet) 62 min. 29.2 sec.<\/p>\n 2nd:<\/strong> J. McCormack (Ellin-Repco)<\/p>\n 3rd:<\/strong> D. Oxton (Begg-Chevrolet)<\/p>\n Lady Wigram-47 laps-162.7 kms.\u2014Jan. 20th<\/strong><\/p>\n 1st:<\/strong> J. McCormack (Elfin-Repco).. 52 min. 29.8 sec.<\/p>\n 2nd:<\/strong> T. Pilette (Chevron-Chevrolet)<\/p>\n 3rd:<\/strong> P. Gethin (Chevron-Chevrolet)<\/p>\n Teretonga Park-62 lops-159.7 kms.\u2014 January 27th<\/strong><\/p>\n 1st:<\/strong>M. Stewart (Lola-Chevrolet) 57 min. 14.7 sec.<\/p>\n 2nd:<\/strong>G. McRae (McRae-Chevrolet)<\/p>\n 3rd:<\/strong>G. Lawrence (Lola-Chevrolet)<\/p>\n Oran Park-90 laps-150.6 kms.\u2014February 3rd<\/strong><\/p>\n 1st:<\/strong> M. Stewart (Lola-Chevrolet) 61 min. 22.0sec.<\/p>\n 2nd:<\/strong>J. Walker (Lola-Repco)<\/p>\n 3rd:<\/strong>W. Brown (Lola-Chevrolet)<\/p>\n Surfers Paradise\u201450 laps-160.9 kms.\u2014 February 10th<\/strong><\/p>\n 1st:<\/strong>T. Pilette (Chevron-Chevrolet) 57 min. 11.6 sec.<\/p>\n 2nd:<\/strong> P. Gethin (Chevron-Chevrolet)<\/p>\n 3rd:<\/strong>Niatich (Matich-Repco)<\/p>\n Sandown Park-52 laps\u2014 161.5 kms.\u2014Feb. 17th<\/strong><\/p>\n 1st:<\/strong>P. Gethin (Chevron-Chevrolet) 54 min. 22.1 sec.<\/p>\n 2nd:<\/strong> G. McRae (McRae-Chevrolet)<\/p>\n 3rd:<\/strong>J. Walker (Lola-Repco)<\/p>\n Adelaide-70 laps-168.9 kms.\u2014February 24th<\/strong><\/p>\n 1st:<\/strong> W. Brown (Lola-Chevrolet) 61 mm. 10.7 sec.<\/p>\n 2nd:<\/strong> P. Gethin (Chevron-Chevrolet)<\/p>\n 3rd:<\/strong>G. Lawrence (Lola-Chevrolet)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":739,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[167,232,36565,201,43379],"issue_decade":[121607],"issue_year":[121633],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/39336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/39336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238578,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/39336\/revisions\/238578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39336"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=39336"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=39336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}