- Title: UK: NEW ZEALAND WIN IN ARCHIE SCOTT-BROWN MEMORIAL TROPHY MOTOR RACE.
- Date: 9th April 1966
- Summary: START OF RACE, VARIOUS SCENES OF RACE IN PROGRESS, FINISH AND THE VICTOR, DENNIS HULME. (NATURAL SOF). Initials RGM/V/MGT/ES SPORT: MOTOR RACING EDITORS: THERE IS NATURAL SOUND THROUGHOUT THIS FILM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 24th April 1966 13:00
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- Location: SNETTERTON -- U.K.
- Country: United Kingdom
- Reuters ID: LVAEJCRZUUCZUQMPM6EC23FHOGJT
- Story Text: NEW ZEALAND DRIVER DENNIS HULME, IN A SIX-LITRE LOTUS CHEVROLET, WON THE ARCHIE SCOTT-BROWN MEMORIAL TROPHY RACE AT THE EAST OF ENGLAND MOTOR RACING CIRCUIT, AT SNETTERTON, ON GOOD FRIDAY.
THE RACE, FOR SPORTS CARS, STARTED WITH THREE NEW ZEALAND DRIVERS -- DENNIS HULME, CHRIS AMON AND BRUCE McLAREN -- ON THE FRONT ROW OF THE GRID.
HULME LED FROM THE START, BUT McLAREN, DRIVING IN A McLAREN ELVA OLDSMOBILE, DROPPED OUT SEVEN LAPS FROM THE END OF THE 25-LAP EVENT. FORMER WORLD CHAMPION GRAHAM HILL ALSO DROPPED OUT, WITH GEARBOX TROUBLE.
AMON, ALSO IN A McLAREN ELVA OLDSMOBILE, WAS SECOND, AND, IN THE OVER-ALL RESULT, AFTER TWO RACES, RON ATTWOOD, IN A FORD GT 40, WAS THIRD.
THE TROPHY RACE WAS RUN OVER 25-LAP 68-MILE PARTS, THE WINNER BEING THE DRIVER COMPLETING THE GREATEST DISTANCE IN THE LEAST TIME.
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