3rd CWF Hamilton Trophy

Date: 24th January 1953
Venue: Mairehau

60 laps of 4.03 km (242 km)

Starting Order: (Handicap Race)      Winterbourn started and the rest followed at indicated times behind him.

Max Winterbourn                 0m
Boxer Fanselow                  2m 00s
Wally Darrell                        2m 00s
Allan Freeman                     5m 00s
Fred Sharman                     7m 00s
Doug Haigh                         8m 00s
Halsey Logan                      8m 00s
"HR Brown" / Sybil Lupp  12m 00s
Jack Tutton                        12m 00s
Don Ransley                      12m 10s
Ernie Sprague                   13m 00s
Pat Hoare                          14m 00s 
Arnold Stafford                  14m 00s
Vic Shuter                          16m 00s
Harold O'Neill                    16m 00s
Des Wild                            18m 00s
Les Moore                         18m 00s
Frank Shuter                      21m 00s
George Smith                    23m 00s
Ron Roycroft                      28m 00s

Being a handicap race, the outright winner of the race is the first car to cross the line having completed the specified distance. The cars crossed the line in the following order :-

Roycroft's Alfa Romeo

3rd Lady Wigram Trophy

Date: 28th February 1953
Venue: Wigram Airfield

24 laps of 2.116 miles or 3.403 km (50.784 miles or 81.672 km)

Grid: (* denotes pole)

Ron Roycroft*                  George Smith                     Frank Shuter                   Ernie Sprague
                        Pat Hoare                         Doug Haigh                    Halsey Logan                     Les Holden
Bill Crosbie                      Harold O'Neill                 Max Winterbourn                  Wally Darrell
                     Don Ransley                       Hec McLean                   Ron Paterson                      Frank Pope
                                                                                         Hec Green                      Bob Gibbons
 

Fastest Lap: Ron Roycroft 1m 34.0s

4th Ohakea Trophy

Date: 14th March 1953
Venue: Ohakea Airfield

25 laps of 3.22 km (80.46 km)

Starting Order: (Handicap Race)      Bern, Edwards and Aitken started and the rest followed at indicated times behind him.

Wally Bern                 0m
Jack Edwards           0m
Jock Aitken                0m *
Peter McInally            0m
Bruce Lawrence        0m 50s
C Taylor                      0m 50s
Dave Long                 0m 50s
Don Tilsley                 1m 15s
Boxer Fanselow        1m 15s *
Noel Ching                 1m 40s
Allan Freeman           1m 40s
Tom Clark                  2m 05s
D Hutton                     2m 30s *
Herb Gilroy                 2m 30s
Keith Roper                2m 55s
Rob Bagnall               2m 55s
Fordy Farland            3m 45s *
Halsey Logan             5m 25s
Johnny Mansel           5m 50s
Bessie Christie          6m 15s
Harry Chatteris           6m 15s *
Peter Harrison           7m 05s *
Ron Frost                   7m 05s
Hec McLean              7m 05s
Peter Ward                7m 05s
Bill Lee                       7m 05s
Arnold Stafford          7m 05s
Vic Shuter                  8m 20s
George Palmer         8m 20s
Alistair McBeath       8m 20s *
Des McDonagh        8m 45s *
Frank Shuter             9m 10s
Les Moore                 9m 35s *
George Smith         10m 00s
Bob Gibbons          10m 50s
Ron Roycroft           11m 40s

* Did not start
 

* Keith Roper for some reason did not appear in the official results.

Fastest Lap: Ron Roycroft

Scratch Results:

1 Ron Roycroft       38m 10s
2 Bob Gibbons      39m 30s
3 George Smith     40m 36s
4 Keith Roper        45m 49s
5 Allan Freeman   46m 57s
6 Wally Bern          50m 30s