Backwards Glance
Back in 1938, the New Zealand Grand Prix was run on the most extraordinary course at Cust, which is on the Canterbury plain near Christchurch in the South Island. The circuit consisted of 6.1 miles of unsurfaced roads and the race distance was 25 laps which gave 152.5 miles. The course had been used in two previous years. In 1936 it quickly became apparent that dust was a major problem, so for the next and subsequent years the track was sprayed with thousands of gallons of
