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A birthday salute to McLaren's third-ever employee
©McLaren A veteran of 41 Grands Prix starts, Howden Ganley was born on this day in 1941 in Hamilton, New Zealand, and unbeknownst to many the Kiwi was actually McLaren's third-ever employee. A trip to the 1955 New Zealand GP sparked Ganley's interest for the sport and incited him to become a young reporter for the Waikato Times before he took to the track at the wheel of a Lotus Eleven. At just 19, Ganley moved to England where he attempted to further his racing career but was also offered a job as a mechanic by Bruce McLaren, or rather as a 'gopher' until he proved he was competent enough to thread a nut onto the end of a bolt. But racing beckoned once again and from the late sixties...
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