McLaren

00:33:21,082 --> 00:33:23,699 They'd seriously talked about Bruce not racing, 403 00:33:23,835 --> 00:33:26,248 but decided that, you know, we must carry on. 404 00:33:26,379 --> 00:33:28,336 This is our business, this is what we do. 405 00:33:32,427 --> 00:33:34,544 At Timmy's funeral, the eulogy Bruce wrote 406 00:33:34,679 --> 00:33:38,093 really was the mantra that the team followed from then on. 407 00:33:39,100 --> 00:33:43,686 The news that he'd died instantly was a terrible shock to all of us. 408 00:33:45,482 --> 00:33:49,271 But who's to say that he had not seen more, done more, 409 00:33:49,402 --> 00:33:54,522 and learned more in his 26 years than many people do in a lifetime. 410 00:33:56,535 --> 00:33:58,367 To do something well is so worthwhile 411 00:33:58,495 --> 00:34:02,865 that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. 412 00:34:05,168 --> 00:34:09,037 It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability. 413 00:34:09,172 --> 00:34:14,884 I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone. 414 00:34:38,368 --> 00:34:41,952 At the end of that Tasman series, we went back to England, 415 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,538 not quite sure what the future was going to hold. 416 00:34:48,753 --> 00:34:50,790 Eoin Young called me up and said, 417 00:34:50,922 --> 00:34:52,584 "Bruce is here. He wants to talk to you." 418 00:34:52,716 --> 00:34:54,708 Bruce came on the line and said, 419 00:34:54,843 --> 00:34:58,086 "I'm expanding my team, would you like to work for me?" 420 00:34:58,221 --> 00:35:00,964 He wanted to hire more Kiwis. 421 00:35:01,099 --> 00:35:04,217 "Yes, please. Thank you very much. I'll do that." 422 00:35:05,854 --> 00:35:09,063 New Zealand mechanics were very innovative. 423 00:35:09,941 --> 00:35:13,059 They had learned how to build cars in our little country, 424 00:35:13,194 --> 00:35:16,107 where it was very difficult to get parts. 425 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,528 And so they could make completely new components. 426 00:35:19,659 --> 00:35:21,195 You know the old saying, 427 00:35:21,328 --> 00:35:26,744 if you give a Kiwi a length of number eight fencing wire, he'll make anything. 428 00:35:26,875 --> 00:35:30,164 So he liked that attitude, 'cause that's how he was. 429 00:35:31,671 --> 00:35:35,039 Bruce McLaren now had a team but didn't have a workshop. 430 00:35:35,175 --> 00:35:38,134 Our tow car had a rusty old trailer. 431 00:35:38,261 --> 00:35:42,301 And Eoin Young was sent out urgently to try and find us a workshop. 432 00:35:42,432 --> 00:35:44,469 In retrospect, it was terrible. 433 00:35:44,601 --> 00:35:48,390 It was very small but in fact it suited us perfectly at the time. 434 00:35:50,899 --> 00:35:55,018 What he came up with was the corner of a large industrial garage 435 00:35:55,153 --> 00:35:58,817 that was used for servicing earth-moving machinery. 436 00:36:00,075 --> 00:36:01,941 With what was virtually a dirt floor. 437 00:36:02,077 --> 00:36:03,659 It probably had been concrete once, 438 00:36:03,787 --> 00:36:06,621 but with all the bulldozers moving around, it was broken up. 439 00:36:06,748 --> 00:36:11,118 Bruce McLaren Motor Racing in England started in a very grotty shed. 440 00:36:16,508 --> 00:36:19,000 Well, that ought to do it. 441 00:36:28,061 --> 00:36:29,268 Money. 442 00:36:31,022 --> 00:36:33,059 It takes an awful lot of money to run a team. 443 00:36:35,610 --> 00:36:39,103 Mechanics, drivers, transportation. 444 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:44,701 Bruce was up against Lotus, Maserati and, of course, Coopers and Ferrari. 445 00:36:45,370 --> 00:36:47,327 There was a payroll to meet every week. 446 00:36:50,667 --> 00:36:53,705 Bruce was asked to drive big American sports cars, 447 00:36:53,837 --> 00:36:55,669 particularly as a test driver. 448 00:36:56,548 --> 00:36:59,882 Ford used Bruce a lot, because they appreciated his technical ability. 449 00:37:00,009 --> 00:37:03,969 With his engineering background, Bruce could drive the car, 450 00:37:04,097 --> 00:37:07,215 and he could tell the engineers exactly what was happening. 451 00:37:07,809 --> 00:37:10,176 Bruce needed the money from Ford. 452 00:37:10,311 --> 00:37:13,019 There was no money in Formula 1. 453 00:37:13,148 --> 00:37:17,392 The McLaren team really was being financed doing testing, 454 00:37:17,527 --> 00:37:21,737 and we'd do anything up to three or four hundred miles a day. 455 00:37:23,658 --> 00:37:25,650 There wasn't a lot of money at the time. 456 00:37:25,785 --> 00:37:29,779 They did a lot of tire testing for Firestone, which paid good money. 457 00:37:32,167 --> 00:37:34,534 Just wonderful experience. 458 00:37:34,669 --> 00:37:38,208 So I knew Bruce quite well by the time I started working for him. 459 00:37:38,882 --> 00:37:41,