LOTUS TEAM MECHANIC
22-Year-Old New Zealander (N.Z. Press Association' AUCKLAND, January 5. Two years ago an ambitious young Hastings mechanic, Leo Wybrott, left for London to advance his training. Today, aged 22. he made his first return visit home — as official mechanic to the world motor-racing champion, Jim Clark, of Scotland, who will race in the New Zealand Grand Prix at Pukekohe on Saturday. His engagement with the Lotus motor-racing team came about in this way.
“1 applied for the job as advertised in a London newspaper last August and was accepted. Prior to that I had been working in a London car-testing station," Wybrott said today. At first he was taken on as a transmission mechanic and his first official appointment as head mechanic was last week when bp serviced the Lotus being driven by Jack Stewart—the team’s No. 2 driver—in the South African Grand Prix in Johannesburg. The Pukekohe meeting on Saturday will be his second major appointment. After the Tasman Cup series, Wybrott will return to London pending further trips to the world racing circuits as a Lotus mechanic.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30951, 6 January 1966, Page 3
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