Ties severed

Press, 17 February 1983, Page 26

Ties severed

The last Ijnks between the late Bruce McLaren, the young Aucklander who made a name for himself and the international motor racing team which he founded, were

severed before Christmas when Teddy. Mayer, a U.S. attorney turned motor racing director, and Tyler Alexander, a top McLaren engineering director, bailed out. Ron Dennis, boss of the Project 4 racing organisation, moved in on the Marlboro McLaren organisation about a . year ago. Mayer, a rather brittle individual, whose association with Bruce McLaren began about the time Timmy Mayer, Teddy’s younger brother, was killed

while racing in the McLaren team in Tasmania about a decade or so ago, and Dennis apparently did not see eye to eve.

Dennis has bought out Mayer for an. undisclosed sum which some folk, professing themselves in the know, claim to be more than SU.S.3 million.

The latest word is that the Formula One Constructors’ Association has a job lined up for Mayer, while Alexander is unlikely to be unemployed for long. Rumour has it that he will join the Brabham Formula 1 team as the race engineer.