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Tyler Alexander with Peter Gethin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tyler Alexander, one of McLaren\u2019s founding fathers, passed away on 7th January 2016, at the age of 75.<\/p>\n

McLaren Chairman and CEO Ron Dennis paid tribute to Alexander:<\/p>\n

\u201cAlongside Bruce McLaren, who founded the McLaren company in 1963, Tyler Alexander was one of the first pillars of our company \u2013 working hard alongside Bruce from the very earliest days \u2013 and Bruce couldn\u2019t have asked for a sturdier pair of shoulders upon which to help build the team\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n

\u201cTyler’s skilful yet practical expertise, coupled with his energetic and optimistic attitude, topped off by his infectiously dry and satirical sense of humour, made him both highly successful and hugely popular, whether he was overseeing car-builds in the team’s workshop, running race-winning Can-Am and Indy 500 crews, or working with some of the world\u2019s greatest drivers and engineers in Formula 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuite simply, Tyler lived and breathed McLaren \u2013 and, following his retirement in late 2008, during which season he attended every Grand Prix and played an important part in securing the team’s and Lewis Hamilton’s world championship success, he remained a much loved and greatly valued chum to many of us, regularly visiting our Woking factory to catch up with pals old and new. Tyler’s was a friendship that you could really rely upon; he was a man who would never let you down.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, Tyler was one of the finest of the old school: hardy, humble and wise, leaving a reputation and a legacy that will remain indelible in the history of international motorsport.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, on behalf of all at McLaren, I\u2019d like to pay heartfelt tribute to one of our team\u2019s founding fathers, and to offer our deepest condolences to his many friends and his ever-loving companion, Jane Nottage, who has always stood by him, valiant to the very end.”<\/p>\n

An obituary: Tyler Alexander 1940 – 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It\u2019s not that life is too short; it\u2019s that death is too long. So best get on with things.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a typically to-the-point statement from Tyler Alexander, one of Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Limited\u2019s original founding fathers. But it takes on an added poignancy following his passing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not easy to sum up a life and career that\u2019s been as long, broad and successful as Tyler\u2019s. But if that original statement tells you anything, it\u2019s that Tyler was a man who could get things done.<\/p>\n

Growing up in Hingham, near Boston, Massachusetts, the young Tyler quickly found himself drawn into the exciting world of motor racing, where he struck up a friendship with Teddy Mayer, an astute Pennsylvanian lawyer who had also been bitten by the racing bug. Mayer had called time on a career at the Bar to look after the promising racing efforts of his younger brother Timmy, and they soon forged relationships with local motorsport luminaries such as Peter Revson and Roger Penske.<\/p>\n

Tyler, too, was smitten, and it wasn\u2019t long before the tight-knit North American racing community required his services in Europe. Sooner rather than later, Tyler travelled to England \u2013 the epicentre of motorsport in the 1960s \u2013 where he met a young New Zealander called Bruce McLaren. Of their first encounter, Tyler recalled, \u201cI remember thinking this guy seemed to know a lot about motor racing, and perhaps I\u2019d better tag along to find out more about it myself. I wasn\u2019t wrong\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Alongside Teddy, Tyler travelled to New Zealand to field a car for Timmy Mayer in the 1964 Tasman Series, an Australasian wintertime competition that attracted many of the key names from the Formula 1 world, including Bruce McLaren, Denny Hulme, Jack Brabham and Graham Hill. Timmy\u2019s tragic death, in a practice accident at the final round in Longford, Tasmania, failed to dampen Tyler\u2019s enthusiasm; in fact, it only served to harden the young man\u2019s resolve.<\/p>\n

Bruce famously summed up Timmy\u2019s loss, writing: \u201cTo do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one\u2019s ability, for I feel life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back in the States and pondering his next step, Tyler received a well-timed phone-call from Bruce which left him little time for contemplation. Immediately, he was drawn back to England, and into a career in motorsport that would go on to define his life.<\/p>\n

If the early story of McLaren is a well-told one, Tyler\u2019s role is less known \u2013 which says much about the American\u2019s deep sense of humility and reluctance to put his own contributions above those of the team.<\/p>\n

Put simply, Tyler made things happen \u2013 quickly and efficiently with his trademark minimum of fuss. There were no definitions or boundaries to his role: he directed the mechanics; he machined spare parts; he arranged accommodation; he paid for last-minute airline tickets; he scrounged favours from a growing list of friends and colleagues. He pushed and pulled McLaren\u2019s racecars around the world, and, once at the track, made sure they were better engineered and organised than any other team in the pitlane.<\/p>\n

As McLaren grew more successful, it grew bigger. And Tyler\u2019s ability to get the job done saw his responsibilities grow accordingly. From humble beginnings in Formula 1, he developed McLaren\u2019s Can-Am effort to a level of dominance never witnessed before or since in world motorsport. Between 1967 and 1971, McLaren won all five championship titles, 37 out of 43 races \u2013 including, in 1969, an incredible clean-sweep of all 11 events.<\/p>\n

In between those successes, he also had to cope with the desperate loss of Bruce McLaren, who was killed in a Can-Am testing crash at Goodwood, on June 2 1970.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world of motor racing can be tough,\u201d he wrote in his excellent memoir, A Life And Times With McLaren. \u201cIt\u2019s times like these when you have to get ahold of yourself and keep people together \u2013 in this case, the people who helped make Bruce McLaren Motor Racing the team that it was. It was now time to use the things that we had all learned from Bruce, without showing personal sorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alongside Teddy, Tyler made sure McLaren\u2019s fortunes did not wane. In fact, he attended the team\u2019s very next race \u2013 a Can-Am event at Mosport, Canada \u2013 which they duly won.<\/p>\n

As McLaren\u2019s mighty Can-Am efforts finally began to fade in the early 1970s, and it emerged as a genuine championship contender in Formula 1, so it also stepped up its ambition to win arguably the world\u2019s most famous race, the Indianapolis 500. A McLaren car had already won Indy with a privateer car driven by Mark Donohue in 1972, but Tyler led the charge for a \u2018works\u2019 victory, as crew chief for Johnny Rutherford\u2019s two stunning McLaren victories in 1974 and \u201976.<\/p>\n

In 1983, Tyler departed McLaren, reuniting with Teddy Mayer to run an Indycar team in North America, where they recruited a talented young engineer named Adrian Newey. The pair became firm friends, and their mutual respect and admiration bound them together for their next two ventures \u2013 into Formula 1, with Carl Haas\u2019 Beatrice Lola team in 1985, and a return to Indycars, this time running the legendary Mario Andretti for Newman Haas Racing.<\/p>\n

However, another opportune phone-call from across the pond \u2013 this time from Ron Dennis \u2013 once again brought Tyler back to Formula 1, and to McLaren, in 1989.<\/p>\n

It was a return to Tyler\u2019s spiritual home, and a continuation of the role he had created and defined more than 20 years earlier. He embarked on a number of key technical and organisational assignments, working in Europe, Japan and the United States to bolster the team\u2019s dominance. He soon gained the trust and respect of engineers and drivers alike, including great champions like Ayrton Senna, Mika Hakkinen and Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n

If he had a surety that few individuals in the paddock could match, he too possessed a zealous drive to push the engineering boundaries. For a man who established his motorsport credentials back in the middle of the 20th century, he had little fear in confronting the 21st century\u2019s digital frontier. Indeed, he concluded his career sat keenly behind a pit-garage laptop, analysing and decoding reams of car data.<\/p>\n

In his personal life, too, he was constantly exploring the limits \u2013 fishing and scuba diving off the coast of Mexico throughout the F1 winters, and always appearing at races armed with a camera. Indeed, his photography is warm and candid \u2013 as can be evidenced in his book of photography, McLaren From The Inside, which perfectly captures both the grit and bonhomie of the pitlane.<\/p>\n

He was a man of huge quality.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Sir Jackie Stewart sums him up most succinctly: \u201cLike his late mentor, Bruce McLaren, Tyler has served as an ideal ambassador to represent the community of motorsport. In all of his dealings, he was soft-spoken but firm in his commitments, socially capable in every respect. He dressed well, behaved well, spoke well and engineered well. There\u2019s much to be learned from Tyler\u2019s life and example.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of us at McLaren were touched by Tyler\u2019s influence, his determination to find excellence in everything, his spirit, his enthusiasm, and his enormous pride in the organisation.<\/p>\n

To his loving partner Jane, who was his greatest supporter, we offer our deepest condolences; to his army of friends at racetracks around the world, we share the sorrow but remember the life well-lived of a man who will always be remembered as one of the very best in motorsport, a constant ally and a remarkable friend.<\/p>\n

[Source: McLaren; photo: Autosports Marketing Assoc.<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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