Former F1 and endurance racer Howden Ganley has received his homeland’s highest motor racing honor, joining former inductees Bruce McLaren, Denny Hulme, Chris Amon and others on MotorSport New Zealand’s Wall of Fame.
Ganley arrived in England in 1961 and was employee number three hired at the fledgling Team McLaren in 1964. He became an F1 driver after finishing 2nd in the 1970 British F5000 championship driving for McLaren, having done two seasons in F3. He drove in F1 for BRM in 1971 (winning the Wolfgang von Trips award for the best performance by a new driver) and 1972, Williams Racing in 1973 and March in 1974 before a crash at the German GP at Nürburgring in the Maki F101 ended his F1 career.
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