McLaren's cars will carry a special tribute at Monza where the team will celebrate veteran mechanic Ray Rowe who will retire from McLaren after 55 years with the papaya squad. Rowe, who worked for Cooper in F1 in the early sixties, was one of the first employees recruited by Bruce McLaren in 1965. Through the decades, through thick and thin, 'Tex' as he is fondly known remained loyal to McLaren, surviving the change of ownership in the early eighties when Ron Dennis took over the team's operations. ©McLaren Today, Rowe still clocks in at Woking where he works in McLaren's transmission department. "We’ll carry a special tribute on the car this weekend to Ray Rowe, who is set to...
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