Alastair Caldwell - 1977: Brabham

1977: Brabham

Alastair Caldwell leaves McLaren to join Brabham.

I quit McLaren in 1977 and went to work for Brabhams. I’d been promoted and I put in an office upstairs and wore a jacket and tie and was running the company more, dealing with insurance etc. The team wasn’t doing so well and I believed it was because my input was decreasing and my boss’s input was increasing.

The CanAm series had failed – Porsche had come along and won all the races and for some reason people didn’t like that so the whole thing collapsed. When McLaren won them all it seemed to be alright and people still went along. I stayed with McLaren for a while after the win in ’76 but things were going downhill, I was losing contact with the team. So I joined Brabhams.

1943 Alastair's early years
1955 Licence to drive
1957 Alastair's High School years
1959 Evading the police
1960 Becoming a mechanic
1966 The Tasman series
1966 Leaving New Zealand
1967 Joining McLaren
1967 CanAm Door Catches
1967 Monza
1968 South Africa
1968 CanAm
1969 Driving the Formula 1 Cars
1973 Fittipaldi joins McLaren
1973 McLaren Team manager
1974 Montezemolo
1975 Hunt replaces Fittipaldi
1975 Hunt gets paid little
1976 Inventing the Air-Starter
1976 Six-speed Gear Boxes
1976 Misbehaving in Canada
1976 Japan
1977 Adidas Uniforms
1977 Changing Tyres
1977 Leaving McLaren
1979 Nelson Piquet
1980 Skirts on Formula 1 Cars
1981 Leaving Formula 1
1981 Making Lists
1981 Signing on
1981 Creating Space Station
1991 Highland Fling
1991 Classic Marathon
1992 Getting the Austin A35
1992 El Salvador
1993 Carerra Panamerica
1993 Centre of attention
1993 Nicest car in rally
1993 LeJog
2000 London to Sydney
2000 Porsche Racing
2000 Porsche Crashing
2001 Ferrari
2001 Inca Trail
2004 Berlin - Moscow - Berlin
2005 World Cup Rally
2007 Norway
2008 Liège-Brescia-Liège
2008 An Icelandic Odyssey
2008 North & West Africa
2009 West Coast America
2009 London to Casablanca
2010 New Zealand Festival of motor racing

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