Alan McCall
A friend in NZ emailed me last night to tell me that Alan McCall died of heart problems in Auckland NZ earlier this week. Another of the Kiwi racing exodus to the Uk in the 'good old days' was probably better known for his Tui race car connection here.
Phil Creighton
"Ex-McLaren engineer who was also behind the Tui cars. Allan came to the UK in 1963, as a young 22 year old, to get into racing, and like so many others, he found his way in by being a racing mechanic. He worked for Lotus on their Indianapolis 500 efforts as a mechanic for Jim Clark, but also worked on Clark's Lotus Cortina in the British Touring Car Championship. McCall then also worked with Denny Hulme and Bruce McLaren in the latter's Can-Am team. He set up his very neat and capable Tui designs, with the cars appearing in Formula 2, Formula 3, Formula Atlantic, Formula Pacific and Super Vee. However the death of Bert Hawthorne in one of his cars at Hockenheim in 1972 was a crushing blow. He later worked for Middlebridge Racing in Formula 3000 as David Brabham's race engineer in the 1980's and remained involved with the sport as an independent design consultant. In 2016, Allan won a Historic Heritage award from New Zealand's motorsport governing body."
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