Howden Ganley

Howden Ganley

Nation:	New Zealand
Automobile world championship
First start:	1971 South African Grand Prix
Last start:	1974 Brazilian Grand Prix
Constructors
1971–1972  BRM  1973  Iso Marlboro  1974  March  1974  Maki Engineering
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-13. ( 1972 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 35 - - -
World Cup points :	10
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

James Howden Ganley (born December 24, 1941 in Hamilton ) is a former New Zealand racing driver who participated in a total of 35 Formula 1 races.

Career

Howden Ganley came to Great Britain by ship from New Zealand in 1961 with £ 50 in his pocket. The young man's goal was a career in motorsport. He took a badly paid job as a mechanic at a racing school to finance his first activities as a racing driver. In the mid-1960s, he was already driving in the British Formula 3 championship and was able to celebrate some successes there. In 1966 he moved to the USA and became chief mechanic in Peter Revson's CanAm team .

Back in Europe, Ganley finished second in the British Formula 5000 Championship on his private McLaren M10B in 1970 , just barely beaten by Peter Gethin . Formula 1 teams finally noticed him and Louis Stanley from BRM presented him with a two-year contract, which Ganley immediately signed.

Howden Ganley in the Maki F101 at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed

Ganley contested 35 Formula 1 races and achieved a total of ten championship points between 1971 and 1974 . He also took part in numerous Grand Prix that were not officially counted as part of the World Championship .

During his service with BRM, Ganley showed consistent performances, the climax of which were two fourth places, but he mostly lagged behind his teammates. In the 1973 season he went to the start for the Iso Marlboro team from Frank Williams , but Ganley only reached the points once with a sixth place in Canada .

Gulf Mirage M6, Howden Ganley's car in the 1973 Manufacturers' World Championship

For John Wyer , as a partner of Vern Schuppan , he drove a full season in the Brands World Championship with the Mirage M6 . The best place for the duo was second overall at the 1000 km of Spa-Francorchamps .

In his last season as an active driver in 1974 , he initially contested two Grand Prix for the March team before Ganley was signed by the new Japanese team Maki for the rest of the season. Ganley made his workshop available to the Maki mechanics; it became the technical basis of the racing team. The Maki project was unsuccessful. Even at the first appearance at the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch there was no question of qualifying. The car was bulky and way too heavy. At the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring , the Maki experiment ended for Ganley: During training, he had a serious accident in the airfield section when the Maki's suspension broke. Ganley was taken to hospital with a broken leg. Although he was able to recover completely despite complicated fractures, his motorsport career was over. Just one day later, Mike Hailwood had an accident in the race in the Pflanzgarten section on the jump hill, also after the suspension had broken. Hailwood also suffered severe leg injuries and had to end his Formula 1 career.

Together with the Australian racing driver Tim Schenken , Ganley founded the motorsport company Tiga Race Cars Ltd. in 1974 . , which the two operated until 1989.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

Single results

year	team	dare	engine	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	WM	Points
1971	BRM	BRM P153	BRM V12	RSA DNF	ESP 10	MON DNQ	NED 7	FRA 10	GBR 8	GER DNF	AUT DNF	ITA 5	CAN DNS	USA 4					15th	5
1972	BRM	BRM P160	BRM V12	ARG 9	RSA NC	ESP DNF	MON DNF	BEL 8	FRA DNS	GBR	GER 4	AUT 6	ITA 11	CAN 10	USA DNF				13.	4th
1973	Iso Marlboro	Iso-Marlboro FX3B	Cosworth DFV	ARG NC	BRA 7	RSA 10	ESP DNF	BEL DNF	MON DNF	SWE 11	FRA 14	GBR 9	NED 9	GER DNS	AUT NC	ITA NC	CAN 6	USA 12	19th	1
1974	March	March 741	Ford - Cosworth DFV	ARG 8	BRA DNF	RSA	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE	NED	FRA							26th	0
	Maki	Maki F101C	Ford V8										GBR DNQ	GER DNQ	AUT	ITA	CAN	United States

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1972	Equipe Matra Sport	Matra-Simca MS670	François Cevert	Rank 2
1973	Gulf Research Racing	Mirage M6	Derek Bell	failure	Oil pump
1975	Gelo Racing Team	Porsche Carrera RSR	Tim donation	failure	Gearbox damage
1976	Gelo Racing Team	Porsche Carrera RSR	Clemens Schickentanz	failure	Power transmission

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
1968	Roy Johnson	Chevron B8	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
									DNF
1970	Sid Taylor Racing	Lola T70	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
					DNF
1972	Matra	Matra MS670	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
											2
1973	Gulf Racing	Mirage M6	DAY	VAL	DIJ	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
			DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	2			DNF	5	4th
1975	Gelo Racing	Gulf GR7 Porsche Carrera RSR	DAY	MUG	DIJ	MON	SPA	BY	ONLY	ZEL	WAT
									2

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who, 3rd Edition . Travel Publishing, London 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8

Web links

Commons : Howden Ganley  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Howden Ganley at Racing Sports Cars