IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Even before Roger arrived in New Zealand for the 1968 Tasman series, Chris Amon had told him about Bruce Wilson, the ace spannerman from Hunterville who’d fettled the young farmer’s Maserati 250F in the early ’60s. On the passing of the legendary mechanic, Roger penned a wonderful tribute for the service with a constant reference to ‘the guy’ — the guy Amon eulogised over and who, with Roger, went one better than their 1968 runner-up position to Jimmy Clark when the Ferrari driver was crowned champion.
The first non-Italian to become a full-time mechanic for the works team, Roger was loving life in Italy. “I can’t even begin to explain what it was like to be there in those days and work under the ‘Old Man’. You can read all the books, but, unless you were
