{"id":80563,"date":"2021-07-21T16:52:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T23:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=80563"},"modified":"2021-07-21T16:52:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T23:52:23","slug":"mcleod-racing-welcomes-will-baty-mr-clutch-as-off-road-and-rd-specialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/mcleod-racing-welcomes-will-baty-mr-clutch-as-off-road-and-rd-specialist\/","title":{"rendered":"McLeod Racing Welcomes Will Baty \u201cMr. Clutch\u201d as Off-Road and R&#038;D Specialist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"80564\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/mcleod-racing-welcomes-will-baty-mr-clutch-as-off-road-and-rd-specialist\/willbaty\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/WillBaty.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,292\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WillBaty\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/WillBaty.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/WillBaty.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/WillBaty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our friends over at McLeod Racing welcomes Will Baty as Off-Road and R&amp;D Specialist. McLeod, a leader in driveline components, so partnering up with Baty seems like a no-brainer. Baty is a pillar in the aftermarket industry and will bring his off-road expertise to the Anaheim, CA -based company. McLeod\u2019s President Paul Lee marks this new chapter as a turning point for the company in the growing off-road market.<\/p>\n<p>Will Baty, \u201cMr. Clutch\u201d as the industry calls him, brings over 30 years\u2019 experience of research and development as well as engineering for the clutch market and the off-road market. With his expertise and his love for the aftermarket, it will be a great addition to the McLeod family. Everyone at McLeod is passionate for this industry and Baty will fit right in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very excited to join the McLeod Racing team,\u201d says Baty. \u201cI am looking forward to learning the new products from McLeod and using my experience to cultivate a strong off-road sector for the company. I would like to thank Paul Lee and Bob Scheid for giving me the opportunity to showcase my skills and to work with their team to continue to grow McLeod Racing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McLeod Racing, celebrating 50 years in 2021, continues to dominate and grow in all spaces of the aftermarket. With the addition of Baty, McLeod will continue the engineering and R&amp;D of off-road products for our customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of everyone at McLeod Racing, we are all excited that \u201cMr. Clutch\u201d Will Baty has joined the McLeod Family,\u201d says McLeod Racing president, Paul Lee. \u201cI have always believed that your people are a business\u2019s most important asset. We\u2019ve built a great team of \u2018all-stars\u2019 here at McLeod and Will\u2019s addition just makes our team that much stronger. I\u2019ve always had a lot of respect for Will and his knowledge of our driveline market and particularly, the off-road segment, will help continue to grow McLeod. We look forward to what the future will bring with Will on our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Will Baty will begin his journey with McLeod on July 26<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and we are all excited for this addition. Welcome to the club, Will!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Our friends over at McLeod Racing welcomes Will Baty as Off-Road and R&#038;D Specialist.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":80564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1082,3470,8427,8393,1064],"tags":[8542,2809,669,41,1632],"class_list":["post-80563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","category-news","category-partner-news","category-press-releases","category-product-news-releases","tag-baty","tag-mcleod","tag-mcleod-racing","tag-news","tag-racing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/WillBaty.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-kXp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80565,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80563\/revisions\/80565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}