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Jun 2, 2020 · 2020. McLaren have paid tribute to their founding father Bruce McLaren, inviting his daughter Amanda to light 50 candles at their Woking headquarters as they unveiled a life-sized bronze statue of the New Zealander 50 years on from his death in 1970. McLaren also asked fans to light their own candles at 1219 BST, marking the exact time that ...
That’s what people remember most about our founder, Bruce McLaren. It was alive deep within him even as a 15-year-old schoolboy – driving him to rebuild an old Austin 7 from a box of bits, and compete in his first race. The passion for cars, for racing, had been ignited. Working his way up through club races in and around his native ...
Jun 2, 2015 · To mark the anniversary of the death of our founder, the remarkable and irreplaceable Bruce McLaren, who sadly lost his life in an accident at Goodwood 45 years ago on 2nd June 1970, we will republish poignant extracts from his 1964 autobiography, From The Cockpit.
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Bruce McLaren začal jezdit v polovině 50. let ve své vlasti a již roku 1958 se dostal do Formule 2. První start ve voze Formule 1 si připsal za tým Cooper v roce 1959 a hned v posledním závodě této sezóny, Grand Prix USA na okruhu v Sebringu zvítězil.
Now in its trademark papaya orange livery, Bruce and fellow Kiwi Denny Hulme’s Can-Am cars won five of the six races with Bruce taking McLaren’s first title. In the following five seasons what became known as the ‘Bruce and Denny show’ rolled on with Hulme winning the title in 1968 and 1970, while Bruce claimed his second title in 1969.
Jun 19, 2016 · So Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon won the fastest, longest – in terms of distance covered, at 3,009.5 miles – Le Mans there has ever been. And they won by just 20 metres, for the Le Mans regulations state that in the case of a dead heat the relative positions in which the cars were arranged at the start will decide the issue.
