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Bruce Leslie McLaren (30 August 1937 – 2 June 1970) was a New Zealand racing car designer, driver, engineer, and inventor. His name lives on in the McLaren team, which he founded, and is the second most successful in Formula One championship history, winning a total of 8 World Constructors' Championships and 12 World Drivers' Championships .
The newspaper headlines on Wednesday, June 3, 1970 simply stated that Bruce McLaren had been tragically killed the previous day while testing his new McLaren M8D Can-Am car at the Goodwood circuit in West Sussex.
Jun 2, 2022 · Driver, designer, engineer, inventor. Bruce McLaren was all of these and more. But what links all four? Cars, of course. Throughout his short 32-year life, Bruce drove plenty and worked on just as many.
May 29, 2024 · Bruce McLaren was a New Zealand-born automobile racing driver, the youngest to win an international Grand Prix contest for Formula I cars (the U.S. race in 1959, when he was 22), also noted as a designer of racing vehicles.
Jan 3, 2022 · Bruce McLaren’s contributions to racing in the 1960s helped to build the sport into what it is today. Because of Bruce, the name McLaren is still synonymous with brilliance more than 50 years...
Jun 2, 2021 · Bruce didn't win a race, but he finished in the top five eight times, and earned third place in the world championship. He also won the CanAm title for a...
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.
Bruce McLaren died from his injuries. His achievements, especially his contributions to the development of motorsports technology, will never die. Bruce McLaren was inducted into the Hall of Fame with the class of 1991. Learn more about his life, career, and achievements.
Jun 2, 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.
Bruce won his first home Grand Prix at Pukekohe in 1964, paving the way for McLaren's overall victory in the first Tasman Series. Bruce battled with fellow Kiwi Denny Hulme throughout the 1964 Tasman Series and came out on top, winning the 1964 Championship.
