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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 .
Jul 6, 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.
Bruce’s death: Courage. team responded to the tragic passing of its founder in 1970. 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.
With his restless ambition, he soon founded his own team, Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd, in 1963, and took the marque into grand prix racing in 1966. McLaren’s Formula 1 effort was immediately respected for its solid engineering prowess and fun, no-nonsense attitude.
Famed New Zealand racing driver, Bruce McLaren, was many things: an engineer, an aesthete, a marketer, racecar driver, and founder of McLaren.
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.
Jun 27, 2023 · Bruce McLaren was killed in a testing shunt on the Lavant Straight, just before Woodcote corner, at Goodwood, on 2 June 1970. The car he was testing was a McLaren M8D, one of the mightiest of Can-Am cars, and many of them were plenty mighty.
Jun 2, 2021 · Remembering the legendary Bruce McLaren, over 50 years on. On the 51st anniversary of Bruce McLaren's tragic death in a testing crash at Goodwood we recall the early days of the Formula 1...
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.
Jan 27, 2010 · The 32-year-old race car driver Bruce McLaren dies in a crash while testing an experimental car of his own design at a track in Goodwood, England on June 2, 1970.
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