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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 .
- 1st ( 1966)
- 1959, 1961-1967
- 1 ( 1966)
After all, Bruce McLaren wasn’t merely the team’s founder, he was its owner, its driver, its designer, it engineer and its chief mechanic. In most cases, Bruce was more than a boss; he was a mentor, a friend; he had employed every single one of them; he was godfather to people’s kids.
Jun 2, 2022 · The M2B was the McLaren team's first foray into Formula 1 in 1966, while it was in the MA7 in 1968 that Bruce won his first – and only – grand prix with the team bearing his name, but it was the M7C in 1969 that proved to be the most consistently competitive and transformative.
Remembering the legendary Bruce McLaren. 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 team that still carries ...
May 3, 2024 · Bruce McLaren (born Aug. 30, 1937, Auckland, N.Z.—died June 2, 1970, near Chichester, Sussex, Eng.) 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. From 1959 to 1965 McLaren drove ...
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Jun 4, 2015 · In the third and final extract from Bruce McLaren’s autobiography From The Cockpit, we join him in 1963 as his racing operation was expanding from a small group of plucky racing enthusiasts to a serious works team fielding two cars. It was then that Bruce McLaren Racing Motor Racing Ltd was born…
Amanda McLaren was just four years old when her father Bruce died in a testing accident at Goodwood. She remembers very little of that day, other than leaving the family’s Burwood Park home to ...
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