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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 .
- New Zealander
- 1 ( 1966)
- 1st ( 1966)
- 1959, 1961-1967
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 · Where would Bruce McLaren be had his father not bought a beat-up 1929 Austin Ulster for $110? Little more than a bucket of bolts at the time, his father, Les McLaren, brought it home with the intention of making a profit, but Bruce, a mere 13-years-old at the time, convinced him they could make a race car of the four-cylinder, 750cc engine-powered machine.
Mar 25, 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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Formula 1. Nostalgia. 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...
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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 ...
Jun 2, 2015 · Bruce McLAREN: In the beginning 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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