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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
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.
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, 2021 · 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...
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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Dec 12, 2023 · And while everyone in papaya colours will be hoping they can add to their Grand Prix wins tally next year, today is the anniversary of the first F1 victory of team founder Bruce McLaren. F1 Hall of Fame journalist David Tremayne recounts the day the McLaren story really began…
Bruce McLaren: In the beginning
