Search results
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
Dec 21, 2023 · Blame the brutalities of racing: Carroll and Enzo were lucky enough to survive their stints as drivers and see their companies flourish; Bruce was tragically killed testing a Can-Am car in 1970, years before McLaren’s Formula 1 championships and decades before the launch of the F1 supercar.
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.
Mar 18, 2024 · How Bruce McLaren's death shaped more than just his F1 team. Last year, McLaren celebrated its 60th birthday, and Motorsport.com enjoyed a special track test. But there’s also a more personal,...