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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.
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. But the tributes that flowed in from the wide community of racers across the world were effusive and heartfelt.
"The greatest leader of men I've ever met." On the 53rd anniversary of his passing, learn more about our incomparable founder.#McLaren60 #ForeverForward Joi...
Dec 12, 2022 · Discover the story behind McLaren's rise! From the humble beginnings of Kiwi founder Bruce McLaren and his maiden F1 win on 12 December in 1959, to the incre...
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. From 1959 to 1965 McLaren drove for Charles Cooper, a British racing car
Bruce McLaren and the cars that made him
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… For all its trials and tribulations, its triumphant high spots with a laurel wreath and the ...
Bruce Leslie McLaren was born on 30 August, 1937 and was a renowned New Zealand racing car designer, driver, engineer, and inventor. He founded the McLaren team, which remains one of the most successful in Formula 1 history, having since secured 8 World Constructors’ Championships and 12 World Drivers’ Championships.
After Bruce died, while testing an M8D Can-Am car at Goodwood, England on 2nd June 1970, his team carried on ‘for Bruce’. Today the McLaren Group, McLaren Racing, and McLaren Automotive still bear his name which is a wonderful tribute and a superb acknowledgment of his achievements. Of the current F1 teams, only Ferrari has a longer history.
Jun 14, 2020 · Our latest Formula 1 2020 feature on McLaren Racing.McLaren’s history was celebrated at its Technology Centre last week, with a lifesize statue of its eponym...
