"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...
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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.
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Sheer determination. That's what people remember most about our founder, Bruce McLaren. It was alive deep within him even as a 15-year-old schoolboy – driving him to rebuild an old Austin 7 from a box of bits, and compete in his first race. The passion for cars, for racing, had been ignited.
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In 1968, Bruce took the first of the McLaren marque’s 182 Formula 1 wins – an achievement second only to Ferrari in grand prix racing’s all-time victory list. More would quickly follow, as Denny Hulme racked up two further victories before the end of the ’68 season.
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Back in the late 1950s and through the 1960s, Bruce McLaren became renowned as a world-class racing driver – and also for being one of the nicest guys in motor sport. He was friendly, accessible, brimming with charm, yet ferociously competitive like all top sportsmen.
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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.
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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.
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Since entering the sport in 1966 under the guidance and restless endeavour of eponymous founder Bruce, McLaren's success has been nothing short of breathtaking. Five glittering decades have yielded countless victories, pole positions and podiums, not to mention eight constructors' championships.
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Bruce McLaren wasn’t just a brilliant driver, he ran his own successful racing team and even designed the cars – imagine that in modern-day Formula One. McLaren was the youngest driver to win a...
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