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Bruce Leslie McLaren (30 August 1937 – 2 June 1970) was a New Zealand racing driver, automotive designer, engineer and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1958 to 1970. McLaren was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1960 with Cooper, and won four Grands Prix across 13 seasons.
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. But the tributes that flowed in from the wide ...
Jun 2, 2022 · McLaren M6GT. Used by Bruce on his commute to work and to attend race meetings, the M6GT was technically McLaren's first-ever road car. Inspired by the dominant Can-Am racing car described earlier, the M6GT was light, low and deafeningly loud. It was also extremely quick.
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. The whole team clearly adored Bruce, who not only raced the cars and ran ...
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Jun 2, 2020 · These words of Bruce McLaren are so familiar from every tribute and commemoration of the man, but have not been bettered in summing up a life that ended so abruptly, at the age of 32, on June 2 1950. At the time, he was the youngest driver to have won a grand prix; a brilliant engineer who had founded a race team; and an entrepreneur with a ...
Dec 12, 2023 · McLaren enjoyed a superb second half to the 2023 season with Oscar Piastri even grabbing a Sprint victory for the Woking squad. 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.
Aug 26, 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.
