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Born and raised in Auckland, McLaren initially studied engineering at the University of Auckland before dropping out to focus on his motor racing career. Having entered his first hillclimbing event aged 14, he progressed to Formula Two in 1957, winning the New Zealand Championship the following year.
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…
Aug 26, 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.
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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 McLaren was more than just a talented race car driver - he was a visionary, an innovator, and a true inspiration to generations of motorsports enthusiasts. Born in New Zealand in 1937, McLaren began his racing career at the age of 15, quickly making a name for himself as a prodigious talent.
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Aug 30, 2012 · The heritage of Bruce McLAREN. Were he still with us, our founder Bruce McLaren would be celebrating his 75th birthday today (August 30). Bruce was far too forward-thinking and modest a man to worry about the past, or himself, yet the thought of a contented, septuagenarian Bruce cracking open a tinny upon hitting the three-quarters-of-a-century ...
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Bruce Leslie McLaren was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1937 and was killed tragically whilst testing one of his cars at Goodwood Circuit, England in June 1970.
