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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.
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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. In endurance racing, McLaren won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966 ...
Jun 2, 2015 · To mark the anniversary of the death of our founder, the remarkable and irreplaceable Bruce McLaren, who sadly lost his life in an accident at Goodwood 45 years ago on 2nd June 1970, we will republish poignant extracts from his 1964 autobiography, From The Cockpit.
Apr 19, 2018 · Bruce was the middle child in the McLaren family. His grandfather had started a truck and bus business in Remuera, Auckland, and father Les (‘Pop’) built a large and prosperous garage business there. After winning a scholarship to come to Europe, McLaren had F1 success – including Monaco in ’62.
Jun 4, 2015 · Bruce McLAREN: The birth of McLAREN Racing. 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 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 ...
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.
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.
