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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.
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Jun 2, 2022 · 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.
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.
Jun 2, 2020 · McLaren have paid tribute to their founding father Bruce McLaren, inviting his daughter Amanda to light 50 candles at their Woking headquarters as they unveiled a life-sized bronze statue of the New Zealander 50 years on from his death in 1970.
Jun 2, 2021 · Bruce didn't win a race, but he finished in the top five eight times, and earned third place in the world championship. He also won the CanAm title for a...
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.
Dec 12, 2022 · From the humble beginnings of Kiwi founder Bruce McLaren and his maiden F1 win on 12 December in 1959, to the incre... Discover the story behind McLaren's rise!
Dec 12, 2023 · Sixty four years ago today the 1959 title was eventually wrapped up by Jack Brabham, in a US Grand Prix that was won by his fast-rising team mate – a young man called Bruce McLaren. And the irony was that the New Zealander wasn’t even meant to be in the race.
