Bruce McLaren - Wikipedia
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 - McLaren
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.
Bruce McLaren | Formula 1, Racing Driver, Engineer | Britannica
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.
Bruce McLaren and his cars
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.
Bruce McLaren
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 Legend of Bruce McLaren - Road & Track
Jan 3, 2022 · Bruce McLaren’s contributions to racing in the 1960s helped to build the sport into what it is today. Because of Bruce, the name McLaren is still synonymous with brilliance more than 50 years...
Bruce McLaren: Age, Wiki, F1 Career Stats & Facts Profile
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.
Top 10 Interesting Facts about Bruce McLaren - Discover Walks
Aug 8, 2022 · Bruce was a New Zealand racing car designer, driver, engineer, and inventor. His name lives on in the McLaren team which has been one of the most successful in Formula One championship history. They won a total of 8 World Constructors’ Championships and 12 World Drivers’ Championships. McLaren cars dominated CanAm sports car racing with 56 wins.
From the beginning - McLaren Automotive
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 McLaren: celebrating a true motor sport hero - Motor …
Apr 19, 2018 · 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.