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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.
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.
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May 29, 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, 2021 · Formula 1. Remembering the legendary Bruce McLaren. On the 51st anniversary of Bruce McLaren's tragic death in a testing crash at Goodwood we recall the early days of the Formula 1 team...
Jun 2, 2020 · McLaren have paid tribute to their founding father Bruce McLaren, lighting 50 candles at their Woking headquarters and unveiling a life-sized bronze statue of the New Zealander 50 years on from his death in 1970.
