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- Les McLaren had been a successful motorcycle racing enthusiast, whilst working as a fuel tanker driver, but an accident forced him to change both his career and his choice of GoFaster machine; he swapped two wheels for four, competing in hill climbs and at club level.
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May 1, 2020 · In 1963 Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd was established, competing in the Tasman Series, and in 1965 McLaren left Cooper, launched his racing team into Formula One, and returned to New Zealand, where he bought a service station that he named Bruce McLaren Motors.
May 22, 2017 · McLaren, the story of Bruce McLaren’s life and untimely death, is out in cinemas on May 25 only and on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital download from May 29. You can read the Top Gear review here,...
Apr 16, 2024 · The first true McLaren, however, wasn't an F1 car but a sports race car that was instantly competitive in both Europe and the United States. Two years later, the improved M1B...
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Dec 20, 2022 · McLaren began as a racing team in 1963 and it was not until the late 1980s that McLaren Cars — later McLaren Automotive — began working on a supercar that could be purchased by the public. It is this distinction of ‘racing first’ that sets McLaren Automotive apart from other manufacturers.
- Origin - 1963. The McLaren story starts with the New Zealand-born racecar designer, driver, engineer, and inventor Bruce McLaren. Most famously, he was one of the drivers of the first Ford GT40 race cars to win at Le Mans.
- McLaren Pioneered Carbon Fiber. It's impossible to talk about McLaren just in terms of its road cars as the road cars rely heavily on McLaren's pioneering in racing technology.
- Gordon Murray Kicked Things Off On The Road. The McLaren F1 was a landmark piece of technology that brought Formula 1-level technology to the road and has been written about ad nauseam.
- McLaren Didn't Make Another Road Car For Over 10 Years. After the F1 went out of production in 1998, McLaren Cars lay dormant until 2007, when the company started playing with a Ferrari 360 as a test mule.
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.
Nov 15, 2019 · The Ford v Ferrari battle at the Le Mans 24 Hours race of 1966 was a personal feud between Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari that played out on endurance racing’s grandest stage, the story dramatic enough to warrant a Hollywood telling of the story that took Ford to the top step at La Sarthe.
