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On 2 June 1970, while testing his new M8D, at the Goodwood Circuit in England, his car crashed on the Lavant Straight, just before Woodcote corner and he died in the accident, at the age of 32. Eventually a truck full of boxes of spare parts towing the Austin Ulster arrived at 8 Upland Road. Born to Les & Ruth on 30th August 1937 at Auckland, New Zealand, I was the second child in the family. The M1A would be replaced by the McLaren M1B, the first car to be officially named after the team's founder.While building his up own team McLaren continued to driver for Cooper in F1 and Ford in endurance racing. Dad had invested in a service station in Remuera late 1936, after driving petrol tankers for the Texaco/Caltex Oil Co. My younger years were spent learning to broadside around shop corners on two wheels of my tricycle becoming a pest, borrowing mechanics spanners, etc. One day I had hoped to return home and have my own beach house there.My last trip to Auckland, New Zealand was the 1968 season. Bruce Leslie McLaren (30. elokuuta 1937 Auckland, Uusi-Seelanti – 2. kesäkuuta 1970 Chichester, Englanti, Iso-Britannia) oli uusiseelantilainen kilpa-autoilija ja McLaren-tallin perustaja.Hän menestyi muun muassa Formula 1-sarjassa ja urheiluautoilla.McLaren voitti Le Mansin 24 tunnin ajon vuonna 1966 Chris Amonin kanssa. The service station was in Te Atatu, a western suburb of Auckland and came to be called it Bruce McLaren Motors. In 1966 he won the 24 hours of Le Mans with Chris Amon in a 7-liter Ford Mark IIA and in the following year the 12 hours of Sebring with Mario Andretti in a Ford Mark IV. Juni 1970 in Goodwood) war ein neuseeländischer Automobilrennfahrer und Begründer des noch heute existierenden Rennstalls McLaren.

McLaren had finally left Cooper and would go on to developed his own Formula 1 race car.

My motor racing career had started.

Formula One driver Bruce McLaren's widow, Patty McLaren-Brickett, has passed away in England. The former Timaru woman was an integral part of the early days in the founding of the McLaren team. How Mum put up with Dad and me with her kitchen table covered in bits and pieces of the engine during meals I will never know. it was later that year at the 1958 German Grand Prix, a combined F1 and F2 race at the legendary Nurburgring when other people began to know his name. I returned to NZ as often as I could to catch up with Mum and Dad, Pat and her husband John Hunter and their five children. Mclarens younger years were spent learning to broadside around shop corners on two wheels of his tricycle becoming a pest, Motor racing was all that Mclaren could think about and soon his doting father brought home an Austin Ulster, towed behind his truck and enough spare parts to get it going, it was hoped.

I left New Zealand on March 15th 1958 for England with my good friend and mechanic Colin Beanland and my first year driving for John Cooper of Cooper Cars as his “new boy”, (see “From The Cockpit”). I was selected as “Driver to Europe” by NZIGP Association and my next two years at University studies were put on hold and a new life had started for me. In 1965 I decided to invest in a service station - just like his Dad. just when they needed them to repair my “racing machine”.We moved to 8 Upland Road approximately 1946 and it was there that we found that, owing to a fall, I had developed Perthes Disease (a hip joint problem), so I left Meadowbank School and spent the next two years in the Wilson Home in Takapuna on a Bradford Frame – had many unofficial races there (see “From The Cockpit”). Know official as the Cooper-Oldsmobile in "honor" of McLaren's current employer, the Olds was maintained by Traco Engineering out of Culver City, California before McLaren established their own engine department. I managed to squeeze in some wallaby hunting, water skiing (one ski only owing to earlier hip problem), and some rowing. Success in F1 was a little harder to come by. He also entered the new Canadian-American Challenge Cup for sports cars. McLaren was 5th overall and first with an F2 car and stood on the victory dais beside Tony Brooks, who had won the F1 race in a Vanwall that day.The following year saw Mclaren join the Cooper factory team partnering Jack Brabham. Bruce Leslie McLaren (Auckland, 30 agosto 1937 – Goodwood, 2 giugno 1970) è stato un pilota automobilistico e ingegnere neozelandese di auto da corsa. Bruce married his wife, Patricia Broad, on 9 December 1961. At Argentina where McLaren had won, In late 1964 McLaren's first proper race car the McLaren M1A was completed. My lucky break came when I was allowed to race Dad’s Austin Healey at Ardmore then I graduated to a Bob Tail Cooper. McLaren on Denny Hulmen ohella muistetuin uusiseelantilainen F1-kuski. In 1960 McLaren was 2nd to Brabham in the Championship.

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