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	Bruce McLaren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bruce Leslie McLaren (30 August 1937–2 June 1970), born in Auckland, New Zealand, was a race-car designer, driver, engineer and inventor.
		McLaren joined the Cooper factory F1 team alongside Jack Brabham in 1959 and won the 1959 United States Grand Prix at age 22, becoming the youngest ever GP winner up to that time.
		McLaren won his first GP in his own McLaren car at Spa in 1968 and Hulme won twice in the McLaren-Ford.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bruce_McLaren (822 words)

	McLaren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		McLaren, founded in 1963 by Bruce McLaren (1937–1970), is a racing team based in Woking, England, which is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed in the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, Canadian-American Challenge Cup, and 24 Hours of Le Mans.
		Bruce won the non-championship Race of Champions at the Brands Hatch circuit, then the Belgian Grand Prix was the scene of the team's first Championship win.
		McLaren were comparatively lacklustre in the first few races of 2005, losing a lot of ground to Renault in both championships.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Team_McLaren (2333 words)

	Bruce McLaren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		McLaren cars totally dominated CanAm[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] sports car racing with 56 wins between 1967 and 1972 (and five constructors’ championships), EHandler: no quick summary.
		McLaren won his first GP in his own McLaren car at Spa[For more info, click on this link] in 1968 and Hulme won twice in the McLaren-Ford.
		Bruce McLaren died in a testing accident in his own CanAm car at the Goodwood Circuit in June 2 1970 in England[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject].
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/bruce_mclaren1.htm (1781 words)

	McLaren
		McLaren cars and drivers have taken the chequered flag at Grand Prix races 123 times, won 19 Formula One World Championship titles (more than any other team in the history of the sport), dominated CamAm events (56 wins between 1967 and 1972) and taken three Indianapolis 500 races.
		Bruce McLaren took the essence of the New Zealand Edge and transformed it into arguably the greatest motor racing team in history.
		In the 1960s and 70s it was fellow New Zealanders Denny Hulme and Bruce McLaren himself who drove McLaren cars to victory; in the 1980s it was Alain Prost; in the 1990s the great Ayrton Senna; and 1998 and 1999 it was Mika Hakkinen who took the Drivers Championship titles for McLaren.
	groups.msn.com /mclaren/part1.msnw (465 words)

	McLaren Grand Prix Team - John Hopkinson's Unofficial Page
		The McLaren team is ranked together with Williams and Ferrari as one of the grandee teams in F1, with sustained success over a long period of time in grand prix racing.
		McLaren continued their success in the CanAm series but tragedy struck in 1970 when Bruce McLaren was killed at the Goodwood circuit when testing a CanAm sportscar.
		McLaren took over the Honda engine, when Honda withdrew from their contract with the Williams GP team, and combination of the McLaren chassis and Honda power gave the Drivers World Championship to Aryton Senna in 1988, Alain Prost 1989, Senna again in 1990 and 1991.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/john_hopkinson/mclaren.htm (1214 words)

	The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Speedsters : Bruce McLaren : www.nzedge.com
		Bruce McLaren, an expert at cornering (one ski only owing to his earlier hip problem), takes a tight turn with a swish of spray on a single ski at Auckland's Orakei Basin.
		In the meantime Bruce was involved with the Ford GT programme, and also built the remarkable "whoosh-bonk" M3 single-seater (so-called because "whoosh", you could take the suspension from the sports car, "bonk", because you knock together a spaceframe chassis around it, and you’ve got a car).
		McLaren International is located in Woking, England, with expertise supplied by a 325 strong team of designers, engineers and skilled staff, complemented by advanced computer-aided design and manufacturing facilities.
	www.nzedge.com /heroes/mclaren.html (2989 words)

	McLaren Elva M1A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bruce wanted to race two of his own "Cooper Specials" in the Tasman series planned for Australia and his native New Zealand.
		Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd tested their prototype Cooper Special in September 1963 and entered their first race at Levin, New Zealand on January 4, 1964.
		In June 2000, the Mathews' M1A was invited by Lord March of England to appear in a tribute to Bruce McLaren at the Goodwood Festival of Speed hill.
	www.mathewscollection.com /mclaren/McLaren_M1A.htm (493 words)

	McLaren: Tutte le informazioni su McLaren su Encyclopedia.it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		McLaren: Tutte le informazioni su McLaren su Encyclopedia.it
		Fondata da Bruce McLaren (1937 - 1970) e oggi diretta da Ron Dennis, la McLaren è, insieme alla WilliamsF1 una delle più prestigiose scuderie inglesi di Formula 1.
		Le McLaren dominarono completamente il campionato CanAm, con 56 vittorie tra il 1967 e il 1972 (vincendo cinque campionati costruttori), e hanno ottenuto tre vittorie alla 500 miglia di Indianapolis, cosi come alla 24 ore di Le Mans e alla 12 ore di Sebring.
	www.encyclopedia.it /m/mc/mclaren.html (119 words)

	McLaren Elva M6A Bruce McLaren's championship winning car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Team McLaren had by now, started to produce their own wheels and teh M6A ran on 15 inch diameter cast magnesium wheels, 8.5 inch wide at the fornt and 13.5 inch wide at the back.
		Team McLaren had magnificently fulfilled their their brief, the car they created was simple and uncomplicated, proving easy to maintain and run.
		The Mathews Colection was honored to be invited to take two McLarens to the festival to honor Bruce's achievements before his death on the course, thirty years previous.
	www.mathewscollection.com /mclaren/McLaren_M6A.htm (648 words)

	Covers - Riverside International Raceway Can-Am Championship October, 1969 - Race Program Covers (and some Entry Lists) ...
		What was haunting is that I had seen Bruce McLaren crash almost under the same circumstances almost eight months earlier at the Riverside International Raceway.
		It was alive, it was loud, it was outrageously exciting, and the pride of New Zealand, Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme were the ones to beat.
		Bruce walked next to the stretcher helping them put the man in the back of the ambulance and then I believe got inside the back of the vehicle and they were off to the local hospital.
	home.san.rr.com /fsheff/covrir1069b.htm (1404 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bruce McLaren reminded the committee about the need to invite a student to be a member of our task force.
		Bruce McLaren indicated that he would bring this matter to the attention of Dean Bates since he initially selected the members of the ITL Task Force.
		Bruce McLaren distributed schedule forms to members of the task force and ask them to return them asap so that a meeting time could be determined for the spring semester.
	baby.indstate.edu /mclaren/121096.html (501 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Bruce McLaren
		Bruce McLaren grew up in a racing-mad family but had a difficult childhood, having to overcome a rare disease which meant that as a child he could not walk for two years and was left with a permanent limp as a result.
		Brabham won the title that year but McLaren was also impressive and ended his first year with a victory in the inaugural United States Grand Prix at Sebring.
		In 1967 McLaren F1 raced with BRM engines but it was in CanAm where the team was really strong, beginning a dominant run that would last for four years.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/drv-mclbru.html (531 words)

	The Official Formula 1 Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		McLaren are pushed down to third place in the Constructors' Championship, behind Ferrari and Williams.
		Bruce McLaren is killed at the Goodwood circuit while testing a Can-Am sportscar.
		Bruce McLaren wins in Belgium, giving his own team its first Grand Prix victory.
	www.formula1.com /insight/team/5.html (317 words)

	Bruce McLaren - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		McLaren cars totally dominated CanAm sports car racing with 56 wins between 1967 and 1972 (and five constructors’ championships), and have won three Indianapolis 500 races, as well as LeMans 24 hours and Sebring 12 hours.
		Les McLaren restored an aging Austin 7 Ulster which young Bruce used in 1952, aged 14, when he entered his first competition, a hillclimb.
		Bruce McLaren died in a testing accident in his own CanAm car at the Goodwood Circuit in June 2 1970 in England.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Bruce_McLaren (852 words)

	Motorsports Hall of Fame
		McLaren bought the nimble Zerex in 1964 and won his second and third races in England with the car as received.
		Bruce drove this Cooper-Oldsmobile to victory in its first race at Canada's Mosport Park in June 1964.
		McLaren broke with Cooper in 1966 and introduced his first Fl car, the Ford Indy-engined M2A.
	www.mshf.com /hof/mclaren_bruce.htm (745 words)

	pitpass - the latest, hottest F1 & A1GP news
		The first two years of the McLaren F1 team were dogged by the lack of a suitable engine, but the availability of the DFV in 1968 elevated McLaren to the status of a top team.
		After Bruce was killed in 1970, the team was run by Teddy Mayer, brother of Timmy Mayer, who had been killed driving a McLaren-entered Cooper in the Tasman series in 1964.
		The last year that McLaren used the TAG engine was 1987, by which time it was slipping behind and John Barnard had decamped to Ferrari.
	www.pitpass.com /src/teams/mclaren.php (2872 words)

	BMW World - BMW McLaren
		The McLaren is powered by a BMW 6.1 Liter V12 engine producing 627 hp with a 0-60 mph time of 3.1 seconds and a top speed of 230-240 mph.
		To celebrate this extraordinary achievement, McLaren produced five F1 LMs, one for each of the F1 GTRs that finished the 1995 Le Mans race, with the goal being that the LM was a 1995 F1 GTR modified as little as possible to make it a street legal supercar.
		McLaren also developed an upgrade for 95 GTRs to move them to 96 GTRs in spite of the fact that the 96 model was 70% new components.
	www.bmwworld.com /models/mclaren.htm (886 words)

	Can-Am at Laguna Seca: Mclaren Cars
		Founded in 1966 by Burce Mclaren, McLaren Cars entered Can-Am racing for two reasons: The first was the prize money; The second was the prize money.
		Bruce McLaren started his own car company so that he could build and race his own car in Formula 1.
		The steamroller success of McLaren in CanAm sports car racing was largely financing the troubled Formula One programme in 1966 and 1967, and Bruce McLaren and team director Teddy Mayer were earnestly door-stepping large corporations in the United States trying to encourage a commercial association with the team's ongoing success.
	www.photoessayist.com /canam/mclaren (427 words)

	Bruce McLaren - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Member (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		McLaren went to work for Cooper and thus began a relationship that would last for more than seven years.
		McLaren began competing in Formula 2 and soon thereafter was in the German Grand Prix, where Formula 2 and Formula One cars competed together.
		In 1963 came the founding of Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd., although McLaren continued to race for Cooper through 1965, winning the New Zealand GP in that year.
	www.motorsportshalloffame.com /halloffame/1991/Bruce_McLaren_main.htm (533 words)

	McLaren Mercedes F1
		McLaren is one of the most successful teams in Formula One.
		McLaren International, now known as McLaren Racing, is formed, the result of a merger between Team McLaren and Project Four, a successful British racing company led by Ron Dennis.
		McLaren's domination of the sport harvests three more consecutive Drivers' and Constructors' Championships with Alain Prost in 1989 and Ayrton Senna in 1990 and 1991.
	www.rit.edu /~nxm1464/history.html (862 words)

	Bruce McLaren - Life and Legacy of Excellence - Bentley Publishers - Automotive Books and Repair Manuals
		Bruce McLaren was an innovator, a motivator of colleagues, and a tiger behind the wheel.
		Bruce McLaren was the secret weapon of many teams whose cars ran better because of his ministrations as a tester of great insight.
		Bruce's can-do character made McLaren the first team to compete successfully in Formula 1, the Can-Am and Indy racing.
	www.bentleypublishers.com /product.htm?code=H671 (385 words)

	Bienvenue sur DreamsCar.com - Bio Steve McQueen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bruce is one of the rare drivers who won the Grand Prix at the wheel of a car he designed and to have developed during his life racing cars which won the Indianapolis 500 miles, the Can-Am Series as well as the European and American championships of Formule A-5000.
		Since everything is relative, in 1995 I acquired the McLaren Dennis was driving at the time of his victory at the South African Grand Prix in 1972.
		It was the 5th victory for the McLaren Team, the only victory for the M19 model and the first following the disappearance of its founder [gallerie M19A].
	www.dreamscar.com /en/bio_bruceMcLaren.shtml (305 words)

	Classic Driver: Bruce McLaren
		McLaren was the son of a garage owner in Auckland and grew up surrounded by a family which was mad about motor racing.
		Unfortunately Mayer was killed in an accident at Longford in Tasmania but McLaren kept the team going and later won the New Zealand GP and the Tasman title.
		McLaren continued with F1 and also branched out into USAC racing and even into F2 but without much success.
	www.racechase.com /ftopic181.html (666 words)

	McLaren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		McLaren Cars Ltd was formed by the TAG McLaren Group in March 1989 to develop and manufacture the finest cars in whatever class might be addressed and to enhance and reinforce the McLaren image.
		McLaren went on to win the Can-Am sports car Championship for five successive years 1967-71, the Indianapolis '500' three times and the Formula One World Championship titles twice before, in 1980 merging with present Group managing Director, Ron Dennis and his Project Four company to form McLaren International.
		Thus McLaren Cars was founded and utilising the Groups rich basis of technology, experience and specialist facilities, Technical Director Gordon Murray and his team set about designing the worlds ultimate supercar, the McLaren F1.
	www.askandrew.com /cars/cars/mclaren/mclarenmain.htm (277 words)

	Amazon.com: Bruce McLaren: The Man and His Racing Team: Books: Eoin S. Young (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		So he's more than a researcher; he was a close friend of McLaren's when the New Zealander was gaining his reputaion as one of the foremost driver/engineers of his day.
		Completed in 1970, a few months after McLaren's death in a race car of his own design, the book is an intimate portrait of a remarkably ambitious man whose influence was so profound that the racing team he started more than 30 years ago has survived and thrived without him.
		But this isn't a book for those seeking insights into the McLaren organization of the last 20 years; this is a reprint of the original manuscript, with only a new foreword and introduction added.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1852605111?v=glance (773 words)

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