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  F1 News - Grandprix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Constructors > McLaren International
Bruce McLaren was as much an engineer as a racing driver and he became frustrated while driving for Cooper as he was not allowed to be involved in the design process.
McLaren's success in CanAm began in 1966 with the M6A and McLaren and Denny Hulme won the first five of the six CanAm events and finished 1-2 in the series.
This was raced by McLaren and Hulme and won the Race of Champions and the Belgian GP with McLaren driving, and the International Trophy and the Italian and Canadian Grands Prix with Hulme at the wheel.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/con-mclar.html   (2357 words)

  
 McLaren racing team
McLaren, founded by Bruce McLaren[?] (1937-1970) and currently managed by Ron Dennis[?], is a Formula One racing team based in Woking, England.
BMW was commissioned to design and build the car's engine, a 6.1-litre V12 producing 627 bhp.
In 1995, a McLaren F1 GTR won the 24 hours of Le Mans race.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mc/McLaren.html   (133 words)

  
 Formula 1 : Team McLaren - F1-Live.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bruce McLaren, born in Auckland New Zealand on the 30th of August 1937 was the man behind the McLaren marquee.
By the time the third race in 2001 was completed, the Woking outfit knew that Ferrari was going to be extremely hard to beat and although Coulthard battled courageously against his German rival, the Scot finished a distant second.
McLaren Mercedes looked to be a team in disarray during the first half of the 2004 season.
www.f1-live.com /f1/en/teams/mclaren.shtml   (1759 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)

  
 McLaren Racer Models by Carousel 1
McLaren M16's won the Indy 500® in 1972, 1974, and 1976.
Team McLaren - now McLaren International - is one of only four racing car constructors to ever win both the Indy 500® and the F1 Championship, and the only one to ever win both more than once.
Rutherford won the Indy 500® in a Team McLaren M16C/D in 1974, finished 2nd in an M16E in 1975, and won again, from the pole, in an M16E in 1976.
www.apolloinc.org /mcLarens.htm   (401 words)

  
 The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Speedsters : Bruce McLaren : www.nzedge.com
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.
McLaren’s first Formula One chassis was excellent, but he was not able to match the body with an adequate engine.
McLarens were to dominate motor racing for the next two years, and not just Formula One.
www.nzedge.com /heroes/mclaren.html   (3011 words)

  
 McLaren Racing Expands Use of CA Product Portfolio
McLaren Racing, the company behind the Team McLaren Mercedes Formula One team, is taking advantage of the breadth of CA's vision to find new ways to improve the framework for innovation and execution that has made Team McLaren Mercedes one of the most successful teams in Formula One racing.
In 2004, CA and McLaren realized that the strategic value that the relationship could bring to McLaren Racing in terms of finding new ways to innovate and execute outweighed the value of the products themselves.
Helping McLaren Racing to better protect, store and manage the mountains of data they collate from a variety of inputs directly contributes to their ability to drive greater performance out of the cars.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/12-02-2004/0002560984   (632 words)

  
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McLaren Performance Technologies provides full service design, development, fabrication, manufacturing, testing, validation and certification of automotive and racing powertrains, and related components.
Because of the domination of the Can-Am series by the factory team, the series was nicknamed "the Bruce (McLaren) and Denny (Hulme) show", after the two drivers of the team.
There were victories in the Indianapolis 500 in 1972, 74 and 76; and the McLarens driven by Bruce and Denny Hulme totally dominated the Can Am series, winning five consecutive Constructors’ Championships between 1967 and 71 (this was the "Bruce ‘n Denny Show").
www.lycos.com /info/mclaren--bruce-mclaren.html   (267 words)

  
 David Coulthard - McLaren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The company Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd was formed by Bruce McLaren in 1963 and they made their F1 debut at Monaco in 1966.
The death of Bruce McLaren in 1970 was untimely and occurred while he was testing a a CanAm race car.
In 1995 McLaren entered into a long term partnership with Mercedes-Benz, who supply badged engines to the team, which are in fact constructed by Ilmor Engineering in the UK.
www.davidcoulthard.com /mclaren.html   (400 words)

  
 Hilton Racing: The Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
At the end of 1989, Martin left BAE SYSTEMS to join McLaren Racing as Head of Operations, a role created to utilise his management expertise to assist with the growth and diversification of the company.
Martin was primarily responsible for both the race and test teams, in addition to overseeing the company's engineering and manufacturing functions.
In 1997, as the race team division and parent company, the McLaren Group, continued to evolve, Martin was promoted to Managing Director, a role which encompassed managing the team of people and processes behind the Formula One operation and relationships with the company's technology partners.
www.hiltonracing.com /team04.html   (566 words)

  
 McLaren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The McLaren M19C, with its distinctive Yardley sponsorship, being demonstrated during the 2004 Canadian GP weekend.
While McLaren were able to maintain this distinct speed advantage over the rest of the field for most of 2005, the general reliability of the car proved to be a thorn in the team's side, costing them a number of race victories when Räikkönen had been leading or in contention to win.
Pedro de la Rosa (who was previously the 3rd driver at McLaren) took his race seat and drove the number 4 car for the rest of 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/McLaren   (3987 words)

  
 McLaren M6GT
Following the M6's success in Group 7 racing, a proposal was announced to race in the highly lucrative Group 4 GT sports car season in 1969.
McLaren had to forego the race car, but a M6GT was completed for Bruce to test as a prototype for a road car bearing the name McLaren.
Bruce knew any road car McLaren built would be based on the ultimate in racing-derived engineering, and this would be an extremely good way of encouraging sales in the larger, lucrative US market.
www.mathewscollection.com /mclaren/McLaren_M6GT.htm   (572 words)

  
 The M5A
After that it was sold to Jo Bonnier who raced it late in 1968, and was sixth in the Italian GP.
Bruce McLaren was a truly extraordinary man. While being one of the finest drivers of his day, he was also an exceptional engineer and designer.
Bruce McLaren is one of only three men to perform the incredible feat of winning a Formula One Grand Prix World Championship race in in a car of his own making, joining Sir Jack Brabham and Dan Gurney in this accomplishment.
mclarenm5a.tripod.com /car.htm   (741 words)

  
 AT&T: Sponsorship - McLaren Racing: Home
In January, the first public appearance of the Team McLaren Mercedes MP4-20, this year’s race car, saw the addition of another new member, with the announcement of ATandT as the latest Corporate Partner.
According to McLaren Racing's Team Leader of Operational Research, Neil Martin, they monitor large volumes of data from each car’s telemetry system as the cars travel around the circuit during testing, practice sessions and races.
ATandT and McLaren Racing are also working to further develop the solution to enable Team McLaren Mercedes to leverage ATandT’s Managed DSL services, which would bring further enhancements to the speed of connectivity to the team.
www.att.com /mclaren   (845 words)

  
 Bruce McLaren - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Member
He was a designer and manufacturer of racing machinery, a champion driver in the sports/racing field, a winner of Grand Prix events and one of the most popular competitors to wear a helmet.
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.
www.motorsportshalloffame.com /halloffame/1991/Bruce_McLaren_main.htm   (533 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Bruce McLaren: The Man and His Racing Team: English Books: Eoin S. Young   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bruce McLaren was killed in a testing crash at Goodwood on 2 June 1970, a racing driver on the verge of realizing the ambition to succeed with his own Grand Prix team and his own cars.
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.de /Bruce-McLaren-Man-Racing-Team/dp/1852605111   (687 words)

  
 McLaren Racing expands use of CA product portfolio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
McLaren Racing, the company behind the Team McLaren Mercedes Formula One team, is taking advantage of the breadth of CA’s vision to find new ways to improve the framework for innovation and execution that has made Team McLaren Mercedes one of the most successful teams in Formula One racing.
In 2004 CA and McLaren realised that the strategic value that the relationship could bring to McLaren Racing in terms of finding new ways to innovate and execute outweighed the value of the products themselves.
Helping McLaren Racing to better protect, store and manage the mountains of data they collate from a variety of inputs directly contributes to their ability to drive greater performance out of the cars.
www.strategiy.com /itnew.asp?id=20041208062002   (771 words)

  
 McLaren Racing
When he moved to McLaren, it was to design a sports car to beat the world, and he was given carte blanche by Mansour Ojeh and Ron Dennis to pursue the dream, regardless of cost.
At the time, McLaren was racing successfully with Honda engines, and it seemed logical to approach Honda for an engine meeting Murray's requirements.
McLaren insists on absolute regularity of the stitches and their alignment, and the workmanship is superb.
home.datacomm.ch /ukabam/mclaren.htm   (2648 words)

  
 F1 News - 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   (521 words)

  
 McLaren F1
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The McLaren F1 is probably the most exotic of the exotics, and definitely one of the best looking.
The F1 LM, or the Le Mans version, is the racing version of this fine automobile.
www.chem.ucla.edu /~na/mclaren.html   (276 words)

  
 McLaren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
McLaren Cars was created in 1990 as a new British car company to be involved in leading edge car design using all of the experience and technology available to the McLaren Group.
The company's debut vehicle, the McLaren F1, was produced in 1994 and became the fastest-ever production road car when it achieved a world-record speed of 240mph/386kph.
In 1999 McLaren Cars entered into an agreement with DaimlerChrysler to design, develop and manufacture the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren super sports car.
myautoworld.com /autos/mclaren/mclaren.html   (545 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)

  
 McLaren Mercedes F1 Racing News from Try My Sport
The Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team is taking to the race track this weekend for the first time in its new era.
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes and Enkei, the world leader in street and race wheels, are delighted to announce the long-term extension of their Partnership, which began in 1995.
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes race drivers Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton will drive through the streets of Valencia in their Formula 1 cars later today to mark the start of an exciting new era for the team.
www.trymysport.co.uk /sports_news/mclaren_f1_racing_news/mclaren_f1_racing_news_index.htm   (2115 words)

  
 SGI - Press Releases: Team McLaren Mercedes Power Ahead with SGI
Reading, UK (June 13, 2005)—The Team McLaren Mercedes Formula One team is pleased to announce a new official supplier, Silicon Graphics (SGI) for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) supercomputing, storage and visualization equipment.
Team McLaren Mercedes use CFD to simulate the flow over their Formula One racing cars primarily in order to develop the shape of the car.
McLaren has competed in Formula One since 1966 and has proven to be one of the most successful Formula One teams of all time with 140 Grands Prix wins.
www.sgi.com /company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2005/june/mclaren_mercedes.html   (766 words)

  
 McLaren Profiles || McLaren Fans - Unofficial McLaren F1 News and Views
At the end of 1989, Martin left BAE SYSTEMS to join McLaren Racing, as Head of Operations, a role created to utilise his management expertise to assist with the growth and diversification of the company.
Martin was primarily responsible for both the race and test teams, in addition to overseeing the company's engineering and manufacturing functions.
In 1997, as the race team division and parent company, the McLaren Group continued to evolve, Martin was promoted to Managing Director, a role which encompassed managing the team of people and processes behind the Formula One operation and relationships with the company’s Technology Partners.
www.sportnetwork.net /main/s135/st90629.htm   (1224 words)

  
 AT&T: Sponsorship - McLaren Racing: Race Highlights
To get the absolute optimum performance from the cars and drivers, Team McLaren Mercedes needs to make sure they have access to huge amounts of data in real-time, and they need to be able to ship that data around the world as quickly as possible.
Over a race weekend approximately 6.5GB of data is accumulated from the cars telemetry systems as they travel around the circuit during practice sessions, qualifying and the race.
Working with the ATandT team, McLaren is now able to get all of this data back to the team at Woking during the race.
www.att.com /mclaren/highlights   (269 words)

  
 Team McLaren Mercedes - Q&A with Chris Goodwin
Back in 1997, when I raced a McLaren F1 in the FIA GT Championship, I helped the team with development work for the Le Mans 24 Hours race and was offered a drive with the Le Mans team.
The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, by contrast, has to be driven every day, in all sorts of conditions — whether sub zero or baking hot, on an autobahn or in a town centre.
The endurance race can sometimes be just as intense, but you’ve got to dig deep and keep going because it’s going to take a lot longer before you see the end result.
www.mclaren.co.uk /features/qanda/chris_goodwin.php   (842 words)

  
 McLaren Racing expands use of CA product portfolio
CA will provide enterprise management, storage, security and knowledge management software to enable McLaren Racing to achieve the 1/10s and 1/100s of a percentage performance differentiation that equals success on the racetrack.
McLaren Racing, the company behind the Team McLaren Mercedes team, was formed in September 1980 as a result of a merger between Team McLaren and Project Four, a British company owned by Ron Dennis, now chairman and CEO of the McLaren Group.
McLaren has been the most successful Formula One team in the recent history of the sport.
www.itweb.co.za /office/cai/0412070803.htm   (743 words)

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