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Remembering Bruce Mclaren's outstanding legacy

It's an extraordinary measure of a man's life and contribution to his field of expertise when his surname instantly evokes so much. Bruce McLaren was born on this day in 1937, in Auckland, New Zealand. McLaren was not only the man that established F1's second most successful team, the Kiwi was also an outstanding driver - a winner in F1, Can-Am and at Le mans - and one of motor sport's greatest engineering minds. A man who should be spoken of in the same breath as Colin Chapman or Gordon Murray. Sadly, Bruce lost his life while testing the new M8D Can-Am car at Goodwood on June 2, 1970 when he was just 32 years old. Years before, McLaren had penned some thoughts on the untimely death of...
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