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Australian Jack Brabham and New Zealander Bruce McLaren, for instance, who both based [2] and licensed [3] their teams in Britain, used colour schemes on their early cars that were not based on national principles (namely the Brabham BT3, McLaren M2B, McLaren M4B and McLaren M5A cars), while the British Rob Walker privateer team entered cars in ...
Bruce Leslie McLaren (30 August 1937 – 2 June 1970) was a New Zealand racing driver, automotive designer, engineer and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1958 to 1970.
Bruce McLaren Motor Racing was founded in 1963; Bruce McLaren was a factory driver for the Cooper motor racing team which competed in Formula One, the highest level of international single-seater competition. [2]
The McLaren F1 is a sports car designed and manufactured by British automobile manufacturer McLaren Cars and powered by the BMW S70/2 V12 engine, of which a limited number was produced. The original concept was conceived by Gordon Murray , who successfully convinced Ron Dennis to back the project and hired car designer Peter Stevens to design ...
Formula One sponsorship liveries have been used since the 1968 season. Before the arrival of sponsorship liveries in 1968 the nationality of the team determined the colour of a car entered by the team, e.g. cars entered by Italian teams were rosso corsa red, cars entered by French teams were bleu de France blue, and cars entered by British teams (with several exceptions, such as cars entered ...
Bruce McLaren: 2 1 9th 12th 1967: Bruce McLaren Motor Racing M4B M5A: BRM P56 2.0 V8 BRM P142 3.0 V12 G — [b] Bruce McLaren: 3 10th 1968: Bruce McLaren Motor Racing M5A M7A: BRM P142 3.0 V12 Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 G — [b] Denny Hulme Bruce McLaren: 3 49 10th 2nd 1969: Bruce McLaren Motor Racing M7A M7B M7C M9A: Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 G ...
The McLaren M5A was a racing car constructed by Bruce McLaren Motor Racing, and was McLaren's first purpose-built Formula One car. Like its M4B predecessor, only one car of this type was ever built. The car was the first to use the BRM type 101 3.0 litre V12 engine, which produced 365 bhp.
The 1959 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on December 12, 1959, at Sebring International Raceway in Sebring, Florida.It was the last of 9 races in the 1959 World Championship of Drivers and the 8th and final in the 1959 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.It was the second United States Grand Prix (ninth including the American Grand Prize races from 1908 ...