McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed and won in the Indianapolis 500 and Canadian-American Challenge Cup ( Can-Am ).

Founded in 1963 by New Zealander Bruce McLaren, the team won its first Grand Prix at the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix but their greatest initial success was in Can-Am, where they dominated from 1967 to 1971.

Emerson Fittipaldi won the 1974 drivers ' championship with McLaren.

Hunt won on three occasions that year but the Lauda and Ferrari combination proved too strong, Hunt and McLaren managing just fifth and third in the respective championships.

Five years after his first retirement, Lauda won his third title driving a McLaren MP4 / 2.

Alain Prost, pictured here at the 1985 German Grand Prix, won three drivers ' championships with McLaren.

Five years after his first retirement, Lauda won his third title driving a McLaren MP4 / 2.

Lydon won and gained complete control from McLaren in 1987.

During filming McLaren was seen urinating into the harbour and loudly telling assembled inhabitants of the famously devout town, ' Jesus is a sausage ', at which point he was physically assaulted by a resident .. McLaren came last in the competition, which was won by Reid.

1993 saw the customer deal extended to McLaren, who won five Grands Prix with Ayrton Senna that year.

* 24 hours of Le Mans – Yannick Dalmas / J. J. Lehto / Masanori Sekiya won, driving a McLaren F1 GTR

During his work for the NFB, McLaren created his most famous film, Neighbours ( 1952 ), which has won various awards around the world, including the Canadian Film Award and the Academy Award.

Mathematically, Williams or McLaren could have won the championship at the very last race.

He drove the McLaren M8F in 1971 ; teammate Peter Revson won the CanAm championship that year.

1969 saw the McLaren team dominate the series ; they won every race, with multiple 1 – 2 finishes, and even a 1 – 2 – 3 finish when Dan Gurney drove the spare M8B.

Brabham won the Grand Prix three times, McLaren twice, Clark twice, the second was his last major victory before his untimely death, winning a highly entertaining battle with Chris Amon at the 1968 Australian Grand Prix at Sandown Raceway.

Berger therefore won his last race for McLaren and McLaren's last race with Honda engines.

John Watson won the race for McLaren, but a year later the rebuilt Spa circuit opened for racing and the Belgian Grand Prix returned there.

Ayrton Senna won his second Formula One World Championship using the mystic number 27 in 1990 in a McLaren Honda, as mentioned, the only time Ferrari didn't use the number during that period.

Williams and Ferrari have both won 8 times and McLaren 6 times.

At the end of 1998, he won the annual McLaren Autosport BRDC Young Driver Award.

This meant that, while the McLaren driver's title rival Felipe Massa won the race in his Ferrari, Hamilton ultimately grabbed the fifth place he needed to become champion.

In 1971 Hobbs won the U. S. Formula 5000 L & M Continental Series championship driving for Carl Hogan out of St. Louis, Missouri, in a McLaren M10B-Chevrolet.

By the time Barnard left McLaren for Ferrari at the end of his cars had won 31 Grands Prix for the team.

After Villeneuve impressed James Hunt by beating him and several other Grand Prix stars in a non-championship Formula Atlantic race at Trois-Rivières in 1976, Hunt's McLaren team offered Villeneuve a Formula One deal for up to five races in a third car during the 1977 season.

The team's first F1 race win occurred in 1968 when Bruce McLaren won the non-championship Race Of Champions at Brands Hatch driving a McLaren M7A Ford.

* Bruce McLaren Race car driver and designer

Finland has produced three Formula One World Champions – Keke Rosberg ( Williams, 1982 ), Mika Häkkinen ( McLaren, 1998 and 1999 ) and Kimi Räikkönen ( Ferrari, 2007 ).

In the Constructors Championship, Williams were World Champions with 129 points ahead of Benetton who were second with 60, McLaren close behind in third with 56 and Ligier a surprising fourth with 21-their best performance in some years.

In the Constructors Championship, Williams were the World Champions with 149 points but there was a battle for second between Benetton with 72 and McLaren with 60.

In the Constructors ' Championship, Williams were dominant World Champions with 168 points, double the tally of second-placed McLaren who got 84 and just beat Benetton with 72 into third.

In the Constructors Championship, Williams were World Champions with 129 points ahead of Benetton who were second with 60, McLaren close behind in third with 56 and Ligier a surprising fourth with 21 – their best performance in some years.

In the Constructors Championship, Williams were the World Champions with 149 points but there was a battle for second between Benetton with 72 and McLaren with 60.

In the Constructors ' Championship, Williams were dominant World Champions with 168 points, double the tally of second-placed McLaren who got 84 and just beat Benetton with 72 into third.

Williams are the World Champions in the constructors Championship with 142 points with Benetton second with 64, McLaren third with 60 and Ferrari fourth with 16.

In 1964 and 1965 McLaren were based in New Malden, then Feltham before settling on premises in Colnbrook.

After a successful test with McLaren, the only problem was in convincing then team sponsor Marlboro that he was still capable of winning.

In 1983, McLaren released Duck Rock, an album that, in collaboration with producer and co-writer Trevor Horn and The World's Famous Supreme Team ( a duo of Hip-Hop radio disc jockeys from New York City – See Divine, The Mastermind and Just Allah, The Superstar – who then hosted a prominent Hip-Hop / classic R & B show on WHBI 105. 9 FM and who were also among the first DJs to introduce the art of scratching to the world ), mixed up influences from Africa and the Americas, including hip-hop.

Manager Malcolm McLaren once claimed " if Johnny Rotten is the voice of punk, then Vicious is the attitude.

McLaren then volunteered the Stinky Toys and a handful of other bands from Manchester.

The emergence of the New Romantic movement into the mainstream coincided with Vivienne Westwood's unveiling of her " pirate collection ", which was promoted by Bow Wow Wow and Adam and the Ants, who were managed by her then partner Malcolm McLaren.

McLaren then moved to New York City in 1939, just as World War II was about to begin in Europe.

The first and best known practictioners of drawn-on-film animation include Len Lye, Norman McLaren, Stan Brakhage, then later artists including Steven Woloshen, Richard R. Reeves and Baerbel Neubauer, who produced numerous animated films using these methods.

Matt Bishop left both Autosport and F1 Racing in late 2007 to join McLaren and was replaced as editor of F1 Racing by the then executive editor Tim Scott, and later by Hans Seeberg.

On 3 January 2000, Daimler AG ( then DaimlerChrysler AG ) exercised an option to buy 40 percent of the then TAG McLaren Group.

McLaren was educated at Grove House School and studied then at the University of Heidelberg as well as the University of Bonn.

The Porsche did not prove to be as fast in the FIA series, and failed to win a single race, first against the McLaren F1 GTR, and then against the new CLK-GTR.

Some debate then ensued, during which time the McLaren mechanics managed to repair Hunt's damaged McLaren which he had used in the original start.

He then drove over Berger's wheel launching the rear of his McLaren into the air.

Andrea de Cesaris ( Brabham BT56 ) then collided with Stefan Johansson, the McLaren requiring a pit stop for a damaged nosecone ; the debris of his car caused some trouble to Mansell who ran into them.

Finally Capelli managed to pass Patrese to gain 4th place on lap 36 and then three laps later at exactly the same corner he passed Senna's McLaren.

Schumacher then stopped for a third set of tyres dropping him further behind the two Williams cars while still half a minute clear of Blundell in fourth position, who preserved a slight gap to Senna's McLaren in fifth.

Irvine forced Verstappen on to the grass, who then lost control of his car and somersaulted over Martin Brundle's McLaren.

No longer competitive against the McLaren F1 GTR, the Ferrari F40 returned for another year in 1996, managing to repeat the previous year's Anderstorp win, and from then on it was no longer seen in GT racing.

His work for the organisation also included development of the McLaren F1 road car, which included a then record-breaking 231mph run at the Nardo test track.

From then on Ilmor built the Mercedes-Benz engines exclusively for McLaren.

Tipped as a future F1 driver, he tested with both McLaren and Benetton, whilst also competing in F3000, then the recognised second tier of European motorsport, in 1990-1992.