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The McLaren team was considered very " multi national " for the times and consisted of team owner and leader Bruce McLaren, fellow New Zealander Chris Amon and another " Kiwi " and the 1967 Formula One World Champion, Denny Hulme, Team Manager Teddy Mayer, Mechanics Tyler Alexander, Gary Knutson, Lee Muir, George Bolthoff, Frank Zimmerman, Tom Anderson, Alan Anderson, David Dunlap, Leo Beattie, Donny Ray Everett, and Haig Altoonian ( all from the USA ), Don Beresford, Alec Greaves, Vince Higgins, and Roger Bailey ( UK ), Tony Attard ( Au ), Cary Taylor, Jimmy Stone, Chris Charles, Colin Beanland, Alan McCall and Alistair Caldwell ( NZ ).
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* 1937 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car driver, founded the McLaren racing team ) ( d. 1970 )
Only his former team mate, Bruce McLaren, has since matched the achievement.
The team chose the last and informed McLaren and Miles of the decision just before the two got in their cars for the final stint.
The Ford X-1 was a roadster built to contest the Fall 1965 North American Pro Series, a forerunner of Can-Am, entered by the Bruce McLaren team and driven by Chris Amon.
With McLaren fit again, Banks was sent back to the reserves but, after the first team conceded 14 goals in the next 5 games, he was recalled and became the first-choice goalie for the remainder of the season.
Only his two former team mates, Bruce McLaren and Dan Gurney, have since matched this achievement.
McLaren Racing Limited, trading as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, is a British Formula One team based in Woking, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
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.
After Bruce McLaren died in a testing accident in 1970, Teddy Mayer took over and led the team to their first Formula One constructors ' championship in 1974, with Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt winning the drivers ' championship in 1974 and 1976 respectively.
In 1981 McLaren merged with Ron Dennis ' Project Four Racing ; Dennis took over as team principal and shortly after organised a buyout of the original McLaren shareholders to take full control of the team.
In 2009 Dennis retired as team principal of McLaren handing the former role to longtime McLaren employee Martin Whitmarsh.
Bruce McLaren founded McLaren and was team principal from 1966 until his death in 1970.
That year's new M7A car, Herd's final design for the team, was powered by Cosworth's new and soon to be ubiquitous DFV engine ( the DFV would go on to be used by McLaren until 1983 ) and with it a major upturn in form proceeded.
He progressed through motor sport's junior ranks, winning the French and European Formula Three championships, before joining the McLaren Formula One team in 1980 at the age of 25.
During 1989 Prost began to contemplate starting his own team, as his relationship with his McLaren teammate, Ayrton Senna, had turned sour.
Prost and John Barnard, formerly chief designer at McLaren, came close to founding a team in 1990 ; but a lack of sponsorship meant that this was not possible, so Prost moved to Ferrari.
After a successful test with McLaren, the only problem was in convincing then team sponsor Marlboro that he was still capable of winning.
Häkkinen joined McLaren as a test driver in 1993 initally as a backup for Ayrton Senna and took on the responsibility of race driver after Michael Andretti was dismissed by the team after that year's Italian Grand prix.
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The # 1 car was driven by Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby, and together with the # 2 car driven by Bruce McLaren / Chris Amon ( 1st overall ) and # 5 car driven by Bucknum / Hutcherson ( 3rd overall ) gave Ford its first victory in a 24 hour race.
The finish, however, was clouded in controversy: in the final few hours, the Ford GT of New Zealanders Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon closely trailed the leading Ford GT driven by Englishman Ken Miles and New Zealander Denny Hulme.
The real purpose of this car was to test several improvements originating from Kar Kraft, Shelby and McLaren.
Bruce McLaren Motor Racing was founded in 1963 by New Zealander Bruce McLaren.
For, after driving McLaren's sole entry for the previous two years, Bruce was joined by 1967 champion and fellow New Zealander Denny Hulme, who was already racing for McLaren in Can-Am.
The McLaren M23, designed by Gordon Coppuck, was the team's new car for the 1973 Formula One season.
Richard Hell's more androgynous, ragamuffin look — and reputed invention of the safety-pin aesthetic — was a major influence on Sex Pistols impresario Malcolm McLaren and, in turn, British punk style.
In 1953, he married Elizabeth " Betty " Bottomley She was born on October 7, 1930 in Auburn, Massachusetts, the daughter of Frank Bottomley and Helen McLaren.
A pioneer of refined multiple stop motion films under the NFB banner was Norman McLaren, who brought in many other animators to create their own creatively controlled films.
Hunt believed that it was Patrese's muscling past that caused the McLaren and Lotus to touch, but Patrese argues that he was already well ahead of the pair before the accident took place.
In a further controversy, Scott McLaren was one of the umpires rostered for the Essendon vs Carlton game the following Friday night.
The GT1 class was for the purebred supercars and purpose-built race cars, such as the McLaren F1 GTR, Ferrari F40, Porsche 911 GT1, Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR, Toyota GT-One and Nissan R390 – while the first two were a derivatives of roadgoing sports cars, the German and Japanese contenders were pure-bred racing cars – virtually sports prototypes.
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( McLaren has claimed that the project was scrapped at the behest of the main financier and Meyer's erstwhile employer -- 20th Century Fox -- whose board of directors considered the prospect of a Meyer production to be untenable and incompatible with the insurgent family values ethos in popular culture.
At the first event, the United States Grand Prix at Phoenix, he was a sensation, leading for 25 laps in front of Ayrton Senna with a car powered by a customer Ford V8 considered as vastly inferior to the V10 Honda in Senna's McLaren, and also re-passing Senna after the Brazilian had first overtaken for the lead.
Despite what many expected, the championship would hardly be considered boring with the McLaren onslaught peaking with the drivers fighting in several feuds.
Stefan Johansson's position at McLaren was considered by many as just a stop gap signing by team boss Ron Dennis who had failed to lure Ayrton Senna from Lotus due to him being under contract until the end of 1987 and always intended signing the mercurial Brazilian for.
McLaren and very
He had to learn how to cope with a very nervous and ' oversteery ' car, in these conditions and after bad luck for his team mate, he scored his first victory for McLaren Mercedes in the British GP and in the same conditions at Monza.
In turn his move to Ferrari saw him secure his first Formula One World Drivers ' Championship, beating McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso by one point, as well as becoming one of the very few drivers to win in their first season at Ferrari.
Mathematically, Williams or McLaren could have won the championship at the very last race.
Significantly, at the opening of the, though saying he was very comfortable at McLaren, Räikkönen raised the possibility that he might leave McLaren when his contract expired in 2006 if reliability issues were not solved.
Räikkönen said after the move that he was very happy with this change of events but wished McLaren the best of luck in the future.
Some very high-performance grand tourers, such as Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano and Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren make various compromises in the opposite direction while rivalling sports cars in speed, acceleration, and cornering ability, earning them the special designation supercars.
Produced by McLaren Performance Technologies / ASC, Buick underrated the GNX at and a very substantial of torque.
Technically X-1 is very simillar to McLaren MP4-12C.
Emerson Fittipaldi also was an early retirement after making a very slow start in his McLaren M23 and was struck by his team mate Denny Hulme putting out both cars within a lap.
Before Saturday morning practice triple ( and defending ) World Champion ( and 1984 race winner ) Niki Lauda announced to the media, flanked by a very unhappy McLaren team boss Ron Dennis, that he would be retiring for good from Formula One following the Australian Grand Prix to concentrate on running his airline Lauda Air.
Fourth was Berger in the other McLaren followed by Schumacher in the Benetton, Herbert a very good 6th in the Lotus, Brundle in 7th, the two Ferraris of Alesi and Capelli in 8th and 9th and Häkkinen rounding out the top 10 in the Lotus.
Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard dominated in practice and the opening stage of the race, but retired with technical problems-the new McLaren MP4 / 14 proved to be very fast but not yet reliable, a trait shared by a number of Adrian Newey designed cars.
The fight between Williams and McLaren will be very close.
Before the Italian Grand Prix, Prost was quoted as saying that, as it was very possible that McLaren would take out a perfect sixteen out of sixteen victories, the winner would be determined between which McLaren driver would take the most wins, and on the chance they both took eight, it would be determined on their second places, which at the time Prost had more of despite having fewer wins.
The DFV, and the introduction by McLaren and Lotus of cars built largely from carbon-fibre composites, allowed the teams to create very light cars.
Pedro Martínez de la Rosa ( born 24 February 1971 ) is a Formula One driver who has participated in Grands Prix for the Arrows, Jaguar, McLaren, Sauber and HRT F1 teams, debuting on 7 March 1999, becoming one of very few drivers to score a point at his first race.
Neither was very successful and so in 1968 Ligier decided to form a partnership with Jo Schlesser and the two bought a pair of McLaren Formula 2 cars.
John duplicated that accomplishment in 1968 propelled by a famous win over the dominant McLaren team in a very wet race at Laguna Seca.
Both men would be very prominent in the very early days of McLaren Vale.
McLaren Vale naturally produces Shiraz that has very small berries.
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