The Canadian American Challenge Cup (Can-Am) was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited”...
Denis Hulme Jean Alesi 2 F1 racer and Can-Am champion Bruce McLaren dies in a crash while testing his M8D...
June 2, 2020, marked half a century since the death of pioneering racing driver and engineer Bruce McLaren, who was killed in 1970 while testing one of his Can-Am racing cars at the Goodwood Circuit in West Sussex, UK. In commemoration of her father, Amanda McLaren – a McLaren Automotive...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup, co-sanctioned by the SCCA and the CASC, was essentially an “unlimited” series. Although there was...
I have been quoted as saying that I didn’t much like the Tommy Atkins Cooper-Maserati. Now, I don’t know if I was right about that, but I do remember some of its characteristics pretty well. The power range was about a 1,000 revs, maybe 1,200 maximum, and that meant it...
I think it is easy for those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere to underestimate the global racing contributions...
For a baker’s dozen of years in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Nassau in the Bahamas Islands hosted a week-long, end-of-year party disguised as a race meeting. It was an event that virtually everyone looked forward to and the cast of characters that wrote its history was truly world...
The Sebring 4 Hours, March 24, 1961. This is the works Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite, which was driven by Bruce McLaren,...
Michael Turner Atmosphere and emotion are two ingredients I have tried to incorporate into my painting. It was Tony Kydd,...
After concluding arrangements with Patricia and Amanda McLaren, widow and daughter of the late Bruce McLaren, TMP, the company that owns and operates the international motorsport park at Taupo, New Zealand, has renamed the multi-purpose facility Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park. McLaren is, of course, the Kiwi-born racecar designer, driver and...
While the Northern Hemisphere battens down against winter, we here in Australia and New Zealand are reaching for our suntan...
February 2017 Bruce McLaren – From the Cockpit By Bruce McLaren Although in very recent years the domination of the...
1968 BRM P126 Chasis 126.01 BRM has had one of the most interesting histories of all the Grand Prix constructors. Having emerged in the postwar period much like Ferrari, the team rose from the disasters of the early V-16, a car with enormous potential but little in the way of...
Bruce Leslie McLaren won the first-ever Grand Prix of the United States in 1959, but really established his life’s legacy...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to...
Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos we showed him started a discussion so interesting that I’m keen to share it with you. The picture was made by Art Evans at Palm Springs in November, 1956. It...
Peter Brock Alan Jones 1 Brian Redman finishes 1st and 2nd in the 24 Hours of Daytona when the Gulf...
New Zealand—the homeland of the two most famous drivers of the Can-Am series, Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme—was the host to its first-ever Can-Am race in history this year. It is hard to believe that Kiwis had never seen a group of these beasts driven in anger, even though Bruce...
After concluding arrangements with Patricia and Amanda McLaren, widow and daughter of the late Bruce McLaren, TMP, the company that...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
Vincenzo Florio David DonohuePhoto: Chuck Andersen 1 F1 racer and six-time Le Mans winner Jackie Ickx born in Brussels, Belgium (1945). 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kayalami track near Johannesburg is won by Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of a Cooper-Maserati. First F1 win...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
Bruce McLaren Jean Alesi 1 Rudolph Caracciola, driving a Fanfir, finishes 4th in his first auto race at Avus, in...
We called it the “Bruce and Denny Show,” and it was total dominance of the Can-Am Championship by McLaren Cars from 1967 to 1971, during which they won 43 of the series’ 71 races, 23 of them consecutively. It was an astounding performance in which New Zealander Bruce McLaren won...
Goodwood was at its best yet again for the 13th Revival celebration. Four days of superb weather made it one...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
Turn Up the Gane Dear Editor, Thanks for an enjoyable and diverse November issue. I would like to make a couple of comments on some of its contents. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid...
