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Drivers becoming constructors: Bruce McLaren
The article highlights the life and accomplishments of Bruce McLaren, a successful racing driver and constructor from New Zealand. McLaren began racing at a young age and won his first Grand Prix at 22.
His life was the exact opposite of the fate of his name: Bruce McLaren started racing at 15, won his first Grand Prix at 22, his first constructor’s title at 31, and died during a test at 33. A life as short as it was intense for the young man from New Zealand, loved for his charm and elegance, revered for his engineering talent, and exalted for his racing successes not only in Formula 1 but also in the Can Am series, which he dominated.
And here comes the opposite: his name is honored and immortalized by the story of McLaren. After his death, while testing the new Can-Am M8D model at Goodwood Circuit in circumstances that were never clarified, the work of the small workshop he had put together to produce his single-seaters and the cars for the American and Canadian series, was taken over by Teddy Mayer who ensured its continuity, taking it even higher by winning the world championship in 1974 with Fittipaldi and in 1976 with Hunt.
