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[EwanM]

I can't believe nobody has posted anything about this?

Today (2 June 2010) marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Bruce McLaren.

As well as winning four Grands Prix, the New Zealand driver also founded Team McLaren - winning the first of its 167 victories to date (Belgium '68).





Bruce McLaren: 30th August, 1937 - 2nd June, 1970

[EwanM]

Bruce explains Mosport (honkitonkitom's youtube channel)
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Tyler Alexander and Gordon Coppuck (legends in their own right might I add) remember Bruce McLaren (BigMSmallcBigL's channel)
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And McLaren used the Can-Am car today to hold a 'minutes noise' to remember Bruce (OfficialMcLarenVids's channel)
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[myownalias]

And McLaren used the Can-Am car today to hold a 'minutes noise' to remember Bruce (OfficialMcLarenVids's channel)
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A very fitting way to honour Bruce McLaren... a minutes silence doesn't seem right somehow!

[bud]

It was fitting that the team had a 1-2 days before the 40th anniversary of his death.

[Gaz]

It was fitting that the team had a 1-2 days before the 40th anniversary of his death.

Yep RIP Bruce.

[scotty]

I swear they had that Can Am car at Goodwood last year, or at least another McLaren... what an incredible racket it made there too.

[bud]

A very fitting way to honour Bruce McLaren... a minutes silence doesn't seem right somehow!

Yeah that is a fitting way to honour him , i think thats also the same model car he may have passed away in?

found this on Bruce's Wikipedia page

Motorsport author Eoin Young has noted that Bruce McLaren had "virtually penned his own epitaph" in his 1964 book From the Cockpit. Referring to the death of team mate Timmy Mayer, McLaren had written:
"The news that he had died instantly was a terrible shock to all of us, but who is to say that he had not seen more, done more and learned more in his few years than many people do in a lifetime? To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one’s ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone."