Bruce McLaren
"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 ones ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone."
Bruce McLaren.
August 30, 1937 – June 2, 1970
I am both humbled and delighted to have been granted “Official Artist” status to the Bruce McLaren Trust.
No one mans contribution to motoracing during the 1960’s – 1970’s was greater or more important than Bruce McLarens.
A donation from the sale of any of my works featuring McLaren cars goes to the Bruce McLaren Trust.
Bruce McLaren was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1937 and died tragically whilst testing one of his cars at the Goodwood circuit, England on June 2nd 1970. From the young school boy with Perthes Disease, strapped to a metal frame at the Wilson Home in Takapuna, Auckland, to a world class international motor racing driver, engineer and designer whose name is still used in Formula 1 motor racing today, is a remarkable achievement.
With fellow New Zealanders, Denny Hulme and Chris Amon, Bruce took on the might of the international motor racing world and triumphed with enormous success. It was all about team work and there is no doubt that Bruce and his team did for New Zealand and New Zealand motorsport in the 1960s and 1970s what Sir Peter Blake and Team Black Magic have done for New Zealand and New Zealand yachting today.
That McLaren International continues to use his name today for their Formula One Team is a wonderful tribute and a superb acknowledgement of the New Zealand beginning of the company.
