This September the McLaren Group will observe the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding by Bruce McLaren, but the entire 2013 season will be part of the festivities as McLaren celebrates its serial successes in a wide variety of motor sport forms. Since contesting their first Grand Prix at Monaco in 1966, Formula One McLarens have amassed 182 wins, 155 pole positions and 151 fastest race laps while carrying seven different drivers—Emerson Fittipaldi, James Hunt, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Mika Hakkinen and Lewis Hamilton—to a total of 12 World Drivers Championships, and collecting eight Constructors crowns in the process.
McLaren Cars also dominated the fabled Can-Am series in North America, winning 43 races and five consecutive championships between 1967 and 1971, while McLaren Indycars won two Indy 500s and one American National Championship, two F5000 titles and took victory at Le Mans in 1995. Today, in addition to its racing endeavors, the company also supplies standardized Engine Control Units to every car racing in Formula One, NASCAR and IndyCar.
Headlining North America’s celebration will be a newly announced June 15-16 event at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca organized by HMSA under the Legends of Motorsports banner—the first Legends outing on the West Coast. The “sound-free” weekend will be open to all the usual Legends classes—featuring races for Can-Am, Formula Atlantic, Formula 5000 and IMSA GTO cars—while commemorating the 50th Anniversary of McLaren with demonstration laps of historic and modern McLaren cars. For complete information please visit www.legendsofmotorsports.com.
