Bruce McLaren
New Zealand racing driver and automotive engineerWikipedia
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Sep 17, 2026
EddieHOST
Special shout-out to the Westside Fitness Girls.
EddieHOST
I was doing my walk, and I walked from Bruce McLaren down to the McDonald's in Railside, and I saw them walking across too, so we ended up doing a long-ass walk around the church and all that.
EddieHOST
Yeah, that ended up being like a two-hour walk.
EddieHOST
My legs are still sore, but thanks for the push and for the vibes.
Jason HassettHOST
The rest were prototypes, race cars, and a handful of specials.
Jason HassettHOST
After the Le Mans win came the F1 LM, five customer cars painted in papaya orange, the colour of Bruce McLaren's old racing team.
Jason HassettHOST
Stripped of sound deadening and stereos, running the V12 with the restrictors off, the LM made around 680 horsepower in a car that weighed barely over a tonne.
Jason HassettHOST
And then the racing rules changed.
Kevin TurnerHOST
But I just think the fact that he...
Kevin TurnerHOST
For me, it wasn't just the innovation, but it was also that he could hold his own against your Phil Hills, your Bruce McLaren, your Dan Gurney.
Kevin TurnerHOST
He's a proper...
Kevin TurnerHOST
You've got to be a proper driver to do that.
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Kevin TurnerHOST
usually because he was trying to use Ford engines, which were more highly tuned, smaller Ford engines than the bigger banger Chevrolets.
Kevin TurnerHOST
So he's obviously trying to make up for that capacity deficit with a bit more trio, Westlake heads and all sorts of stuff, and they quite often did break.
Kevin TurnerHOST
He did get his one win in his T17 and a couple when he stood in last... after Bruce McLaren was killed.
Kevin TurnerHOST
And that's what
Peter SnowdonGUEST
So gi- a flip on the back, which then got transferred to the DB6 road car, and that made it safer for the following year, 214s, the, um, the project cars developed, yes.
Peter SnowdonGUEST
And I think it's Bruce McLaren was driving.
Peter SnowdonGUEST
He still holds the front engine GT terminal speed record at Mulsanne Le Mans, on the Mulsanne for one of those cars, 198 miles an hour.
Gary TaylorHOST
Oh, my word.
Gary TaylorHOST
Different people, diff...
Gary TaylorHOST
Oh.
Peter SnowdonGUEST
And then Bruce McLaren went on to do quite well, didn't he?
Gary TaylorHOST
Yeah.
Tony JohnsonHOST
But this is now the most points ever gained by a New Zealander in an F1 championship series.
Tony JohnsonHOST
Now, you have to go back to the days where the likes of Denny Holm and Chris Amon and Bruce McLaren were in their heyday.
Tony JohnsonHOST
They had far fewer races.
Tony JohnsonHOST
Yes.
Kevin TurnerHOST
I mean, to say only that one win, but Phil Hill did go into the season finale with a shot at the title.
Kevin TurnerHOST
And Bruce McLaren reckoned it was probably the best car, but it was just one of those things where, as you often get with a car that's got lots of innovation on it, there's lots of little niggly things and the wings didn't always work.
Kevin TurnerHOST
Because they were... because they're automatic gearboxes as well yeah so you could use the left pedal was to control the control the wing you
Damien SmithGUEST
know DRS basically
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Kevin TurnerHOST
They had quite a few engine problems with it.
Kevin TurnerHOST
They listed backwards and forwards between the 7.6 litre and the smaller capacity engine while they worked on it.
Kevin TurnerHOST
I mean, it is also, of course, we should say, the car that Bruce McLaren was killed in.
Damien SmithGUEST
I was about to say, yes.
Karen FeldmanGUEST
Um, the second step was, you know, again, luckily, the, the company and, um, the chief commercial officer, who I, um, report to, uh, Greg McIntosh, had already been well down the path of evaluating a sports sponsorship as well, because the company, you know, really felt like doing something with a sports sponsorship would be a great way to fast-track brand awareness.
Karen FeldmanGUEST
Um, you know, I came in, and I was able to help evaluate, you know, did this, did this make sense? And they were fairly dow- uh, far down the path with McLaren, which, um, was also great because it was a very organic story.
Karen FeldmanGUEST
Um, what we're doing for McLaren is helping them unlock sixty years of their heritage.
Karen FeldmanGUEST
Um, they're the second longest-standing team in Formula One history.
Karen FeldmanGUEST
Uh, Bruce McLaren was their founder.
Karen FeldmanGUEST
Um, heritage, right, and, and that story is core to their brand, um, but they really didn't have access to the assets, right? Those assets were, um, were sitting, you know, as I mentioned, some of them are in, in physical form, some of them scattered across laptops, but not findable, not searchable, not usable.
Karen FeldmanGUEST
And so what we're doing is helping them preserve those assets and unlock them with, uh, by turning that unstructured data into structured, usable content, visuals that their marketing team can now leverage as part of their brand platform.
Karen FeldmanGUEST
And so, um, you know, I think if, if you're talking about what Iron Mountain does at large, but you can't actually connect that story down to a solution that a certain buyer cares about, then we have not been successful.
Scott DixonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then I think with the opportunity that's ahead, A lot of it made sense as well.
Scott DixonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's founded by a Kiwi, a Kiwi that I admire a lot and heard a lot of stories that my dad told me about Bruce McLaren and what he did on and off the track and had spent time with his family throughout the years and the heritage and history of what's true to New Zealand and what's really made, I think, racing... such a big sport back there was because of him and Chris Amon and Denny Holm and people like that.
Scott DixonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So yeah, it was a lot of factors that kind of came into it.
Felicity ReidCORRESPONDENT
So IndyCar returns in March next year and we won't see Scott Dixon in the number nine.
Christian James HandGUEST
This is the big one that actually I think most people are hyped about.
Christian James HandGUEST
This is the new McLaren, what's it called? M- MI6, something like that?
Zack KlapmanHOST
[laughs]
Christian James HandGUEST
MI...
Christian James HandGUEST
Right? [audience applauding]
Richard PorterGUEST
Jesus.
Christian James HandGUEST
What are, what, are you guys not into this here? What the fuck? You're not into stick shift McLarens in Irvine? What's going on?
Zack KlapmanHOST
They live in traffic.
Tony JohnsonHOST
So much so that fellow driver Mario Andretti once joked that if Chris Amon became an undertaker, people would stop dying.
Tony JohnsonHOST
Bruce McLaren.
Tony JohnsonHOST
It's incredible to think, isn't it, that the second most successful team in all of F1 still carries the name of this gifted, clever Aucklander.
Tony JohnsonHOST
Between 1958 and 1965, he raced for the British team Cooper.
Tony JohnsonHOST
The company was taken over by one of his business partners, and there are no real links to New Zealand now, just that name.
Tony JohnsonHOST
But it's one of the biggest names in sport, or that the sport has ever known.
Tony JohnsonHOST
A little fun fact about Bruce McLaren.
Tony JohnsonHOST
His great-grandfather was actually, his surname was Howie.
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