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The 1995 Pacific Grand Prix (formally the II Pacific Grand Prix) was a
Formula One motor race held on October 22, 1995 at the
TI Circuit,
Aida,
Japan. It was the 15th race of the
1995 Formula One season. The race, contested over 83 laps, was won by
Michael Schumacher for the
Benetton team after starting from third position.
David Coulthard, who started the Grand Prix from
pole position, finished second in a
Williams car, with
Damon Hill third in the other Williams. Schumacher's win confirmed him as
1995 Drivers' Champion as Hill could not pass Schumacher's points total with only two races remaining.
Hill started the race alongside Coulthard on the front row, amidst pressure from the British media for not being "forceful" enough in battles. Schumacher attempted to drive around the outside of Hill at the first corner, but Hill held Schumacher off as
Jean Alesi, driving for
Ferrari got past both on the inside line to take second position. As a result, Hill dropped down to third and Schumacher dropped down to fifth behind
Gerhard Berger. Schumacher managed to get past Alesi and Hill during the first of three
pit stops. This allowed him, on a new set of
slick tyres, to close on Coulthard who was on a two-stop strategy. Schumacher opened up a gap of 21 seconds by lapping two seconds faster per lap than Coulthard, so that when his third stop came, he still led the race.
*Hamilton was given a 25 second + to his racing time demoting him to 3rd place gifting
Felipe Massa the win
1.
McLaren appealed with hard evidence
2.
Timo Glock also recieved this penalty for overtaking under the yellow flag dropping him to ninth place out of the points.
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Hamilton started from
pole position alongside title rival Massa. Hamilton's McLaren team-mate
Heikki Kovalainen started from third next to the
2007 winner Kimi Räikkönen. Following a spin by Hamilton on the second lap, Räikkönen led the race, until rain fell on lap 41 and Hamilton performed the penalised pass. Räikkönen crashed in the following lap as rain started raining heavily. Massa finished second on the road after Hamilton, followed by
Nick Heidfeld of
BMW Sauber.
Hamilton received a drive-through penalty, which demoted him to third place and advanced Massa and Heidfeld to first and second positions. McLaren appealed the decision at the
FIA International Court of Appeal. Their case, however, was judged inadmissible, with the Court ruling that drive-through penalties cannot be challenged. The penalty created a large amount of criticism from the global press, mainly from the
United Kingdom and
Italy, with several former drivers questioning the decision. Massa's retrospective win, with Hamilton demoted to third, narrowed the gap in the Championship from six points to just two.
Final standings. See 2008 Formula One season for further season summary and
formula1.com or
ITV-F1.com (and there is more there for the championship) for complete standings and statistics. ^Note 1 : Super Aguri withdrew from the championship on the Wednesday before the
Turkish Grand Prix.
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Pete Fenelon, who passed away in October (please see
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Before the race,
Drivers' Championship leader
Lewis Hamilton had received heated criticism in the
British press for his aggressive driving style at the
Japanese Grand Prix three weeks previously. There, Hamilton's late braking at the first corner sent Räikkönen off the road and saw the McLaren driver relegated to the back of the field after a penalty.
Massa started the race alongside
Toyota driver
Jarno Trulli. Massa's Ferrari team-mate Räikkönen began from third next to Hamilton. Rain fell minutes before the race, delaying the start, and as the track dried Massa established a lead of several seconds. More rain in the closing laps did not prevent Hamilton from finishing the race in fifth position, securing him the points needed to take the Championship.
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Damon Graham Devereux HillOBE (born 17 September 1960) is a retired
British racing driver from
England. In 1996 Hill won the
Formula One World Championship; as the son of the late
Graham Hill, he is the only son of a world champion to win the title. His father died in a plane crash when Hill was 15, leaving the family in reduced circumstances and Hill came to professional motorsports at the relatively late age of 23 by
racing motorcycles. After some minor success, he moved on to single-seater racing cars, and progressed steadily up the ranks to the International
Formula 3000 championship by 1989, where although often competitive he never won a race.
Hill became a test driver for the Formula One title-winning
Williams team in 1992. He was unexpectedly promoted to the Williams race team the following year after 1992 champion
Nigel Mansell's departure and took the first of his 22 victories at the
1993 Hungarian Grand Prix. During the mid 1990s, Hill was
Michael Schumacher's main rival for the Formula One Driver's Championship. The two clashed on and off the track; their collision at the
1994 Australian Grand Prix gave Schumacher his first title by a single point. Hill won the
1996 World Drivers' Championship, but was dropped by Williams for the following season. He went on to drive for the less competitive
Arrows and
Jordan teams, and in 1998 gave Jordan its first win.
Hill retired from racing after the 1999 season. He has since launched several businesses as well as making appearances playing the guitar with celebrity bands. In 2006, he became president of the
British Racing Drivers' Club, succeeding
Jackie Stewart.
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Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of
open-wheeledauto racing defined by the
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. The "formula" in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must conform. The F1 world championship season consists of a series of races, known as
Grands Prix, held usually on purpose-built
circuits, and in a few cases on closed city streets. The most famous Grand Prix is the
Monaco Grand Prix in
Monte Carlo. The results of each race are combined to determine two annual Championships, one for
drivers and one for
constructors.
Michael Schumacher holds the record for the most Grand Prix victories, having won 91 times.
Alain Prost, is second with 51 wins, and
Ayrton Senna is third, with 41 wins. Michael Schumacher holds the distinction of having the longest time between his first win and his last. He won his first Grand Prix in
1992 at the
Belgian Grand Prix, and his last in
2006 at the
Chinese Grand Prix, a gap that spans 14 years, 1 month and 1 day. The youngest winner of a Grand Prix is
Sebastian Vettel, who was 21 years, 73 days old when he won the
2008 Italian Grand Prix.
Luigi Fagioli is the oldest winner of a Formula One Grand Prix; he was 53 years and 22 days old when he won the
1951 French Grand Prix.
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Hamilton, the eventual
Drivers' Champion, led the Championship going into the race, and started from
pole position alongside Räikkönen. Second in the Drivers' Championship, Massa began from third, next to
Fernando Alonso of
Renault. The first three drivers retained their positions into the first corner, but Alonso was passed by Hamilton's McLaren teammate
Heikki Kovalainen. However, Alonso was able to regain the place midway through the first lap. Over the course of the race, Hamilton extended a considerable lead over the two Ferraris. Massa passed Räikkönen with seven laps remaining, to improve his chances of surpassing Hamilton's
points tally at
the final race in Brazil.
The result extended Ferrari's lead over McLaren in the
Constructors' Championship from seven to 11 points. Third-placed in the Drivers' Championship,
Robert Kubica's sixth place at the Grand Prix eliminated his hopes of winning the Championship, and reduced his lead over fourth-placed Räikkönen to six points.
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Hamilton maintained his startline advantage and led until he made his first pit stop on lap 18. As other cars made their pit stops, Hamilton regained the lead on lap 22. On lap 36
Timo Glock crashed, and the race was neutralized by the deployment of the
safety car. Hamilton, on a two-stop strategy, did not stop to get more fuel during this period, while all the cars around him did. Thus when he did eventually stop on lap 50, he rejoined the race in fifth. In the closing stages of the race, Hamilton overtook first his team-mate
Heikki Kovalainen, then Massa, and finally Piquet, to take the lead again on lap 60, which he maintained to win the race.
The victory was Hamilton's second consecutive win, having won the preceding
British Grand Prix at
Silverstone. The win put him ahead of his two main rivals in the
Drivers' Championship,
Kimi Räikkönen (who finished sixth) and Massa of Ferrari, who were on equal points with him before the race. After the race he was four points ahead of Räikkönen, and seven ahead of Massa. In the
Constructors' Championship, McLaren drew closer to the two teams ahead of them,
BMW Sauber and Ferrari. Ferrari still led by 15 points from McLaren, and 12 from BMW, whose drivers –
Nick Heidfeld and
Robert Kubica – finished fourth and seventh respectively.
† After the race, Trulli was originally given a 25-second penalty for passing Lewis Hamilton (4th, +2.914) under yellow flags.
[1] However, due to misleading the stewards, Hamilton was disqualified and Trulli's penalty was overturned.
[2]
* Timo Glock (1:26.975, 6th) and Trulli (1:27.127, 8th) were both disqualified from qualifying and sent to the back of the grid, as their Toyotas' rear wing elements were in breach of the rules.
The race was red flagged on lap 33 and the results were taken from lap 31.
* Sebastian Vettel (3rd, 1:35.518) got a 10 place grid penalty for his collision with Kubica at the previous Grand Prix.
[3]
^ Rubens Barrichello (4th, 1:35.651) got a 5 place grid penalty for a gearbox change.
[4]
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The race began with Kubica in
pole position alongside Massa;
Lewis Hamilton, the eventual
Drivers' Champion, started from third, alongside Räikkönen. Kubica was passed by Massa into the first corner, and then by Räikkönen on the third lap. The Ferraris dominated at the front of the race, leading to their one-two finish. Hamilton had a slow start after almost
stalling on the grid, and dropped back to ninth. The McLaren driver ran into the back of
Fernando Alonso's
Renault a lap later, breaking off the McLaren's
front wing and dropping Hamilton to the back of the field.
Kubica's strong finish promoted BMW Sauber to the lead in the
Constructors' Championship, after BMW driver
Nick Heidfeld finished fourth. Ferrari and McLaren trailed, one and two
points behind, respectively. Räikkönen took the lead in the Drivers' Championship, with 19 points, three points ahead of Heidfeld and five ahead of Hamilton, Kubica and Kovalainen, with 15 races remaining in the season.
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Massa claimed pole, with teammate Räikkönen fourth, the two Ferrari cars sandwiching the McLarens of
Heikki Kovalainen and Hamilton. At the first corner Räikkönen clipped Kovalainen's rear tyre and gave him a puncture. The safety car was deployed on the first lap, after a collision, but only remained out for one lap. During the course of the race, Hamilton, intending to make one more pit stop than both Ferrari drivers, was faster than Massa due to carrying a lighter fuel load and overtook him on lap 24. After Hamilton had made his third pit stop, he rejoined in second behind Massa but in front of the Championship leader, Räikkönen. Massa won the race, with Hamilton 3.779 seconds behind, and Räikkönen a further half-second behind. The two
BMW Sauber cars of
Robert Kubica and
Nick Heidfeld took fourth and fifth.
In the week running up to the grand prix, the
Super Aguri team had withdrawn from Formula One, due to financial problems, leaving the sport with only ten teams. Massa's victory was his third consecutive pole position and victory in
Turkey, having also won the race from pole in
2006 and
2007. This was also
Rubens Barrichello's 257th Grand Prix start, breaking
Riccardo Patrese's previous record of 256. Due to the race result, Räikkönen's lead in the
Drivers' Championship was lowered to seven points. Massa rose to second from fourth, whilst Hamilton dropped to third, both drivers tying on 28 points but separated by Massa's two wins thus far to Hamilton's one. In the
Constructors' Championship, Ferrari increased their lead to 22 points ahead of BMW Sauber, with McLaren a further two points behind in third.
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Conditions were wet at the start of the race. Massa maintained his lead into the first corner, but his teammate
Kimi Räikkönen was passed for second by Hamilton, who had started in third position on the
grid. Hamilton suffered a punctured
tyre on lap six, forcing him to make a
pit stop from which he re-entered the race in fifth place. As the track dried and his rivals made their own pit stops Hamilton became the race leader, a position he held until the end of the race. Kubica's strategy allowed him to pass Massa during their second pit stops, after the latter's Ferrari was forced to change from wet to dry tyres. Räikkönen dropped back from fifth position to ninth after colliding with
Adrian Sutil's
Force India late in the race. Sutil had started from 18th on the grid and was in fourth position before the incident, which allowed
Red Bull driver
Mark Webber to finish fourth, ahead of
Toro Rosso driver
Sebastian Vettel in fifth.
The race was Hamilton's second win of the season, his first in Monaco, and the result meant that he led the Drivers' Championship, seven
points ahead of Räikkönen and eight ahead of Massa. Ferrari maintained their lead in the
Constructors' Championship, 16 points ahead of McLaren and 17 ahead of BMW Sauber, with 12 races of the season remaining.
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Räikkönen and Massa both made a clean start.
Renault's
Fernando Alonso, who started third, was overtaken by Trulli and
BMW Sauber driver
Robert Kubica. The front three of Räikkönen, Massa and Trulli maintained their positions through the first round of
pit stops. On lap 30, Räikkönen led Massa by six and a half seconds, and Trulli by 30 seconds. Just before half distance, Räikkönen's right exhaust pipe broke, which caused the engine to lose power. Massa, in second place, began lapping quicker than Räikkönen, and he caught and passed him on lap 39. Massa maintained his lead through the second round of pit stops, and won the race; Räikkönen finished almost 18 seconds behind. Trulli fended off
McLaren's
Heikki Kovalainen, who challenged him in the latter stages, to take third.
Massa's win promoted him into the lead of the
Drivers' Championship for the first time in his career, overtaking Kubica. Kubica was second, two points behind Massa, while Räikkönen was third. In the
Constructors' Championship, Ferrari increased their lead to 17 points ahead of BMW Sauber, McLaren a further 16 points behind in third.
Despite qualifying tenth, Massa missed the race due to suffering an accident in the second part of qualifying. He suffered a cut on his forehead, a bone damage of his skull and a brain concussion.
[7]
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The Brabham BT46 was a
Formula Oneracing car, designed by
Gordon Murray for the
Brabham team, owned by
Bernie Ecclestone, for the
1978 Formula One season. The car featured several radical design elements, the most obvious of which was the use of flat panel heat exchangers on the bodywork of the car to replace conventional water and oil
radiators. The concept did not work in practice and was removed before the car’s race debut, never to be seen again. The cars, powered by a
flat-12Alfa Romeo engine, raced competitively with modified nose-mounted radiators for most of the year, driven by
Niki Lauda and
John Watson, winning one race in this form and scoring sufficient points for the team to finish third in the constructors championship.
The "B" variant of the car, also known as the "fan car", was introduced at the
1978 Swedish Grand Prix as a counter to the dominant ground effect
Lotus 79. The BT46B generated an immense level of
downforce by means of a fan, claimed to be for increased cooling, but which also extracted air from beneath the car. The car only raced once in this configuration in the Formula One World Championship—when Niki Lauda won the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix at
Anderstorp. The car was withdrawn before it could race again and the concept was declared illegal by the
FIA. The BT46B therefore preserves a 100% winning record.
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The race was dominated, however, by the fight between championship protagonists
Michael Schumacher (Benetton) and
Damon Hill (Williams). Hill, who started from
pole position, retained his lead during the opening stages of the race whilst Schumacher, who started alongside him on the grid, fell behind Alesi in the run to the first corner. Despite being held up behind the slower Ferrari until it pitted, Schumacher used a more favourable one-stop strategy to move ahead of Hill, who made two pit stops for fuel and tyres, on lap 41. Four laps later, Hill attempted to pass Schumacher, but the two collided and were forced to retire from the race. This promoted the battling Herbert and Coulthard into the fight for the lead. Coulthard passed Herbert, but dropped back to third after incurring a
stop-go penalty for speeding in the pit lane.
* Barrichello had originally qualified fifth, but received a 5-place grid penalty for a gearbox change between FP3 and qualifying. He moved back up to ninth, after Heidfeld's penalty.
[8]
Nick Heidfeld originally qualified eighth (1:49.307), but was sent to the back of the grid, for his car being underweight after qualifying. His team also changed the gearbox and engine.
[9]
‡ Nakajima set his time during the second part of qualifying, as he failed to make the top ten.
* Sutil and Barrichello received five-place grid penalties for speeding in a neutralised yellow flag zone, following an incident involving
Sébastien Buemi in the second part of qualifying.
[10]
Jenson Button (7th, 1:32.962) and
Fernando Alonso (12th, 1:31.638) also received a five-place grid penalty for the same offence.
Buemi (10th, no time) himself received a five-place penalty for driving his damaged
Toro Rosso back to the pits, and impeding other cars.
Heikki Kovalainen (9th, no time) received a five-place grid penalty for changing his gearbox after a crash during Q3.
† All times were recorded in the second part of qualifying, as they did not make the top ten originally.
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The DAMS GD-01 was an unraced
Formula One car used by the
Frenchmotorsport team,
Driot-Arnoux Motor Sport (DAMS). The GD-01 was designed and built by a collaboration of DAMS and
Reynard engineers from 1994 to 1995, and was intended to establish the team—which had achieved considerable success in lower categories—in Formula One, but a continuing lack of finance meant that the team never entered the championship, despite completing construction of the chassis and conducting some testing.
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Fittipaldi Automotive, sometimes called Copersucar after its first major sponsor, was the only
Formula One motor racing team and constructor ever to be based in
Brazil. It was formed during 1974 by racing driver
Wilson Fittipaldi and his younger brother, double world champion
Emerson, with money from the Brazilian sugar and alcohol cooperative
Copersucar. In 1976 Emerson surprised the motor racing world by leaving the title-winning
McLaren team to drive for the unsuccessful family outfit. Future world champion
Keke Rosberg took his first podium finish in Formula One with the team.
The team was based in
São Paulo, almost 6,000 miles (10,000 km) away from the centre of the world motor racing industry in the UK, before moving to
Reading,
UK during 1974. It participated in 119 grands prix between 1975 and 1982, entering a total of 156 cars. It achieved 3 podiums and scored 44 championship points.
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The 2008 Hungarian Grand Prix (formally the XXIII ING Magyar Nagydíj) was a
Formula One motor race held on August 3, 2008 at the
Hungaroring,
Budapest,
Hungary. It was the eleventh race of the
2008 Formula One season. The race, contested over 70 laps, was won by
Heikki Kovalainen for the
McLaren team after starting from second position.
Timo Glock finished second in a
Toyota car, with
Kimi Räikkönen third in a
Ferrari. It marked Kovalainen's first Formula One victory, which made him the sport's 100th driver to win a World Championship race, and it was also Glock's first podium finish.
Much of the race, however, was dominated by a duel between
Lewis Hamilton and
Felipe Massa, who drove for McLaren and Ferrari respectively. Hamilton started from
pole position on the starting grid but was beaten into the first corner by Massa, who passed him around the outside. The two championship protagonists commenced a battle for the lead that was resolved when Hamilton suffered a
puncture just over half-way through the race, giving Massa a comfortable lead. The Ferrari's engine, however, failed with three laps of the race remaining, allowing Kovalainen to take the win.
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Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of
open-wheeledauto racing defined by the
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. The "formula" in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must conform. The F1 world championship season consists of a series of races, known as
Grands Prix, held usually on purpose-built
circuits, and in a few cases on closed city streets. Drivers are awarded points based on their position in each race, and the driver who accumulates the most points over each calendar year is crowned that year's
World Champion. As of the
2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, there have been 820 FIA
World Championship races since its first event, the
1950 British Grand Prix.
Seven-time champion
Michael Schumacher holds the record for the most championships, while his 91 wins, 154 podium finishes and 68 pole positions are also records.
Rubens Barrichello has entered more Grands Prix than anyone else—288 times in total—as well as having made an unsurpassed 284 race starts. The
United Kingdom is the most represented nation, having produced a total of 157 different drivers. Eight nations have been represented by just one.
Poland became the latest country to be represented by a driver when
Robert Kubica made his
Formula One debut at the
2006 Hungarian Grand Prix.
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Grand Prix 2, sometimes known as "GP2" and sold in the
American market as Grand Prix II, is a
racing simulator released by
MicroProse in
1996. It was made under an official FIA license that featured the
Formula One1994 season, with all of the circuits, teams, drivers and cars. The cars were painted with liveries reflecting the races that did not allow tobacco and beer sponsors (i.e.
1994 French Grand Prix).
It had 3D texture mapping and
SVGA graphics, as well as an early but realistic physics
engine. A large community of GP2 enthusiasts formed quickly and still exists today. Grand Prix 2 is recognized as one of the definitive racing simulations of its era.
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The 2008 Hungarian Grand Prix (formally the XXIII ING Magyar Nagydíj) was a
Formula One motor race held on August 3, 2008, at
Hungaroring in
Mogyoród, near
Budapest,
Hungary. It was the 11th race of the
2008 Formula One season. Contested over 70 laps, the race was won by
Heikki Kovalainen for the
McLaren team, from a second position start.
Timo Glock finished second in a
Toyota car, with
Kimi Räikkönen third in a
Ferrari. It marked Kovalainen's first Formula One victory, which made him the sport's 100th driver to win a World Championship race, and Glock's first podium finish.
Much of the race, however, was dominated by a duel between
Lewis Hamilton and
Felipe Massa, who drove for McLaren and Ferrari respectively. Hamilton started from
pole position on the starting grid but was beaten at the first corner by Massa, who passed him around the outside. The two championship protagonists commenced a battle for the lead that was resolved when Hamilton suffered a
puncture just over half-way through the race, giving Massa a comfortable lead. The Ferrari's engine, however, failed with three laps of the race remaining, allowing Kovalainen to take the win.
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Senna began his motorsport career in
karting and moved up the ranks to win the
British Formula 3 championship in 1983. Making his Formula One debut with
Toleman in
1984, he moved to
Lotus-Renault the following
year, and won six Grands Prix over the next three seasons. In
1988 he joined Frenchman
Alain Prost at
McLaren-
Honda. Between them, Senna and Prost won fifteen out of the sixteen Grands Prix which took place that season, with Senna winning his first
World Championship, a title he would go on to win again in
1990 and
1991. McLaren's performance declined in
1992, as the
Williams-
Renault combination began to dominate the sport, although Senna won five races to finish as runner-up in
1993. He moved to Williams in
1994, but suffered a
fatal accident at the third race of the season at the
Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Italy.
Senna is regarded as one of the greatest drivers in the history of Formula One. In 2009, a poll of 217 current and former
Formula One drivers chose Senna as their greatest Formula One driver, in a survey conducted by British magazine
Autosport. He was recognised for his qualifying speed over one lap and from
1989 until
2006 held the record for most
pole positions. He was among the most talented drivers in extremely rain-affected conditions, as shown by his performances in the
1984 Monaco Grand Prix, the
1985 Portuguese Grand Prix, and the
1993 European Grand Prix. He also holds the record for most victories at the prestigious
Monaco Grand Prix (6) and is the third most successful driver of all time in terms of
race wins. However, Senna courted controversy throughout his career, particularly during his turbulent rivalry with
Alain Prost, which was marked by two championship-deciding collisions at the
1989 and
1990 Japanese Grands Prix.
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Bruce McLaren, current Start-Class article.
Bruce Leslie McLaren (30 August 1937 – 2 June 1970), born in
Auckland,
New Zealand, was a race-car designer, driver, engineer and inventor.
His name lives on in the
McLaren team which has been one of the most successful in
Formula One championship history, with McLaren cars and drivers winning a total of 20 world championships. McLaren cars totally dominated
CanAm sports car racing with 56 wins, a considerable number of them with him behind the wheel, between 1967 and 1972 (and five constructors’ championships), and have won three
Indianapolis 500 races, as well as
24 Hours of Le Mans and
12 Hours of Sebring.
As a nine year old, McLaren contracted
Perthes disease in his hip which left his left leg shorter than the right. He spent two years in traction, but later often had a slight limp.
Les and Ruth McLaren, his parents, owned a service station and workshop in
Remuera,
Auckland. Bruce spent all of his free hours hanging around the workshop. The McLaren family homestead is located in Ngaruawahia in the Northern Waikato region and still stands today.
Michael Schumacher (6th, + 5.712) was given a 20-second penalty after the race for passing Fernando Alonso under neutralised safety car conditions, under which the race finished.