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Tony Roberts in his McLaren during round one of the 2020/21 SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series at Feilding in November 2020.
While the Taupō Historic GP this year celebrates Ford, a record number of cars bearing the name of New Zealand motor racing great Bruce McLaren will line up on the grid. The annual event at Taupō’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park, on January 23 and 24, is the second round of this season’s SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series. Though best known for the F1 team which still bears his name, Auckland-born driver, car constructor and team owner, McLaren, also had a major hand in the design and testing of a line of early production McLaren Formula 5000 single-seaters, starting with the M10A, then M10B.
Press Release – New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Rnd 1 21 SAS MSC F5000 R1 Tim Rush 20 McLaren M22 Toby Annabell 9A McLaren M10B. Photo credit: Fast Company/Matt Smith Photography.
It seems entirely fitting that at the second round of this season’s SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000
Tasman Cup Revival Series at the annual Taupō Historic GP, this time celebrating Ford, at Taupō’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park in less than a fortnight’s (Sat-Sun Jan 23/24) time, there will be a record number of cars bearing the name of the NZ motor racing great lined up on the grid.
Though best known for the F1 team which still proudly bears his name, before his untimely death in 1970 Auckland-born racing driver/car constructor/team owner Bruce McLaren also had a major hand in the design and testing of a line of early production McLaren Formula 5000 single-seaters, starting with the M10A, then M10B.
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1 21 SAS MSC F5000 R1 Tim Rush 20 McLaren M22 Toby Annabell
9A McLaren M10B. Photo credit: Fast Company/Matt Smith
Photography.
It seems entirely
fitting that at the second round of this season’s SAS
Autoparts MSC NZ F5000
Tasman Cup Revival
Series at the annual Taupō Historic GP, this time
celebrating Ford, at Taupō’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport
Park in less than a fortnight’s (Sat-Sun Jan 23/24) time,
there will be a record number of cars bearing the name of
the NZ motor racing great lined up on the grid.
Though
best known for the F1 team which still proudly bears his