I will second that…”best memories…”, I was there 1969 watching also! Corner 6, crowd clustered at the fence, AMAZING….just doesn’t describe it! Went on to race there, RA, in 2004 for ten years in a Spec Miata.
I watched Bruce from the time he first came to Britain, to join Coopers, under Jack Brabham in 1959. In 1960, Bruce became the youngest ever driver to win a GP when he won in the US, and, in 1961, the Argentina GP.
@@steveholman3451 A bit of an insult there, to mention a Japanese saloon car, in the same post about the great Bruce McLaren, the great Denny Hulme, and the other two American drivers. Bad form!
@@Demun1649 Denny "The Bear" Hulme - fasted Can Am driver by a country mile! Just don't try to interview him on TV. You would more than likely be told to f*ck off!
My Dad was a car guy, and we lived in the Bay Area between Laguna Seca and Sears Point. We saw Can Am racing at both tracks for more than 10 years. Still my favorite racing and cars ever.
Can-Am cars were nasty, Mclaren, Porsche, Chaparral. Toward the end of Can-Am they were running faster lap times around Watkins Glen than Formula 1 during that period, think about that for a second!!
I lived minutes away from laguna seca where this was filmed. I got to watch these cars and trans am cars run 1967 to the end. It was awesome. I'll never forget the sound.
I was not there for the hey day of Can-Am but I saw the later series at Seca 1977-80,. We went to all the different series races at Seca from 75-80, love that place.
The bond between Bruce and his cars and Chevrolet thunder forged a spirit of racing prowess and passion that Mclaren UK has built F1 and GT legends upon. On top of that, Mclaren Performance Technologies has been decisive in the concept and creation of some of the finest race and production engines ever. I hope Bruce is resting easy, proud of his legacy.
Remember being at Laguna for these races and working in the pits. Crewed and old Genie for a friend thant ran in the Can-Am... what fun even if we were slow....Remember standing next to Jim Hall when they brought the sucker car in with a blown motor, Vic Elford had the field covered by several seconds...Jim Hall was so mad because they were trying to ban it that he told his crew to load it up and take it home...We were all shocked and Vic Elford was really mad... they loaded it up and off it went, never to be scene again...
I didn't see an M20. I did bodywork on one in 1988 or 89 and hoped to see if the changes I made were still evident. At that time the owner was trying to get the car back to original from changes made by whoever bought and raced the car after McLaren left CanAm. The M20 was the last CanAm McLaren. Watching the car on the track by itself from turn 11 at Sears Point you could feel the vibration of the engine in your rib cage even when it was over the hill and you couldn't see it. Utterly awesome.
I saw the Bruce and Denny show at Riverside Raceway in 69 and 70. They were so badass. Big fast and loud. Rumour went around that Denny Hulme was sipping tea while driving around.
There was a McLaren Festival in New Zealand in 2010 at the opening of Hampton Downs Circuit and at Pukekohe Circuit the week later. 107 teams came from around the world to celebrate Bruce's life and the teams achievements. The 320 competing cars were housed in a giant marquee, as the pits hadn't been completed at that stage. It was a very exciting weekend, with huge crowds attending. Since then there has been a Festival at Hampton Downs for Chris Amon, Denny Hulme and Howden Ganley, as well as McLaren, all Kiwi F1 drivers. The 6 day Festival format was discontinued in 2016 with the change of ownership of the circuit.
I saw Denny & Bruce every Feb during the Tasman Series. Living close to the track we went to unofficial practise . Got to see & listen to these guys . I do remember Denny he was quite a storyteller if not surrounded by people. Ted Mayer whose brother Tim was killed at Longford in Tasmania was helping Bruce run his team at that time . These cars as one of the US magazines said at the time were “ normal cars built abnormally well”. I think from watching an interview with Denny that the team really put their major efforts into these cars for 1 major reason money & because to a lesser extent they loved driving them.But they were unbeatable until the Porsche 917 came along.Very few teams had achieved that in motor racing at that time.
@@MrDowntownLA Made of Aluminium, so very light, Denny Hulmes favourite cars.. they evidently used to lift the nose if they got to close to the car in front of them on acceleration.
I was lucky enough to be around a Bruce driven CanAm not too long ago. It was next to an Eagle F1 car. As a car guy, that's a kind of spiritual connection. I can't imagine owning these things and using the same machine these legends used.
An aspect that's remarkable for the era of motorsports was that while Bruce McLaren was developing and racing his dominant Group 7 Can-Am cars back then, at the same time he also had the time and resources to develop and race competitive Formula 1 racers, too. Can anyone imagine a Formula 1 team nowadays venturing into sports car racing in the same race season; with having the dominance that McLaren had in the Can-Am sports car series?
Can Am Cars,the Most powerful and amazing sounding Cars. This was a time when Power was all.Most Cars have 800 or more horsepower.In a few words,I Like them.
@@JerseyMikeP No it wasn't. They may have been spectacular to watch in qualifying, fishtailing down the straights on full boost, but they were so difficult to drive that changes needed to be made.
Love to see what Randy Pobst could lap these cars at... Considering he (IS THE KING) of Laguna Seca. If I owned ANY of these cars I would have him run them to see what time he could do.
The story about Penske's M6A-3 Money pants Roger visited Bruce in the UK in 1967 - and begged Bruce to sell him a car. He took it back to The States and spent zillions Americanizing it! That is: chroming everything, fancy pin-striping and lavish paint job! LOL Over the winter the winter Bruce and his boys built the next M8. In typical Kiwi fashion, with no BS glitz and glamour! Hardware store paint job! Bought to the States for the 1968, and he and Denny embarrassed poor old rich kid Penske. Eating their lunch.😂 McLaren lived in a different world than the rich Yank!
Just seeing the stickers on these old cars, Chevrolet, still the best power plants on earth, Good Year, Champion spark plugs still the best there is, I love these cars and the racing they produced, with NASCAR destroyed, we will never see racing like this again.
The guy is wrong about no aerodynamics. They weren't wind tunnel tweaked to the Nth degree like nowadays but there obviously WERE aerodynamics involved.
i sean bruce & denny race twice as a kid at watkins glen n y i have 8mm home movies they finished 1 & 2 at my first race at the glen my dad got free tix he worked on gm race products on there car engine blocks at tonawanda engine plant in N Y iv got 8x 10 autographs
I wonder what will happen is Can Am is still around today,we might be looking for a sub 5 minute lap on the Nordschleife in a modern Can Am car,(F1 is the closest thing we can get to modern Can Am)
Big block Ford and Chevys....some with aluminum blocks... based on 427ci roughly. Although Porsche had their own engine and there were some others like the ALFA T33s brought over from Europe. I was there for these races at Laguna Seca starting in 1968. Live in SF and this was the highlight of the year for me each year. The inventiveness of these guys was amazing. Saw some pretty interesting cars...some not as successful but. I was there when Jim Hall ran his Chapparal "vacuum cleaner" car that would have won except a cheap bearing went uut out the last lap. That car was outlawed the next season as it was so much faster than anything else of the day It used a second motor to power a big fan to such the car to the ground. It also used an automatic transmission instead of a manual. Also saw one car that was 4 wheel drive with 4 showmobile engines in it. Another had a blown drag boat engine complete with zoomy boat headers. The first AVS Shadow that experimented with tiny wheels to gain an aerodynamic advantage. That failed in many ways but they came back with a competitive car and won in future years. I got to meet several of these drivers. McLaren, Hall, Revson, Hulme, etc. I later raced in SCCA with an ALFA GTV B Sedan....lots of memories of those Can Am races and sad that they finally ended....but you can still see them at Vintage Race Car events.
@@RobertKarlBerta Many thanks for the info.Though raised in the south in the 1960s and 70s I always tried yo watch on TV and read about those awesome cars.Congrats on your career and again thanks for tge generous reply.
The nastiest, most brutal race cars every conceived. The balls of the original drivers like McLaren and Surtees must have required wheelbarrows to walk around. And to think Bruce McLaren designed and built the cars himself The ingenuity of New Zealanders is a real thing. I'm an Australian. After hearing the shit my compatriots talk about how awesome Aussie V8 Supercars are in comparison to US racing makes me believe they haven't heard of Can--Am or Trans-Am racing. I'm glad I've started to educate myself.
Just Boggles the mind that an AMAZING company like McLaren....never designed/built their OWN engines? It seemed that way for All Brit brands after the 90's.
Wasn't Shelby A competing team at La'mone, racing against Mclaren who had Chris Amon driving. In that race, Amon won, getting across the line first, however race control ruled that Amon had to beat the guy who came second, by at least 3 minutes because the second guy started far back in the starting grid... Was bullshit...
In 1968 Shelby ran a race program with a couple of Ford powered McLarens, which was funded by Ford but in prior years you can also see some mid-engined Shelby ‘King Cobras’ running in Can-Am and other sports car races. Shelby teamed up with Cooper of Britain to create the King Cobras
You mean with their gasoline powered internal combustion engines? It's a shame that politics and the green religion is trying to end over 100 years of perfecting the internal combustion engine.
Ford Guys talk BS about the "Loosely FORD" Ford Gt40 and these CHEVY powered cars would Blow them off the road. Same with the CHEETAH's and the Weak Shelby Cobras.
@@idiot-983 Still decades ago... Nothing since. Not to mention it was a British car not built by Ford and they haven't won anything since. Porsche won 100 times more races than ford. Chevy won alot more races with cars built by the factory.
Camam cars came to New Zealand 2010 march along with indy cars I had the pleasure or doing demonstration runs at hampton downs park with the marlboro IndyCar and canam cars mr car is a marlboro commodore vk 1984 one off transam spec
2:18 - This guy and his "marginal brakes" and "no aerodynamics" irks me. If it had no aerodynamics, it would have never gone that fast and it would have lifted off the ground and flown. Those vented front fenders and the spoiler across the rear aren't for looks. What he means is they didn't have ground effects, maybe.
I think he meant in comparison to cars like Chaparral with vacuum effects and high wings connected direct to axles. Obviously it's not a yellow school bus. Some also had side wings in addition to a low skirt, the 917 short tail was even fairly evolved.
Long wheels base cars they were magic Mosport raceway early 1970 Canada GP McLaren’s has better time they entered 500 miles endurance and beat 917 Porsche 512 Ferrari
These beautiful creations and their drivers are from 'My Era' and are my heroes still!
I saw Revson, Hulme, McLaren and Donahue drive these cars at Elkhart Lake in 1969. One of the best memories of my life.
I will second that…”best memories…”, I was there 1969 watching also! Corner 6, crowd clustered at the fence, AMAZING….just doesn’t describe it! Went on to race there, RA, in 2004 for ten years in a Spec Miata.
That's awesome.
I watched Bruce from the time he first came to Britain, to join Coopers, under Jack Brabham in 1959. In 1960, Bruce became the youngest ever driver to win a GP when he won in the US, and, in 1961, the Argentina GP.
@@steveholman3451 A bit of an insult there, to mention a Japanese saloon car, in the same post about the great Bruce McLaren, the great Denny Hulme, and the other two American drivers. Bad form!
@@Demun1649 Denny "The Bear" Hulme - fasted Can Am driver by a country mile!
Just don't try to interview him on TV. You would more than likely be told to f*ck off!
My Dad was a car guy, and we lived in the Bay Area between Laguna Seca and Sears Point. We saw Can Am racing at both tracks for more than 10 years. Still my favorite racing and cars ever.
I was lucky enough to get to a few Can Am races when I was a kid. Bruce and Denny were dominating and it was spectacular.
Lucky guy!
Can-Am cars were nasty, Mclaren, Porsche, Chaparral. Toward the end of Can-Am they were running faster lap times around Watkins Glen than Formula 1 during that period, think about that for a second!!
There’s not another Series like it and never will.
What I loved was the lack of rules for the cars.
And they had a MINIMUM engine capacity!!
i thought i read that back then the can am series had no limits??
@@geedubb-q1u f3 is probably the only one that's free of restrictions like can-am was...
@@keithcarpenter5254🤣🤣🤣🤣 no
It was a thrill to watch them race in 60s. And the memories are especially sweet for me, having known and worked with those guys.
I lived minutes away from laguna seca where this was filmed. I got to watch these cars and trans am cars run 1967 to the end. It was awesome. I'll never forget the sound.
I was not there for the hey day of Can-Am but I saw the later series at Seca 1977-80,. We went to all the different series races at Seca from 75-80, love that place.
My best friends dad volunteered as a director. So we went to just about every race! Miss those days.
In the early 70s I used to travel to the CanAm races those cars were great--I saw the Porsche 917-30
The bond between Bruce and his cars and Chevrolet thunder forged a spirit of racing prowess and passion that Mclaren UK has built F1 and GT legends upon. On top of that, Mclaren Performance Technologies has been decisive in the concept and creation of some of the finest race and production engines ever. I hope Bruce is resting easy, proud of his legacy.
thank you for keeping the legacy alive. thank you Bruce for your passion!!!
Love these Mclarens I just think of Bruce makes me smile ☺ 😀
Remember being at Laguna for these races and working in the pits. Crewed and old Genie for a friend thant ran in the Can-Am... what fun even if we were slow....Remember standing next to Jim Hall when they brought the sucker car in with a blown motor, Vic Elford had the field covered by several seconds...Jim Hall was so mad because they were trying to ban it that he told his crew to load it up and take it home...We were all shocked and Vic Elford was really mad... they loaded it up and off it went, never to be scene again...
RIP Bruce McLaren the kiwi that learned to fly
All who have driven in that class are Legends. A time that we will never get back. Long live CanAm!
I still remember the absolute heartbreaking feeling when Bruce passed away. R.I.P. ❤
I didn't see an M20. I did bodywork on one in 1988 or 89 and hoped to see if the changes I made were still evident. At that time the owner was trying to get the car back to original from changes made by whoever bought and raced the car after McLaren left CanAm.
The M20 was the last CanAm McLaren.
Watching the car on the track by itself from turn 11 at Sears Point you could feel the vibration of the engine in your rib cage even when it was over the hill and you couldn't see it. Utterly awesome.
I gotta get to Road America for the annual Can-Am weekend. I had all these Can-Am beauties as a kid with my slot cars and I have to see them live.
I saw the Bruce and Denny show at Riverside Raceway in 69 and 70. They were so badass. Big fast and loud. Rumour went around that Denny Hulme was sipping tea while driving around.
There was a McLaren Festival in New Zealand in 2010 at the opening of Hampton Downs Circuit and at Pukekohe Circuit the week later. 107 teams came from around the world to celebrate Bruce's life and the teams achievements. The 320 competing cars were housed in a giant marquee, as the pits hadn't been completed at that stage. It was a very exciting weekend, with huge crowds attending. Since then there has been a Festival at Hampton Downs for Chris Amon, Denny Hulme and Howden Ganley, as well as McLaren, all Kiwi F1 drivers. The 6 day Festival format was discontinued in 2016 with the change of ownership of the circuit.
Those festivals were great Tony, and I know a lot of people appreciated what you did, along with the Bruce McLaren Trust. Hope you are well.
I was there too Tony. That was an amazing McLaren gathering for sure + you guys built a great circuit.
The M8F is stunningly gorgeous.
I saw Denny & Bruce every Feb during the Tasman Series. Living close to the track we went to unofficial practise . Got to see & listen to these guys . I do remember Denny he was quite a storyteller if not surrounded by people. Ted Mayer whose brother Tim was killed at Longford in Tasmania was helping Bruce run his team at that time . These cars as one of the US magazines said at the time were “ normal cars built abnormally well”. I think from watching an interview with Denny that the team really put their major efforts into these cars for 1 major reason money & because to a lesser extent they loved driving them.But they were unbeatable until the Porsche 917 came along.Very few teams had achieved that in motor racing at that time.
seeing this video makes me want to get into my shelby cobra replica this evening.
I was at Laguna Seca for the Porsche Rennsport Reunion this year but I wish I could've been there for this.
I was lucky to see all these cars racing at Road America. What a special time.
8.1 liters and 800hp in a car that weighs as much as my shoe
1.15 litres of cubic capacity per cylinder ? 😳👊
And looks like your shoe too
That’s 494 cubic inches in a V8
@@MrDowntownLA Made of Aluminium, so very light, Denny Hulmes favourite cars.. they evidently used to lift the nose if they got to close to the car in front of them on acceleration.
You better have big rollers
my self& my son raced karts as #5 or nothing denny was my hero as a kid
What a honor to keep these going!! THE BEST CLASS !
Most Stunning Race Cars In History.
The looks and Sound absolutely devastate any new race cars.
I was lucky enough to be around a Bruce driven CanAm not too long ago. It was next to an Eagle F1 car. As a car guy, that's a kind of spiritual connection. I can't imagine owning these things and using the same machine these legends used.
An aspect that's remarkable for the era of motorsports was that while Bruce McLaren was developing and racing his dominant Group 7 Can-Am cars back then, at the same time he also had the time and resources to develop and race competitive Formula 1 racers, too.
Can anyone imagine a Formula 1 team nowadays venturing into sports car racing in the same race season; with having the dominance that McLaren had in the Can-Am sports car series?
I remember reading about Bruce and Denny in Competition Press when I was in High School ! They were unstoppable!
The Bruce and Denny show😎😎
First love you Mclaren
Legendary. Beautiful.
An iconic car
I could almost smell the petrol and rubber! Great video guys!!!
Mclaren m8c I have this in Assetto Corsa car mod love this car
Try it at Bridgehampton...
I Wish I Could Go There !!
I will own one one day! My god I love them
Nothing sounds so damn good as American big block V8s !
Can Am Cars,the Most powerful and amazing sounding Cars.
This was a time when Power was all.Most Cars have 800 or more horsepower.In a few words,I Like them.
It's So SAD that the race series didn't continue to today...it's SO much better than Nascar or open wheel is today.
Totally true. NASCAR is bland and boring by comparison
@@dennissmith6783 Only thing is, they still use manuals. F1 was at it's best in 86 when they had manuals and 1,000 - 1,350 Horsepower Turbo 1.5L 4Cyl.
Crazy to think Mclaren would use a CHEVY Big block.
@@JerseyMikeP No it wasn't. They may have been spectacular to watch in qualifying, fishtailing down the straights on full boost, but they were so difficult to drive that changes needed to be made.
@@deaddoll1361 That's when REAL MEN , Raced in F1.
Tony is who expertly restored our McLaren M8F Commander Motorhomes for sale! RaceCarLocators! GO TONY!
Love to see what Randy Pobst could lap these cars at... Considering he (IS THE KING) of Laguna Seca. If I owned ANY of these cars I would have him run them to see what time he could do.
Саn-Am cars are the best racing cars ever! So mighty, so beautiful.
The story about Penske's M6A-3
Money pants Roger visited Bruce in the UK in 1967 - and begged Bruce to sell him a car.
He took it back to The States and spent zillions Americanizing it!
That is: chroming everything, fancy pin-striping and lavish paint job! LOL
Over the winter the winter Bruce and his boys built the next M8. In typical Kiwi fashion, with no BS glitz and glamour! Hardware store paint job!
Bought to the States for the 1968, and he and Denny embarrassed poor old rich kid Penske. Eating their lunch.😂
McLaren lived in a different world than the rich Yank!
I like to think the emblem on the end of the McLaren name represents a Kiwi.
ive seen em race when they were high wings
Ojala volviera esta epoca, me encantan
Just seeing the stickers on these old cars, Chevrolet, still the best power plants on earth, Good Year, Champion spark plugs still the best there is, I love these cars and the racing they produced, with NASCAR destroyed, we will never see racing like this again.
Awesome
Chevy power!!
2:36 - what? the whole point of them was aerodynamics!
Papaya McLaren!!!!!!!
The guy is wrong about no aerodynamics. They weren't wind tunnel tweaked to the Nth degree like nowadays but there obviously WERE aerodynamics involved.
i sean bruce & denny race twice as a kid at watkins glen n y i have 8mm home movies they finished 1 & 2 at my first race at the glen my dad got free tix he worked on gm race products on there car engine blocks at tonawanda engine plant in N Y iv got 8x 10 autographs
Legend.
Unreal....
Too much talk, unnecessary music. We want to watch and listen to these incredible cars.
Rog' you seem like a "big fan"..check out the Jim Hall interviews ...if you have not already have a good day
What event was this?
Shouldn't that Mark Donohue car be in a museum?😮
"It was all balls and skill."
Yes. Yes it was.
I wonder what will happen is Can Am is still around today,we might be looking for a sub 5 minute lap on the Nordschleife in a modern Can Am car,(F1 is the closest thing we can get to modern Can Am)
The Porsche 919 Tribute's lap around the ring was close as they removed all the restrctions for that run.
マクラーレンM6BとマクラーレンM8Aはプラモデルで発売されていた。当時のCAN-AM最強と言われていたM8B以降のウィングを設置したマシンは結局プロモ化されなかったなあ・・造形が難しかったのかな・・・
There is always a one Porsche wanker thumping down.
Hey where’s all the buttons on the steering wheel? How am I supposed to control the car?
With your foot son, with your foot.
Which engines are in these cars ?
Big block Ford and Chevys....some with aluminum blocks... based on 427ci roughly. Although Porsche had their own engine and there were some others like the ALFA T33s brought over from Europe. I was there for these races at Laguna Seca starting in 1968. Live in SF and this was the highlight of the year for me each year. The inventiveness of these guys was amazing. Saw some pretty interesting cars...some not as successful but. I was there when Jim Hall ran his Chapparal "vacuum cleaner" car that would have won except a cheap bearing went uut out the last lap. That car was outlawed the next season as it was so much faster than anything else of the day It used a second motor to power a big fan to such the car to the ground. It also used an automatic transmission instead of a manual. Also saw one car that was 4 wheel drive with 4 showmobile engines in it. Another had a blown drag boat engine complete with zoomy boat headers. The first AVS Shadow that experimented with tiny wheels to gain an aerodynamic advantage. That failed in many ways but they came back with a competitive car and won in future years.
I got to meet several of these drivers. McLaren, Hall, Revson, Hulme, etc. I later raced in SCCA with an ALFA GTV B Sedan....lots of memories of those Can Am races and sad that they finally ended....but you can still see them at Vintage Race Car events.
@@RobertKarlBerta Many thanks for the info.Though raised in the south in the 1960s and 70s I always tried yo watch on TV and read about those awesome cars.Congrats on your career and again thanks for tge generous reply.
@@markpatterson2507 I forgot how big they got but they went out to at least 454.Aluminium blocks.
@@beagle7622 thank you
The nastiest, most brutal race cars every conceived. The balls of the original drivers like McLaren and Surtees must have required wheelbarrows to walk around. And to think Bruce McLaren designed and built the cars himself The ingenuity of New Zealanders is a real thing. I'm an Australian. After hearing the shit my compatriots talk about how awesome Aussie V8 Supercars are in comparison to US racing makes me believe they haven't heard of Can--Am or Trans-Am racing. I'm glad I've started to educate myself.
Just Boggles the mind that an AMAZING company like McLaren....never designed/built their OWN engines? It seemed that way for All Brit brands after the 90's.
Think it was a Shelby engine
Chevy big-block 427 all aluminum ZL1
Amazing until the open cockpit 917 and Mark Donahue.
Should have done this at road america, a far superior track
It should of of been in New Zealand were McLaren started
Hampton Downs would be nice. There has been a Porsche festival and a Ferrari festival. I saw my first Ferrari F1 car.
Didn't Shelby have something to do with this car
Wasn't Shelby A competing team at La'mone, racing against Mclaren who had Chris Amon driving. In that race, Amon won, getting across the line first, however race control ruled that Amon had to beat the guy who came second, by at least 3 minutes because the second guy started far back in the starting grid... Was bullshit...
In 1968 Shelby ran a race program with a couple of Ford powered McLarens, which was funded by Ford but in prior years you can also see some mid-engined Shelby ‘King Cobras’ running in Can-Am and other sports car races. Shelby teamed up with Cooper of Britain to create the King Cobras
@@colinboniface194 I have heard so much mixed up bovine excrement my man! What comics do you read? LOL
LOSE THE SOUNDTRACK...the cars make the music.
I can't wait to look back in 50 years time at how rudimentary today's cars look.
You mean with their gasoline powered internal combustion engines? It's a shame that politics and the green religion is trying to end over 100 years of perfecting the internal combustion engine.
Uhoh, get on the curb when the flat 12 Porch Wagons arrive
Cars for big ball people.
Lose the music soundtrack
I know it's Bruce McLaren car.. dar ah
not a Mclaren....Bruce McLaren's car
@@martinmoffitt4702 that's what I said ...dar ah🙄
Ford Guys talk BS about the "Loosely FORD" Ford Gt40 and these CHEVY powered cars would Blow them off the road. Same with the CHEETAH's and the Weak Shelby Cobras.
Lemans records are what they are ! Look up GT 40 there !
@@idiot-983 60 yrs ago and only 2 wins are a joke to everyone except Ferrari. Porsche shits on ford,Chevy, Mopar, Ferrari, Lambo, Audi combined.
4 years of total dominance, and retired nuff said !
@@idiot-983 Still decades ago... Nothing since. Not to mention it was a British car not built by Ford and they haven't won anything since.
Porsche won 100 times more races than ford.
Chevy won alot more races with cars built by the factory.
Not wanting to argue, But cobras were made by ACE in England and Carroll built Gt40s. Aren't McLaren cars from New Zealand ?
Camam cars came to New Zealand 2010 march along with indy cars I had the pleasure or doing demonstration runs at hampton downs park with the marlboro IndyCar and canam cars mr car is a marlboro commodore vk 1984 one off transam spec
Hi
ANYBODY ELSE REMBER OLD HILBORN FI
They may have used the Hilborn inlet manifolds but the injectors and fuel pumps were timed units, not the alcohol style that ruled dirt speedway.
Would've been nice to hear the cars rather than the rich blokes who now own them
This was nothing. Some run even two cars, modified, recent model Shadows against 60's cars. Defeats the heritage and appreciation.
MCLAREN TOOTING THEIR OWN HORN AGAIN
Not saying they can't but goddamn! Be better than Porsche!
You mean they’re not?
😁
I'm sure glad all those old rich farts get to have so many nice toys to play with
crazy times
crash =50% death
2:18 - This guy and his "marginal brakes" and "no aerodynamics" irks me. If it had no aerodynamics, it would have never gone that fast and it would have lifted off the ground and flown. Those vented front fenders and the spoiler across the rear aren't for looks. What he means is they didn't have ground effects, maybe.
I think he meant to say downforce.
I think he meant in comparison to cars like Chaparral with vacuum effects and high wings connected direct to axles. Obviously it's not a yellow school bus. Some also had side wings in addition to a low skirt, the 917 short tail was even fairly evolved.
What did he say.... "it was all balls & skill...." th-cam.com/video/cECwisYd1tY/w-d-xo.html
Mika takes Dan Gurney Can Am car out for a spin round Laguna Seca. th-cam.com/video/Z9hQqFIRA3E/w-d-xo.html
Long wheels base cars they were magic Mosport raceway early 1970 Canada GP McLaren’s has better time they entered 500 miles endurance and beat 917 Porsche 512 Ferrari
Could definitely do without the lame music.
They wouldn’t let them in uk with the open exhaust now , to noisy, Pathetic!!!!
get rid of te stupid music!