Bruce McLaren's Ghost Revisits Goodwood Crash Site

[Dave Homewood]

This is an amazing little film, showing Formula One champion Bruce McLaren revisiting the crash site in which he was killed in 1970. Really quite poignant and sad. A great kiwi.

www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/8260180/McLarens-ghost-revisits-deadly-crash-site

[strikemaster]

I wish Donaldson would do a film on McLarren. Good little clip that, apart from the Aussie accent.

[steveh]

Thanks for sharing that with us Dave, real lump in the throat stuff for me anyways.
Steve.

[Dave Homewood]

Me too. It's really nice that Team McLaren has not forgotten its founder and their roots, and they still use the stylised little red kiwi as their symbol despite being a fully English company these days. I hope we get to see the other two films.

[Dave Homewood]

Here's another great little clip from McLaren about Bruce's death

[ams888]

That was very well done, and quite spine tingling

[steveh]

Wish you'd stop doing that Dave, the lumps in the throat are getting a bit much just now. Another nice one & the thing I like about it is the obvious respect for the man after all this time, doesn't that canam car still look the goods?
It was a time of larger than life people & easy as a youngster to have heros, sadly I said good bye to all too many of them in the wrong circumstances, these clips sure do bring back some memories.
Steve.

[Dave Homewood]

There was talk in the media a few years back that a feature film about Bruce McLaren was to be made. Sadly, like the mooted films at the same time to be made on Sir Edmund Hillary and Charles Upham VC* respectively, this project seems to have come to nothing. His sister built a museum in Auckland to Bruce's memory, has anyone visited it?

They picked a very lifelike actor to stand in for Bruce in this clip I reckon.

[suthg]

Thanks Dave, I went to the McLaren Festival at Hampton Downs Racetrack and it was a glorious tribute to Bruce and his cars and the F5000 V8's in Jan 2010. Thanks for the vids - great sound of that grunty V8 in the vid!!