F1/Drivers/Bruce McLaren
Bruce McLaren, portrait

BRUCE MCLAREN

New Zealander·Born August 30, 1937·1958-1970 · 13 seasons · 7 constructors
103
RACE STARTS
1958-1970 · 13 seasons
4
WINS
27 podiums · 0 poles
196.5
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
40
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
7
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
3.9%
STARTS WON
4 of 103

01/Season by season

16 lines over 13 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1970McLaren-Ford32nd0106146
1969McLaren-Ford112nd03026326
1968 · rounds 2-12McLaren-Ford101st13022522
1968 · rounds 8-8McLaren113th0000
1967 · rounds 2-11McLaren-BRM64th0003143
1967 · rounds 5-7Eagle-Weslake30000
1966 · rounds 1-9McLaren-Ford35th0002163
1966 · rounds 2-4McLaren-Serenissima26th0001
1965Cooper-Climax103rd01010910
1964Cooper-Climax102nd02013713
1963Cooper-Climax102nd03017617
1962Cooper-Climax91st15032327
1961Cooper-Climax83rd01011811
1960Cooper-Climax81st16037234
1959Cooper-Climax71st12016.5616.5
1958Cooper25th00000
Career7 constructors1031st4270196.50 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why McLaren has 16 lines over 13 seasons: 3 seasons were split between constructors and the round range of each spell is printed beside the year. Across the archive that is 3,422 season-constructor lines against 3,129 driver-seasons, so folding on the season alone would silently merge 293 of them and credit a driver with a full year at a car driven for a fortnight. Champ and Champ pts belong to the SEASON, not to the spell, and are printed once on a season’s first line; a dash in those two columns on a continuation line means the figure is above it, not that it is missing. Race pts is the sum of Grand Prix points and does not have to equal Champ pts: 139 of 3,129 driver-seasons differ, 68 of them from 1950 to 1990, when only a driver’s best results counted toward the title, and 71 from 2021 on, when sprint points began landing in the standings while this archive holds the Grand Prix result alone. Best is the best CLASSIFIED finish, read from position_text.


02/Race log, 1965

10 races
5 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 1South African Grand PrixCooper-Climax8584+1 Lap2
2MAY 30Monaco Grand PrixCooper-Climax7598+2 Laps2
3JUN 13Belgian Grand PrixCooper-Climax9331+1 Lap4
4JUN 27French Grand PrixCooper-Climax9R23Suspension0
5JUL 10British Grand PrixCooper-Climax111077+3 Laps0
6JUL 18Dutch Grand PrixCooper-Climax9R36Differential0
7AUG 1German Grand PrixCooper-Climax10R7Gearbox0
8SEP 12Italian Grand PrixCooper-Climax11575+1 Lap2
9OCT 3United States Grand PrixCooper-Climax2R11Oil pressure0
10OCT 24Mexican Grand PrixCooper-Climax15R25Gearbox0

The log is ordered by round, which is the calendar. Pos prints position_text, the source’s own classification, so R is retired, W is withdrew and D is disqualified rather than a finishing place: 5 of 10 rows in 1965 are one of those. Grid 0 means the car started from the pit lane or took no recorded grid slot and prints as PIT. No fastest-lap column is drawn: the source has no lap timing before 2004, so 1965 has none to show and an empty column would read as missing data. A Grand Prix name links to that race’s full classification. Sprints are not in this archive at all, so no sprint appears in the log and no sprint point is in Pts.

The portrait is the lead image of this driver’s Wikipedia article, shown only where that image was measured to hold a face at portrait scale: 374 of 881 drivers have one, 78 lead with a photograph of a car and 385 have no free image at all. Picture from Wikipedia by Lothar Spurzem, CC BY-SA 2.0 de. File description