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Orange Times Issue 2 The Orange Times Bruce McLaren Trust June / July 2014, Issue #2 Farewell Sir Jack 1926 - 2014 Along with the motorsport fraternity worldwide I was extremely saddened to th hear of Sir Jack’s recent passing on the 19 May. The McLaren family and Jack have shared a wonderful life-long friendship, starting with watching his early racing days in New Zealand, then Pop McLaren purchasing the Bobtail Cooper from Jack after the NZ summer racing season of 1957. For the following season of 1958, Jack made the McLaren Service Station in Remuera his base and brought the second Cooper with him from the UK for Bruce to drive in the NZIGP which culminated in Bruce being awarded the Celebrating 50 Years of “Driver to Europe”. Jack became his mentor and close friend and by 1959 McLaren Racing Bruce joined him as teammate for the Cooper Racing Team. The rest, as we say, is history but the friendship lived on and the BM Trust Following on from their Tasman Series was delighted to host Jack in New Zealand for a week of motorsport memories success, the fledgling BMMR Team set about in 2003 with Jack requesting that the priority of the trip was to be a visit to their very first sports car race with the Zerex see his “NZ Mum” Ruth McLaren, who, by then, was a sprightly 97 years old. th Special – on April 11 1964 at Oulton Park and I shared a very special hour with the two of them together and the love and this was a DNF/oil pressure. The following atmosphere between them was amazing and will never be forgotten. weekend however at Aintree resulted in the first sports car win for the team, and then a Jack, you were a dear and very special family friend. Jan McLaren nd second win at Silverstone on the 2 of May. The day after the Silverstone race the Zerex was stripped down on a dirt floor in the earth moving machinery shed at New Malden (Team HQ). A new McLaren designed tube frame was welded in and a 3.5 V8 Oldsmobile engine repowered the Zerex. Eoin Young was sent on a Sunday to find some paint for the car and all that was available from the local hardware shop was “garden fence green”. The time lines were very tight with Wally Willmott and Tyler Alexander putting in several long days to get the car ready to be shipped to the USA for a Mosport race in early June! And whilst all this was going on, Bruce was still driving for the Cooper team and also co-drove with Phil Hill in a Ford GT40 at the Nurburgring 1000km endurance race - Bruce’s first race in a GT40. They were second fastest in practice and running second in the race to the works Ferrari, but were eliminated when the suspension broke. In this Issue… Celebrating 50 Years – 1964 – 2014 P1 Sir Jack Brabham Tributes P1 – P3 Workshop Austin 7 Launch P4 Trust Register Update P5 Years Gone By P5 General News P6 Current Calendar P6 Contact Us P6 Bruce McLaren Trust Sir John Arthur (Jack) Brabham AO, OBE So many wonderful tributes have been written about Sir Jack so instead of rewriting all the motoring type stories, I decided on a more personal approach from the McLaren Family perspective, the family involvement and a collection of great old photos. Motorsport is always supposed to be fun but when Jack Brabham arrived in town, fun took on a whole new meaning – especially to a young 8 year girl! Never to be forgotten are the memories of Jack and his ‘Double Happy’ crackers and life sized black plastic spiders. The crackers exploded under cars, by people’s feet, up exhausts, inside hotels and numerous other places. To this day I have never ever forgotten the look on the face of the waitress at the Occidental Hotel in Christchurch when, with arms full of plates, Jack threw the large spider at her. The shambles and mess that followed was mind-boggling to a youngster but in those days they seemed to get away with it. The landlady at the Occidental Hotel must have had great patience with the merry band of drivers that stayed each year and it seemed traditional on arrival that, immediately, the chamber pot (or guzzunder) was removed from under the bed and hoisted on the flagpole – the motorsport entourage was in town!! Every summer this motorsport circus travelled the roads and circuits of New Zealand – a wonderful group of friends: Jack, Stirling Moss, Jim Clark, Ross Jensen, Innes Ireland, Jo Bonnier, Tom Clark, Graham Hill, Phil Hill, Roy Salvadori, John Surtees, Ron Flockhart, Arnold Glass, Denny Hulme, Chris Amon, Frank Matich, Bob Jane and many many others. Trips to Europe and Australia when Pop and Ruth McLaren joined up with the Brabham family followed on numerous occasions. A special highlight was when they flew to Sydney to partake in the “Jack Brabham - This is your Life” TV show in the Seventies. He was truly a motorsport genius, a brilliant engineer and driver and his incredible legacy will long survive him. Kevin & Jackie Halcyon years indeed, and friendships that have lasted a lifetime. Jan McLaren 2 Mick & Jody Bruce McLaren Trust Dan Gurney on the passing of Sir Jack Brabham It is with great sadness that I received the news that my former Formula boss and team mate, the 3 time F1 World Champion Sir Jack Brabham, passed away in Australia over the weekend. A motor racing giant has left our planet whose combined achievements of F1 World Championship driver and car constructor in all likelihood will never be equaled. Dark haired "Black Jack" was a fierce competitor, an outstanding engineer, a tiger of a driver, an excellent politician and a hands-on creator and visionary. He opened the rear-engine door at Indianapolis and raced there. H e was a doer, a true Aussie pioneer! Jack and I go far back in history together. We raced "against each other on the F1 circuit since 1959 driving Coopers, Ferraris, BRMs and Porsches. In 1963 he hired me as his team mate for his newly established Brabham F1 team and during the next three years we really got to know each other. We discovered we shared similar traits. We were not only interested in driving racing cars but in building them, improving them, searching for every tiny bit of technical advantage we could find. I see both of us sitting in garages all over the world bent over engines, talking to each other and to our team: Ron Tauraunac, Phil Kerr, Roy Billington, Tim Wall, Nick Gooze and Denis Hulme. We shared the camaraderie of a closely knit team pursuing a common purpose. The racing tragedies and the glory days of the 1960s bonded us for life. Since we retired from driving, both in the fall of 1970, we have stayed in touch. I last spoke to Jack a few months ago on the phone. We were looking forward to the golden anniversary of the first World Championship F1 victory for the Brabham marque: The French Grand Prix at Rouen, June 28th, 1964, which I won for the team 50 years ago this summer. In 1966 we both went our separate ways. I followed the trail he had blazed by trying to build, race and win with my own F1 cars. I have been told that only three men in the history of auto racing have managed to do that. Bruce McLaren and I won races, but Sir Jack Brabham won World Championships. He will be forever in a class all by himself. I will miss you Jack! You showed the way! With gratitude and admiration. Dan Dan Gurney, Chairman, All American Racers, Inc. www.allamericanracers.com 3 Bruce McLaren Trust The Workshop Austin 7 – Nelson Launch The McLaren Service Station Workshop Austin 7 has now been completely restored and it was handed over to the Trust by the Nelson Restoration Team at a function on May 16th. Three years of amazing work and dedication have culminated in a fantastic looking Austin 7, complete with McLaren Service Station signwriting and period Gulf logos. The project was supervised by our Trustee Max Colman and the Restoration Team was led by Nelson member Mike Stephens. The Nelson Austin 7 guru, Dick Anderson, was responsible for all the actual restoration work, ably assisted by Des Plummer and Allan Braid along with the help of many local and out of town supporters and businesses. This entire team worked tirelessly on the project and it is a wonderful credit to them all. We look forward to showcasing and launching the Austin 7 here in Auckland later this year. Currently it has been on display for Gulf in their Farmlands depot in Richmond, Nelson and then it will be on display at WOW Museum for approximately three months prior to returning north. It is fully roadworthy, registered and warranted, sounds great and Dick tells us he has had it up to around 45 mph!! This wonderful little old Austin 7 is the absolute jewel of all the cars driven by Bruce. It was in this treasure that he first learnt to drive - prior to taking all the good parts out of it to put on the Austin Ulster! Dick Anderson tries out the driver’s seat Mike Stephens & Jan unveil the ‘baby’ Correct period signwriting ‘Start your engines’ – Dick Anderson & Jan 'click here' to watch this video 4 The project team Bruce McLaren Trust ‘Years Gone By’… May – June May 31st 1963 - Chris Amon First Overseas Win As most members will be aware, over many years the Trust Midland Trophy at Mallory Park in a Lola.
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