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Flashback: Belgium '68 - the first of many wins for McLaren
Bruce McLaren had not won a world championship race for going on six years when he arrived at the legendary Spa-Francorchamps circuit for the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix.But armed with his self-built, bright orange car - the Cosworth-powered McLaren M7A - he scored what turned out to be the first of many famous victories for the team bearing his name…Bruce McLaren was a man accustomed to challenges. As a child he’d had to overcome a debilitating disease that had left him bedridden and with one leg shorter than the other; then later, aged 20, he made the not-insignificant journey from his native New Zealand to Great Britain, armed with little more than the endorsement of Jack...
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