Editing McLaren (section)

==History==
[[File:McLarenBruce.jpg|thumb|upright|The McLaren Racing team's founder [[Bruce McLaren]]]]

Bruce McLaren Motor Racing was founded in 1963 by New Zealander [[Bruce McLaren]].<ref name="mclarenhistory">{{cite web |url=http://www.mclaren.com/mclarengroup/mclaren-in-formula1.php |title=McLAREN IN FORMULA 1 |publisher=mclaren.com |access-date=12 April 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528224319/http://www.mclaren.com/mclarengroup/mclaren-in-formula1.php |archive-date=28 May 2008}}</ref> Bruce was a [[factory-backed|works]] driver for the British [[Formula One]] team [[Cooper Car Company|Cooper]] with whom he had won three [[Grand Prix motor racing|Grands Prix]] and come second in the {{F1|1960}} World Championship. Wanting to compete in the [[Australasia]]n [[Tasman Series]], Bruce approached his employers, but when team owner Charles Cooper insisted on using 1.5-litre Formula One-specification engines instead of the 2.5-litre motors permitted by the Tasman rules, Bruce decided to set up his own team to run him and his prospective Formula One teammate [[Timmy Mayer]] with custom-built Cooper cars.<ref>{{harvnb|Nye|1988|page=65}}</ref>

Bruce won the [[1964 Tasman Series|1964 series]], but Mayer was killed in practice for the final race at the [[Longford Circuit]] in [[Tasmania]]. When Bruce McLaren approached Teddy Mayer to help him with the purchase of the Zerex sports car from Roger Penske, Teddy Mayer and Bruce McLaren began discussing a business partnership resulting in Teddy Mayer buying in to Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Limited (BMMR) and ultimately becoming its largest shareholder.<ref>{{harvnb|Henry|1999|p=15}}</ref><ref name="mayerobituary">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/feb/06/obituary-teddy-mayer |title=Obituary: Teddy Mayer|first=Alan|last=Henry|author-link=Alan Henry |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=6 February 2009|access-date=30 March 2010}}</ref>

The team, [[List of Formula One constructors#Team's nationality|competing under a British racing licence]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.racingsportscars.com/covers/_Zeltweg-1970-08-16e.jpg| title=1970 Austrian Grand Prix Entry list |publisher= Racing Sport Cars |language=de}}</ref> was based in [[Feltham]], England from 1963 to 1964, and in [[Colnbrook]], England from 1965 until 1981, and it has been based in [[Woking]], England since 1981.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://corktree.tripod.com/Case_History.html |title=Case History |publisher=Corktree.tripod.com |access-date=3 September 2017}}</ref> Despite this, Bruce never used the traditional [[British racing green]] on his cars. Instead, he used colour schemes that were not based on [[List of international auto racing colors#Major competitors|national principles]] (e.g. his first [[Formula One car]], the [[McLaren M2B]] car, raced at the [[1966 Monaco Grand Prix]], was painted white with a green stripe, to represent a fictional Yamura team in [[John Frankenheimer]]'s film ''[[Grand Prix (1966 film)|Grand Prix]]'').<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mclaren.com/formula1/2018/car-launch/mclaren-and-papaya-2174925/|title=McLaren Formula 1 - McLaren & Papaya|access-date=4 October 2018|archive-date=26 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326102759/https://www.mclaren.com/formula1/2018/car-launch/mclaren-and-papaya-2174925/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

During this period, Bruce drove for his team in [[sports car racing|sports car races]] in the United Kingdom and North America and also entered the [[1965 Tasman Series]] with [[Phil Hill]], but did not win it.<ref>{{harvnb|Nye|1988|pages=72–85}}</ref> He continued to drive in Grands Prix for Cooper, but judging that team's form to be waning, decided to race his own cars in 1966.<ref name="henry18">{{harvnb|Henry|1999|page=18}}</ref>