Cars

On 9 June 1968 at the notoriously dangerous Spa-Francorchamps circuit, the skilled racer and team owner from New Zealand Bruce McLaren clinched victory in the Belgian Grand Prix, joining an exclusive club of drivers to have won a race in a car bearing their own name. Two years later, almost to the day, the motorsport world was rocked to its core when McLaren tragically died in an accident while testing a Can-Am car at Goodwood.

Historics has joined the long list of auction houses adapting to the new post-coronavirus normal. However, while online and telephone bidding will be available, the collector car sale poised to take place on 18 July will take place at a physical venue: Windsorview Lakes in Datchet, just west of London. We’re told that the scenic location is expansive enough to stage the saleroom itself and all 59 cars due to be sold at a safe, social distance for all involved. Well done to everybody at Historics for pulling this one off so soon.

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It’s been 25 years since JJ Lehto, Yannick Dalmas and Masanori Sekiya defied the odds to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans outright in the Ueno Clinic-sponsored McLaren F1 GTR. It was the first and only time a manufacturer has won the French endurance thriller on its maiden outing – that it was able to do so with a road-born GT car and not a purpose-built prototype made the feat even sweeter.