It's 55 years since pioneering pocket rocket Bruce McLaren left us. 🫡 Affable yet relentlessly ambitious, Bruce was a racer, a founder, a designer and engineer all in one, and never above mucking in on the workshop floor. 🧹 Though he would tragically only oversee his team for seven years, McLaren continues to honour him in the greatest ways possible: with 196 race victories, nine constructors' championships and twelve drivers' championships. And counting... 👀 . . .   #McLaren #BruceMcLaren #OnThisDay #F1 #FormulaOne #Formula1 #GrandPrix #F1History #PhotographyHistory #MotorsportHistory #MotorsportPhotography #GettyImages #GettySport #RainerSchlegelmilch #SuttonImages #DavidPhipps