McLaren's Amanda McLaren talks with CarAdvice - CarAdvice
At the recent launch of McLaren’s potent new 675LT at Silverstone, CarAdvice was granted an exclusive interview with Amanda McLaren, brand ambassador and daughter of company founder Bruce McLaren. Amanda was just four years old when her father was tragically killed while testing the McLaren M8D at Goodwood in 1970. Today, she talks to us about the company founded by her late father and his aspirations to build a series of McLaren road cars... McLaren Automotive is a sister company to your Formula 1 constructor business and builds the road cars, but actually under your father that business kicked off many years ago, didn’t it. “It sure did. In the late 60s, my father designed, built and drove the McLaren M6BGT. The M6GT was based on the M6 Can-Am chassis, and really came about as a result of winning Le Mans in the Ford GT40 Mk11. My father had plans to enter those famous sports car races with a McLaren car, but the project was also never completed. Why didn’t someone else pick that project up. After all, Ferrari and Jaguar were already producing highly desirable road-legal sports cars. the homologation rules actually changed and the number of cars Bruce McLaren Racing would have had to produce in order to meet the regulations was going to stretch a fairly small company too much, so that’s the main reason why the project was... Source: www.caradvice.com.au
