Mc Laren M19

This is the car that won the 1st F! race I every saw. It was at Oulton Park at the Gold Cup meeting driven by Denny Hulme. Who would have thought at that stage I would have such an involvement with the circuit in years to come!

After the sad year of 1970, when company founder Leslie Bruce McLaren had been killed testing a Group 7 CanAm doubler-seater racing car at Goodwood in the South of the U.K., Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd., based in Colnbrook near the London airport Heathrow, presented the M19 Grand Prix car for the 1971 season.

The flat chassis with it`s characteristic round shapes was designed by Briton Ralph Bellamy, later at Brabham and Lotus. In 1971 the works cars were wearing the typical yellow-orange livery with the Kiwi New Zealand national bird and the letters McLAREN CARS on both sides of the cockpit. They were driven by 1967 world champion Denny Hulme from New Zealand and Peter Gethin, son of British champion jockey Ken Gethin. In the middle of the season Gethin had been sacked because of being accused having shown bad performances throughout the Grand Prix season so far by the team management.

Gethin joined the team of B.R.M. and won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza surprisingly, while no victory came their way for McLaren in 1971, now with Briton Jackie Oliver driving the second car. For the Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport Roger Penske and Kirk F. White had introduced another M19 in the typical blue livery of their classic sponsor SUNOCO, an oil group. At the first attempt Penske star driver Mark Donohue scored an excellent third place, the best result of the McLaren Ford M19 so far. The design had been modified during the season. The most visible change was the introduction of an airbox, but also a Team Tyrrell invented sportscar nose was used, but very quickly taken away again.

For 1972 McLaren signed up with Yardley cosmetics as their title sponsor, Peter Revson, son of the US-American Revlon cosmetics dynasty joined McLaren Racing as their second driver beside Denny Hulme. The New Zealander scored a fine victory at South African Kyalami, he finished third in the worldchampionship as well as Yardley McLaren did in the constructors`table while Revson came home fifth place overall. At the United States Grand Prix held at Watkins Glen the same year Jody Scheckter from South Africa gave a sensational debut in a third M19. From Kyalami 1973 on this design was replaced step by step by the even more successful M23.

Mallock

Major Arthur Mallock started his remarkable association with motor sport after the Second World War and developed a unique approach to the fundamentals of car handling that enabled him to extract quite extraordinary performances from cars built from standard low cost components and materials. His simple front engine cars took on the giants like Lotus and Lola and often beat them. Arthur Mallock will be remembered by countless racing enthusiasts as the man who made motor racing accessible and affordable.

Arthur was also a successful racing driver and encouraged his sons, Richard and Ray to follow in his footsteps. Richard gave up regular racing to concentrate on the family business where, with his wife Sue and son Charles, he still produces the latest version of the famous Mallock U2. Ray enjoyed a highly successful professional driving career before starting his own motor racing business RML (Ray Mallock Ltd), that now operates at the top end of the sport in events such as the European Le Mans Series and World Touring Car Championship.

The Famous Mallock U2
Several hundred racing cars have carried the Mallock name, from the Mk.1 U2 in 1958 to the current Mk.35. Why U2? because Arthur advertised his car kits for sale in the style of the legendary Charles Atlas, ‘you too (U2) can have a body like mine.’

Although it is a close call with Lola and Crossle, we believe that Mallock is the longest established manufacturer of racing cars currently in production today.

For further information please see http://www.mallockclub.com/

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