Bruce McLaren was the McLaren team owner, founded in 1963. Alastair was one of the men who pulled Bruce McLaren from his car when it crashed in 1970.
2010 New Zealand Festival
of motor racing
Alastair successfully completed sixteen races over two weekends at the first ever New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing. Alastair celebrated racing legend Bruce McLaren by driving 1961 Lola MK 1, which was owned and raced by Alastair’s brother William Caldwell. William tragically died in 1966 while driving a Brabham BT6, which replaced the Lola.
An army of motorsports enthusiasts turned up to the festival and watched the little car finish all the races and do very well considering its tiny 1220cc engine. Many racers wore period dress as old school racers hit the track at the first major motorsports event at the new Hampton Downs race track in front of an crowd of up to 7,000 and the Pukekohe Park Raceway.
The events took place on the weekends of 22 and 29 January 2010.
More information here:
www.nzfmr.co.nz
