The McLaren M5A was a racing car constructed by Bruce McLaren Motor Racing, and was McLaren's first purpose-built Formula One car. Like its M4B predecessor, only one car of this type was ever built. The car was the first to use the BRM type 101 3.0 litre V12 engine, which produced 365 bhp.
The M5A's first race was the rain-affected 1967 Canadian Grand Prix, and after an early spin McLaren worked his way up to fourth place, before a pit stop to change a flat battery caused by McLaren's decision not to use an alternator pushed him back down to seventh place at the end. At the next race in Italy McLaren qualified third, but broke two connecting rods while battling for fourth place and retired after 46 laps. The last two races of the season were no better, with McLaren retiring from both.
With McLaren missing the season-opening 1968 South African Grand Prix, reigning World Champion Denis Hulme took over the M5A, now painted orange rather than the original blood-red, and finished 2 laps adrift in fifth place.
The McLarenM5A was a racing car constructed by Bruce McLaren Motor Racing, and was McLaren's first purpose-built Formula One car. Like its M4B predecessor...
Leslie McLaren (30 August 1937 – 2 June 1970) was a New Zealand racing car designer, driver, engineer, and inventor. His name lives on in the McLaren team...
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was based on the M4A Formula 2 car as a stopgap between the M2B and the M5A. Additional fuel tanks were added either side of the cockpit to allow the...
used to score McLaren's first win at the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix. Designed by Robin Herd and Gordon Coppuck, the M7A was the first McLaren to be powered...
full season was 1968, in which he traded his old Cooper T86 for an old McLaren. He raced occasionally in Formula One until 1971. In 1966, along with American...
based on national principles (namely the Brabham BT3, McLaren M2B, McLaren M4B and McLarenM5A cars), while the British Rob Walker privateer team entered...
1967 BRM engines powered the M4B and M5A but it was not until the Cosworth DFV became available in 1968 that McLaren scored their first Formula One wins...
Formula Libre, and the Australian Drivers' Championship. Both the M4B and M5A Formula One cars were based on the M4A chassis. Since its retirement from...
Chris Amon. Bruce McLaren had switched from Ford to BRM engines over the winter. He was supposed to get V12 engines for the McLarenM5A, but when those...
driver, currently residing in England. He is the chief executive officer of McLaren Racing. Born and raised in California, Brown raced professionally around...
had been intended for sports car use, but was first used in F1 by the McLarenM5A. Back at the works, the early V12 years were lean ones. In 1967 the two-valve...
difficult for the team. Despite having to use the old BRM V12 engines on an old M5A chassis, Hulme brought it home a creditable fifth. By the Spanish round at...
had been intended for sports car use, but was first used in F1 by the McLarenM5A. Back at the works, the early V12 years were lean ones. In 1967 the two-valve...
Championship Grand Prix results for the McLaren Formula One team. The second table includes results from privately owned McLaren cars in World Championship Grands...
executive officer of Sauber Motorsport, and previously team principal of the McLaren Formula One team and the hybrid Porsche LMP1 program. Seidl graduated from...
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aging Cooper, but this was rapidly replaced by the unique, ex-works McLaren-BRM M5A for the majority of that year's races. At the final race of the season...
McLaren in a McLaren M7A, who started from pole position, set fastest lap and finished over 14 seconds ahead of Pedro Rodríguez's BRM P133. McLaren's...
the Formula One M2B car. Herd stayed with McLaren until 1968 — during which time he designed their M4B, M5A and M7 Formula One cars, as well as the successful...
at Watkins Glen Stewart managed tenth on the grid, alongside McLaren who was using his M5A with the BRM V12 engine that would replace the H16 for 1968...
London in March was won by Bruce McLaren in his own McLaren car, ahead of Mexican Pedro Rodriguez in a BRM and McLaren's teammate and countryman Denny Hulme...
Retrieved 3 February 2016. "McLaren Formula 1 - McLaren prepares for increased growth with key new appointments". www.mclaren.com. 14 January 2016. Archived...
3000 Championship, run by the McLaren Formula One team as part of their driver development programme. Named after McLaren's then sponsor, West, the team...
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