Foreword by Sir Jack Brabham     Available: August,  Format: Hardback, ISBN: 1 84425 119 5, Price: £17.99

Bruce McLaren, a young man with an infectious sense of enthusiasm, loved to build cars, go racing - and win.  Arriving in Europe from New Zealand in 1958 he joined his mentor Jack Brabham in the Cooper Formula 1 team and immediately showed prodigious talent.  He promptly won  a chain of trophies in Formula 1, Formula 2, The Tasman Series, Le Mans and CanAm.  In 1966 Bruce - still only in his 20’s - started his own Grand Prix team, which survives to this day.  Bruce’s death in 1970, testing a CanAm car at Goodwood in Sussex, rocked the motorsport world and was all the more shocking because he was known as a driver who respected the limits.

Eoin Young’s reminiscences about Bruce McLaren, his great friend and compatriot, will be compelling reading for fans of 1960s motor racing.  Drawing from his own memories, interviews with Bruce’s inner circle, his letters home, the magazine column they co-wrote and contemporary newspaper reports, Young recreates that golden era when racing drivers were mates and motorsport was fun.  It’s an extraordinary story, McLaren Memories follows his high-achieving life right up to that last day at Goodwood, described by Ron Smith who was running the pit.  Eoin Young, has written several books for Haynes, including It Beats Working, Forza Amon! and Jim Clark and his most successful Lotus.