Another Delay For McLaren

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32018, 19 June 1969, Page 20

Another Delay For McLaren

(N.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) LONDON. The unveiling of the new Formula One four-wheel drive car of the New Zealand racing driver, B. McLaren, has again been postponed.

Towards the end of last year, McLaren said he hoped to produce it at the Monaco Grand Prix. Later, the date was changed to this Saturday's Dutch Grand Prix.

A spokesman for McLaren Motor Racing said yesterday: “We just can’t get it ready in time. We have so much on we can’t cram everything in to a 24-hour day.” Now the organisation is aiming to have the car ready for the French Grand Prix on July 6. McLaren has returned from Canada where last week-end be finished second in the second race of the Can-Am series, behind his team-mate, D. Hulme. Their places were reversed in the first race.

The “New York Times”, commenting on last weekend’s victory, said: “The only way Bruce McLaren and Denis Hulme can be expected to lose a Can-Am race is for them to collide.” The next Can-Am race is on July 13.

Andretti Competing McLaren and Hulme will drive McLaren cars in the Dutch Grand Prix—a world championship event—at Zandvoort, near Amsterdam, on Saturday. The American driver, M. Andretti, who won the Indianapolis 500-mile race recently, will drive a Lotus Ford. The team Lotus drivers will be G. Hill (Britain) and J. Rindt (Austria). The other competitors include C. Amon (New Zealand), Ferrari, J. Brabham

(Australia), and J. Ickx (Belgium), Brabham Ford, J. Surtees and J. Oliver (Britain), 8.R.M., and J. Siffert (Switzerland), Lotus Ford. The race will be held over 90 laps of the Zandvoort circult, totalling about 236 miles.