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... And Brendon Hartley makes nine
F1-photo/com / Cahier Archive When he makes his Formula 1 début next weekend at the Circuit of the Americas, Brendon Hartley will be just the ninth driver to hail from New Zealand to race in a Grand Prix. The first driver from the land of the long white cloud was Bruce McLaren (pictured above). He drove for Cooper from 1958 until the end of 1965. He then set up his own eponymous race team, which became the McLaren F1 we know today. It's a surprise to many that McLaren was never world champion - the closest he came was second in 1960. In total he won just four races, the last of them at Spa in 1968. Sadly he died in a test crash at Goodwood in 1970. The most successful Kiwi to drive in...
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