Project CARS 2 COUNTDOWN

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Everyone has to start somewhere, and for Bruce McLaren, that somewhere was this 1929 Austin 7. When Bruce—who would later go on to found one of the most successful racing teams in the history of motorsport—was just 13 years old, his father, Les, bought this 25-year-old car in pieces for $110. He had planned to put it together and sell it, but Bruce successfully convinced his dad to race it instead.

Bruce helped his father construct the car as well as a makeshift, figure-eight racetrack, where he would later learn to drive it. The teenager managed to get the car past its 72-mph top-speed rating to 87 mph, getting the most out of its three-speed manual gearbox by painting the optimal shift points on the speedometer. When Les had to be hospitalized with gallstones, Bruce entered the car into his first race in 1954; he was only 15 years old, and he won. The rest, as they say, is history.

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Look how small she is!
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