Great 3 minute video on McLaren

[77T]

When I say great, I don't mean scary fast racetrack footage. If you've ever raced sports or formula cars this will chill your spine in how well the director taps into the thing that made you start risking it all.

This is the first of 3 short films McLaren sponsored as part of the company’s 50th anniversary celebration. It’s called McLaren 50 Courage and is an inspirational look at the short life and legacy of founder Bruce McLaren.

You be the judge...it's just eerie inside my head right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=23E1m8ZxFmU

From a story in Autoweek:
It’s told by a narrator from young McLaren’s point of view as he walks the Goodwood Circuit in England, retracing his steps to where he crashed on the Lavant Straight just before Woodcote corner and died in his Can-Am car.

The video was directed by Swedish director Marcus Söderlund and is shot in his trademark dreamlike style with McLaren’s monologue.

"This is Bruce McLaren's film,” said Söderlund. “I love that Bruce McLaren is revisiting his crash-site, like an angel from a Frank Capra movie. The script for this film made me shiver and I wanted to re-create that feeling. I wanted to fill the film with emotions. I am obsessed with gestures. These things that reveal who we are and the physical spaces that we inhabit. Films can change the way you look at the world by showing you how another person sees it. This is how I imagine that Bruce McLaren looked at the world."

It ends on McLaren, looking over the accident.

[swatty]

Outstanding, thanks for sharing

[GradyPhilpott]

Very well done video.

[HRV]

That was great, I have been a McLaren fan since my introduction to F1, I was at the race at Kyalami race track in South Africa in 1984, I was 16, I watched Lauda and Prost and those famous Marlboro cars. Thanks for posting Paul, Bruce's legacy lives on today

[Beek]

Thanks for sharing

[Kingair]

Nice video

HAGWe

[Bangel]

A great tribute to a man about whom I suspect many, many watchers of modern Formula One would know nothing about.

It's an excellently made video. it is very emotive and makes one want to believe in his legacy and that he is really speaking to us.

It would be nice if what is depicted in the video is really what Bruce McLaren is thinking after his death.

[Psmith]

Excellent video

[Lion]

Very good look into the man and what he stood for in terms of racing cars and his character!!!

Take it easy.....Leo

[77T]

There's been many a time I've walked a track shaking my head wondering, "How the hell did this happen - what did I do wrong?"

I can't say what McLaren might have thought about his incident if he survived, but the filmmaker and writers absolutely caught thoughts that were identical to mine in much tamer ones. If you read Mark Donohue's book you'll hear his very similar thoughts about his horrendous Porsche wreck at Road ATL that he survived when almost the same thing happened to him in his Can-Am car - just uncanny how the video captures it without actual footage of the wreck.

Maybe our imaginations are more intense when we must visualize it without images.