John Cooper and Bruce McLaren

I took this photograph in the paddock at Aintree during practice for the British Grand Prix in July 1962.

On the left is the Cooper Team Manager, John Cooper, who together with his father Charles Cooper had founded the Cooper Car Company in 1948. Second from the right in his Cooper overalls is Bruce McLaren, the team's number one driver after Jack Brabham had left Cooper at the end of the previous season to form his own team. Bruce McLaren qualified his Cooper T60 in fourth place on the grid and finished the race in third place behind Jim Clark's Lotus 25 and the Lola Mk4 of John Surtees.