This car is pictured on the approach to Lodge Corner in the HSCC Atlantic Computers Historic G.T. Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1986.
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It's the Haslemere Sports Cars Ltd's 5-litre 1970 McLaren M8D driven by John Foulston. The car was designed for the Canadian-American Challenge Cup Series (or Can-Am) that was contested from 1966 till 1987. Bruce McLaren died in one of these cars in an accident during a testing session at Goodwood just a few days before the first of the 1970 Can-Am races, but the M8D went on to win 8 of the ten races in the series - 6 by Denny Hulme and 2 by Dan Gurney - and one race was won by Peter Gethin on a McLaren M8B. Tony Dean in a Porsche 908 was the only non-McLaren driver to win a race.
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