As teammates — same car
Race finishesahead
Qualifyingahead
John Love · Bruce McLaren
Qualifying compares starting grid position, which covers every era — it includes any grid penalties.
Race H2H
1
—
4
5 shared
Qualifying H2H
0
—
5
5 shared
Championship record
0
World titles
0
0
Runner-up
1
0
Top-3 finishes
3
P11
Best championship
P2
Finished ahead in the standings:
1 · 0
1967
P11
Teammate battle by season
0
1
1962
0
1
1963
0
1
1965
Career totals
John Love
Bruce McLaren
Championships
0
0
Wins
0
4
Poles
0
0
Podiums
1
27
Fastest laps
0
0
Career points
6
196.5
Starts
9
103
Rate-adjusted · per start
John Love
Bruce McLaren
Win rate
0%
3.9%
Podium rate
11.1%
26.2%
Pole rate
0%
0%
Points / start
0.7
1.9
Avg grid
P16.0
P8.4
Avg finish
P12.0
P8.7
Finish rate
66.7%
63.1%
Rates reward peak form; totals reward longevity. Avg grid/finish: lower is better.
Why they retired
John Love
Bruce McLaren
Mechanical retirements
3
34
Crash retirements
0
4
Classified from the finishing status. Mechanical covers car failures, crash covers accidents, collisions and damage — fewer is better on both.
Milestones & racecraft
1962
Debut season
1958
—
First win
1959 · aged 22
—
First pole
—
—
First title
—
P2
Best finish
P1
+4.0
Avg places gained
-0.3
Season points trajectory
John Love
Bruce McLaren
Final points each season — scoring systems changed over the eras.
Track by track
| Circuit | John Love | Bruce McLaren |
|---|---|---|
| W · Pod · Best | W · Pod · Best | |
| W · Pod · Best W · Pod · Best | ||
| Kyalami | 0 · 1 · P2 | 0 · 0 · P5 |
| John Love 0 · 1 · P2 0 · 0 · P5 Bruce McLaren | ||
| Prince George Circuit | 0 · 0 · P8 | 0 · 1 · P2 |
| John Love 0 · 0 · P8 0 · 1 · P2 Bruce McLaren | ||
Team history
John Love
Cooper-Climax 1962–1963Cooper-Climax 1965Cooper-Climax 1967Brabham-Repco 1968Lotus-Ford 1969Team Lotus 1970March-Ford 1971Surtees 1972
Bruce McLaren
Cooper 1958Cooper-Climax 1959–1965McLaren-Ford 1966McLaren-Serenissima 1966Eagle-Weslake 1967McLaren-BRM 1967McLaren 1968McLaren-Ford 1968–1970
19581972
Basis
Head-to-head counts races where both drivers were classified, compared by final position (post-penalty). Teammate section counts only seasons in the same car. Career totals mirror the source data. Data: Jolpica-F1 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).