This September marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd. In that time the team has evolved a lot, having been a dominant force in the heyday of the original Can-Am and the mid-90s GT1 sports cars. 

Throughout that half century, the one constant has been +McLaren Automotive's participation in formula one where the the team is second only to +Ferrari in total wins with 182 and podium finishes with 483.  McLaren is third behind Ferrari and Williams with 8 constructers championships. While the team has gone through some fallow periods, they've been consistently strong in the past three decades aside from that whole Ferrari spygate issue a few years back.

The driver lineup over the years has included legends such as James Hunt, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost and of course Ayrton Senna.  

More recently, McLaren has gotten into the road car business. The company's first attempt at a street car came with a closed version of the M6 Can-Am car in 1970, a project that was aborted when McLaren died in a testing accident. In the early 1990s, they tried again and took the world by storm with the F1. 

After a dalliance with Daimler that yielded the SLR, McLaren is back on its own with a new effort that began with the 12C and will soon bring us the true F1 successor, the P1.