{"id":120487,"date":"2025-11-06T05:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/120487\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T05:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:09:08","slug":"grave-of-motorsport-legend-bruce-mclaren-vandalised-at-waikumete-cemetery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/120487\/","title":{"rendered":"Grave of motorsport legend Bruce McLaren vandalised at Waikumete Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Motorsport legend Bruce McLaren in the 1960s. His grave at Waikumete Cemetery in Auckland needs repairing after vandals struck. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

The graves of Kiwi motorsport legend Bruce McLaren and his wife have been vandalised at Waikumete Cemetery in Auckland.<\/p>\n

The family said it is shocked by the damage to the headstones, which have been sprayed with gold paint. Toy cars have also been stuck on to them.<\/p>\n

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\n are lost for words as to why anyone would do this,\u201d the Bruce McLaren<\/a> Trust said in a statement.\n <\/p>\n

The graves affected are those of McLaren, who was a racing driver and Formula One<\/a> motorsport executive, and his wife Patricia, known as Patty. The trust said the headstone for McLaren\u2019s mother Ruth and father Les, known as Pop, had also been damaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 6 Nov, 2025 02:35 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1975,795,49124,28163,3223,4262,3514,111,139,69,1118,213,29262,82840],"class_list":["post-120487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-at","tag-bruce","tag-cemetery","tag-grave","tag-legend","tag-mclaren","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-sports","tag-vandalised","tag-waikumete"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}