Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Don 1968 Formula One kakar, bayan shekaru biyu na tuki tawagar ta kawai shigarwa, Bruce McLaren aka abokin tarayya da Denny Hulme. Hulme ya kasance zakaran duniya tare da kungiyar Brabham a shekarar 1967 kuma ya yi tsere don McLaren a wannan shekarar a Can-Am, jerin tseren motar motsa jiki na Arewacin Amurka. Don zagaye na farko na gasar zakarun duniya ta 1968 <unk> Grand Prix na Afirka ta Kudu, wanda aka gudanar a watan Janairu, watanni hudu kafin zagaye na biyu <unk> Hulme ne kawai ya yi gasa, ta amfani da M5A don kammala na biyar. Gasar farko ta M7A ita ce Gasar Zakarun a Brands Hatch, ana gudanar da ita ga dokokin Formula One amma ba wani ɓangare na gasar zakarun duniya ba. A can, McLaren ya ci nasara daga matsayi na farko yayin da Hulme ya kasance na uku. Wani nasara ya zo a gasar cin kofin BRDC International Trophy a Silverstone, a wannan lokacin Hulme ya gama na farko kuma McLaren na biyu. A gasar cin kofin M7A da aka fara a Spain
, Hulme ya kasance na biyu kuma McLaren ya yi ritaya, sa'an nan kuma a Monaco McLaren ya fadi kuma Hulme ya kasance na biyar da na karshe. A gasar Grand Prix ta Belgium, sun kasance na biyar da na shida a kan grid. Hulme ya jagoranci kuma ya riƙe shi har sai rabin shaft ya kasa kashi biyu bisa uku na hanyar shiga. McLaren ya kasance na biyu a bayan Matra na Jackie Stewart amma Stewart ya yi tsayawa don man fetur a zagaye na ƙarshe, yana ba McLaren nasara, kodayake da farko ya yi imanin cewa ya gama na biyu. Ya kasance nasarar farko ta kungiyar McLaren a gasar zakarun duniya kuma Bruce McLaren ya zama direba na biyu, bayan Jack Brabham, don cin nasara a cikin motar da ke dauke da sunan kansu; kuma ita ce nasara ta karshe a cikin aikinsa.