Great film of the race! Racing in the 1960s was the best. Jimmy Clark, in my opinion, was the greatest race driver ever. What I forgot about this race was how long the pit stops were...30 to 40 seconds! And there were still 4 offenhauser roadsters in the field. I believe this was their farewell race at Indy.
Leonard Wood's fuel tank venturi fix allowed the Wood Brothers to pump 58 gallons of fuel into the car in 15 seconds stunning the competition. Jim knew exactly how to take care of the car and tires to close the deal. Leonard painted stripes on the pit area so the fuel hose would reach properly. Leonard said Jim hit his marks perfectly every time. They laughed at Leonard while he was inside the fuel supply tank, they quit laughing after the first pit stop.
Very cool footage! My father was Colin Riley, Team Lotus mechanic for Jim Clark. I wasn't born until many years later, but this piece of history is something that is important in my life, as well as the racing industry.
I watched Jim Clark and Team Lotus at Watkins Glen USGP. In those days, the garages were like horse stalls. Anyhow, I got Jim and Colin's autographs and a set of racing mirrors off of Jim's car. For some reason they were changing them out and a mechanic was going to throw them in a trash bin. I asked for them and he gave them to me!
Racing God JIM CLARK - By far the greatest driver ever - no doubt. He is and was "The Best of the Best" (Fangio, Senna, Prost, Stewart and countless others about Clark). No other driver in history until today was so superior as Clark - No other driver as so much "Grand Slam" - Pole/Win/Fastest Lap/Leading every lap of the race - like him. And all that from just 72 starts... ! This man is the Olymp of driving - the Michelangelo of racing - a dynamic art at the highest level. So smooth, so precise, so fast....simply out of this world. One, who won in Spa by 5 minutes (!) in monsoon rain with only one hand at the wheel (!) because of gearbox trouble...One, who takes back a complete lap (!) in Monza and back into the lead... One, who took pole on the original 22,8 km Nürburgring track by 9 (!) seconds and more....One who won Indy by 2 whole (!) laps... In 1965 he had the most succesful year of a driver in the history of the sport: He won the F1 World Championship, the Tasman Series with F1 cars, the Indy 500, the British and French F2 Championship, the British Touring car Championship, totally over 50 (!) victories in one season !!!! For eternity and by lightyears unmatched in the sport. That`s just some examples of his mesmeric unique genius...
The great thing about 1960s racing was that drivers could compete in different series (and had to since they didn't get paid that well). The F1 drivers generally showed that they were the top talents. Jim Clark, Dan Gurney, John Surtees, and the Bruce and Denny show won often on North American tracks. These days drivers seem to be contractually bound to remain in one series. So how do we know whether Jimmy Johnson or Lewis Hamilton is the better driver? Sadly we will never know.
The Wood Brothers changed the Lotus team way of refueling and reduced the time needed to less than half the time of the rest of the field.Jim"s routine stop was around 17 seconds while the other guys were at 40+ seconds.The Wood Brothers revolutionized racing pit stops and were way ahead of their time. Added to Clark and the great lotus cars,they were incredible.
Add that to the fact that, much like in the Wood Brothers' first Daytona 500 victory in 1963, not a single tire on Jim Clark's car was changed during the entire race, and I have to think the same was true regarding the car of NASCAR veteran Bobby Johns, who drive the team's second car. That also made a BIG difference in the speediness of the Lotus team's pit stops. How the car was set up was a big, and often unnoticed factor in Clark's dominant effort in 1965.
They also revolutionized pit stops in endurance racing. At Le Mans pit stops were somewhat casual affairs until they came along. The European teams were stunned at the speed of the pit crews for Ford. Caught on quick.
Leonard Wood is recognized as a mechanical genius. His C.O. while in the US Army noticed it right away and he was highly respected by all who knew of his abilities. He handmade a toy car while in Germany during The Berlin Airlift Operation and was running it in the base entry road when a high-ranking general's car came in and was held up by the car. The general came over to Leonard when he got out and proceeded to be amazed at the invention, Leonard gave it to him.
@haroldlemons2566 I have to point out to you, that the only reason the Wood brothers got the praise was because Colin Chapman designed for them a SPECIAL gravity feed system that enabled them to fill the car quicker than the other teams. The credit is Chapmans, and his alone. Sorry to burst your bubble.
@@Conservative007wrong. Not only did senna state that, when commissioning an oil painting shortly before his death, his exact instructions were that jim clark MUST be on pole position. Why?? Because he was "the best of the best". Enough now lad.
Neat to run across this video. It was a pretty rare occasion when Ruby spins a car. He had a lot of laps around this place even in 1965. Clark was in my opinion the greatest driver. It is unfair to compare eras and with the number of Grand Prix's the run these days the overall victory numbers are deceiving.
1965 ... Jim Clark ... French F2 championship winner, British F2 championship winner, Tasman southern Hemisphere Championship winner, Indianapolis 500 winner (by over 2 mins), F1 championship winner ... just for good measure he also won a few touring car races as well. ... He won the Belgium F1 grand prix at Spar by over 5 minutes (still an F1 record to this day) with one hand on the gear stick and one hand on the wheel for most of the race ... he still has more grand slams than any other driver in history (8) ... Fangio and Senna said he was the best ever and they were not wrong
Great footage of the 500. For F1 many talk about who is the best. They always seem to focus on Senna or Schumacher, ignoring great champions like Jimmy Clarke, who was the most naturally gifted out of the two. Clarke’s ability to produce incredible speed lap after lap in the days when if you came off the track you were dead was brilliant. This showed at the legendary 500 when he had two laps on everyone averaging 150 mph. Thanks for the upload.
R.I.P. Dan Gurney 3:44 to 3:47 (April 13, 1931 - January 14, 2018) He is the only American driver who won a Formula 1 Grand Prix driving an American car: Eagle.
@hcrun Zandvoort 1966. Jack Brabham was already a 2-time champion and he went on to win the 1966 in an easy way having the best car that season, the Brabham-Repco. In Zandvoort Jim Clark overtook Jack Brabham on lap 26 and led the next 49 laps and looked set for a win with a 2 litre car against 3 litre opposition (Brabham, Ferrari, Cooper and McLaren) until some malfunction made him drop back and end up 3rd For all those who didn't know Jim Clark's tremendous speed and skill.Senna admired him
A great film of the 1965 race. It's been 45 years, but you can really tell how long ago it was by the fact that Mario Andretti was a rookie. It's interesting to see how close the spectators are to the track. It wasn't until 1974, after the horrific accident on the opening lap of 1973's race, that the spectators were moved further back.
Yeah,Jim Clark & Jackie Stewart,both flyin scots. MrMogwa,you were very fortunate to have met him. That's got to have been a special memory! How I miss those days when the likes of Jim & loyd ruby were still with us. And not to forget "the myestro" Fangio. Some 78 years old,& during an exibition run,drove his old Auto Union car against a modern F! (74 I think) & beat it! The old school drivers had so much more skills than these modern drivers of rolling computers contained in carbon fiber...
@b25364 That's because most people only know of Senna and Schumacher, and are unaware of Clark, Fangio, Stewart and others. When it comes to races won to races contested, Clark has a higher percentage than both Schumacher and Senna, and then one must remember Senna retired from a lot of races when he was in an easy lead. In a reliable car he'd win almost every race. In 1966 Clark drove a 2litre Lotus Climax and led the race against Brabham in a 3litre Brabham Repco (won both titles). Sadly..
"La granja es mi trabajo; las carreras son mi pasatiempo" Jim Clark (1936-1968) Piloto británico de Fórmula 1. Campeón Mundial en 1963 y 1965. Saludos desde Venezuela.
No tire changes. Note the replacements are laid out in case needed. A pit crew member checks temperature? or tread? while fuel is being added - by 2 hoses. If tires fall within specs - away they go! Compared to constant turns and shifting of F1, this must have felt like being on autopilot to Jim Clark! I recall the broadcast - as a 7-year-old - the winner was never in doubt.
Never saw Senna do this did we??? Nor the Tasman Series, nor touring cars? Winning a Grand Prix by nearly 5 mins, or drive like Jimmy at the 67 Italian GP. I know in my mind who the greatest driver ever to grace this earth was!
Jim Clark even drove in a NASCAR race at ultra-tough Rockingham in 1967, which was the next-to-last race of that season. He drove that race in a third Holman-Moody Ford as a teammate to Bobby Allison and David Pearson, who finished 1-2 in that race. Clark lasted just 144 laps in his only NASCAR race, starting 24th and finishing 30th with engine failure.
Senna drove a 1200 hp beast. He was awesome. Jim Clark was awesome too. He drove the best of his day. Not my favorite but Mario Andretti won Daytona, Indy and the Formula 1 Championship. Aj Foyt was just as good as any of them. He won Daytona, Indy 4 Times and Le Mans.
Foyt also won the 24 Hours of Daytona twice at the back end of his career, doing so in 1983 and '85. Fellow 4-time Indy winner Al Unser, Sr. was one of the co-drivers in the 1985 win. Mario also won the 12 Hours of Sebring three times, doing so in 1967, just weeks after his Daytona 500 victory, as well as in 1970 and '72. Mark Donohue was another that won both the Indianapolis 500 (in 1972) and the 24 Hours of Daytona (in 1969 with Chuck Parsons). And of course, there's Graham Hill, who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1966, the F1 World Championship twice (1962, '68), the 24 Hours of LeMans in 1972 (with Henri Pescarolo), and won the Monaco Grand Prix, the biggest race on the F1 circuit, five times from 1963-'69.
Of course we didn't see Senna racing Indianapolis... Indianapolis was part of the Formula One calendar in the 50's and 60's only. But you can find Nigel Mansell leaving F1 in 1992. In 1993 his first year of competition in Formula Indy he was immediately the champion. For an example he never could get Senna before. Imagine Senna racing Formula Indy!!!!!
Jim was a world champion, on this occasion he won at going round and round and round and round and round and round and round -- like a ball bearing on a saucer.
I sincerely doubt that would, or even could, ever happen. The days of drivers jumping into one discipline after another; ala Mario and A.J. and Lloyd Ruby won't ever be duplicated with the big dollar contracts for drivers these days. (Addendum: There is ONE current driver that seems to be cut from the same cloth as the three mentioned above. And that would be the driver known as Yung Money. None other than the Super Talent, Kyle Larson!)
I wish I knew about Clark when I was a kid. Like Martin Luther King I didn't know about him until after his death. It must have beena great feeling to know Clark. I did some research and wrote a book called the GTO Kid and Paul & Rosa. They're both about the 1960s. I mention Clark in both of them. Clark seems like a Scottish John Milner (American Graffitti). Like the Milner chara4cter I wish eh didn't die.
A.J. Foyt holds the consecutive Indianapolis 500 record starts at 35. 1958 thru 1992. That will never be topped. So you are correct, A.J. DID race "forever."
The fuel is only allowed to be poured in using gravity, it was like that in most races in days gone by although there are still a few races which still has this rule whilst in modern Formula 1 the fuel is pumped in and obviously that method is far, far quicker
Of course, it would come as no surprise that the Wood Brothers, the team that revolutionized pit stops in NASCAR, would come up with a way to quicken the pit stops for the Lotus team, which was the team Ford brought them in to work for, and they did just that. Most pit stops ran about 40 seconds because of fueling and tire changes, which were also slower. But the Wood Brothers found a way to make the fuel flow much faster, which was why the pit stops for Jim Clark and Bobby Johns, the Lotus team's second driver, were much faster. Add that to the fact that Clark (and presumably Johns) never once had a tire changed during the race, and the Lotus team had an enormous advantage in that race on pit road.
Thanks for this video...I know what a Roadster is, was, and of course, I know the rear engine style that was to go on and become the ONLY choice...but what is a "No buy" (Sp?) as described in the formation lap?
Do you think Lewis Hamilton would win in a Force India car. If your in a lesser car today it doesn't matter how good a driver you are but back then the best drivers won world titles for different teams. Fangio won 5 world championships for 5 different teams and car makes. Graham Hill won in a BRM and for Lotus, Jackie Stewart won for Matra and Tyrrell, Emerson Fittipaldi won for McClaren and Lotus. Since then its become a rarity i think 2 drivers have won for different teams but both times they were driving in that seasons stand out car, the same is not true in many of the above drivers, when you look at the constructor and how it did in the constructors championship its clear that often the other team driver had far less success than the winning driver whilst today its usual for a race to end and the winning constructor also places second with the teams other driver.
Not in the 1950s and early 60s, but back in the 1930s and 40s, a couple of drivers did, in fact, run the entire race without making a single pit stop, though no driver that pulled that off ever won the race. The first to do so was driving a diesel-powered car in 1931, and a couple of drivers, including Johnny Mantz, would pull that off in the 1940s (Mantz won the first Southern 500 by making far fewer pit stops than his competition). Two years prior to this, in 1963, the Lotus team tried to make the entire race on just one pit stop for each of their cars, and that strategy worked good enough to allow Jim Clark to finish second. The Lotus team ran production-based engines in 1963, which made them the last cars to use carburetors on Carburetion Day, and which also gave them vastly superior fuel mileage. In 1964, they began running racing engines, and they left the field in their dust, but none of them finished. When they got it all right in this race, including pit stops from the Wood Brothers, the advantage they had was obvious, and Clark won going away.
Mr. Clark was known on this side of the pond as "Jimmy Clark." It was a term of endearment because the Americans, especially the closed ranks of the Indy Car crowd, admired him so much. Not just any new driver was taken to their hearts like "The Great Jimmy Clark!"
Jim Clark is the greatest driver, no question about it.
The more I learn about Jim Clark, the more amazed I am. I wish he lived.
Great film of the race! Racing in the 1960s was the best.
Jimmy Clark, in my opinion, was the greatest race driver ever.
What I forgot about this race was how long the pit stops were...30 to 40 seconds! And there were still 4 offenhauser roadsters in the field. I believe this was their farewell race at Indy.
Did you know that the Wood Brothers were brought in to make Clark’s pit stops more efficient by Ford?
its Jim or James not "jimmy"
Until Senna came up.
Yes he was 👍
Clark the most humble and authentic champion race car drivers to ever live.
If the car didn't break, Jim Clark usually crushed the opposition. 2 mins + lead in Indy 500. Even Fangio said he was the greatest.
He was the greatest. Rog .
Leonard Wood's fuel tank venturi fix allowed the Wood Brothers to pump 58 gallons of fuel into the car in 15 seconds stunning the competition. Jim knew exactly how to take care of the car and tires to close the deal. Leonard painted stripes on the pit area so the fuel hose would reach properly. Leonard said Jim hit his marks perfectly every time. They laughed at Leonard while he was inside the fuel supply tank, they quit laughing after the first pit stop.
Very cool footage! My father was Colin Riley, Team Lotus mechanic for Jim Clark. I wasn't born until many years later, but this piece of history is something that is important in my life, as well as the racing industry.
Those are real important things we need to remember
"The farm is my job. Car racing is my hobby" Jim Clark (1936-1968) Greetings from Venezuela
gabby adams please post links to any materials from your Dad's archive....
I watched Jim Clark and Team Lotus at Watkins Glen USGP. In those days, the garages were like horse stalls.
Anyhow, I got Jim and Colin's autographs and a set of racing mirrors off of Jim's car. For some reason they were changing them out and a mechanic was going to throw them in a trash bin. I asked for them and he gave them to me!
Hi gabby! My grandfather was Andrew Ferguson , team lotus manager i would like to talk to you if you give me your email 👍
Racing God JIM CLARK - By far the greatest driver ever - no doubt. He is and was "The Best of the Best" (Fangio, Senna, Prost, Stewart and countless others about Clark). No other driver in history until today was so superior as Clark - No other driver as so much "Grand Slam" - Pole/Win/Fastest Lap/Leading every lap of the race - like him. And all that from just 72 starts... !
This man is the Olymp of driving - the Michelangelo of racing - a dynamic art at the highest level. So smooth, so precise, so fast....simply out of this world. One, who won in Spa by 5 minutes (!) in monsoon rain with only one hand at the wheel (!) because of gearbox trouble...One, who takes back a complete lap (!) in Monza and back into the lead... One, who took pole on the original 22,8 km Nürburgring track by 9 (!) seconds and more....One who won Indy by 2 whole (!) laps...
In 1965 he had the most succesful year of a driver in the history of the sport: He won the F1 World Championship, the Tasman Series with F1 cars, the Indy 500, the British and French F2 Championship, the British Touring car Championship, totally over 50 (!) victories in one season !!!! For eternity and by lightyears unmatched in the sport. That`s just some examples of his mesmeric unique genius...
Jim Clark was in a class by himself.
I sat in the driving seat of Jim Clarkes Lotus some years ago, it was one of those spine chilling moments for me.
I was there. In 1963 I watched Clark almost win the race and I knew then that Chapman & Clark would get the job done. It took two years.
Clark in that cosworth engine lotus, nae bad likes. One of the best to ever drive.
"I don´t believe in bad luck. I do believe in something done wrong"Jim Clark (1936-1968) Formula 1 World Champion in 1963 and 1965
50 years ago today: Hockenheim.
We miss you, Jimmy.
This was my first 500, Dad and I was sitting in the grandstand across the finish line.
+Michael Yarber Lucky guy watching race changing history w/your Dad...now that's a memory!!!
Jim Clark: the greatest driver of all time!
"The farm is my job. Car racing is my hobby" Jim Clark (1936-1968) Greetings from Venezuela
The great thing about 1960s racing was that drivers could compete in different series (and had to since they didn't get paid that well). The F1 drivers generally showed that they were the top talents. Jim Clark, Dan Gurney, John Surtees, and the Bruce and Denny show won often on North American tracks. These days drivers seem to be contractually bound to remain in one series. So how do we know whether Jimmy Johnson or Lewis Hamilton is the better driver? Sadly we will never know.
Nonsense. Greatness continues. There is no greatest. Greatness evolves, changes hands, evolves and moves forward.
Ayrton Senna, Nigel Mansell and Lewis Hamilton disagree.....
Nonsense. There are and always will be, many greats. Peace.
If Jim Clark had lived he would have been the greatest of them all.
He is the Greatest of them all
I'm a Lotus guy: 1972 Europa. I appreciate the Lotus history and this race is central to it.
Love this era of Indy car racing.
F1 proves its superiority. Best drivers best cars.
Great video, Jimmy was one of a kind, the greatest ever!
The Wood Brothers changed the Lotus team way of refueling and reduced the time needed to less than half the time of the rest of the field.Jim"s routine stop was around 17 seconds while the other guys were at 40+ seconds.The Wood Brothers revolutionized racing pit stops and were way ahead of their time. Added to Clark and the great lotus cars,they were incredible.
Add that to the fact that, much like in the Wood Brothers' first Daytona 500 victory in 1963, not a single tire on Jim Clark's car was changed during the entire race, and I have to think the same was true regarding the car of NASCAR veteran Bobby Johns, who drive the team's second car. That also made a BIG difference in the speediness of the Lotus team's pit stops. How the car was set up was a big, and often unnoticed factor in Clark's dominant effort in 1965.
They also revolutionized pit stops in endurance racing.
At Le Mans pit stops were somewhat casual affairs until they came along. The European teams were stunned at the speed of the pit crews for Ford.
Caught on quick.
Leonard Wood is recognized as a mechanical genius. His C.O. while in the US Army noticed it right away and he was highly respected by all who knew of his abilities. He handmade a toy car while in Germany during The Berlin Airlift Operation and was running it in the base entry road when a high-ranking general's car came in and was held up by the car. The general came over to Leonard when he got out and proceeded to be amazed at the invention, Leonard gave it to him.
@haroldlemons2566 I have to point out to you, that the only reason the Wood brothers got the praise was because Colin Chapman designed for them a SPECIAL gravity feed system that enabled them to fill the car quicker than the other teams. The credit is Chapmans, and his alone. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Jim Clark was probably the greatest racecar pilot of all. Smooth.
Not even close to Senna
@@Conservative007the same senna that stated jim clark was the best of the best? What are you talking about 💀
@@rrkmac635 Senna never made such statement. In Senna's opinion, Fangio was the GOAT
@@Conservative007wrong. Not only did senna state that, when commissioning an oil painting shortly before his death, his exact instructions were that jim clark MUST be on pole position. Why?? Because he was "the best of the best".
Enough now lad.
@@rrkmac635 you're delusional. Get off the crack pipe
Neat to run across this video. It was a pretty rare occasion when Ruby spins a car. He had a lot of laps around this place even in 1965. Clark was in my opinion the greatest driver. It is unfair to compare eras and with the number of Grand Prix's the run these days the overall victory numbers are deceiving.
Jim Clark: o piloto mais completo de todos os tempos.
Great Indy engine sound and race! What a classic
1965 ... Jim Clark ... French F2 championship winner, British F2 championship winner, Tasman southern Hemisphere Championship winner, Indianapolis 500 winner (by over 2 mins), F1 championship winner ... just for good measure he also won a few touring car races as well. ... He won the Belgium F1 grand prix at Spar by over 5 minutes (still an F1 record to this day) with one hand on the gear stick and one hand on the wheel for most of the race ... he still has more grand slams than any other driver in history (8) ... Fangio and Senna said he was the best ever and they were not wrong
At 4:43 Mario Andretti, a rookie, driving in 4th. That's some great driving cementing his future legend.
Michael andretti his son liked wrecking mcclarens and eating fried foods to excess
My thoughts exactly when that was mentioned! 👍
Great footage of the 500. For F1 many talk about who is the best. They always seem to focus on Senna or Schumacher, ignoring great champions like Jimmy Clarke, who was the most naturally gifted out of the two. Clarke’s ability to produce incredible speed lap after lap in the days when if you came off the track you were dead was brilliant. This showed at the legendary 500 when he had two laps on everyone averaging 150 mph. Thanks for the upload.
R.I.P. Dan Gurney 3:44 to 3:47 (April 13, 1931 - January 14, 2018) He is the only American driver who won a Formula 1 Grand Prix driving an American car: Eagle.
The Eagle was designed by Len Terry and built in Sussex, England. Also had a British engine, the Weslake V12.
@@lameduck3630 Len Terry was a genius. far better than Colin Chapman
GREAT JIM... UNDERRATED 🙏🏆👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
getting ready to graduate from 1st grade at St Michael grade school about 1 mile from IMS in '65'.
@hcrun
Zandvoort 1966. Jack Brabham was already a 2-time champion and he went on to win the 1966 in an easy way having the best car that season, the Brabham-Repco. In Zandvoort Jim Clark overtook Jack Brabham on lap 26 and led the next 49 laps and looked set for a win with a 2 litre car against 3 litre opposition (Brabham, Ferrari, Cooper and McLaren) until some malfunction made him drop back and end up 3rd
For all those who didn't know Jim Clark's tremendous speed and skill.Senna admired him
Mario and Clark: Two among the all-time super racers!
He started lapping the field in 10 laps. I was in turn 1 grandstand.
In the 1966 Indy 500 Jim Clark spun his car 3 times never hit the wall and finish second to Graham Hill I bet a lot of people don't remember that I do
Herb Wandrei i was in turn 4 . Jimmy spun right in front of me. Gathered her up and kept going. I will never forget it as long as i live.
Ford brought the Wood Brothers NASCAR team to Indy. The Wood guys devised a fueling system that gave Clark these pit stops.
Unbelievably winning by 2 laps, .
A great film of the 1965 race. It's been 45 years, but you can really tell how long ago it was by the fact that Mario Andretti was a rookie. It's interesting to see how close the spectators are to the track. It wasn't until 1974, after the horrific accident on the opening lap of 1973's race, that the spectators were moved further back.
your right about moving the crowd back!
Yeah,Jim Clark & Jackie Stewart,both flyin scots. MrMogwa,you were very fortunate to have met him. That's got to have been a special memory! How I miss those days when the likes of Jim & loyd ruby were still with us. And not to forget "the myestro" Fangio. Some 78 years old,& during an exibition run,drove his old Auto Union car against a modern F! (74 I think) & beat it! The old school drivers had so much more skills than these modern drivers of rolling computers contained in carbon fiber...
@b25364
That's because most people only know of Senna and Schumacher, and are unaware of Clark, Fangio, Stewart and others.
When it comes to races won to races contested, Clark has a higher percentage than both Schumacher and Senna, and then one must remember Senna retired from a lot of races when he was in an easy lead. In a reliable car he'd win almost every race.
In 1966 Clark drove a 2litre Lotus Climax and led the race against Brabham in a 3litre Brabham Repco (won both titles). Sadly..
"La granja es mi trabajo; las carreras son mi pasatiempo" Jim Clark (1936-1968) Piloto británico de Fórmula 1. Campeón Mundial en 1963 y 1965. Saludos desde Venezuela.
What a time to be Scottish Jim Clark as the best driver ever Bill shankly the best boss ever and a good football team wish I had a time machine
Gret video, thanks for uploading.
Thanks!!
Was Clark the real deal? You tell me.The most humble and authentic champion of all time.I would say yes.
No tire changes. Note the replacements are laid out in case needed. A pit crew member checks temperature? or tread? while fuel is being added - by 2 hoses. If tires fall within specs - away they go! Compared to constant turns and shifting of F1, this must have felt like being on autopilot to Jim Clark! I recall the broadcast - as a 7-year-old - the winner was never in doubt.
The best, what driver he was.
+edge1518 Jim Clark
Never saw Senna do this did we??? Nor the Tasman Series, nor touring cars? Winning a Grand Prix by nearly 5 mins, or drive like Jimmy at the 67 Italian GP. I know in my mind who the greatest driver ever to grace this earth was!
Jim Clark even drove in a NASCAR race at ultra-tough Rockingham in 1967, which was the next-to-last race of that season. He drove that race in a third Holman-Moody Ford as a teammate to Bobby Allison and David Pearson, who finished 1-2 in that race. Clark lasted just 144 laps in his only NASCAR race, starting 24th and finishing 30th with engine failure.
No, Senna drove 10 years at Formula 1 before his death.
Senna drove a 1200 hp beast. He was awesome. Jim Clark was awesome too. He drove the best of his day. Not my favorite but Mario Andretti won Daytona, Indy and the Formula 1 Championship. Aj Foyt was just as good as any of them. He won Daytona, Indy 4 Times and Le Mans.
Foyt also won the 24 Hours of Daytona twice at the back end of his career, doing so in 1983 and '85. Fellow 4-time Indy winner Al Unser, Sr. was one of the co-drivers in the 1985 win. Mario also won the 12 Hours of Sebring three times, doing so in 1967, just weeks after his Daytona 500 victory, as well as in 1970 and '72. Mark Donohue was another that won both the Indianapolis 500 (in 1972) and the 24 Hours of Daytona (in 1969 with Chuck Parsons). And of course, there's Graham Hill, who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1966, the F1 World Championship twice (1962, '68), the 24 Hours of LeMans in 1972 (with Henri Pescarolo), and won the Monaco Grand Prix, the biggest race on the F1 circuit, five times from 1963-'69.
Of course we didn't see Senna racing Indianapolis... Indianapolis was part of the Formula One calendar in the 50's and 60's only.
But you can find Nigel Mansell leaving F1 in 1992. In 1993 his first year of competition in Formula Indy he was immediately the champion.
For an example he never could get Senna before.
Imagine Senna racing Formula Indy!!!!!
He was The Greatest.
Jim was a world champion, on this occasion he won at going round and round and round and round and round and round and round -- like a ball bearing on a saucer.
Those roadsters do look damn sweet tho.
El más grande piloto de autos de carrera, entre todos los grandes: Jim Clark.
Jim was being pitted by the Wood Brothers for this race. They were brought in by Ford to make the pit stops more efficiently.
Back in the day when 👇
Most racing drivers, especially open wheel drivers, are short. Robert Kubica is considered to be very tall for an F1 driver and he's only 6ft.
Today is not possible a F1 driver run in a Indy race in same time. Things of contracts...
he FLEW... he won by 2 clear laps...
"No creo en la mala suerte. sí creo en algo que se hizo mal" Jim Clark (1936-1968) Piloto escocés de Fórmula 1
Wow.. A 2 minute lead..
he was a giant..
Don't know what the thumbnail picture was but it's not Jim Clarks 65 Lotus.... I think it is and Andretti
24 second pit stop... Christian Horner would be having a shit...
Ford power baby!!! 😎
D.S. ....................those (bundle of snake exhausts)!!!!!!!!
Will anyone ever win both Indy and Formula 1 WC in the same year again?
I sincerely doubt that would, or even could, ever happen. The days of drivers jumping into one discipline after another; ala Mario and A.J. and Lloyd Ruby won't ever be duplicated with the big dollar contracts for drivers these days. (Addendum: There is ONE current driver that seems to be cut from the same cloth as the three mentioned above. And that would be the driver known as Yung Money. None other than the Super Talent, Kyle Larson!)
I wish I knew about Clark when I was a kid. Like Martin Luther King I didn't know about him until after his death. It must have beena great feeling to know Clark. I did some research and wrote a book called the GTO Kid and Paul & Rosa. They're both about the 1960s. I mention Clark in both of them. Clark seems like a Scottish John Milner (American Graffitti). Like the Milner chara4cter I wish eh didn't die.
What a very cool and totally 'right on' comparison. Both John Milner and Jimmy Clark were as "Cool as James Dean!" And that's pretty darn COOL!
Clark's car looked better, their pit stops were faster and he was simply a better driver.
A J Foyt raced forever it seemed like
A.J. Foyt holds the consecutive Indianapolis 500 record starts at 35. 1958 thru 1992. That will never be topped. So you are correct, A.J. DID race "forever."
39 second pit stop...holy cow....
The fuel is only allowed to be poured in using gravity, it was like that in most races in days gone by although there are still a few races which still has this rule whilst in modern Formula 1 the fuel is pumped in and obviously that method is far, far quicker
Of course, it would come as no surprise that the Wood Brothers, the team that revolutionized pit stops in NASCAR, would come up with a way to quicken the pit stops for the Lotus team, which was the team Ford brought them in to work for, and they did just that. Most pit stops ran about 40 seconds because of fueling and tire changes, which were also slower. But the Wood Brothers found a way to make the fuel flow much faster, which was why the pit stops for Jim Clark and Bobby Johns, the Lotus team's second driver, were much faster. Add that to the fact that Clark (and presumably Johns) never once had a tire changed during the race, and the Lotus team had an enormous advantage in that race on pit road.
@MrMogwa some of the best things come in small packages
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"....and led the race against Brabham in a 3litre Brabham Repco...."
Which race are you talking about??
Thanks for this video...I know what a Roadster is, was, and of course, I know the rear engine style that was to go on and become the ONLY choice...but what is a "No buy" (Sp?) as described in the formation lap?
Aghhh I was way off with the spelling.
The announcer said "Novis"...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novi_engine
NOVI
Why they all fuel from the wrong side?
Winning then had a lot more to do with the driver as well as the car whilst today its overwhelmingly the car your in.
I don't think the driver/car calculus has really changed much over the years.
Do you think Lewis Hamilton would win in a Force India car. If your in a lesser car today it doesn't matter how good a driver you are but back then the best drivers won world titles for different teams. Fangio won 5 world championships for 5 different teams and car makes. Graham Hill won in a BRM and for Lotus, Jackie Stewart won for Matra and Tyrrell, Emerson Fittipaldi won for McClaren and Lotus. Since then its become a rarity i think 2 drivers have won for different teams but both times they were driving in that seasons stand out car, the same is not true in many of the above drivers, when you look at the constructor and how it did in the constructors championship its clear that often the other team driver had far less success than the winning driver whilst today its usual for a race to end and the winning constructor also places second with the teams other driver.
IndyCar are essentially spec cars it's basically entering driver and crew skill.
SmartAlec TheMotorGuy so are NASCAR and Formula 1. All spec racers.
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They tried to make 500 miles with a single tank of fuel back in the day? What were they driving, tankers?
Not in the 1950s and early 60s, but back in the 1930s and 40s, a couple of drivers did, in fact, run the entire race without making a single pit stop, though no driver that pulled that off ever won the race. The first to do so was driving a diesel-powered car in 1931, and a couple of drivers, including Johnny Mantz, would pull that off in the 1940s (Mantz won the first Southern 500 by making far fewer pit stops than his competition).
Two years prior to this, in 1963, the Lotus team tried to make the entire race on just one pit stop for each of their cars, and that strategy worked good enough to allow Jim Clark to finish second. The Lotus team ran production-based engines in 1963, which made them the last cars to use carburetors on Carburetion Day, and which also gave them vastly superior fuel mileage. In 1964, they began running racing engines, and they left the field in their dust, but none of them finished. When they got it all right in this race, including pit stops from the Wood Brothers, the advantage they had was obvious, and Clark won going away.
Come on Hamilton , want to really be the best? Do this in same season, Alonso tried it so no excuses
Alonso, learn about he!!
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Hate how the commentator calls him jimmy how derogatory. Typical US American.
Mr. Clark was known on this side of the pond as "Jimmy Clark." It was a term of endearment because the Americans, especially the closed ranks of the Indy Car crowd, admired him so much. Not just any new driver was taken to their hearts like "The Great Jimmy Clark!"
Jim Clark is Auto Racing version of Jim Brown.