1963 Indianapolis 500 Film
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- Опубликовано: 15 мар 2013
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This is the 47th Indianapolis 500, run on May 30, 1963.
While the big-name stars of Indy were running the old roadsters, the appearance of the Lotus team with drivers Jim Clark and Dan Gurney, and the smaller, lighter rear-engine cars they brought, raised more than a few eyebrows. However, even with the backing of the Ford Motor Company, they just couldn't match what the Offenhausers could produce, and like the year before, Parnelli Jones led the charge, breaking his records set in 1962. Joining him on the front row were Don Branson and Jim Hurtubise.
Hurtubise was driving one of the three Novis entered by Andy Granatelli, as the Novi was making it's first start at Indy since 1958, and their engines were just as powerful as ever. Another of the three drivers on Granatelli's team was one of two future three-time Indy winners that made his debut in 1963. His name was Bobby Unser. The other future three-time winner that made his debut was Johnny Rutherford, but neither of them lasted long. In fact, Unser was the first out, crashing on the second lap and was soon joined on the sidelines by Rutherford and fellow rookie teammate Art Malone.
Meanwhile, Jones dominated the race, leading 167 laps, but needed to make three pit stops, while the Lotus cars made only one pit stop each for the race, which put Clark in a great position. But this was a race marred by a major controversy.
About two-thirds of the way through the race, Jones' car developed a crack in it's external oil pan, causing it to lose oil. Two other cars in the race, one driven by Hurtubise and the other driven by Bobby Grim, ran out of oil, and both were black flagged. Late in the race, there were several spins and crashes on the oily track, including two by Eddie Sachs and another by Lloyd Ruby, causing the USAC officials to be so concerned that they considered black flagging Jones, but were apparently talked out of it long enough for Jones to win, becoming the eighth pole sitter to win the race and the first to do so since Pat Flaherty in 1956.
This race also sparked a rule change, which was partially born from the controversy. Trying to unlap himself on the last lap, Roger McCluskey, who was running third, spun out and couldn't get restarted. Because the rules required all competitors to complete all 500 miles, regardless of how far behind they were, McCluskey was scored 15th. That rule was changed for 1964, as when the leader got the checkered flag, the remaining cars got up to five minutes to complete the race, or as many laps as they could before they would be flagged in.
Clark took second place, while 1961 winner A.J. Foyt was third, followed by Rodger Ward, who finished fourth despite trouble with his brakes all day, with Don Branson taking fifth. Next was Jim McElreath, which was a minor miracle considering he spun in the pits twice, once with another car, while Dan Gurney was seventh in the other Lotus.
All credits go to SPEED (SpeedVision, the forerunner to the current SPEED network, originally aired the content of the video), the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, USAC, and Championship Racefilms.
If there are any others who I'm forgetting, please let me know so I can add them to the list of those to credit. 
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Jim Clark died on 7th April 1968 in Hockenheim. He was a great driver and a gentleman too
My dad helped set up parnell Jones 1963 race. He has a plaque for this. Thanx for the history.
That is baddA$$
@@gregj831 thanx. My dad worked with many of the top drivers from that era.
I was 13 and in J stand in the 4th turn. I remember like it was yesterday when a smiling, waving Eddie Sachs came by rolling his lone wheel to the amusement of the fans.
Crew-cut hair cuts and the smell of Castor oil and fried chicken. It doesn't get any better than this.
I raced with Parnelli at Laguna Seca. He is very aggressive and very good. He's a drivers' driver!
Great racing and thanks for posting.
Indy and fried chicken, potato salad and beans! It can't top that! Although brauts, dogs and burgers ain't too shabby either!
That's great. My dad set up 1063 winning indy for Parnelli Jones. My dad worked for many of racing greats in that era. Dad (rip). My sister and I were lucky to meet some and grew up driving quarter midgets way before Danica Patrick.
If My dad didn't stop my race career, I might have been before Danica. I was beating guys 2-4 yrs older than me. My dad felt it was getting to dangerous for us.
If you want the full scoop on the '64 race, that also touched on the '63 race controversy because of how it affected Eddie Sachs life decisions. Read "Black Noon: The Day They Stopped the Indy 500." It covers the whole month of May, day by day, by day, by day. The real story about Eddie Sachs' death was that he didn't die of burns. Another little tidbit was Eddie was, Edward Sachs Jr. His father didn't like to be referred to as Eddie. So he was always was called Edward. Edward Jr. was Eddie, and Eddie's son was Edward Sachs III, or Eddie Jr. Jr. owns a midget car team with hired drivers, after he tried his hand in stock cars. Mom didn't like open-wheel cars much anymore. I think he works for Indy still. Because Eddie was so well liked, Jr. was treated like royalty there. I used to letter his race cars.
That is super cool! Eddie was one helluva great Indycar driver.
It's a hell of a good book!
Nothing and I mean Nothing beats the sound of the Offy engines. I saw them all Offys, Fords, Chevolets, Novis, and the egg beater sound of the Honda. Sounds like a WW2 Zero engine.
Amen to that.
I love all race car sounds. It's in my blood. Dad (rip) was a mechanic for many top drivers including setting up 1963 indy parnell Jones car.
Zero is made by Mitsubishi haha
A great clean race, unlike what followed a year later.
Rest In Peace Parnelli Jones
*At 18, Agajanian had saved enough money to buy a race car. When he told his father that he was going to become a race car driver, the elder Agajanian's reaction was not what young Aggie had hoped.... Looking at the car in the garage, his father said to J.C.,* _"So, you are going to be a race driver, that's fine. Just a few things I want you to do first. Go kiss your mother goodbye, pack your bags since you won't be living here anymore and while you're at it, change your name."_
Interesting.
Incidentally these were fantastic looking cars
No doubt but that Politics did play a role in the outcome. Recall that Aggy told Harlan Fengler "that although Parnelli was leaking oil, the level of oil had dropped below the crack in the tank and that they were no longer leaking?" Love the Novis!
Thanks for the info, and I'm the Indy 500 fans
19:39 safety crew man falling off the truck :D
he probably was in the snake pit when he got the call......
22:37. The design was the James Bond oil mister that he deployed keeping Clark at bay.
I thought that was first made by Robert Mitchum for "Thunder Road".? =/////=======> STP. ~(;-})={.----]
Designed to drop oil...
Any missiles?
First indy 500 appearance for bobby unser and johnny rutherford
+33kalam And Bobby occupies a unique place in Indianapolis 500 history. His crash on the third lap of this race from 1963 resulted in a last place finish. He ended up winning in his final Indy start, in 1981, making him the only driver to finish last in his first Indianapolis 500 and first in his last Indianapolis 500.
Ironically though, both Bobby and JR nearly didn't have a chance to accomplish what they did because of what happened the next year, as they were both involved in the Sachs/McDonald crash at the end of lap two. In fact, the lemon-necklace that Sachs wore to deal with the dry mouth the drivers would get ended up on one of the axles of JR's car in that wreck.
And of course, in the mid 70s, Bobby and JR were each other's biggest rival at Indy. JR took the pole from Bobby in 1973 and beat Bobby in the 1974 race, but then Bobby reversed the finishing order in 1975. They locked horns again in 1980, with Bobby and JR being again each other's greatest competition until Bobby dropped out on lap 127, leaving the path wide open for JR to claim an easy third win. Bobby won his third Indianapolis 500 the following year.
2 very nice drivers my dad knew
5:38. jesus.. that had to hurt.
And unfortunately, that marked the third year in a row that Jack Turner had flipped at Indy, after having done so in both the 1961 and 1962 races, though not quite as dramatically as his 1963 crash. Having survived flips in three successive years, he retired, as mentioned in the film.
@Tyrone Taylor Back then, if a driver had a crash like that, he was lucky just to survive, much less race again, which he did after the first two times he had rollover crashes, which in both cases, came in the race itself.
Before Colin Chapman joined the conversation between Agajanian and USAC chief steward Harlan Fengler, J. C. allegedly said to Fengler "Do you want an American car and driver to win this race or a rear-engined British car with a British driver to win it?" That is where some of the stories of bias come from.
The only reasons that Lotus and Ford declined to protest the result was because Chapman and Clark acknowledged that Jones had been faster than Clark for most of the race. It was also felt that being awarded the win on protest would be a public relations disaster.
+Holden308 Not to mention the fact that Clark was driving a green car, which was considered bad luck at that time. There are those that think that Clark driving a green car, compared to the red, white, and blue one that Jones was driving might also have played a part in that decision.
However, toward the end of that race, Jones' car was likely not leaking any more oil because the crack in the oil tank that was causing the oil leak on Jones' car was above where the level of oil was in his oil tank. That crack in the oil tank was what caused the leaking oil from Jones' car, and when the level of the oil in the tank dropped below where the crack in the oil tank was, his car stopped leaking oil.
And there was so much oil being leaked that day (two or three other cars were either black flagged for leaking oil or had simply run out of oil) that by the end of the race, it was almost impossible to tell who, if anyone, was leaking oil at the end of the race, so the officials let it go.
***** Agreed. Back then the cars dropped so much oil throughout the race that by the end the track would have been pretty slick in places, if not all the way around the oval. And you're right, the oil level in Jones' car had gone below the crack.
Political or not, on the day the fastest car and driver won the race and even Chapman and Clark didn't dispute that.
Nobody could dispute the fastest car won that race. In fact, if not for the loss of brakes the year before, it's quite possible that Jones might have won the 1962 race wire-to-wire, because car was so much faster than anyone else's in both 1962 and '63.
One of the main reasons why was something Jones himself picked up in a tire test, almost by accident. Those old Indy roadsters slid a lot on those skinny tires, and one time Jones got into a slide and punched the throttle, and discovered that when he did that, it launched the car forward, giving it an extra boost exiting the corners, and he told nobody this, not even members of his own team, and it wasn't for two or three years that his competitors figured out what he was doing to give him his big speed advantage on everyone else. It wasn't much more than a 1 MPH advantage in lap speed, but in those days a 1 MPH advantage was a BIG advantage, like what a 3-5 MPH edge is these days.
***** It definitely helped him be the first to hit the 150 mph barrier in 1962.
That and the repaving of the track, which saw all the bricks on the main straightaway paved over, except for the yard at the start/finish line. The repaving of the track was the biggest reason for the increase in speeds, and the paving over the bricks was a big reason why the rear-engine cars were able to revolutionize the sport the way they did, because they could never have stood up to the relentless pounding those bricks would have given them.
yeah they were lucky they didn't get hurt(as others were) in 64. I'm glad about that having been in accidents myself. I know pain well.
Pain really does hurt.!
Who knew a year later Eddie Sachs would get killed in probably the worst multi car wreck in Indy history
Nobody can predict anything like that. For example, just a few years later, Ronnie Duman, who was also badly burned in that wreck early in the '64 Indianapolis 500, finished sixth in the 1968 Indianapolis 500. A week later, he burned to death at Milwaukee in an early race crash.
Ronnie was also involved in the Sachs, McDonald wreck, he jumped over the retaining wall to get clear
@@cjs83172 Thank you for posting this, it was my first Indy at 11 years old and my dad's favorite, Jim Hurtubise was a friend of his
@@ledzeppelin5647 My first Indy as well.....I was only 7. Jim "Hurcules" Hurtubise was one of my Indy heros.
Eddie may have had an inkling he was pushing his luck. Had he won he would have said he was done, in victory lane.
Not seriously injured? According to Wikipedia, this crash "crushed a vertebra..." 5:49
neat ,i owned 2 PaceSetter convertibles
So surprising that the Lotus didn't at least equal the qualifying speed of the Offy's.
Actually, the Lotus cars couldn't match the speed of the Offenhauser engines for one simple reason. Their engines didn't have the horsepower to match what the bigger Offys had. The Lotus cars were running production-based Ford engines that used carburetors, making the Lotus cars the last ones to use carburetors on Carburetion Day. As a result, they were significantly down on horsepower, though not as much as the Cooper-Climax had been in 1961, when it beat only one car that finished.
The advantage the Lotus cars had was that they were much lighter, and thus easier on tires. That, combined with the fact that they could go half the entire race on one tank of fuel, meant they could make the race on fewer pit stops than the roadsters, which needed three pit stops to go the distance, and only Parnelli Jones' car was fast enough to make up the difference, which was between 90 seconds and 2 minutes (or about 1.5-2 laps) when you count the slowing down time entering the pits and accelerating time leaving the pits. That advantage made up for the lack of horsepower that the Lotus cars had, a problem that would be fixed for 1964, when Ford went to a racing engine for the Lotus cars.
Also, when the Lotus team did make pit stops, they were reportedly sloppy, a fact that led Lotus and Ford to bring the famed Wood Brothers pit crew to Indy in 1965, and that teaming up of the best racing team in open-wheel racing and the world's best pit crew was simply unbeatable in '65, with the addition to the reliability that the Lotus cars did not have in 1964.
Thats me with my circuit racing head on. I was thinking power to weight but obviously on an oval it's all about average speed so HP is the predominant factor.
Especially on a big 2.5 mile oval like Indy, where the straightaways are longer than many short tracks are. That's the reason horsepower is so important at a place like Indy. (Why do you think Jack Roush has never won the NASCAR race there?) However, as I mentioned, the horsepower deficiencies of the Ford engines at Indy in '63 was made up for by the lighter weight of the cars, which made them much easier on tires, and made the handle better, so much of what they lost on the straightaways, they got back in the corners.
Not to mention the great fuel mileage their production-based engines got, which meant they could make the distance on fewer pit stops, so there was more time gained by not pitting as often. As I mentioned, the big Offy roadsters had to pit at least three times to the Lotus cars' one, which meant that the Offys spent about 2 minutes more in the pits when you consider the slowing down time and speeding up time. Only Parnelli Jones was able to make up all the lost ground to Clark's Lotus on the extra pit stops.
@@cjs83172 Roush engines have won at the brickyard. And Roush-Yates engines also.
@@DDS029 They have since Roush and Yates consolidated into one engine program for all the Ford teams in the mid-2000s, but even then, after Dale Jarrett's 1999 win there, it would be another 19 years before a Roush-Yates engine would win at Indy, with Brad Keselowski's 2018 win for Penske being Ford's first at Indy since 1999.
Os caras trocavam o pneu na base da martelada....
If Jones gets black flagged, and Eddie Sachs was to make it through the track conditions, and were to win, he lives a long happy life. He would have announced his retirement in victory lane, and wouldn't have been on the starting grid of any Indy car race, much less the fateful 1964 race.
If Parnelli would have been black flagged, Jim Clark would have won going away, because he was at least a lap or two ahead of anyone else who finished behind him after Roger McCluskey spun out of third place in turn three on what would have been his next-to-last lap.
Actually, the caution flags during the second half of the race were the only reason Parnelli was even in a position to win the race, because he had to make three pit stops, while Clark only made one, but both of the pit stops he made in the second half of the race were made when the caution flag was out, which allowed him to stay ahead of Clark long before the controversy about whether Parnelli should have been black flagged ever erupted. If he had to make them under full racing conditions, Clark would have been ahead of him by about 15 or 20 seconds, and Parnelli might not have been able to make up the lost ground.
Perhaps so!
too bad his bearing gave out in 67
They lifted car with hands and changed a tires with hammer, good they didn't fill gas tank with a bucket. :P
While they did loosen the tires with a hammer in order to change them, something that didn't change until the early 70s, they didn't lift them by hand, but what they did was to put manual platforms under the car, and then jacked the car up manually. Modern IndyCar pit equipment, such as air jacks and high-tech lugs and lug wrenched didn't come about until the 1970s. But they jacked IndyCars up like they still do in NASCAR today.
The hammer head was made of a metal that didn't create sparks on the magnesium nut. You also may have noticed that to tighten them, they were hitting them on the on the front of the nut, the right side is a regular thread, the left side are left handed nuts. Reason being the rotational force put on the wheel would tend to tighten the nut. Chrysler did that on their cars in the mid 60's. But sparks would have been a problem. They didn't outlaw gasoline until after the '64 race.
@@cjs83172 They raised the cars with what looked like oddly shaped hand trucks, like they still do in F1.
He wins the Indy 500 for first and only on 1963. Why he cannot win the Indy 500 after 1963 ?
Mario Andretti only won it once, in 1969. His son Michael won some races, but not Indy. And Mario's grandson Marco will be lucky if he ever wins anything.
Jones retired from Indy to run his tire franchises but did race trans am and Baja
@@charlesanzalone5846 parnelli's son was in a bad race crash with head injuries which may have kept parnelli from racing. Parnelli's kept busy over the years. My dad worked for his team and set up the 1963 indy winning car.
6 months before jfk murder
by CIA
Sadly, USAC pulled the strings & did not want the Rear engine Lotus to win the race, J Clark would have been the 1st Foreigner since 1925, Parnelli's Old Calhoun had a bad Oil leak for the last 50-75 miles of the race that contributed to knocking out 3rd & 4th place contenders Sachs & McClusky's accidents,
What happened was that Parnelli's car had a crack in an external oil tank, which is why it leaked oil, but according to Jones, once it leaked down to below the level of the crack in the oil tank, it stopped leaking oil, though I'm not sure I entirely believe that. In addition, Parnelli's car wasn't the only one leaking oil, because severe oil leaks also knocked out Jim Hurtubise and Bobby Grim, either when they were black flagged or when their oil tanks ran completely dry. Dempsey Wilson's car was also black flagged for dropping oil. And because there were several cars having trouble leaking oil, there was no way USAC could be absolutely sure Parnelli's car still was in the final 10-15 laps, which was when this controversy erupted.
A side note to the controversy was the rule change it partially forced, which was the official ending of the race five minutes after the winner took the checkered flag, as McCluskey was one of two drivers who would have finished higher had the rule regarding cars laps behind finishing the race been what it was beginning in 1964. (The other one was Bobby Marshman, who was in fifth place when Parnelli took the checkered flag, but his car failed on it's 197th lap and he was officially scored 16th, with McCluskey officially scored 15th). Back then, cars had a nearly unlimited amount of time to complete all 200 laps if running, a practice that ended with this race.
@@cjs83172 Impressive & makes since! I was going solely on Eddie Sach's story
@@doctorgarbonzo2525 And one interesting part of that where Sachs is concerned happened after the race, because he confronted Parnelli about his car leaking oil and Jones punched him. The next morning, Sachs and Jones crossed paths in a hotel room and Sachs, ever the jokester, took a little black flag and stuck it in his mouth. That story came from Parnelli himself during the episode of Indy 500: A Race for Heroes that profiled Jones' Indy career.
@@cjs83172 True! Sachs should have won in '61, His tires were thin & pitted with the lead n the 197th lap & conceived the Race to Foyt
@@doctorgarbonzo2525 And the only reason his tires were in such bad shape was because he ran harder than he needed to, not knowing what Foyt knew regarding Foyt not getting hardly any fuel on his final scheduled stop because of a problem with his pitside fuel tank. That resulted in Foyt needing an extra stop with about 15 laps left, during which he took on fuel from Len Sutton's pitside tank, a practice that was almost immediately outlawed following that race.
This video, mes amis, does NOT have authentic ('Real') racecar sounds. A shame !