Clark, the most naturally gifted driver of all time, a gentleman, totally honest, never cheated, never needed to cut anyone up, always treated his cars with respect, hardly wore tyres or brakes, perfect lines and never missed an apex. Beautiful car(s).
Compare Clark with Verstappen and Vettel. Jimmy did not require histrionics, sulky behaviour with daddy in the pits Did not weave across the track to prevent an overtaking movement (very few could overtake him anyway). Difficult to compare drivers of yesterday with those of today. All that one can do is imagine. The cars are so different from then.
@@roygarner7240 I've seen many Grand Prix drivers argue that Clark was the most gifted of all. And they would know better than we would. Only Fangio and Hamilton are in the same league in terms of feel for the car. As a Scot he was my hero as a kid. I still remember the shock of his untimely death. At least the sport is exponentially safer these days - it was insanely dangerous back then.
@@tullochgorum6323 Nope, have to disagree with you, Clark and Fangio are in their own league. They both had the one thing that Hamilton will never have, class.
Eagle Weslake, Lotus 49 Cosworth, Repco Brabhams, Ferrari, Cooper Maseratis, Hondas, McLarens and BRM. Bliss. Driven by some truly great drivers. John Surtees, Jim Clark, Jack Brabham, Denny Hulme, Jackie Stewart etc
That's when the drivers and their teams knew how to entertain the crowds, fearless, and certainly gifted, as in the case with Jim Clarke.RIP young man.
I was there and saw several more in the 60"s The beauty of those cars was that from many slight elevations around the track you could look inside and see the drivers at work.
And they had so much more freedom in design back then. The FIA basically just set max dimensions and engine size rules, and the rest was up to the teams. With visionaries like Colin Chapman and Gordon Murray constantly innovating new design ideas such as rear engines, aerodynamics, downforce, ground effects, etc.
I never saw those, but I did have a highly detailed plastic kit of the Honda F1 car, with all those exhaust pipes on top. The instructions were a little strange, though. I'm still trying to figure out the direction that started: "After the parts have been fived..."
An amazing look back in time. Great to see what Watkins Glen looked like back in the day! Also the lack of downforce and concern for safety really stand out.
This Is an Absolute Glorious Time!!! The Freedom That everyone had at the racetrack to watch the best in the world go at it! Yes, it was dangerous for the spectators ( an driver's ) but I'll take freedom over dangerous any day. These are the days that people actually took pride in what they made and accomplished, Not in today's times as far as build it as cheap as possible and sell it for as much as you can make : day we live In. Could you imagine the food at the racetrack! It was real food back then not full of fill-ins, harmful preservatives, etc. I bet it was wonderful! Would give anything to be Born back In those days, to watch these magnificent machines go around the racetrack.
The Lotus type 49 - the undisputed classic vintage race car. Powered by a lightweight 3-litre v8. A bit of a gamble, since the other teams were running v12's and higher. Its brutish delivery of its 415 brake horsepower was felt like a real kick in the back at around 6500 rpm. The car went on to win dozens of victories, including the famous one-two, of Jim Clark and Graham Hill at the '67 US Grand Prix.
@@craigyirush3492 smaller cylinder displacement = higher potential engine speed = higher potential power, dont quote me on this. Also this was a quote from ToCA Race Driver 3.
And drivers died at almost every event. Do you think for a minute that if the teams had access to the technology of today that they wouldn’t use it? Or do you think they would go back to spoke wheels and wooden under carriages.
@@CharlesHood55 Wings and downforce is not an answer to the death toll. Track and car safety features is what does the job. In fact, wings were put on cars to make them faster... and hence even more dangerous. :D
As I said elsewhere, Jim loved America and America loved him. He also liked American muscle cars. The big Galaxy you see him driving in the opening here was a gift from Ford in thanks for him driving Nascar for them. They had initially intended to give him a Mustang but it was destroyed when it was dropped from a great height on the dock while being unloaded. They replaced it with the Galaxy because it was the only thing they had on hand in the UK at the time.
A car spins on an oil patch, recovers, gets underway again while the 'safety team' (one guy) throws a coffee can of kitty litter on the slippery spot. Yep.
The BRM 16 cylinder may have been a failure in the form of a great racing machine, but it absolutely was a world champion when it came to the sounds it created!! Still one of the very best sounding race engines ever created.
I love the lack of safety barriers, runouts, or proper grandstands, and folks just meandering around pit lane. It’s the cars, the speed and the glory which is more important - as it should be.
Racing God JIM CLARK - Unmatched Maestro. 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 any 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...
God, it was 1967, six years after Monza '61, and they still weren't learning anything from it. Either they (the spectators) were extra brave or just plain insane.
I'm excited that Ford is returning to Formula 1 in 2026. And having Cadillac teaming up with Andretti motorsports will add so much more to the sport also.
Greatest success! Even Jim Clark with the Might of the Ford motor company and Lotus behind him, couldn't beat a car from down under with an obsolete production engine and a miniscule budget to the World title.
Motor racing needs to go back to the days when the starter stood on the side of the track and waved the flag while smoking a cigar. It would also be boss if race cars looked like race cars, like these. My father always used to say that the new cars looked like lawn mowers.
Unbelievably beautiful cars. Last 60s F1 cars were so pure and beautiful. I would wish a modern formula series without wings (they are not usable in any real road car and they are detrimental for racing), tyres with a mandatory hardness (i.e. a reasonable duration for a road car). Preferably, tracks would not be flat like a billar table, perhaps jrban tracks or tracks with massive advantage using kerbs. It would do stiff suspensions and floor aero unusable. In short, more natural cars in more natural tracks. Racing would be better, driving skills more rewarded, less prone to engineer's analysis and lower cornering speeds and more nuanced braking. LOL , in a shorter way: I want real racing done by the drivers themselves. 😬
There were cars in this race NOT powered by "FORD" (actually, FORD-badged Cosworth engines). But "Ford Heritage" declines to name them; only their drivers. So much for "Heritage."
This comes up all the time, but my question is "Who paid for them?" If Ford paid for the engines, then they're Ford engines. If Ford paid for their development, then they're Ford engines. Try building a race engine without money.
Are you calling Watkins Glen a "stock car circuit"? Hardly, though they race some of those albatrosses race there on the short course. You might want to research the history of [Watkins Glen Grand Prix Circuit]. Clue: it came to be, up in the hills to get F1 cars off the streets down in the town,. where first USGP was run. THAT was insane.
In fact, what triggered the departure from the Glen, was back in '80 when some jackwagon spectators stole a bus and burned it in a bog alongside where the new course rejoined the prior, downstream of the big bend. FIA said "finis". Seems you didn't see mine above.
Jacques Blaque wow I didn’t know that. Those jackwagons were up to that since I went in 1974, but in The Bog, so I guess far enough from the track. Still pretty stupid stuff.
Whoever is maintaining this (Ford Heritage) YT channel is not responsible for decisions made by others over 50yrs ago. More likely than not, the producers of _'9 Days of Summer'_ are probably dead by now. So there's no sense in complaining about the music. Especially since this comment section is inundated about the music, instead of the race itself & the people involved in the sport during 1967.
Would have been a great video... BUT adding the the sound track as the cars raced was plain silly. Who wants to listen to music drowning the sounds of racing engines during a race?! - Thanks anyway. Best wishes.
@@marguskiis7711 Oh CanAm dominated by British cars McLaren and Lola the same companies that made F1 cars. GB McLaren 66 to 71 / DE Porsche 72 to 73/ GB Shadow 74/GB Lola 77 to 81/ US Frissbee 82 to 83/ US VDS 84/ US Frissbee 85 to 86/ GB March 87
Clark, the most naturally gifted driver of all time, a gentleman, totally honest, never cheated, never needed to cut anyone up, always treated his cars with respect, hardly wore tyres or brakes, perfect lines and never missed an apex. Beautiful car(s).
Compare Clark with Verstappen and Vettel. Jimmy did not require histrionics, sulky behaviour with daddy in the pits Did not weave across the track to prevent an overtaking movement (very few could overtake him anyway). Difficult to compare drivers of yesterday with those of today. All that one can do is imagine. The cars are so different from then.
@@roygarner7240 You forgot to mention Hamilton.
@@roygarner7240 I've seen many Grand Prix drivers argue that Clark was the most gifted of all. And they would know better than we would. Only Fangio and Hamilton are in the same league in terms of feel for the car. As a Scot he was my hero as a kid. I still remember the shock of his untimely death. At least the sport is exponentially safer these days - it was insanely dangerous back then.
@@tullochgorum6323 Nope, have to disagree with you, Clark and Fangio are in their own league. They both had the one thing that Hamilton will never have, class.
@@johannmckraken9399 Seems that maybe you don't like that he's working class and black?
These old films are magnificent.
Jim Clark what a driver.
No 1 in my book.
Literally everything about this video is gold.
1967 The most beautiful F1 cars ever!
JB91710 Agreed. The beautiful sleekness of the monocoque hull before being cluttered up with ailerons front and back!
JB91710 And the most dangerous.
Agreed
@Flame Resistant Troll I know, what were they thinking?"
Eagle Weslake, Lotus 49 Cosworth, Repco Brabhams, Ferrari, Cooper Maseratis, Hondas, McLarens and BRM. Bliss. Driven by some truly great drivers. John Surtees, Jim Clark, Jack Brabham, Denny Hulme, Jackie Stewart etc
The good old times: Clark that walks to the podium and shake hands with the fans. So natural, so good
Sad, knowing what’s to come.
That's when the drivers and their teams knew how to entertain the crowds, fearless, and certainly gifted, as in the case with Jim Clarke.RIP young man.
The best looking GP cars of all times. It is Watkins Glen but the lack of blue Armco barriers makes it a bit difficult to recognize the corners.
I was there and saw several more in the 60"s The beauty of those cars was that from many slight elevations around the track you could look inside and see the drivers at work.
Jim looks so innocent and nice.
I could watch 12 hours of this.
Clark was the best
It breaks your heart to know Jim wouldn't get back to The Glen again.
Yep, Jim loved America and America loved him right back. Americans grieved him very deeply as well.
These cars look and sound amazing compared to today's Grand Prix cars
Build it then run it
Flame Resistant Troll oh my, Ferrari no win like 2020 will be. 😏
Flame Resistant Troll 1986 had a bunch of different layouts
The sound here is fake and nowadays cars are way better.
And they had so much more freedom in design back then. The FIA basically just set max dimensions and engine size rules, and the rest was up to the teams. With visionaries like Colin Chapman and Gordon Murray constantly innovating new design ideas such as rear engines, aerodynamics, downforce, ground effects, etc.
Heritage F1 + Jazz = I'm in heaven.
I was there! 7 years old. My father worked in timing and scoring.
The sound is perfect. 👌👌
This footage is superb!
Beautiful cars
Corgi models UK made some of these classic grand-prix cars in the 1960s.I have a few of them they are works of art.
I had one as well it was if I remember correctly about 8 Inches long and beautiful
Ya I got this year and the '68 Gold Leaf with the tall rear wing. They are works of art.
I never saw those, but I did have a highly detailed plastic kit of the Honda F1 car, with all those exhaust pipes on top. The instructions were a little strange, though. I'm still trying to figure out the direction that started: "After the parts have been fived..."
I watched this with my dad aged 8
ABC Wide World of Sports?
Jimmy was different class.
I dont know why but i get so emotional when i see these old cars
'Nine days in summer' - A tribute to Jim Clark (with hindsight)
And the cars broke down after every heavier throttle push.
An amazing look back in time. Great to see what Watkins Glen looked like back in the day! Also the lack of downforce and concern for safety really stand out.
We'll give you a roll-bar... but not so it covers your head.
Pure Formula 1! no wings, all driver!
Clark dies that year in a F2 race in Hockenheim Germany. Clark drove like how Stan Getz played tennor sax smooth and seemingly flawless.
1968*
April 7, 1968. He only had about 6 months to live after this race.
Jim Clark drives a racecar, the way that Stan Getz plays the sax... so smooth, and makes it look so easy.
I like your comparison.
He won the Tasman series in the meantime, and won the first GP of the season in 1968 at Kyalami.
This Is an Absolute Glorious Time!!! The Freedom That everyone had at the racetrack to watch the best in the world go at it! Yes, it was dangerous for the spectators ( an driver's ) but I'll take freedom over dangerous any day. These are the days that people actually took pride in what they made and accomplished, Not in today's times as far as build it as cheap as possible and sell it for as much as you can make : day we live In. Could you imagine the food at the racetrack! It was real food back then not full of fill-ins, harmful preservatives, etc. I bet it was wonderful! Would give anything to be Born back In those days, to watch these magnificent machines go around the racetrack.
Give it a rest.
@@johntechwriter Give It a rest on What? Is this towards my comment? Or was you referring it for somebody else's?
@@Spindal45 I was referring to your inane comment. "I'll take freedom over dangerous any day." And the general hyperbole. What twaddle!
Love the 67 F1. Engines up to 400hp ,hard tires and no wings. The last real old school season
R.I.P・・・Jim＆Graham・・・
The Lotus type 49 - the undisputed classic vintage race car. Powered by a lightweight 3-litre v8. A bit of a gamble, since the other teams were running v12's and higher. Its brutish delivery of its 415 brake horsepower was felt like a real kick in the back at around 6500 rpm. The car went on to win dozens of victories, including the famous one-two, of Jim Clark and Graham Hill at the '67 US Grand Prix.
Why would the number of cylinders matter? They were all limited to 3 liters.
@@craigyirush3492 smaller cylinder displacement = higher potential engine speed = higher potential power, dont quote me on this. Also this was a quote from ToCA Race Driver 3.
great to see BRM in their // our heyday but wow----did you see that jump by the flag man at the end////???? artistic impression something else.
Jimmy was untouchable on a race track and off.
What an amazing video. Amazing image quality
No wings or downforce, real engines.. When F1 raced real cars.
Bath tub on wheels lol
And drivers died at almost every event. Do you think for a minute that if the teams had access to the technology of today that they wouldn’t use it? Or do you think they would go back to spoke wheels and wooden under carriages.
@@CharlesHood55 Wings and downforce is not an answer to the death toll. Track and car safety features is what does the job. In fact, wings were put on cars to make them faster... and hence even more dangerous. :D
As I said elsewhere, Jim loved America and America loved him. He also liked American muscle cars. The big Galaxy you see him driving in the opening here was a gift from Ford in thanks for him driving Nascar for them. They had initially intended to give him a Mustang but it was destroyed when it was dropped from a great height on the dock while being unloaded. They replaced it with the Galaxy because it was the only thing they had on hand in the UK at the time.
He undoubtedly loved it.
Jim Clark: the GOAT
A car spins on an oil patch, recovers, gets underway again while the 'safety team' (one guy) throws a coffee can of kitty litter on the slippery spot. Yep.
The sound of that Honda!
John Surtees behind the wheel of the RA300
The BRM 16 cylinder may have been a failure in the form of a great racing machine, but it absolutely was a world champion when it came to the sounds it created!! Still one of the very best sounding race engines ever created.
I love the lack of safety barriers, runouts, or proper grandstands, and folks just meandering around pit lane. It’s the cars, the speed and the glory which is more important - as it should be.
Ramond Ferreal
The lawyers got to all of it. Cant have anybody suing because of a broken fingernail.
Yeah, what's the big deal of a few guys burned alive every year?
Racing God JIM CLARK - Unmatched Maestro. 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 any 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...
Ahh the REAL f1 cars...love it
Sadly a year later Jim Clark died during a F2 race in Germany
nostalgic and brilliant
The Best English and Scottish drivers ever! Both must be amongst the best ever
Clark's father told American Dan Gurney, at Jim's funeral, that the only driver Jimmy had feared was Dan Gurney. That's high praise.
Great jazz soundtrack sounds like Coltrane
the rear wheel of Jimmy's Lotus had a problem (suspension).
@Aussie Cockatoo It is true
@Aussie Cockatoo Clark was so smooth. when is car became sick, he was able to nurse it....great driver
Incredibile how time is changing in just a moment.
Ahhh, the old GPL sim...
The 60's... where Jaz was the soundtrack for everything.
I was there, an 18 year old with stars in my eyes. Next year he was gone.
Stewart said suddenly in 67 due to rule changes suddenly every team was running 2wice the hp
God, it was 1967, six years after Monza '61, and they still weren't learning anything from it. Either they (the spectators) were extra brave or just plain insane.
I'm excited that Ford is returning to Formula 1 in 2026. And having Cadillac teaming up with Andretti motorsports will add so much more to the sport also.
Greatest success! Even Jim Clark with the Might of the Ford motor company and Lotus behind him, couldn't beat a car from down under with an obsolete production engine and a miniscule budget to the World title.
@1:06 Graham Gurney???? WTH?
Perfect
Why add music? The engines MAKE their own music!
Sounds good... it's period correct jazz, like essentially every similiar film of the era.
You're absolutely right though, the engine sounds are everything.
Seeing spectators standing at the edge of the track with no barriers or protection gives me anxiety
Lol. You had a chicken wire fence and an embankment back then. Cool place. Grew up near it.
Good ol’ mechanical grip.
Nascar has entered the chat
1:46 what is that marshall doing?
Lo mejor estaba por venir !
Los formula uno de los '70
The music ruined it... When it comes to watching old F1, there's no need for any thing, just the sounds of the cars..
I have driven my car in those tire tracks!!!! Gives me chills !!! 😀😀😀😀😀😀🏁🏁🏁🏁🍺🍺🍺🍺
is adding music a RUclips requirement, than closed captioning should be also, just saying
Such a silly comment. The film with the music was made in 1967. It’s jazz which was common in documentaries back then.
Hum..This is Watkins Glen , Canada ????????...Not US.
Huh?
Watkins Glen is in New York
What track is that ?
When Ford ruled the racing world.
Motor racing needs to go back to the days when the starter stood on the side of the track and waved the flag while smoking a cigar. It would also be boss if race cars looked like race cars, like these. My father always used to say that the new cars looked like lawn mowers.
Lewis Hamilton??? Pffft...Money's on "The Great" Jim Clark, all day long. The absolute GOAT!!!
Something about this style of car. Sleek...just looks fast. And of course dangerous af. Had to be brave.
Graham Hill had win the toss with Jim Clark...
The BRM H16 !!!!! COOL BEANS !!!! 😁😁😀😀🏁🏁🏁🏁🍺🍺🍺
Someone should overdub the music with noise.
God I miss this era! Nothing but shit now.
The best☝️👆
It must’ve felt so bloody good, beating Ferrari across the world’s race circuits.
Having any music play just ruins this video.
Unbelievably beautiful cars. Last 60s F1 cars were so pure and beautiful.
I would wish a modern formula series without wings (they are not usable in any real road car and they are detrimental for racing), tyres with a mandatory hardness (i.e. a reasonable duration for a road car).
Preferably, tracks would not be flat like a billar table, perhaps jrban tracks or tracks with massive advantage using kerbs. It would do stiff suspensions and floor aero unusable.
In short, more natural cars in more natural tracks. Racing would be better, driving skills more rewarded, less prone to engineer's analysis and lower cornering speeds and more nuanced braking.
LOL , in a shorter way: I want real racing done by the drivers themselves. 😬
Flower of Scotland, will we see your like again?
I guess F1 really is a lot like life -- in all the worst ways.
0:47....that s waht I call a "big glorious who do you think I am" starter....the rest is a shame
My father had one
There were cars in this race NOT powered by "FORD" (actually, FORD-badged Cosworth engines). But "Ford Heritage" declines to name them; only their drivers. So much for "Heritage."
This comes up all the time, but my question is "Who paid for them?" If Ford paid for the engines, then they're Ford engines. If Ford paid for their development, then they're Ford engines. Try building a race engine without money.
Jim clark
F1 on a Stock Car circuit just insane.
Are you calling Watkins Glen a "stock car circuit"? Hardly, though they race some of those albatrosses race there on the short course. You might want to research the history of [Watkins Glen Grand Prix Circuit]. Clue: it came to be, up in the hills to get F1 cars off the streets down in the town,. where first USGP was run. THAT was insane.
Actually it was the other way around, Watkins Glen was an F1 track for many years, then fell off the circuit in favor of Long Beach.
In fact, what triggered the departure from the Glen, was back in '80 when some jackwagon spectators stole a bus and burned it in a bog alongside where the new course rejoined the prior, downstream of the big bend. FIA said "finis". Seems you didn't see mine above.
Jacques Blaque wow I didn’t know that. Those jackwagons were up to that since I went in 1974, but in The Bog, so I guess far enough from the track. Still pretty stupid stuff.
Watkins Glen neat road course town and beautiful Lake Seneca.
Sure... we'll give you a roll-bar, but it aint gonna go up into the slip-stream...
Thanks for reminding me of how intensely I hate jazz music.
Imagine editing it and hearing it a thousand times over! Hey, there's always the mute button...
Okay, Johnny. Thanks for letting us know.
Whoever is maintaining this (Ford Heritage) YT channel is not responsible for decisions made by others over 50yrs ago.
More likely than not, the producers of _'9 Days of Summer'_ are probably dead by now. So there's no sense in complaining about the music. Especially since this comment section is inundated about the music, instead of the race itself & the people involved in the sport during 1967.
..far closer to nature and down to earth…un-media-ised…
Would have been a great video... BUT adding the the sound track as the cars raced was plain silly. Who wants to listen to music drowning the sounds of racing engines during a race?! - Thanks anyway. Best wishes.
It’s a film: vimeo.com/53036827
The engine sounds are music enough, FMC, so why'd you have to overlay it with that stupid jazz music?
It’s not from him: vimeo.com/53036827 39.min
Some good Pictures, but really a-kinda-BAD Music.. (laugh) 😀
Looks britishly amateurish
Just like today F1 cars were the most technically advanced cars in the world.
@@Insolation1 far from it. CanAm was.
@@marguskiis7711 Oh CanAm dominated by British cars McLaren and Lola the same companies that made F1 cars. GB McLaren 66 to 71 / DE Porsche 72 to 73/ GB Shadow 74/GB Lola 77 to 81/ US Frissbee 82 to 83/ US VDS 84/ US Frissbee 85 to 86/ GB March 87
You're both correct.
Can-Am had Jim Hall
F1 had Colin Chapman
JIM CLARK GENIO AS DEL VOLANTE ❤😃👌