#Lotus-Ford 49

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Jim Clark (Lotus 49 Ford-Cosworth) vainqueur du Grand Prix des Pays-Bas - Zandvoort 1967. © David Phipps ! Motorsport. - source Carros e Pilotos.

#jim clark #lotus ford #grand prix des pays-bas #zandvoort

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The 1965 Lotus-Ford that Jimmy Clark drove to the 1965 Indianapolis 500 Championship.

Jim Clark was a 2 time F1 World Champion and Indy 500 Champion

Jim Clark died because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. On 7 April 1968, Clark should have been at Brands Hatch giving the DFV-engined Ford F3L its debut in the BOAC 500 sports car race. But he had been double-booked that weekend, and instead spent it at Hockenheim in Germany for a big European F3 meeting where Lotus was fielding its works team, to oblige sponsors Firestone.

Clark was a sheep farmer from the Scottish Borders who had started competing in sprints in his Sunbeam Mk3 saloon in 1956. He won his first event. He raced friend Ian Scott Watson’s DKW Sonderklasse and Porsche 356 1600 Super before graduating to a Jaguar D-type run by the Border Reivers team.

In 1958 Scott Watson bought one of the first Lotus Type 14 Elites, and at the Boxing Day Brands Hatch race meeting Clark had Lotus founder Colin Chapman in his own Elite all but beaten, until a backmarker spun in front of him.

Clark’s smoothness and mechanical sympathy meant he could often get a Lotus to last a race distance where other drivers could not

By 1960 Clark was a Lotus F1 driver, and he won his first championship race at Spa in 1962. It was one of three wins that year, leaving him in contention for the world championship at the final race of the season in South Africa – but his Lotus failed him, and BRM driver Graham Hill was crowned champion.

There was no mistake the following year. Clark won seven of the 10 races in 1963 – the most any driver had won in one season – and took his first world championship win in dominant style.

Chapman was renowned for building cars that were as light as possible, but often their reliability was suspect. Clark’s smoothness and mechanical sympathy meant he could often get a Lotus to last a race distance where other drivers could not, but it didn’t always work out: in 1964 a strong of retirements robbed him of the chance to defend his F1 title. He was back in 1965 with the new Lotus 33, and six race wins guaranteed him his second world championship.

Graham Hill joined Lotus for 1967 – typically, Clark insisted they were both paid the same salary – and carried out much of the development work on the new Cosworth DFV engine. It was obvious that the DFV-powered Lotus 49 was the class of the field at its debut race at Zandvoort, so Hill and Clark tossed to decide who would win. Hill won the toss, but his car expired, leaving Clark to win – in a car he had never seen before that weekend.

Clark had immense natural ability: he often struggled to understand why other drivers couldn’t keep up

Arguably his greatest race came in the 49 at Monza later that year when he suffered a puncture while leading. The pit stop to change the tyre left him a lap down but he fought past the leading group to unlap himself, belying some commentators’ opinions that Clark wasn’t a racer, and was only any good when controlling a race from the front. He lapped faster and faster, caught up an entire lap, and passed the front-runners again to re-take the lead. But the epic win was not to be: the Lotus ran out of fuel with a couple of laps to go, and John Surtees won in the ‘Hondola’ RA300.

Clark had immense natural ability: he often struggled to understand why other drivers couldn’t keep up. When he had a big enough lead he would keep himself amused by setting the car up in a big slide for the benefit of trackside photographers. His feel for the car was legendary: driving the Lotus 49 for the first time at Zandvoort in 1967 he was convinced something wasn’t right with the car, though there was nothing obvious amiss. But when Team Lotus tore down the car overnight they found one of the wheel bearings was just starting to fail.

Clark won the first F1 championship race of the 1968 season in South Africa, where he beat Juan Manuel Fangio’s all-time record of 24 world championship Grand Prix victories. He was well-placed to win more F1 races and maybe become champion again in 1968, but then came Hockenheim…

His Lotus 48 F2 car was up against a strong international field and Clark was running eighth after the first four laps. On the fifth lap the Lotus headed uphill out of the stadium section of the course and into the woods, was seen to twitch, and flew off the road into the trees. Though the cause of the accident was never established beyond all doubt, it’s likely that a rear tyre failed, possibly due to debris from a previous incident. The Lotus hit a tree, and Clark died from a broken neck and fractured skull. He was just 32.

The whole motor racing community was numb. At Brands Hatch the news was announced to a stunned crowd. Colin Chapman was so destraught he considered giving up motor racing for good. Chris Amon, one of the greatest drivers of his era, summed up the general mood among the drivers by saying if this could happen to Clark, “What chance have the rest of us got?”

The shockwaves from his death were felt not just in Europe, where Clark was a superstar in F1 and touring car racing, but also in the US. Clark had been denied victory in the Indy 500 in dubious circumstances in 1963 but returned, and dominated the race, in 1965 – becoming the first F1 World Champion to win at the Brickyard.

But for a few quirks of fate, Clark could have been F1 champion 1962-1963-1964-1965-1968 and might even have gone on to race and win in the slicks-and-wings era of the early 1970s, which brought two world titles for the Lotus 72. He was, without doubt, one of the greatest drivers ever to race in F1.

Family and community meant a lot to him: his gravestone in Chirnside lists his occupation as ‘farmer’ before ‘World Champion motor racing driver’.

Jim Clark's grave in Chirnside, Scotland. 

Jim Clark – winner 1968 Australian Grand Prix at Sandown, Melbourne.

In 1967, Lotus and Cosworth were reshaping the sport of Formula 1 with the assistance of Jim Clark and Graham Hill.

Jim Clark - Lotus 25 - French GP (1965)

French GP, Clermont Ferrand, 27 June 1965 .Winner Jim Clark, Lotus 33 in practice(he raced Lotus 25)

1964 Goodwood TT, Jim Clark, Lotus 30 Ford

The Flying Scotsman Jim Clark

#car #cars #jim clark #classic f1 #flying scotsman

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Graham Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (Lotus 49 Ford Cosworth DFV) won the Mexican GP 🇲🇽 and clinched his 2nd world championship.

#Graham Hill #formula 1 #formula racing #formula 1 classic

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It is considered that leaving your braking to the very last minute is important, and I would agree that it is important, but I'd also say that it's where you take the brakes off that matters. Often, if I want to go through a given corner quicker, I don't necessarily put the brakes on any later, but I might not put them on so hard and then I let them off quicker. How you get led into this trap is by going deep into the corner and not braking until the last moment. Doing this you might arrive quicker, but you then tend to brake much harder than you need. It often happens that a driver when trying hard will set up a fast lap then, when told to ease off and relax, will find himself lapping just as quickly. This would appear to indicate that when he was trying he was really over-braking and slowing the car more than he needed.

- Jim Clark, two time F1 world champion

Jim Clark sits aboard the #5 Team Lotus Lotus 49 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 before the start of the British Grand Prix on 15th July 1967 at Silverstone.

#clark #jim clark #grand prix #formula one #motorsports #racing #racing car #driving #drive #scottish #speed #lotus #racer #sports #braking

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Jim Clark, Lotus-Ford 49, 1967 United States GP, Watkins Glen

#Jim Clark #1967 #Lotus-Ford 49 #Team Lotus

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1969 Lotus 49 Ford-Cosworth

#1969 Lotus 49 Ford-Cosworth #modified #tuning #retro rides #tuner #street #imports #60s racing cars #classic race car #f1 #formula one #vintage formula 1

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Lotus 49

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The 1968 Lotus 49.

Not just any Lotus 49 though, but chassis R4, the car Jim Clark drove to his final victory (and F1 race) at the Republic of South Africa Grand Prix. Oh, what could’ve been.

The sheer novelty of this thing for its time is a bit hard to comprehend. This car, over its five year career, introduced three major elements that changed F1 forever, two of them still staples in F1-car design:

1. The Engine that I teased yesterday? The one in the back of this car? That’s the Ford-Cosworth DFV, first seen on this car. This engine became the most widely used (and winningest) F1 engine ever, winning its final race in 1983. 3 litres, eight cylinders, and 400 horsepower in this guise.

2. Not only was the engine fantastic, the way it was mounted was also ground-breaking. You see, previously engines were bolted to a frame in the chassis, like your daily driver. This frame was very heavy, because it had to support the weight of the engine and load from the suspension. So the engineers at Lotus decided to bolt the thing directly to the chassis, mounting the suspension and gearbox on the engine. This saved a lot of weight, made the chassis stronger, and looked cooler with the exposed engine. F1 cars (and most respectable modern racing cars) are still made this way.

3. Wings! Not seen on this car, Lotus was also one of the first to have the brilliant idea of flipping aircraft wing profiles to have it push the car down at high speed. Why is this important? At low speeds, the car weighs very little, being all nimble and quick. At high speeds, with all the airflow pushing it down, the car weighs nearly twice as much, getting much more grip out of the tyres. Later in 1968, the Lotus 49 would also sprout wings and become the Lotus 49B.

As for Jim? Despite being arguably the most talented F1 driver ever, he never could take full advantage of the Lotus 49. While the car was introduced in 1967, they took too long to sort the reliability issues and he missed the championship. The 1968 season was Clark’s to take, but he sadly lost his life in a crash at a meaningless F2 race at Hockenheim.

Anyway, here’s a paper model I made of this car (as seen at Kyalami) late last year, in 1:24 scale.  

#formula one #f1 #formula 1 #racing #motorsport #lotus #lotus f1 #team lotus #classic f1 #jim clark #clark #south africa #papercraft #art #craft #crafts #hwa art

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#G.P.Italia 1967 #Lotus 49-Ford #J.Clark #G.Hill

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Jim Clark (Lotus 49 #R1 Ford-Cosworth) vainqueur du Grand Prix du Mexique 1967. © Sutton / Motorsport. - source Carros e Pilotos.

#jim clark #lotus ford #grand prix du mexique

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200-1:My best of the best

This is it. The last of the best of the best from my top 1000 personal list basing it on so many factors which I will not reveal right now

FINAL WAVE

200 Lindsay Ell - Worth The Wait 199 Jason Aldean - She's Country 198 Temperance - Save Me 197 Cimorelli - Oceans [cover] 196 Danny Gokey - Rise 195 Joe Nichols - Sunny & 75 194 Dream - When I Get There 193 Martina McBride - Just Around The Corner 192 Nemesea - Forever 191 3 Doors Down - It's Not My Time 190 Cimorelli - Reckless Love [cover] 189 Daryl Hall & John Oates - Out Of Touch 188 Christina Perri - Arms 187 Rachael Fahim - What I Don't Know 186 Kira Isabella - Shake It If Ya Got It 185 Cimorelli - I Can Only Imagine / What A Beautiful Name [cover] 184 Baylor Wilson - Daddy's Girl 183 Koralyst - Run Away 182 Runner Runner - So Obvious 181 Cimorelli - Never Let Me Fall 180 Oblivious Signal - Crash 179 April Kry - While We're Young 178 Kerrie Roberts - Come Back to Life 177 Lindsay Pagano - Everything U R 176 Cimorelli - Easy To Forget Me 175 Luke Bryan - I Don't Want This Night To End 174 Skillet - Hero 173 Third Eye Blind - Never Let You Go 172 Lifehouse - Hanging By A Moment 171 Five Finger Death Punch - I Apologize 170 Walk In Darkness - A Way To The Stars 169 Zac Brown Band - My Old Man 168 Cimorelli - Pretty Pink 167 Chris Young - Who I Am With You 166 Kobra & The Lotus - Light Me Up 165 Ashentide - Homelands 164 Lindsey Carrier - I Would 163 Britney Spears - Stronger 162 Aaron Shust - My Hope Is In You 161 Kenny Chesney - Rich & Miserable 160 Abi Ann - Future Ex-Boyfriend 159 Atlantis Bound - It Was My Fault For Waiting 158 LeAnn Rimes - How Do I Live 157 Shinedown - If You Only Knew 156 All That Remains - The Thunder Rolls 155 Cimorelli - One More Night 154 Matt Moore - Fading 153 Of Mice & Men - Feels Like Forever 152 Delta Goodrem - Believe Again 151 Matthew West - The Motions 150 Signum Regis - Come And Take It 149 Temperance - Of Jupiter And Moons 148 Unwritten Law - Seein' Red 147 Cimorelli - Fight Song [cover] 146 Ashley Tisdale - He Said She Said 145 Eclipses For Eyes - DeadWeight 144 M2M - Everything 143 Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway 142 Elferya - Fairytale 141 Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles 140 12 Stones - Broken 139 David Cook - Light On 138 Joanna Beasley - Energy 137 Adley Stump - Stay At Home Soldier 136 Carmen Justice - Flaming Arrows 135 Cimorelli - Hearts On Fire 134 Hollow Haze - An Ancient Story 133 Veracity - Back To Life 132 Against Myself - Through The End Of Times 131 Cassie Steele - Bluebird 130 Chris Young / Cassadee Pope - Think Of You 129 Cimorelli - I Got You 128 Sleeping Romance - Where The Light Is Bleeding 127 Starset - Carnivore 126 Tim McGraw - Humble And Kind 125 Helion Prime - Life Finds A Way 124 Cimorelli - Fall Back 123 Play - Us Against The World 122 The Ones You Forgot - Here Forever 121 Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn 120 Sirenia - Dim Days Of Dolor 119 Belinda - See A Little Light 118 Kelsea Ballerini - Peter Pan 117 Scene 23 - I Really Don't Think So 116 Within Silence - Heroes Must Return 115 Adora - Save Yourself 114 Christie Lamb - Judgment Day 113 Don Henley - The Boys Of Summer 112 Paula DeAnda / The Dey - Walk Away (Remember Me) 111 Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift & Keith Urban - Highway Don't Care 110 Roxette - Listen To Your Heart 109 Maggie Baugh - Catch Me 108 Hilary Duff - So Yesterday 107 Hinder - Better Than Me 106 Searching Alaska - Abandoner 105 Touchstone - Contact 104 Blameshift - Secrets 103 The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright 102 Trivium - Strife 101 Weezer - Pork And Beans 100 Zoe Ann - Better Than Revenge 99 Cimorelli - Hope For It 98 Love & The Outcome - King Of My Heart 97 Silversyde - Circus Circus 96 The Dirty Youth - Alive 95 Stone Sour - Bother 94 Lost In Atlantis - Hypnotic 93 Britt Nicole - Believe 92 Caroline Kole - If He'd Ever Look Up 91 Cellar Darling - Avalanche 90 Michelle Branch - All You Wanted 89 Seduce The Heaven - Reflection 88 No Secrets - That's What Girls Do 87 Cimorelli - Before October's Gone 86 Natalie - Goin' Crazy 85 Willa Ford - I Wanna Be Bad 84 April Kry - Perfectly Imperfect 83 Victoria Avenue - Knock Knock 82 Skillet - Rebirthing 81 Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box 80 3 Doors Down - Here Without You 79 Abi Ann - Matches 78 Stacie Orrico - I Promise 77 N Sync - Tearin' Up My Heart 76 Divine Ascension - Answers 75 Halflives - Crown 74 Lonestar - Amazed 73 Elisa - Come Speak To Me 72 All That Remains - What If I Was Nothing 71 Lights - Second Go 70 Tight Leash - Closer To God 69 Starset - Halo 68 Shiny Toy Guns - You Are The One 67 Melissa O'Neil - Speechless 66 Natasha Bedingfield - Pocketful Of Sunshine 65 Skarlett Riot - The Wounded 64 Cimorelli - Alive 63 Joanna Beasley - Rooftops 62 Ashley Tisdale - It's Alright, It's OK 61 Bad Pollyanna - Hollow 60 Jump5 - Beautiful World 59 Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun 58 Rachael Fahim - Brake Lights 57 Krystal Meyers - The Beauty of Grace 56 Sleeping Romance - The Promise Inside 55 Crossfade - Cold 54 Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want 53 Lillix - It's About Time 52 P.O.D. - Alive 51 Fools For Rowan - Dead 50 Cimorelli - Good Enough 49 Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield 48 April Kry - Beauty Queen 47 Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody 46 Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World 45 Pia Ashley - Dream 44 Goo Goo Dolls - Here Is Gone 43 Bryan Adams - Heaven 42 Lastwatch - The Countdown 41 The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight 40 Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars 39 Mixi - I Miss Those Days (Ghost) 38 Britney Spears - Born To Make You Happy 37 Kerrie Roberts - Outcast 36 1GN - While We're Young 35 M2M - Don't Say You Love Me 34 Cimorelli - Worth The Fight 33 Savvy & Mandy - Comin' Back As A Cowboy 32 Amaranthe - Hunger 31 Tori Darke - Disposable 30 Belinda & Finley - Your Hero 29 Hearts Under Fire - Knots 28 Eden's Crush - Get Over Yourself 27 Delain - Stardust 26 Stephanie McIntosh - So Do I Say Sorry First 25 'Song Suffragettes' Crew - Female [cover] 24 Caitlyn Shadbolt - Running In Circles 23 KSM - Read Between The Lines 22 Aerosmith - I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing 21 Kaylens Rain - Is That All There Is 20 Natalie Grant - I Will Not Be Moved 19 Victoria Avenue - Quit You 18 Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me 17 Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer 16 Three Days Grace - Never Too Late 15 R.E.M. - Losing My Religion 14 Icon For Hire - Get Well 13 Dream - He Loves U Not 12 Pearl Jam - Jeremy 11 Megan & Liz - Simple Life 10 Within Temptation / Tarja - Paradise (What About Us?) 9 Creed - With Arms Wide Open 8 Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying 7 Fuel - Hemorrhage (In My Hands) 6 Aly & AJ - Rush 5 Gary Allan - Every Storm (Runs Out Of Rain) 4 Linkin Park - One Step Closer 3 Scorpions - Wind Of Change 2 Carrie Underwood - Blown Away 1 Cimorelli - You're Worth It

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1967 USGP 🇺🇲🏁

Graham Hill 🇬🇧 (Lotus 49 Ford) leads from Dan Gurney 🇺🇲 (Eagle T1G Weslake), Jim Clark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (Lotus 49 Ford), Chris Amon 🇳🇿 (Ferrari 312), Jack Brabham 🇳🇿 and Denny Hulme 🇳🇿 (Brabham BT24-Repco), Bruce McLaren (McLaren M5A BRM), Jackie Stewart🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, Jochen Rindt🇦🇹,

#Classic #formula1

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Volume 202

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Special guest: Grant Ertl

0:00:00 — "Stick Figures in Love" by Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks (2011)

0:03:41 — "You Might Get Stuck on Me" by Summer Camp (2011)

0:07:19 — "Tyler Birthday Song" by Meth Yeti (2011)

0:08:18 — DJ

0:11:37 — "Tyler Birthday Song" by "The Sex Pistols" (1978)

0:12:50 — DJ

0:16:16 — "Plastic Flowers" by Beach Fossils (2011)

0:20:04 — "Savage Night at the Opera" by Destroyer (2011)

0:24:50 — "Gruesome Castle" by Wild Nothing (2011)

0:28:00 — "Alisa" by Cut Copy (2011)

0:31:59 — "Money" by The Drums (2011)

0:35:44 — DJ

0:43:47 — "Piledriver Waltz" by Arctic Monkeys (2011)

0:47:06 — "Into Black" by Blouse (2011)

0:50:28 — "Stolen Dog" by Burial (2011)

0:56:33 — "Stop" by Twin Sister (2011)

1:00:22 — "Party in the CIA" by "Weird Al" Yankovic (2011)

1:03:16 — DJ

1:12:56 — "Emergency Room" by Ford & Lopatin (2011)

1:16:24 — "It's Up There" (Blondes Mix) by The Field (2011)

1:22:42 — "Tons of Love" by LA Vampires (2011)

1:27:34 — "Lotus Flower" (SBTRKT RMX) by Radiohead (2011)

1:32:52 — "For Us" by Martial Canterel (2011)

1:35:38 — DJ

1:44:12 — "Silly Bears" by Akron/Family (2011)

1:49:47 — "The Great Pan Is Dead" by Cold Cave (2011)

1:53:56 — "Song of Los" by Apparat (2011)

1:58:00 — "TV Troubles" by Boxcutter (2011)

2:00:10 — "Slow Motion" by Panda Bear (2011)

2:04:44 — DJ

2:14:34 — "No Church in the Wild" by Jay-Z & Kanye West feat. Frank Ocean and The-Dream (2011)

2:19:04 — "Anti-Pioneer" by Feist (2011)

2:24:32 — "Te Amo" by Atlas Sound (2011)

2:28:24 — "Synthy" by Peaking Lights (2011)

2:31:07 — "An Echo from the Hosts that Profess Infinitum" by Shabazz Palaces (2011)

2:34:18 — DJ

2:41:21 — "Keep You" by Class Actress (2011)

2:44:29 — "Keep Your Heart" by TV on the Radio (2011)

2:50:07 — "The Words that Maketh Murder" by PJ Harvey (2011)

2:53:40 — "The Wolf" by Fever Ray (2011)

2:58:05 — "A Real Hero" by College feat. Electric Youth (2011)

3:02:21 — DJ

3:14:17 — "Lord Knows Best" by Dirty Beaches (2011)

3:18:30 — "Among Angels" by Kate Bush (2011)

#stephen malkmus and the jicks #Stephen Malkmus #summer camp #meth yeti #grant ertl #sex pistols #beach fossils #destroyer #wild nothing #cut copy #the drums #arctic monkeys #blouse #burial #twin sister #weird al yankovic #ford and lopatin #the field #la vampires #radiohead #martial canterel #akron/family #cold cave #apparat #boxcutter #panda bear #jay-z #kanye west #frank ocean #the-dream

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Jim Clark, Lotus-Ford 49, 1967 United States GP, Watkins Glen

#Jim Clark #1967 #Lotus-Ford 49 #Team Lotus