First Time Out (Lotus 49) - 1967
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- This film tells the story of the legendary Lotus 49, when it won the Zandvoort Grand Prix at its first outing.
Featuring drivers such as Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart, and Jim Clark, this film captures a unique moment in the history of motor racing.
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Graham Hill and Jim Clark!! Two champions and one of the most iconic drivers!! Hill and his moustache and hair is unique!! He looks like a spitfire pilot in the WW2!!!
I alway thought that Dick Darstadly, from The Wacky Races was modelled on the dashing Graham Hill.
@@jamesreynolds2867 but of course Hill was a gentleman
Oddly Graham Hill was conscripted into the military, the Royal Navy, not the RAF.
@@bbb462cid Gentlemen racing , proper racing cars , none of this telemetry nonscience , too much money involved these days .
@@bbb462cidI heard from old Ticey that Graham Hill was a nasty piece of work, although he was charming in the spotlight. Clark, however, was a quiet gentleman. I loved Nelson Piquet, most, though, for his genuine funloving free spirit. A bit like James Hunt, though Hunt needed to grow up. Nikki was a great character too, and, of course Stirling Moss, who really understood the true nature of the sport from an idealistic point of view. Jackie, though is the man who we all need to hear, when assessing what's what in the big picture through the years, from the sixties right through to the present day political, commercial, technical charade.
I get scared driving these in Assetto Corsa, the bravery of these men to drive them flatout in real life is beyond belief and the skill needed is so underappreciated
With no seatbelts. RIP Jim, what a god
The death toll back in those days was a sad testament to what you’re saying.
Vintage F1 better than Today’s F1
I love how there are no stands, no advertising, just people standing on the side of the track watching. This was indeed a golden age.
In fact 1967 was the end of that age. Lotus became Gold Leaf Team Lotus the next season and although the new color scheme was attractive, it was the not the iconic national livery.
No advertising??
@@southfloridaarcheryguy114 there actually was some in previous seasons but the distinction between advertising and sponsorship can be a thin one. But cars stopped racing in national livery in many cases due to sponsorship. Lotus in '68 is an easy example.
It was incredibly dangerous for drivers, teams, and spectators alike.
@@T_Mo271 The cigarettes?
I just love the shapes of these F1. Its a perfect timeless shape. Better looking than today's F1 i'd say.
eugene carlos , great cars with passing,!,!
Agreed. This was the finest era.
Back then the design philosophy was if it looks good, it handles good.
No CAD. No CFD. All calculations done with slide rules.
A personal art work.
Gotta agree with you all!!! The Best of F1!!!! Awesome cars and sublimely incredible drivers!!!!! This was well before my time but I still say that these years were the greatest ever for Formula One!!!
Not even close, aesthetics-wise. Rarely have F1-cars been as beautiful as they were in the late 60s. No wings, no sponsoring-decals. Just a simple, elegant shape with the engines right out in the open for everyone to see.
I'm not saying some more modern F1-designs weren't good looking - the Hunt-/Lauda-era cars weren't too ugly and even the 90s and 2000s produced some slick looking cars. But the ones currently in use look hideous to my eye. Especially with those dreadful halo-crashbars.
1960s...the greatest era of Grand Prix racing ever! What beautiful cars and race courses. Back when car colors meant something. Has there ever been a better team in F-1 than Jimmy Clark and Graham Hill?
i wonder if we could do official races in these things with better structural strenght and the addition of a Halo to match the safety of todays F1
Possibly Prost and Senna, or Fangio and Moss. Jackie Stewart said that the sixties produced the best drivers of all time, right up to today. He was the master of spotting talents and abilities. So you may be right.
Cars were pretty slow and primitive, less than 10 races per season, pretty strange point system, tons of retirements, plenty of pointless deaths. Great? I don`t think so...
Jim Clark in a Lotus 49. Poetry in motion..
The two best drivers back then didn’t make it out of the trenches,Jimmy Clark and Bruce mclaren
this cannot be better said.
Can't argue with you there. Taken way too soon. I remember exactly where I was when I heard of his accident. What a combination, Duckworth, Costin, Chapman and Clark. Unforgettable. That engine won more F1 races than any other engine and ofcourse made Cosworth a global leader for years. Marvelous.
@@TheLRider So do I. I was at Brands Hatch for the BOAC 500, in which Clark and Hill were due to race the new Ford prototype. Didn't hear that he'd been killed until I got home. The most talented driver I ever saw.
These were the best days of F1 period! You just can’t beat Hill or Clark!
No wings and a Cosworth DFV. Paradise. Thank you Ford Heritage for posting this.
A new car, a revolutionary Cosworth engine, and one the best Grand Prix drivers of all time.... what a combination!
The Golden Age of Formula 1! Just hearing the names of these giants of British motorsport announced brings a smile to my face.
I'd say it's A golden age, but certainly not the only one
For me, this car and driver are forever associated with the best of Formula 1. What a F1 car should look like, sound like, and be driven. Jim Clark is such a hero to so many, and I count myself as one of the many.
Way better times. Amazing how Hill consoles Duckworth when having had to retire due to mechanical issues when in the lead, Clark goes onto win after having only seen the Lotus 49 for the first time at Zandvoort.
I was lucky enough to watch those guys race at Mosport in Canada in 1968. A memory I'll carry with me for my whole life.
Hey - me too - and the sports car races - Sports cars unlimited on Lakeshore Drive had that crazy high powered mini that outran the firebirds, mustangs and cameros. 90 lap races.
I got to drive around the track a few times with my own car. Fun.
How old are you now
@@lohithreddy6629 61 but sometimes I'm still that 9 year old kid.
I was born 25 years after those cars raced but for me they are the best F1 cars ever. Wish I could have seen Clark, Hill, Bandini, Surtees, Brabham, Gurney and the other boys in action!
@@magnuskevinsen2380 of only they could have been made safer.
Then my old heroes would still be around!
Lotus 49 is one of the most beautiful f1 car ever
What a gem of a film! Very good quality. Lovely vignette of Graham comforting Keith D. with a friendly hug. He must have been gutted when Hill's engine let go but then Jim C. gave them he victory! Fairytale stuff.
How can anything compare to this era of racing? It's amazing the speeds they achieved with the extra weight of the driver's enormous balls
Those Cosworth Ford engines sounded amazing running down the front stretch at Indy. Straight pipes out the back just screaming and the echo under the grandstand just made it better.
Ahhh...The Good Old Days of racing! I can just hear them warming up in the garages right now.
Jack Brabham, Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart, John Surtees....like a "who's who" of fighter aces on the ground!!!! How awesome would it be to have Jim Clark around now, up in the booth special guest reporting on today's F1 races / drivers. Talk about Marvel's Avengers, there are your real life "Iron Men" ...absolute LEGENDS
Jim Clarke R.I.P what a Legend!!!
I love this period of F1. The car technology was evolving, but not so far as to be too complex. And the drivers were amazing. Can you imagine Jim Clark and Graham Hill behaving like Rosberg and Hamilton? Different time. Different culture.
Indeed...Clark & Hill Would, Could Not STOOP To Rosberg's & Hamilton's Level...
The comparison is between two real men, Clark and Hill and two spoiled brats Hamilton and Rosberg.
Yeah and they also died every other race
Jim Clark and Sir Stirling Moss. The two greatest British drivers ever.
This is just amazing... the style, the sound, the driving... this is so nostalgic...
The Lotus 49 is the best Grand Prix car of all time, no question about it.
I wish they bring these cars back to life and actually race them in real races, I miss them so much...
I wish I was alive in 1967 😂
they still race the fuck out of them at Goodwood Revival, and they mean business.
@@markmark5269
Ahhh - a nice, well-argued comment, backed up with solid facts and devoid of abuse, swearing and unpleasantness.
You must be such a pleasure to be around...
Well there's a racer 1 channel where they race old race cars
My favorite one is where they race a lotus 79 f1 car at the laguna saca raceway in quad HD and 60fps onboard
I think that f1 car is a 1980 car and was raced by a legendary driver named Mario Andretti
Plus the driver actually uses a stick shift on it
Iconic car, driven by two of my all time favourites: Jim Clark and Graham Hill.
Perhaps the most beautiful F1 car ever built, driven by perhaps F1’s greatest driver for its debut win.
Good old days when a kid could slip over the fence and wander round the pits and pester the drivers...
As I did at Kyalami and got my ear clipped by Graham Hill for being cheeky. I haven't washed it since...
wait are you serious??
@@lightningmcdweeb
Serious about what?
Climbing over the fence and wandering around the pits? That's totally true. It was a different world back then.
Not washing my ear since then? Well, maybe a bit exaggerated but if I close my eyes, I can still feel the 'whack'.
@@bertkutoob that's so totally awesome mann!
I did it in the 1991 GP. Wandered in at 0530 and got kicked out at 0900. I have the photos to prove it
1991 Australian GP
the most beautiful car ever , i absolutely love it RIP Jim Clarke the best and not forgetting graham Hill
The name is Clark, not Clarke.
This is my favorite period of formula 1. Wish I lived back then to catch the raw, no nonsense circus of this time
Jim Clark was my idol when I was a kid.....
Beautiful cars real drivers real racing simply magnificent
Back when racing was truly exciting to watch.
Holy shit those people just standing on the side of the track taking picture, this is insane.
People would run across the track during the race at some grands prix. A spectator once was in the paddock, sat on a rear tire talking to a mechnica and a pebble popped out of the tread, and down a spark lug hole. One of the Rodriguez brothers nearly hit a dog at the Mexican grand Prix one year, it ran acros the track inf ront of him. It was insane in this era. Then there was a course like Spa, in which the cars literally were inches from a person's front doorstep.
@@bbb462cid Sounds very tame by Rally group b standards......
@@MrTuxy great story bro
@@bbb462cid Yeah it was a different eta, that's for sure. We will never see safety standards like we did in the 1980s again.
@@MrTuxy did they use seatbelts in the 1980s at all?
When I was a kid my dad took me to the Detroit Auto Show where I saw Jim Clark's Indy winning car. I was amazed by how tiny it was. Even at twelve years old that car didn't even come up to my knee. I can still remember the Offenhauser valve covers.
yes, i've stood next to a Vanwall and it was below my knee.
@@MsVanorak Ya, it was like a 180 mile per hour go cart. I can't imagine the guts it took to drive one of those especially tire to tire in a pack at those speeds. Whew!
@@jimvandemoter6961 when you're young you have a different idea of danger i suppose. i had a boyfriend who had an MG Midget back in the day and you feel like you are going faster than you are because the floor is lower. i'd baulk at the idea now but there weren't guard rails on the lorries back then.
@@MsVanorak My first new car was a '73 MG Midget. I had it for 23 1/2 hours until a dump truck ran me off the road into a ditch at 75 miles per hour.
@@jimvandemoter6961 my boyfriend wrote his off by driving into some escaped cows in the dark. 60mph impact with a cow in a soft top car. the windscreen frame held up to the impact but tore the cow open and she had to be destroyed. i was in the passenger seat and just remember seeing a cows foot coming towards my face. due to the speed we were going she landed on the boot, any slower i suppose it would have been a different story.
Its would be amazing to fire up my time machine and be able to witness that Era of motorsports in person. 😍🏎🏍
take me with you
@@bbb462cid I got room, climb aboard good sir 😅👍
I miss that era. I miss Jim Clark.
Me too. I was at this Dutch Grand Prix, and the next three. To think Clark wouldn't even live to compete at Zandvoort in '68.
And so you should. There has never been another of his like, since his death in nineteen sixty-eight.
This is when I noticed RACING as a sport I would be a fan of for over 50 years ! 🏁🏆
That car is absolutely beautiful!
Beautiful footage, gorgeous cars.
This is as pure as it gets when it comes to racing.
I think this is the most beautiful of all F1 cars to date .......
By far the best looking F1 car ever
Graham Hill, omg! all the skills but none of the breaks, he was a quiet charmer, just magical! thanks for this video
We got to see Jimmy Clark win the 67 Grand Prix at Watkins.!
One of the coolest things a 9 year old could do back then.
Graham, Jimmy, Colin, Lotus.
Greatness.
such a beatiful era that was!
when i was 1st a fan: Clark, Surtees, Hill, Surtees, Chapman and the Cosworth boys. Chris Amon’s Ferrari a thing of beauty. Thanks for some of the best vintage footage
Magnificently beautiful F1 cars of this era! No cars come close to the beauty of this era. Absolutely magnificent!👍🇬🇧
Exquisite, Historic, Racing!🏁🏆
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...
June 4, 1967. The day that launched Formula One into the modern era. Happy 53rd birthday Lotus-Ford
This era of racing, especially Grand Prix, has to be the best of all time! Ever so thankful that we get to see amazing footage like this. My family and friends think I have a nostalgia issue but I guess it's better than having some of their issues!
Thanks for the video chap!
I say you have a fine taste Pall ! Beeing it nostalgia or not you sure have an eye for what is good cause I think the same :-)
nostalgia issue? i guess it could be a thing.
Brian Shepa , you’ve got being able to tell class from crap issues.
Three of the greatest: Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart, and Jim Clark,
+Steffen Sorensen Certainly my three favourite drivers! Jim Clark on top of course!
1967 was the year for Kiwi Denny Hulme. F1 World Champ.
a seven part doco,; www.nzonscreen.com/title/trio-at-the-top-2001
I really like Brabham as well. Quite legendary cars he also made. And McLaren not only racers..
@@mortuarykrematorium4650 To design and drive a car to three world championships is totally amazing.
Good piece of film. Love that kind of history.
On camera we see Clark win with no second place finisher yet . Jack Brabham was second , 23 seconds after Jim Clark , who also set the fastest lap . A Legend who died 308 days later
some real nice smooth power overstress cornering by Clark
Such beautiful machines
An awesome production of the Awesome Teams, Cars & Drivers... Cool music too!!!
Jim Clark. Simply the best
I love these video's. The history of racing, the machines and the men who drove without fear..
Thank you for uploading this in native aspect ratio. It looks so good in full screen on an iPad because of this.
What a classic documentary, with great style. Huge Clark, Lotus and Ford fan, and wonderful to see his debut in a 49.
Brilliant! and what quality the actual film although as an ex-marshal I winced a little looking at some of the tweed jackets next to the track.
Graham Hill did nearly all the test driving/ development of the Lotus 49, mainly at Snetterton, near the Lotus factory, because Jimmy had to limit his visits to the UK, for tax reasons, Graham was a fantastic driver, remember twice F1 world champion, winner at Le Mans, and won the Indy 500 at his first attempt, but within a few laps of Zandvoort nailed it, Jimmy Clark, he may have been a sheep farmer, but he was the GOAT in my opinion, for what it's worth.
Used to race slot car versions of these!
Incredible footage, thanks. Those F1 really were the most beautiful of any era.
I cannot believe this was 50 years ago, to me it was yesterday
David Ratcliffe , goes quick doesn’t it.
The best F1 era. No ground effects. No aero. Just engine tires and river. Awesome!
I worked with Jackie Stewart and I attended Graham Hill’s retirement speech at Silverstone, but the guy most people will miss was the Lotus chief mechanic, Bob Dance.
He was there a long time and he saw it all . . .
ロータス49とグラハムヒルですね、昔の葉巻型レーシングカーもかっこいい！前のロータス25は、ジムクラークが乗っていたから、ジムクラーク死後のロータスですね
Lotus 49, Cosworth DFV and the peerless Jim Clark, it does not get better than that. First outing of the 49, Clark had never driven the car and to win.... sublime.
As much as I love modern Formula One (not this years regulations) I love learning about the past! It's just interesting and beautiful!
They were prettier, but not anywhere near as safe---and God, they _sounded_ great!
@@oldenweery7510 Agreed, nothing sounds better than a flat plane crankshaft V8.
@@jamesreynolds2867 That was one of the things I love about the movie, "Grand Prix": they recorded the actual engine sounds for the various real cars to go with their (mostly) F3 fakes. The sound of the Ferrari 312s (3 Liter, 12 cylinder), the V-8s, and the actual BRM H16 of Scott Stoddard's "Jordan BRM" at Monza=pure music!
@@oldenweery7510 I was at Brands Hatch during the filming of "The British GP" of the film Grand Prix, in 1966 if my memory serves me, local radio, that morning was asking for people to go to the filming, to be extras, not enough turned up, so the film crew kept herding us "extras" to move around from grandstands to other parts of Brands Hatch, to simulate a full house.
As you say the "f1" cars were old F3 and Formula Junior cars dressed as F1 with fake exhaust pipes of 8 & 12 type engines poking out of the puny 4 cylinder Ford push rod engines, I remember being just at the spot, just a few yards before Paddock Hill Bend that the dramatic car on fire crash of James Garners character happened, a memorable day indeed, but the funniest bit was when the film was released, how the audience seemed to laugh at every scene that Graham Hill was involved in.
Fantastic piece of nostalgia, I can remember watching film of the greats as a Boy. Great memories.
Awesome,,,, I thank you for the memories,,,
Wow, I was 10 years old and at the1967 Dutch Grand Prix held at Zandvoort on June 4, 1967 with my Air Force father. I remember all those names from my childhood.
This was the period when cars looked their best. All that visible engineering, Lovely! I reckon Dick Dastardly was modelled on Graham Hill 😁
I love this era of F1, and the machinery. I was 1 year old, and only a couple of years after, the plastic toy racecars all had this same look! I still remember the smell of the tires, and the plastic!
An awesome era in F1. The atmosphere of that epoch was nicely captured in the 1966 film "Grand Prix".
9 days summer great documentary on Ford/lotus racing history
I agree, Grand Prix cars were the most beautiful of any before or since.
This is awesome... just look at these machines... pure elegant...
Very good , thanks from buenos aires Argentina!!!!
No problems with track limits here, go wide and it's all over. Great footage thanx
I loved the open wheel race cars from the 60’s. When I was a kid in the 60’s Parnelli Jones opened a Firestone store in my town and there were a number if Indy cars. Al Unser, AJ Foyt and Mario Andretti and Dan Gurney were there and I was star struck. F1 was never more dangerous.
This is a real gem for any Motorsport fan!! These cars have no aero! Can you imagine going through corners with only mechanical grip?!?! Talk about trusting your equipment! These gentlemen had balls of steel!
Now THAT's drifting, kids. Balls. Of. Steel. That so few of that year's drivers lived to finish their racing careers should tell ya that.
Enjoyed that! Thanks for posting.
My uncle taught me how to drive when I was 12, on a muddy school football field, so I learned about steering sideways from the start. It's exciting to watch the older races when the drivers slid alot more!
JIM CLARK UN ARTISTA DEL VOLANTE... COMO MANEJABA ESE LOTUS...🙏
I was 21 back then and a huge Lotus fan.. Happy happy days. 😊😊
They looked just like my Scalextric cars! Great stuff. Thanks so much. Bless you and yours. Gx
Wow what a awesome video this is really a great race
Photography and direction is better, much better, than today
Almost as much power as a modern F1, but no wings and no spoilers. This is proper racing...!!!!!!!!
This was the age when modern Grand Prix cars were at their most beautiful,
No wings or ugly aero packages or "jelly mould" bodywork to hide the engines etc.
They were Simple, Beautiful,............but also quite Deadly.
If you had a major off in one of these cars and walked away you were VERY lucky....
unfortunately many fine drivers had no luck at all.
You are so right.
In my opinion, the Type 72 is the best looking car ever made in F1.
I absolutely agree with everything you just said
Agree
Jimmy Clark and my all time favorite, Jochen Rindt, both died in Lotuses shortly after this ('68 and '70). Chapman was brilliant, but his cars were so hollowed out ("add lightness" was hi mantra) that they had a history of suspension component failure. Italian race officials concluded that Lotus was culpability in Rindt's death which resulted in a protracted legal battle. It was a golden era for aesthetics, certainly, but it was total slaughter out there. 44 driver fatalities in all, not counting spectators. Von Tripp's fiery crash killed 15 of them alone.
Bellísimas imágenes de una era gloriosa de la Fórmula 1. ¡Gracias por compartirlas!
Amazing footage...thanks so much for posting. I would have been 10 in '67 and was consumed by cars but we didn't get F1 coverage here back then, perhaps Monaco...my dad was a Ford man and we had an old 56 ford an a new '66 Mustang with the 289 V8. I was thrilled when the Ford Powered Lotus won the Indy 500 in 1965...Loved the Lotus colors too. I heard this video announcer say the F1 Ford V8 had 410 H.P. in '67. The '65 Indy winner had 495 H.P. and of course was a much bigger vehicle....it was running the Ford 255 C.I. Indy V8.
These dudes are packing clankers. Holy smokes.
Excellent footage 👍🏼
The greatest engine in the greatest car driven by 2 of the greatest drivers of all time
My fav from my primary school years
Gem of a video! RIP to all the gallant drivers who are no more of this world. True courage.
Now THAT was real F1!!
Cringe
@@nsp6590 very highkey cringe. if i got a dollar for everytime someone commented that on an old school f1 video, I'd be a billionaire
@@corat248 the truth is the truth, even if you don't agree with it.
@@Hithere-ek4qt Cringe is cringe, even if you don't feel it
Ah yes death everywhere,engines blowing up out of nowhere. True F1.