1965 Indianapolis 500 Film

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This is the 49th running of the Indianapolis 500, run on May 31, 1965.

One year after the disasters of the 1964 event, which saw two drivers burn to death and two others get seriously burned, the 1965 race saw one of the safest races in Indy history. The race was best known for three things. The first was the runaway performance by Jim Clark, which was really a combination of all three major forms of racing, Formula 1, IndyCar, and NASCAR. The second thing this race was known for was the incredible rookie crop, perhaps the best ever, and the third was the astounding failure of a racing legend to even make the field.

Qualifications saw perhaps the 15 most frantic minutes in the history of qualifications as, in order, Mario Andretti, Jim Clark, and A.J. Foyt broke Clark's 1964 qualifying record. But qualifications for this race will be forever known for the incredible failure of Rodger Ward, who had finished in the top four the previous six years, to even make the field.

In the race, Clark, Foyt, 1963 winner Parnelli Jones, Dan Gurney, and Andretti battled for supremacy, but Clark and Foyt had the best cars, but Clark had a big advantage, one that Foyt would enjoy in later years. That advantage was having the Wood Brothers crew his car during this race. In fact, Clark's total time spent in the pits on both his pit stops was less than Foyt's first stop was.

That became academic when Foyt had a transmision go not long after the halfway mark. From that point on, Clark had no competition as he stormed to victory, averaging over 150 MPH, a speed that had not been achieved for even a single lap until 1962. But behind Clark, Jones had to battle Andretti for second place, and won that battle, finishing six seconds shead of Andretti before running out of fuel on the cool-down lap.

While Andretti won rookie honors with his third-place finish, he was just one pehaps the greatest crop of rookie drivers in the same Indianapolis 500. Other Indy rookies in 1965 included Gordon Johncock, who was fifth behind Al Miller, Al Unser, who finished ninth, and Joe Leonard. Two more rookies, Mickey Rupp and NASCAR driver Bobby Johns, were sixth and seventh.

Another thing about this race was just how safe it was. The caution flag was dislpayed just twice. The first was for spins by Lloyd Ruby and Len Sutton and the other time was for Bud Tinglestad's crash in turn three when he lost a wheel. Yet, despite that, this race saw an alarmingly high amount of attrition, as only 11 cars finished the race, and only 13 ran more than 300 miles.

And Jim Clark was not finished after winning this race, as he would also win his second World Championship. That incredible feat of winning both the Indianapolis 500 and the World Championship will likely never be duplicated again.

All credits go to SPEED (SpeedVision, the forerunner to the current SPEED Channel originally aired the material used in he 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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