Josh Berry will pay homage to Jim Clark with his Wood Brothers Racing throwback paint scheme next month at Darlington Raceway.The green and yellow No. 21 Ford Mustang was unveiled Thursday at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Clark’s winning No. 82 Ford Lotus from the 1965 Indianapolis 500...

Dave "Beaky" Sims was 27 years old when his driver, two-time Formula 1 world champion Jim Clark, died in the Formula 2 car he prepared. Today, the veteran mechanic and team manager is better known as the silver-haired man behind Risi Competizione's illustrious sports car operation, and at 76, he...

The spring of 1976: Lotus was in a rut, but thinking big, and Mario Andretti was suddenly out of a drive. Joining forces, they won the '78 championship and changed Formula 1.Two of motorsport's biggest names found themselves in dire need of one another when their situations became desperate at...

Two-time Formula 1 World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi, who also won a pair of Indy 500s, will be honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club at the "RRDC Evening with Emerson Fittipaldi Presented by Firestone" in Long Beach, Calif., on Thursday, April 6. This is the RRDC's ninth consecutive annual banquet...

In the 1950's enthusiasts created a track at Zeltweg airport in Spielberg. The track had bumpy runways marked out by straw bales and cones, typical of many tracks in Europe at that time. By the late 50s the track attracted races for international sports cars and a couple of Formula...

To describe the plethora of historic and authentically prepared racecars at this past weekend’s SVRA Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival as impressive is like saying Muhammad Ali could box. In reality, this weekend’s show was overwhelming.Let’s start by dropping a few hall of fame names: Dan Gurney, Parnelli Jones, Richard Petty,...

Bobby Johns was a NASCAR frontiersman who had dreamt of racing at Indy since he was kid. Incredibly, his wish came true as the Lotus Powered by Ford team-mate [BELOW, LAT photo] to a victorious Jim Clark in 1965.Sounding 50 years younger than his 82 (he turns 83 on Friday),...

These two classic Indy 500 racecars were photographed by renowned automotive photographer Rick GravesThe Lotus 34 was built by Team Lotus for the 1964 Indianapolis 500. The Type 34 was Lotus' second Indy car. Based on the earlier Lotus 29, it was a very similar car which differed principally in...

Photographer: Rick GravesThe Lotus 34 was built by Team Lotus for the 1964 Indianapolis 500. The Type 34 was Lotus’ second Champ Car. Based on the earlier Lotus 29, it was a very similar car which differed principally in featuring a four-cam 4195 cc (255ci) DOHC Ford V8 with Hilborn...

Back in January, we ran a story about favorite racecars and asked RACER.com readers to select their top five. Your votes flooded in and, in the end, we had more than 400 different racecars to consider… but 10 clear favorites emerged.Many of you had found it tricky to narrow your...