When the Wood Brothers Pitted Indy 500 Winner Jimmy Clark 1965 Video

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
11 years ago
9,137 posts

The other day we were chatting about Jimmy Clark racing at Rockingham in 1967, his only stock car start.

When Jimmy came over from Scotland and won the 1965 Indianapolis 500, it was the most dominating win in Indianapolis 500 history with a two minute margin of victory over Parnelli Jones.

Ford Motor Company imported the Wood Brothers from Stuart, Virginia and the NASCAR stock car circuit that day to pit Jimmy. This 10 minute clip shows two Wood Brothers pit stops. They made complete chumps of the experienced Indy crews pitting AJ Foyt, Parnelli Jones and Mario Andretti in the first year of gravity flow fueling and mandatory two stops after the huge fire in 1964.




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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"

updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM
Charles Ray Stocks
@charles-ray-stocks
11 years ago
222 posts

another cool video dave the wood brothers were head and shoulders above the rest in their day

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
11 years ago
9,137 posts

Brothers Len and Eddie Wood, Glen's sons, recently visited the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan and got to see the Jim Clark Lotus that made their father and uncles internationally famous in 1965:




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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"