Lotus 38/1 starting and warm-up at Goodwood FOS 2010

Lotus 38/1 at the Goodwood Festival Of Speed 2010 being started and warmed up in the pits, prior to Jackie Stewart doing a demo run up the hill.
This Lotus 38 number 1 was the winner of the 1965 Indy 500 with Jim Clark driving. Jim Clark's first Indy, the Lotus 38/1's first race and a win first time out! The first rear engined car to win the Indy 500, and set a trend that's remained ever since.
What you can't see from this angle is the severe offset of the main body towards the left hand wheels, done to give the car better balance on the left hand corners, and total lack of righ thand turn's in Indy style oval racing.
Powered by a Ford 4.2 litre V8, from a Ford Fairline, running on Methanol, at least that's what it smelled like;) and the blue flames also give the clue it wasn't petrol.
Just love that V8 sound!

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[Snooper601]

Thanks for the info Chris, it's good to get things confirmed :)

[Snooper601]

I am not sure if this was the actual car that won the 1965 Indy 500, as that was chassis 1, 38/1 and was taken to the Ford museum.

Chassis 4, 38/4 was in private hands after it came second in the Indy 500 of 1966 driven again by Jim Clark, and has been shown at Goodwood before.

[chrismido]

snooper this is the real car that won the indy 500, classic team lotus have extensivley restored the car that belongs to the henry ford museum and it was sent back there after the festival of speed. my dad races the 1963 j.clark lotus 25 and therefore i have lots of pictures of this car before it came to the festival of speed. this car is 100% original, and it will never be seen again sadly, only displayed at the henry ford musuem.

[gt40mk1]

Sorry, but it was not a DFV in the back of this car. It was a FORD V8 derived from the Fairlane model and had a capacity of 4195cc.