Race return for Clark's 49

July 7, 2014

The Lotus 49 that Jim Clark drove to victory in the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix will return to racing this season in the hands of American Chris MacAllister. The car is currently being rebuilt by Classic Team Lotus and the plan is for it to race at the Monaco Historic GP over the first weekend of May.

Clark’s 1967 car, chassis R2, delivered the first Grand Prix win for the Cosworth DFV engine at Zandvoort and was later updated by the Lotus factory and rebadged as chassis R11. In 1969 Pete Lovely bought the car and raced it for more than three decades before selling it to Bob Baker.

Now owned by MacAllister, the car is being totally rebuilt. “The car is completely stripped and we’re using the original drawings for the rebuild,” said Clive Chapman of CTL. “Bob Dance worked on this car in 1967 and he’s working with us three days a week on the rebuild.”

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Paul Lawrence

Here is a man who goes racing every weekend from March to October. Paul’s passion for the sport goes back to when he was a child of the 1960s. He has organised, competed in and marshalled on scores of events, and has written about the subject for 20 years. He is as at home in the paddock at Brands Hatch as in a Welsh forest or at Shelsley Walsh.

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