Watch: Lotus 49: First time out

Colin Chapman

Step back to Zandvoort, 1967, when Jim Clark gave the Lotus 49 a victorious debut, after team-mate Graham Hill had claimed pole at record speed.

The Ford film is packed with wonderful footage of before, during and after the race, with the era’s main protagonists all accounted for. No wonder this incredible model was made to immortalise that day…

Read Jenks’s account of the day

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