{"id":370919,"date":"2015-05-05T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=77876"},"modified":"2023-12-10T00:36:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T00:36:09","slug":"jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"SVRA Brickyard Invitational (2015) – Jimmy Clark Honored"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Jim Clark at the 1965 Indianapolis 500<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Racing great Jimmy Clark will be celebrated at the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) Brickyard Invitational 2015, to be held June 11-14 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana. A display of Clark’s Indianapolis 500 cars will honor his many accomplishments in the 50th anniversary year of his 1965 Indy 500 win.<\/p>\n

Nicknamed ‘The Flying Scot’, Clark’s Indianapolis career alone would have made him a legend but the two-time Formula 1 World Champion (1963 and \u201965) was one of those versatile drivers who not only won but dominated in numerous branches of the sport from Formula One to Indy cars to saloon cars, stock cars and sports cars. He tackled NASCAR once and scored a third-place overall very early in his career at Le Mans in a private entry Aston-Martin behind two factory-backed Ferraris.<\/p>\n

In just five Indianapolis 500s Clark not only won once but also came home second twice, both in controversial finishes that bench racers continue to debate today. He could easily have been a multiple winner. Victory was within sight in 1964 when tire chunking triggered a suspension failure on his pole winning car. On the Formula One front Clark established the all-time record for race victories when he won his final Grand Prix outing at South Africa in 1968. While that record has been surpassed by several drivers Clark\u2019s mark was set in just seven full seasons during an era that conducted about half as many events as are presented today. He still ranks at the top in winning percentage at nearly 35 percent. His record of F1 pole positions (33) even now ranks fifth in the history books.<\/p>\n

While the Clark tribute has yet to be defined it will involve an array of his Indianapolis 500 cars, all Lotus, including the entry he won Rookie-of-the-Year with in 1963, his \u201965 winner and the Lotus Turbine he took his last laps around the Brickyard in just before his fatal accident weeks later in Germany on April 7, 1968.<\/p>\n

The SVRA Indy Brickyard 2015 will feature 11 groups of race cars spanning 100 years, including pre-war machines, sports cars, Formula One and Le Mans prototypes as current as 2009.<\/p>\n

[Source: SVRA; photo: Indianapolis Motor Speedway]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Racing great Jimmy Clark will be celebrated at the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) Brickyard Invitational 2015, to be held June 11-14 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana. A display of Clark’s Indianapolis 500 cars will honor his many accomplishments in the 50th anniversary year of his 1965 Indy 500 win. Nicknamed ‘The Flying Scot’, Clark’s Indianapolis career alone would have made him a legend but the two-time Formula 1 World Champion (1963 and \u201965) was one of those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":651145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,13063],"tags":[11440,432,15234,17444],"class_list":["post-370919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-events","category-vintage-car-racing","tag-sportscar-vintage-racing-association","tag-events","tag-events-vintage-racing","tag-vintage-race-brickyard-invitational"],"yoast_head":"\nJimmy Clark Honored at SVRA Indy Brickyard 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jimmy Clark will be celebrated at the SVRA Indy Brickyard Invitational 2015, to be held June 11-14 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jimmy Clark Honored at SVRA Indy Brickyard 2015\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jimmy Clark will be celebrated at the SVRA Indy Brickyard Invitational 2015, to be held June 11-14 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-05-05T13:00:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-10T00:36:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sports Car Digest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/scardigest\/wp-content\/uploads\/1965_Jim_Clark_action.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sports Car Digest\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sports Car Digest\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/188bd99a52d1e69543c54566c30e906b\"},\"headline\":\"SVRA Brickyard Invitational (2015) – Jimmy Clark Honored\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-05-05T13:00:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-10T00:36:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":370,\"commentCount\":4,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/05\\\/1965_Jim_Clark_action.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"(SVRA) Sportscar Vintage Racing Association\",\"Event (Car Events & Shows)\",\"Event (Vintage Races)\",\"Vintage Race (Brickyard Invitational)\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Car Events & Shows\",\"Vintage Races & Rallies\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\\\/\",\"name\":\"Jimmy Clark Honored at SVRA Indy Brickyard 2015\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/05\\\/1965_Jim_Clark_action.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-05-05T13:00:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-10T00:36:09+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/188bd99a52d1e69543c54566c30e906b\"},\"description\":\"Jimmy Clark will be celebrated at the SVRA Indy Brickyard Invitational 2015, to be held June 11-14 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/05\\\/1965_Jim_Clark_action.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/05\\\/1965_Jim_Clark_action.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":502,\"caption\":\"Jim Clark at the 1965 Indianapolis 500\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"SVRA Brickyard Invitational (2015) – Jimmy Clark Honored\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Supercars.net\",\"description\":\"Exotic and Supercar news, information, pictures and videos\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/188bd99a52d1e69543c54566c30e906b\",\"name\":\"Sports Car Digest\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/D3S_76221-293x293.jpg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/D3S_76221-293x293.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/D3S_76221-293x293.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Sports Car Digest\"},\"description\":\"We profile the world\u2019s finest sports cars, past and present automotive personalities, larger-than-life races and garages or museums. Profiles may include first-hand driving impressions, in-depth interviews and period racing stories and photographs. Profiles range from the Mario Righini Collection in Italy to the 1958 12 Hours of Sebring to a Shelby 427 Competition Cobra and everything in between.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/scdigest\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Jimmy Clark Honored at SVRA Indy Brickyard 2015","description":"Jimmy Clark will be celebrated at the SVRA Indy Brickyard Invitational 2015, to be held June 11-14 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Jimmy Clark Honored at SVRA Indy Brickyard 2015","og_description":"Jimmy Clark will be celebrated at the SVRA Indy Brickyard Invitational 2015, to be held June 11-14 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/","og_site_name":"Supercars.net","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/","article_published_time":"2015-05-05T13:00:20+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-12-10T00:36:09+00:00","author":"Sports Car Digest","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_image":"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/scardigest\/wp-content\/uploads\/1965_Jim_Clark_action.jpg","twitter_creator":"@supercars_net","twitter_site":"@supercars_net","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Sports Car Digest","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/"},"author":{"name":"Sports Car Digest","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/188bd99a52d1e69543c54566c30e906b"},"headline":"SVRA Brickyard Invitational (2015) – Jimmy Clark Honored","datePublished":"2015-05-05T13:00:20+00:00","dateModified":"2023-12-10T00:36:09+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/"},"wordCount":370,"commentCount":4,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1965_Jim_Clark_action.jpg","keywords":["(SVRA) Sportscar Vintage Racing Association","Event (Car Events & Shows)","Event (Vintage Races)","Vintage Race (Brickyard Invitational)"],"articleSection":["Car Events & Shows","Vintage Races & Rallies"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/","url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/","name":"Jimmy Clark Honored at SVRA Indy Brickyard 2015","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1965_Jim_Clark_action.jpg","datePublished":"2015-05-05T13:00:20+00:00","dateModified":"2023-12-10T00:36:09+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/188bd99a52d1e69543c54566c30e906b"},"description":"Jimmy Clark will be celebrated at the SVRA Indy Brickyard Invitational 2015, to be held June 11-14 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1965_Jim_Clark_action.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1965_Jim_Clark_action.jpg","width":640,"height":502,"caption":"Jim Clark at the 1965 Indianapolis 500"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jimmy-clark-honored-svra-indy-brickyard-2015\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"SVRA Brickyard Invitational (2015) – Jimmy Clark Honored"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/","name":"Supercars.net","description":"Exotic and Supercar news, information, pictures and videos","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/188bd99a52d1e69543c54566c30e906b","name":"Sports Car Digest","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/D3S_76221-293x293.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/D3S_76221-293x293.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/D3S_76221-293x293.jpg","caption":"Sports Car Digest"},"description":"We profile the world\u2019s finest sports cars, past and present automotive personalities, larger-than-life races and garages or museums. Profiles may include first-hand driving impressions, in-depth interviews and period racing stories and photographs. Profiles range from the Mario Righini Collection in Italy to the 1958 12 Hours of Sebring to a Shelby 427 Competition Cobra and everything in between.","url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/author\/scdigest\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}