1963 USAC Tony Bettenhausen 200 Milwaukee Mile

The 1963 Tony Bettenhausen 200 was the seventh round of the 1963 USAC Championship Car season, held on August 18, 1963, at the 1-mile (1.6 km) Milwaukee Mile, in West Allis, Wisconsin. The race was the first American Championship Car race won by a rear-engined car. Colin Chapman and Team Lotus returned to Champ Car competition at Milwaukee after the Indianapolis 500. The rear-engined Lotuses dominated practice and qualifying, breaking the track record by over a second. In the race, Clark led all 200 laps and lapped the entire field, save for second place A. J. Foyt. Clark's teammate Dan Gurney finished third, battling a misfire.
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[@sergioleone3583]

I've read about this so many times but I think this might be the first time I've seen any footage. Absolute gold.

[@jimeditorial]

Three generations of Indy car in one race

[@badgumby9544]

Clark was the best driver on the planet during his era.

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

Thank you so much for uploading this race!

[@saragrant9749]

Those old Indy roadsters were gorgeous looking cars- but savagely dangerous.

[@gwcrispi]

Nothing like having the driver's head sticking up above the chassis...

[@ald1144]

They all were then, just in different ways. It really took courage to be a driver then.

[@saragrant9749]

@@ald1144 oh yes, even stock cars were a “take your chances on the roulette wheel of death” vehicles.

[@Halad49]

I have raced several times on the MM track in sports car club racing in a formula car, using the oval and infield road course. Great to know I have been on a track where so many of the greats have raced. Particularly pleased to see Jim Clark on that track.

[@kevinhuber8723]

Thanks for posting this. Excellent

[@pete5534]

Thanks again!

[@Miklos82]

I wonder how many of the fans in the stands that day in Milwaukee realized they were seeing the future if Indy Car?

[@gwcrispi]

Seeing the rear engined car put a lap on Roger Ward should have been a clue...

[@terryatpi]

At 4:30 pulling the left front off the ground

[@fredwalker3374]

Both front and rear engine cars aj foyt only person to win indy in both types of cars

[@keithstudly6071]

Ward was way loose at the end of that race. Seeing the roadsters on this track makes me wonder what AJ thought he was doing when he brought his dirt car and took the pole? Were the roadsters really as fast as people thought or were the lighter, and more rigid dirt cars really the better handling package? In August 1965 he qualified his upright Offy dirt car on the pole and for the 159 mile race after driving the same car at Springfield the day before. Foyt lead much of the race but had a smaller fuel tank and had to make i fuel stop that others didn't make and yet he finished second to Gordon Johncock.