Product Description

A high quality, ethically produced t-shirt featuring a hand drawn image of the Lotus 49. (detailed history below)

T-shirt packaged in calico draw string bag with detailed information card as per image and text below.  Ideal for the racing enthusiast and makes a perfect and unique gift.

Available in 5 sizes – S M L XL 2XL

Measure t-shirt width (edge-to-edge, not circumference) and t-shirt length (in front) like shown in illustration. Use measurements to determine t-shirt size with the t-shirt size chart.

SMALL – sleeve 20cm, width 46cm, length 70cm

MEDIUM – sleeve 20.5cm, width 50cm, length 74cm

LARGE – sleeve 21cm, width 54cm, length 77cm

X-LARGE – sleeve 23.5cm, width 60cm, length 79cm

2X-LARGE – sleeve 23.5cm, width 62cm, length 83cm

T-shirt packaged in calico draw string bag with detailed information card as per image and text below.  Ideal for the racing enthusiast and makes a perfect and unique gift.

This is Jim Clark driving the Lotus-Ford 49 at Zandvoort in Holland on June 4th 1967.  The XV1 Grote Prijs van Nederlands was the first race for this revolutionary Lotus 49 Formula One car and it was successful first time out. Scotsman Jim Clark won by 23.6 seconds from the Brabham-Repco of Australian Jack Brabham
in second place and New Zealander Denny Hulme in another Brabham-Repco in third.
The Lotus 49 was to revolutionise Formula One design and competition in the late Sixties and early Seventies.  Colin Chapman from Lotus had worked with Ford to develop a three litre engine for the new regulations introduced in 1966.
The Cosworth engine, developed by ex- Lotus employees Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth, was the culmination of this project. It was married to the innovative new Lotus monocoque chassis design.
Jim Clark won the opening round of the Formula One World Championship held on New Year’s day 1968 at Kyalami in South Africa in the F1 Lotus-Ford 49. The 3 litre car was demonstrably better than the opposition in this opening event and
it was presumed Jim Clark would go on to clinch the Formula One World Championship in that year.
For the Tasman Series which was held across New Zealand and Australia in early 1968, the Cosworth engine was reduced to 2.5 litres to comply with the regulations for this series and called the Lotus 49T. The Lotus 49T was raced by Jim Clark in
the eight rounds of 1968 Tasman Series during the rest of January and February. Clark won four of the eight rounds which finished in Longford, Tasmania on March 4th 1968, the day he celebrated his birthday turning thirty two years of age.
One month and three days later, on the 7th April 1968, Jim Clark was tragically killed at Hockenheim, Germany competing in a Lotus Formula Two car.
His team mate Graham Hill went on to win the 1968 Formula One World Championship title in the Lotus-Ford 49 with Jackie Stewart finishing in second place in a Matra-Ford.
2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Jim Clark and the winning of the 1968 Formula One World Championship by the late, great Graham Hill in the brilliant Lotus 49.