Video Perfection: Take A Look At A Screaming Formula 5000 Car From 1970 – Open Wheel, Small Block Perfection

(Video credit: Clay Simon YouTube Channel) – We have gushed over Formula 5000, we have showed you old Formula 5000 cars on eBay, and we have even showed you old Formula 5000 video with James Garner in it but today? Today is the coupe de grace. This is modern video of a 1970 period perfect Formula 5000 car running around the race track. We found the video on the Clay Simon YouTube channel and it is a really nicely done, short piece that simply highlights the car. There is no crummy music, no snappy editing tricks, and nothing to get in the way of just soaking in what we believe is the coolest open wheel road racing class ever.

The other thing on Clay’s YouTube page is a pretty amazing caption on the video. We’re going to publish some of it below and then show the link so you can go and read the rest of it. The video is a short one but you get the sound of a screaming, stock block 305ci engine that you will not soon forget.

Here’s what Clay said:

In 1966, though, SCCA created the Can-Am Cup series. It had few restrictions: two-seat (in quotes) bodywork was about the extent of the regulations. The prizes on the other hand were lavish. An FIA Formula One team could make more in a few Can-Am races than in a full season on the GP circuit.

In 1968 SCCA brought the Can-Am concept to single seaters, adding 5-liter stock block engines to the single seater regs. It opened Formula A up to the sprightly small blocks from Ford, Dodge, Plymouth and particularly Chevrolet that competed in the no holds barred Trans Am series. Relatively inexpensive, easily serviced and tuned by a generation of experienced hot rodders, Formula A soon became F5000 and spread across the globe.

But nowhere did F5000 flower with more brilliance and diversity than in the continent where it originated.
AAR Eagle, Lola, McLaren, Surtees, Shadow and Chevron built F5000 race cars. The best teams in North American racing fielded entries. The drivers were legend: Denny Hulme, Bruce McLaren, Jim Hall, Mark Donohue, Peter Revson, Dan Gurney, Lothar Motschenbacher, Sam Posey, Jerry Titus, Chuck Parsons, Skip Scott, Ronnie Bucknum, John Surtees, …. It was a natural for Champ Car teams, too. The money was good, the competition was prime and the mid-engine evolution of Champ Cars was already well established.

The really sanitary, meticulously executed, finely calculated F5000 cars were built by Champ Car constructors like Jerry Eisert. Eisert, an independent mechanic and constructor worked with J. Frank Harrison to field Chevrolet-powered mid-engine cars in the late Sixties. A meticulous craftsman, Eisert also was an innovator. His 1965 Harrison Special not only employed a monocoque tub but also was the first car at Indy to try a wing to increase aerodynamic downforce. It was recognized that year by the experts at the Speedway with the Mechanical Achievement Award for imagination and skill in design.

Click here to see the rest of Clay’s comments on the car!

Press play below to see and hear just how amazing Formula 5000 was in the early 1970s –

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