1963 Indy 500: When Jones beat Clark and paused a revolution

Jim Hurtubise was the man who warned them all. He set a four-lap qualifying average of 149.056mph on the fourth day of time trials for the 1960 Indianapolis 500 – a new record and about 2.5mph faster than Eddie Sachs’s pole-winning average from a week earlier. Then he informed anyone who’d listen that there was someone even better coming soon…
That man was Rufus Parnell Jones. And if the …Keep reading