^{Above photo of Franchitti’s race car just as it is about to impact the wall was posted on the IRL web site.}


Formula One World Champion Jimmy Clark was known as the “Flying Scotsman” as he dominated grand prix racing in the middle 1960s. He also won the 1965 Indy 500 (and should have won in 63, too). Clark was by all accounts one of the most gifted race car drivers ever.

Now we have a contemporary Scots racer who is giving a completely new definition of the term, Dario Franchitti.