REVOLUTION AT INDY (Duke DVD)

WAS motor racing really better in the Sixties?

On the plus side it was less reliant on technology and more on the skill of the driver.

On the minus side it was very much more dangerous.

But you can't ever get away from the fact that the cars and drivers of the Sixties had the glamour on their side.

No race epitomised that glamour and the constant flirtation with danger more than the Indianapolis 500, and the year of the revolution is the place to start in any study of the great race.

The year is 1965, and Colin Chapman's British Lotus team with its rear-engined Lotus 38 is taking on a field dominated by US-built, front-engined machinery.

Scotsman Jim Clark is the man on a mission to wrest the Brickyard laurels from the Americans.

This is the story of how the west was won, and how the giants of American racing came to respect the British newcomers.

Archive footage covers qualifying and the race itself.

And there's more.

The DVD also features Ford Flat Out, a look at the 1969 US motorsport season, covering Indy, drag racing and Nascar.