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June 9, 1963: Rodger Ward wins the Rex Mays Memorial at Milwaukee.
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Photo courtesy of Jeff Parks
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Signatures on a contract for 1963 guaranteeing Ward 40% on any winnings at Indianapolis and 50% of the purse for any races he would win that season (he won five). Among other things, the contract provided Ward with $100 a day in travel expenses and a $2,000 payment for signing.
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From the Fall, 1963, issue of Automobile Quarterly
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In 1963, Jim Clark finished second at Indianapolis in this Lotus-Ford. Two years later he would win, and engines would move to the rear of championship cars permanently. Clark also put an end to another tradition, the taboo on the green car.
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Jim Clark, powered by Ford.
Sacramento, Oct. 27, 1963. Rodger Ward, the pole-sitter, won.
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