Jim Clark’s world title to be celebrated 60 years on
1963 championship win will be celebrated with a gathering of Jim Clark's cars at the Duns Castle Estate
Jim Clark rewrote the record books in 1963, and still holds the record for the highest percentage of laps led in a season, with 71.47% from that year
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The Jim Clark Trust has announced plans for a new major event to mark the 60th anniversary of the Scotsman’s landmark Formula 1 world championship victory in 1963.
To be held within the picturesque Duns Castle Estate on the Scottish Borders, the 60th anniversary weekend will gather together many cars either previously owned or formerly raced by Jim Clark, and a star attraction is due to be the Lotus 38 which Clark drove in the 1967 Indy 500. Although he retired that year with a blown engine, the 38 still has the distinction of being the first rear-engined car to win the Indy 500 when Clark took the laurels two years earlier.
There will be entertainment on both days along with a silent auction. The Jim Clark Motorsport Museum will be open over the weekend, showcasing all things to do with the grand prix legend, including the latest addition, a Border Reivers Jaguar D-type.
Tickets for each day cost just £5, and the event will also be raising funding for both Sir Jackie Stewart’s Race Against Dementia charity and the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation, which aims to support research into motor neurone disease.
Jim Clark won the first of his two F1 world titles in 1963, taking seven wins from 10 races aboard Colin Chapman’s Lotus 25. It would stand to be his most dominant grand prix season – however his 1965 season wasn’t half bad adding the Tasman Series, British and French F2 titles and third in the British Saloon Car Championship to a second F1 world title.
