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Jim Clark special: Introduction
The finest driver ever? How often is that question raised, and never solved. Yet of a handful of names in…
Jim Clark
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Jim Clark special: Foreword by Dario Franchitti, MBE
I have a huge passion for racing history – and a special fascination with Jim Clark. I was born five…
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Chapter One - Formula 1: If he finished, he won
Jim Clark didn’t do second. He finished runner-up once in his 72 world championship grands prix from 1960-68, and 82…
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F1: Jim Clark diary 1963
The year of Profumo, great train robbers, ‘loveable mop tops’ – and the grassy knoll. In its midst, a quiet…
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F1: Race report, August 1965
This year the R.A.C. sold the rights of the British Grand Prix to the British Racing Drivers’ Club and they…
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Chapter Two - Other single-seaters: Any series, any time, anywhere…
Clark’s first race in a monoposto was dispiriting. The battery of his ill-handling Formula Junior Gemini was as flat as…
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Other Single Seaters: Junior steps
Cold, wet and a flat battery: Jim Clark’s Formula Junior debut at 1959’s Boxing Day Brands Hatch was short of…
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Race report: Pau, France - April 5 1964
The annual race round the town circuit in Pau has had its ups and downs since its inception in 1933,…
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Chapter Three: Americana - Reaping rewards across the pond
The odd mix of inertia and razzmatazz of the Month of May at Indianapolis did not sit well with Clark…
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Americana: Lotus 38
I just want a picture of the boys.” Hazel Chapman, Colin’s widow, lifts her camera and ‘the boys’ stop talking.…
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Race report: Indianapolis, May 31 1965
On his third attempt Jim Clark won the annual American classic race on the rectangular Indianapolis track. In 1963 he…
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Chapter Four: Sports cars & saloons - Just show him a steering wheel...
lark could drive anything, anywhere – often winning in a wide variety of cars on the same day. And his…
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Sports Cars & Saloons: Crimond
Standing on a piece of dull Aberdeenshire countryside, shivering against the wind as it blasts off the North Sea, you…
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Team review | March 1959 - Clark stars
When Scottish motor racing is mentioned the mind turns to Ecurie Ecosse, but another Scottish team was formed a year before…
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Off the track
A couple of evenings before this year’s Long Beach Grand Prix the phone rang in the Rolling Hills, California home…
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Tragedy in Germany - Hockenheim, April 7, 1968
In an ideal world, Ford had hoped Jim Clark would be free to drive one of its new P68 sports-prototypes,…
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Cortina comes home
The sun is breaking through to the east of Gleneagles railway station. There’s the occasional car passing on the A9,…
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Keeping the memory alive
A short drive from the Chirnside farm where Jim Clark grew up is Duns, a small market town in the…
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