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Jim Clark’s enduring claim to be <i>Motor Sport</i>’s finest driver
The finest driver ever? How often is that question raised, and never solved. Yet of a handful of names in…
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Dario Franchitti explains why Jim Clark became a lifelong obsession
I have a huge passion for racing history – and a special fascination with Jim Clark. I was born five…
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Jim Clark’s unmatched Formula 1 record was built on precision rather than spectacle
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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Jim Clark’s 1963 season: the year Lotus and a Scottish farmer conquered Formula 1
The year of Profumo, great train robbers, ‘loveable mop tops’ – and the grassy knoll. In its midst, a quiet…
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Jim Clark’s fourth straight British GP win came after a masterclass in engine preservation
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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Jim Clark’s Formula Junior breakthrough shaped a career from Goodwood to Hockenheim
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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Jim Clark’s Formula Junior season laid the foundations for a remarkable 1960 rise
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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Jim Clark gives Lotus 32 and Cosworth SCA a winning Formula 2 debut at Pau
The annual race round the town circuit in Pau has had its ups and downs since its inception in 1933,…
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Jim Clark’s Indy years transformed America as much as they transformed him
The odd mix of inertia and razzmatazz of the Month of May at Indianapolis did not sit well with Clark…
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Lotus 38’s painstaking rebuild reunited the men who gave Jim Clark his Indy 500 winner
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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Jim Clark’s 1965 Indianapolis 500 win confirmed Lotus’s rear-engined revolution
On his third attempt Jim Clark won the annual American classic race on the rectangular Indianapolis track. In 1963 he…
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Jim Clark’s versatility stretched from the RAC Rally to Le Mans and Can-Am
Clark could drive anything, anywhere – often winning in a wide variety of cars on the same day. And his…
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Crimond 1956: the little-known race that launched Jim Clark’s circuit career
Standing on a piece of dull Aberdeenshire countryside, shivering against the wind as it blasts off the North Sea, you…
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Border Reivers gave Jim Clark his breakthrough in the D-type Jaguar
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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Sally Swart recalls life alongside Jim Clark during Formula 1’s defining years
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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Jim Clark’s final race at Hockenheim exposed Formula 2’s unforgiving risks
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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Dario Franchitti returns Jim Clark’s championship Lotus Cortina to its Borders 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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Jim Clark Motorsport Museum brings Lotus 25 and championship-winning Cortina to Duns
A short drive from the Chirnside farm where Jim Clark grew up is Duns, a small market town in the…
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