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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…
The finest driver ever? How often is that question raised, and never solved. Yet of a handful of names in…
I have a huge passion for racing history – and a special fascination with Jim Clark. I was born five…
Jim Clark didn’t do second. He finished runner-up once in his 72 world championship grands prix from 1960-68, and 82…
The year of Profumo, great train robbers, ‘loveable mop tops’ – and the grassy knoll. In its midst, a quiet…
This year the R.A.C. sold the rights of the British Grand Prix to the British Racing Drivers’ Club and they…
Clark’s first race in a monoposto was dispiriting. The battery of his ill-handling Formula Junior Gemini was as flat as…
Cold, wet and a flat battery: Jim Clark’s Formula Junior debut at 1959’s Boxing Day Brands Hatch was short of…
The annual race round the town circuit in Pau has had its ups and downs since its inception in 1933,…
The odd mix of inertia and razzmatazz of the Month of May at Indianapolis did not sit well with Clark…
I just want a picture of the boys.” Hazel Chapman, Colin’s widow, lifts her camera and ‘the boys’ stop talking.…
On his third attempt Jim Clark won the annual American classic race on the rectangular Indianapolis track. In 1963 he…
lark could drive anything, anywhere – often winning in a wide variety of cars on the same day. And his…
Standing on a piece of dull Aberdeenshire countryside, shivering against the wind as it blasts off the North Sea, you…
When Scottish motor racing is mentioned the mind turns to Ecurie Ecosse, but another Scottish team was formed a year before…
A couple of evenings before this year’s Long Beach Grand Prix the phone rang in the Rolling Hills, California home…
In an ideal world, Ford had hoped Jim Clark would be free to drive one of its new P68 sports-prototypes,…
The sun is breaking through to the east of Gleneagles railway station. There’s the occasional car passing on the A9,…
A short drive from the Chirnside farm where Jim Clark grew up is Duns, a small market town in the…
With the Formula 1 season over and the spate of interesting stories subsiding, it was a relief to have David Tremayne’s Jenson Button interview land in the Motor Sport office.…
The New Year is usually a time to look forward. But the past is an easier place to talk about than the future, so please forgive me for looking backward…
Mike Costin, as half of the revolutionary Cosworth, all but dominated Formula 1 during the late '60s and throughout the '70s. The Cosworth DFV won 12 drivers' titles, helped win 10…
Written in 2013... The last Grand Prix I attended was at Silverstone in 2003. It was an epic race, enlivened by Neil Horan’s potentially suicidal track invasion, the best victory…