Jim Clark&Colin Chapman

Jim Clark, Colin Chapman and crew celebrate the 1965 Indy 500 victory.

Clark leading a pack of cars at the Dutch Grand Prix, 1967.

Though best known for his Formula One exploits, Clark proved remarkably capably behind the wheel of anything he drove (and that long list includes British Touring Cars, a Lotus Cortina Rally car and a Ford Galaxy NASCAR stock car). Unlike drivers who could only be fast when a car was properly set up, Clark retained the uncanny ability to go fast no matter how good (or bad) the car was. Of his skills, Sir Jackie Stewart once said, “He never bullied a racing car, he sort of caressed it into doing the things he wanted it to do.”
Had Clark not died on that April morning in 1968, no one knows how many more records the quiet Scot with the winning smile would have set. Could he have established himself as the greatest driver of all time, bar none? In the eyes of many Formula One fans, he already had.

Clark pilots a Ford Cortina at the limit.
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