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Remembering Jim Clark: the unassuming motor racing champion whose violent death stunned the sport and changed F1 forever

6 April 2018

Jim Clark was an icon of the 1960s. A quiet and humble man, he become the most successful racing driver of his time, and is still regarded as one of the heroes of motor sport.

He left school at 16 to work on his family’s sheep farm in Berwickshire. However, against his parents’ wishes, his skills behind the wheel led him to drive for the Border Reivers racing team and to compete in competitions at home and abroad.

As his fame spread, Jim joined the Lotus Grand Prix team where he would became the youngest ever World Champion at the age of 27.

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Clark’s abilities were legendary. He won 25 Grand Prix races, and won the World Championships first in 1963, then again in 1965 — the same year he became the first non-American to win the Indy 500.

However, on 7 April 1968, while competing in a Formula Two race at Hockenheim in Germany, Clark crashed off the track into trees. He was killed instantly.

Driver fatalities were not uncommon in that era, but such was Clark’s status that his death hit the sport particularly hard.

The accident sparked a campaign to improve safety in racing meaning that, even after death, Jim Clark continued to influence the sport he loved.

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