40 Years Ago: Remembering Jim Clark

[Ryan]

Forty years ago on April 7 1968 one of the greatest racers of all time was taken from us following a crash at Hockenhiemring.

Jim Clark OBE: 4 March 1936 - 7 April 1968

72 Grand Prix starts
25 Wins
32 Pole Positions
28 Fastest Laps
2 Championships
Indy 500 Champion

The race that defined Clark's career came at the 1967 Italian GP, when while leading he suffered a puncture. When he rejoined with a fresh tire he was a lap down. He then proceeded to pass the leaders to unlap himself, and repassed the entire field to retake the lead with only a couple of laps to go. On the last lap he ran out of fuel.

May he rest in peace.

[NetOz]

Jim on of the best drivers of all the times he will be always remebered.

R.I.P flying scottish

[JoStream]

Jim Clark is one of the drivers I was always mystified by. He achieved a lot in his short racing career, and many wonder to this day what else he would have won had it not been for that fateful Hockenheim shunt :(

[EIR Loe.307]

SPEED did a segment comparing him and Schumi's #'s. They projected that if he had made it to 249 starts like Schumi. that He would have beaten all but one of Schumi's records and tied for 7 championships.

I think he would have had the Wins, Poles, and some others. If I can find the chart they had I'll show it.

Well Jim has a Myspace......:rolleyes:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=240542163

[Harakimi]

What was great was his ambition to WIN, he never finished second. ;)

[Ryan]

What was great was his ambition to WIN, he never finished second. ;)

Well said.

Although he did have 1 2nd place finish. The 1963 German GP at the Nurburgring.