Jim Clark
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James Clark Jr. OBE (4 March 1936 – 7 April 1968) was a British Formula One racing driver from Scotland who won two World Championships in 1963 and 1965. Clark was a versatile racer who competed in sports cars, touring cars, and the Indianapolis 500, which he won in 1965.
He was especially associated with the Lotus marque. Clark was killed in a Formula Two racing crash in 1968 in Hockenheim, West Germany.
He had won more Grand Prix races (25) and landed more Grand Prix pole positions (33) at the time of his death, aged 32.
Clark was ranked at the top of a list of the best-ever Formula One racers by The Times in 2009.
Early years
James Clark Jr. was born into a farming family at Kilmany House Farm, Fife, and the youngest child of five years and the only boy. In 1942, the family migrated to Edington Mains Farm near Duns, Berwickshire, in the Borders. He was educated at primary schools in Kilmany and later in Chirnside. He was sent to Loretto School in Musselburgh, East Lothian, following three years of preparatory schooling at Clifton Hall School in Edinburgh.
Clark began racing in local road rally and hill climb events with his own Sunbeam-Talbot, proving a fearsome competitor right from the start. He was behind the wheel of a DKW sonderklasse at Crimond, Scotland, on June 16, 1956, in his first appearance. Clark was driving for the local Border Reivers team for Ian Scott-Watson, racing Jaguar D-types and Porsches in national championships and winning 18 races by 1958.
Clark ran against the man who would launch him to superstardom on Boxing Day 1958. In a ten-lap GT competition at Brands Hatch, he came in second place in a Lotus Elite. He raced a Lotus Elite in 1959, finishing tenth at Le Mans and the ex-Bruce Halford Lister Jaguar, winning the Bo'ness Hill Climb. Chapman was sufficiently impressed to welcome Clark in one of his Formula Junior cars to him.
Clark appeared in a one-off race at Brands Hatch on Boxing Day, 1959, piloting a Gemini-B.M.C. Graham Warner of the Chequered Flag garage in Chiswick.
Awards
- F1 World Champion, 1963 and 1965; runner-up, 1962
- Indianapolis 500 winner, 1965; runner-up, 1963 and 1966
- ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of The Year, 1965
- British Touring Car Championship Champion, 1964
- Tasman Series Cup winner, 1965, 1967 and 1968
- Trophées de France Formula Two Champion, 1965
- Third place overall, 1960 24 Hours of Le Mans
- He was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1990.
- He was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1990 in the open wheel class.