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what a great record of history

Great shot
Jim Clark was up there with the best of all time.
Martin

Indeed, Jimmy was. He was a lovely guy, quiet but with a mischievous sense of humour. As a driver, most contemporaries and current rank him as one of the world's greatest, along with Fangio. His ability to drive whatever came his way was fantastic - that Oulton Gold Cup meeting was typical - not only the Lotus Grand Prix car, but a Lotus Cortina in the saloon car race, and a Lotus 18 (I think) in the sports cars. Many in the circuit reckoned his untimely death in that fatal racing crash was down purely to poor build quality of the F1 car he was driving and that there was a steering or suspension failure. We'll never know.