Racing God JIM CLARK - Unmatched Maestro. By far the Greatest Driver Ever - No doubt. He is and was "The Best of the Best" (Fangio, Senna, Prost, AJ Foyt, Colin Chapman and countless others about Clark). No other driver in history until today was so superior as Clark - No other driver has so much "Grand Slam" ( 8 ! ) - Pole/Win/Fastest Lap/Leading every lap of the race - like him. And all that from just 72 GP starts... !
This man is the Olymp of driving - the Michelangelo of racing - a dynamic art at the highest level. So smooth, so precise, so fast....simply out of this world. Particularly noteworthy: According to the Lotus mechanics, Clark had virtually no brake and tire wear - and this in conjunction with his extraterrestrial speed.

Only mechanical unreliability prevented three additional world championships in 1962, 1964 and 1967. And although Clark is legendary for his incomparably gentle driving style, it is not for nothing that he was the only driver to drive the fragile BRM H16 engine in the Lotus 43 to his only GP victory.
One, who won in Spa by 5 minutes (!) in monsoon rain with only one hand at the wheel (!) due to gearbox trouble...One, who takes back a complete lap (!) in Monza and back into the lead... One, who took pole on the original 22,8 km Nürburgring track by 9 (!) seconds and more....One who won Indy by 2 whole laps. (!)

Perhaps his greatest, but unrewarded, race however, was the 1000 km race on the old, 22.8 km long Nürburgring Nordschleife on May 27, 1962, in the rain. The first 11 laps of this race are considered by many to be unparalleled in Nürburgring history. Clark, in the small Lotus 23 with a 95 hp Ford engine, competed against the huge sports car competition from Ferrari and others with over 300 hp, and fielded with world-class drivers such as Phil Hill, Dan Gurney, and Willi Mairesse. Clark started seventh in the underpowered car. After the first lap, he already had a 25-second lead, and after the sixth lap, an incredible 1 minute and 45 seconds... To this day, Nürburgring experts speak of this driving demonstration from another galaxy.

In 1965 he had the most succesful year of any driver in the history of the sport: He won the F1 World Championship, the Tasman Series with F1 cars, the Indy 500, the British and French F2 Championship, the British Touring car Championship, totally over 50 (!) victories in one season !!!! For eternity and by lightyears unmatched in the sport. That`s just some examples of his mesmeric unique genius...

Brilliant!!!

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Really a stupid race track that beats up and brakes most cars and back then the camera's were simply very, very poor as you can hardly tell who is who during much of the race. This was the best era of F racing when most of the drivers were great unlike today and the cars had personalities that you could tell as each one was different when now they all look the same.