Final plans to celebrate the remarkable racing achievements of double world champion Jim Clark at this summer’s Silverstone Classic (26-28 July) have been confirmed.
On the 50th anniversary of the first of his two Formula 1 World Championship victories, this year’s Goodwood Revival annual driver tribute will be to the legendary Scottish racer Jim Clark.
Continue reading …The remarkable racing achievements of double world champion Jim Clark will be honoured during a special evening event being organised during this summer’s Silverstone Classic.
Continue reading …Classic Team Lotus exists to be a point of focus for celebrating the Spirit of the Marque.
Continue reading …The attractive GLTL livery adorns our latest release of the famous Lotus 49. A nicely detailed likeness of one of the world’s most famous F1 cars.
Continue reading …Jim Clark won his home Grand Prix at Aintree in 1962, at Brands in 1964 and at Silverstone in 1963, 1965 and 1967, every time driving a green Lotus and his career-long love affair with Lotus is as much integral to the Jim Clark legend as the stunning level of easy, almost unaware, genius that this softly spoken border sheep farmer always displayed.
Continue reading …It had seemed as if Jim Clark and Team Lotus had the titles in their grasp as he led with Graham’s BRM a distant second. But with 25 laps to run the Lotus’s Climax V8 engine began trailing smoke. Five laps later Clark peeled off into the pits. Graham Hill inherited the lead and the World titles were his.
Continue reading …The definitive book on Jim Clark is now available as an ebook. On April 7 1968 a Los Angeles disc jockey urged drivers, “If you are mourning the death of the great racer Jim Clark, put on your headlights”. The whole freeway lit up at midday. More than 40 years later Clark’s reputation as the greatest natural driver in the history of motor racing remains just as bright.
Continue reading …Clark, fresh from his victory at the Indianapolis 500 in 1965. The race proved something of a record breaker for the popular Scotsman.
Continue reading …Last week’s H&H classic vehicle sale at The Centaur, Cheltenham grossed over £2.3 million – a house record. It also saw the highest price so far paid for a car at an H&H auction, with the 1929 Irish Grand Prix winning Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Super Sport fetching £503,000 – a mere £6,000 more than the ex-Jim Clark 1962 Lotus 25, which itself had claimed that record earlier in the same sale!
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