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7 Apr 2005, 13:19 (Ref:1272481)
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April 7th 1968
37 years ago today motor racing lost one of it's all time greats.
Jim Clark as one who was around then, i'll never forget the sense of loss upon hearing then news of his passing and count myself fortunate that i was able to meet him and see him race.... |
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7 Apr 2005, 13:53 (Ref:1272510)
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Jim's death was a defining moment in the history of motor racing. And all the more tragic because it happened in a meaningless race that he drove in purely because of UK tax laws. He should have raced the Ford 3L at Brands Hatch that day, but as a "tax exile" he would have exceeded his allowance of days in the UK had he done so.
It's always said that for the generations who lived through them, everyone remembers where they were when they heard of the deaths of JFK and Elvis. For those of us who followed racing then, it was the deaths of Jim Clark and Graham Hill too. I was watching the BOAC 6 Hours on TV that afternoon when Raymond Baxter made the first hesitant announcement of the news from Hockenheim .... |
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7 Apr 2005, 17:14 (Ref:1272632)
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Jim Clark was well before my time. I was only 7 years of age when the tradegy occured. I have read much of Jim Clark and I understand he was a genius as well as a gentleman. He was still a relatively young man when he was taken from this world. It is fair to say that had he lived he could well have been world champion in both 1968 as well as 1970. We will never know.
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7 Apr 2005, 17:41 (Ref:1272652)
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jim
last november i meet chris amon in nz , he was in the same race behind jim-as you know-.,he said "after that , i start thinking first time stop racing.........
regards roger Last edited by TimD; 7 Apr 2005 at 17:58. |
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7 Apr 2005, 22:56 (Ref:1272896)
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There's a bit of a myth built up that the news was announced to all at the BOAC 500 at Brands Hatch. It wasn't. We left Brands slightly bemused as to why the event ended like a damp squib and it was only about half an hour into our journey home we first heard on the car radio.
My neighbour today in the south west of England (in a village JC drove through on the 1966 RAC Rally, long before our time here) grew up on the next farm to Edington Mains. Not a natural motorsports fan, she still admits to becoming emotional at any reminder of JC, such as seeing a Lotus Cortina. |
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