Jim Clark: a Tribute to a Champion [Hardcover]

Eric Dymock (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 19, 1997

Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of Jim Clark's epic victory in the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix, this biography by a fellow Scot who knew Clark before he had ever stepped in a racing car, has been endorsed by his family. It looks beyond his motorsport career, and offers information about his farming background, his Scottish heritage, and the man behind the clean-cut boyish image. It celebrates Clark's 1967 Dutch victory in a Ford Cosworth-powered Lotus which was the first time a new, untried engine won its maiden race, and his position as 1963 and 1965 Formula 1 World Champion and how in 1965 became the first non-American to win the Indianapolis 500. The text is enhanced by colour photographs, Ford archive material, and pictures from the Clark family's own collection - and interviews with Clark's family and friends, his long-term girlfriend Sally Swart, Ian Scott Watson, Jackie Stewart and Rob Walker.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: A G T Foulis; 2nd edition (May 19, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0854299823
• ISBN-13: 978-0854299829
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,266,794 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Jim Clark: Tribute to a Champion, November 7, 2002

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Jim Clark was first driver to win the Indianapolis 500 with a rear-engine race car, which he did in 1965. In 1963 and 1965, he won the Formula 1 World Driving Championship. Eric Dymock's book helps keep Jim Clark a legend. This is an excellent book on one of the greatest race car drivers of the 1960s. The spirit of Jim lives in this book.