F1A&G posts tagged Clark
At the 1965 Grand Prix of Monaco, Graham Hill won by more than a minute in a BRM from Lorenzo Bandini’s Ferrari and teammate Jackie Stewart, while Jim Clark was off capturing the Indy 500 for Team Lotus. The circuit was pretty much the same as today … Read More …
Jim Clark leading Graham Hill on his way to winning the 1967 United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. Read More …
The BBC’s video portrait of Jim Clark, one of the most talented and intriguing characters of the 1960s and the most successful racing driver of his time, Read More …
Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Richie Ginther, Jackie Stewart and (2nd row) John Surtees at the start of the 1965 British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was Clark’s 4th straight British GP win. Copyright © Sutton Images, courtesy of ESPN F1. Read More …
If the Sixties had a single turning point, it was the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, won by Jim Clark with the revolutionary new Ford-Cosworth DWF engine in his Lotus 49. Read More …
Fifty years ago, when “Taffy’ von Trips died during the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in 1961, nobody had thought of stopping the race. Were people more callous back then? Read More …
An appropriately named, four-part documentary by the BBC on the 1960s and early 1970s in Grand Prix racing. Watching this will enlighten newer Formula One fans why F1A&G’s profile of the Six Best F1 Crashes starts with one essential criterion — that the driver walked away (relatively) unharmed — a result all too infrequent in the tragic early decades of F1. Read More …
Six out of eight race wins to start a Formula One season. Seven poles. No classifications lower than 2nd. Sebastian Vettel is having a hell of a year. Better than Niki Lauda in 1976 (five wins of first nine, three poles). Better than Jim Clark in 1965 (six wins of fist seven, four poles). Better than Aryton Senna in 1991 or Nigel Mansell in 1992. Better even than Michael Schumacher in 2002 or 2004. Read More …
Putting your car on the front row, P1, has never been harder in Formula One than today, but it’s always been a difficult undertaking. Here are the best qualifiers of all time, including a current Read More …
Scotsman Dario Franchitti drives the Lotus-Ford (Lotus 38) in which two-time Formula One World Champion of Scotland won the 1965 Indianapolis 500, a watershed moment in motor sports history, in 2010. Read More …