Edward Jose asked about Jim Clark:
He was the best international racing driver of his generation, won the F1 World
Championship in 1963 and 1965, and Indy also in 1965. He took the record
number of GP wins from Fangio, which Jackie Stewart then beat. He also held
the record number of wins in one season for a long time -- even long after the
number of races in a season nearly doubled! Every one who knew him thought
that he was a fine man and an example to everyone. Jim Clark was killed in an
F2 race in 1968.
For more detail you could get
Jim Clark The legend lives on
Graham Gauld Pub by Patrick Stephens 1989
ISBN 1 85260 144 2 157pp
Third edition with extra colour photographs.
Pub at GBP14.95
which is still in print. Try
Classic Motorbooks PO Box 1, Osceola, WI 54020
Phone US 1 800 826 6600
in the USA.
The Jim Clark Trophy room in the town of Duns, Berwickshire is newly
refurbished and has a display of the trophies that he won, photographs and
other memorablilia. If you check through the visitors book you will find many
familiar names, including Ayrton Senna.
Duns is 15 miles due west of Berwick-upon-Tweed, which will probably be marked
in any atlas; the town of Chirnside, where Jim is buried, is half way between
them; and Edington Mains, his farm, is 1 1/2 miles out of Chirnside heading
towards Berwick. If Berwick isn't marked, imagine you're a crow and fly 100deg
true (that's East-and-South-a-bit) from Edinburgh until you hit the coast - and
there's Berwick. Any crows around with satnav? Do you want lat & long?
Sorry, no Loran coverage round here.
Doune is a hill-climb venue -- think of Pike's Peak but on tarmac and shorter.
Brave (and wealthy) folks buy year-old F1 cars for this sort of event, and the
road is 12ft wide! There is also a museum, not very large, but they do have
some interesting cars. The last time I was there was 1990, so things might
have changed since then. Doune museum is 1.5 miles west of Doune town on the
A820 from Dunblane to Callander, to the west of Stirling.
Cheers,
Mike
Mike Causer Setanta Technology mike@setanta.demon.co.uk
Cambridge UK
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