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James Clark OBE, born on 4 March 1936 and died 7 April 1968, was a British racing driver from Scotland who won the Formula 1 World Championship twice, in 1963 and 1965. As well as competing in F1, Clark raced in sports cars and touring cars and won the Indianapolis 500 in 1965.
Their first car, the Lotus 49 featuring the most successful F1 engine in history, the Ford-Cosworth DFV, won its first race at the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix, driven by Clark. He won with it again at the 1967 British, United States, and Mexican Grands Prix, and at the 1968 South African Grand Prix.
The Saturday of the Bahrain Grand Prix earlier this month marked 50 years since Jim Clark – one of F1’s greatest ever champions – was killed in an F2 crash at Hockenheim. For Formula1.com contributor David Tremayne and many others, the Scot remains the greatest driver to have ever pulled on a helmet and climbed into a racing car.
Clark in the Lotus 25 at the 1963 Monaco Grand Prix. Bernard Cahier/Getty Images. The death of Jim Clark shocked the motor racing world to the core. Twice World Champion and winner of the 1965 Indianapolis 500, this quietly spoken and reserved Scot was revered on both sides of the Atlantic.
Clark admitted that the gruesome disasters nearly put him off racing forever. Thereafter he hated Spa with a vengeance and yet he would win there four times in succession. In 1961 his first complete Grand Prix season was blighted by his involvement in a collision at Monza with the Ferrari of Wolfgang von Trips.
