1956 Chrysler 300.

Just beautiful and hugely powerful.

Today we remember Jim Clark .

Clark, the Formula One motor racing driver was killed on April 7th 1968 while racing at the Hockenhaeim circuit, West Germany.

Jim Clark is a driver who always features near or at the top of any list of the greatest drivers of all time. He won the world title twice - 1963 and 1965 - and was the first Formula One driver to cross the Atlantic and win the Indianapolis 500, and in the car had an almost unparalleled feel for what is was doing.

Out of the car, Clark was unassuming to the point of anonymity, a shy indecisive character who Peter Warr of Lotus said "could get befuddled through this extraordinary indecisiveness". In it, he was a changed man.

Clark, the son of a Scottish farmer, was introduced to racing when his eldest sister married a local racer and soon after a local garage owner invited him to enter a race, which he won.

In 1960 Clark was racing Formula two for Lotus and winning most of his races, he was elevated to Formula one and never looked back. During his career he knew of the dangers all to well, he lost his good friend and mentor Ian Scott Wilson in a crash at Spa, where he would later also see Stirling Moss seriously hurt in practice, and then two other drivers killed in the race.

Worse was to come in nineteen sixty one was Clark's first full year in Formula One but it ended in tragedy when Wolfgang von Trips was killed along with 14 spectators and Clark was blamed by many for his involvement. The affair was to haunt him for years and almost led to him quitting the sport.

Clark won his first grand prix and ran Graham Hill all the way to the final race. But in 1963 he was untouchable, winning seven of the ten races he started and coming runner-up in the Indianapolis 500. In 1965 six grand prix wins secured him his second drivers' championship, with enough to spare that he was able to miss the Monaco Grand Prix to travel to the USA and win the Indianapolis 500.

Lotus did not have the engines to challenge in 1966 under new 3-litre regulations, but Clark and Lotus were back to form in 1967 when he ran second to Denny Hulme.

He opened 1968 with a win in South Africa. Three months later on April 7th, in a low-key Formula Two race at Hockenheim, his Lotus suffered a blowout, flew off the road and he was killed instantly. He was 32 and at the time of his death held records for the most wins and most poles.

Clark's headstone lists him as being a farmer ahead of him being a driver, at his own request

Fellow Scot Jackie Stewart said of Clark " "He was so smooth, he was so clean, he drove with such finesse. He never bullied a racing car, he sort of caressed it into doing the things he wanted it to do"

Pics are Jim Clark, and memorials to him, first two are at Hockenheim, the Memorial Statue of Jim Clark at Kilmany, next is Jim Clark Memorial at at Chirnside, and finally Clark's grave within the grounds of Chirnside Parish Church

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Robert Clary was the youngest of 14 children. In 1942, because he was Jewish, he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp, Ottmuth. He was later sent to Buchenwald where he was liberated on 11 April 1945. Twelve other members of his immediate family were sent to Auschwitz. Clary was the only survivor. When he returned to Paris after the war, he learned that 3 of his siblings had not been taken away & survived the Nazi occupation of France. He played LeBeau on the t.v. show “Hogan’s Heroes.” cdandlp.com

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