Description
Graham Gauld, Hardbound, 143 Pages, ISBN: 9780850591903, 1st Edition, 1975 - Second-Hand book in perfect condition !
On April 7 1968 an era in motor racing came to an end with the death of Jim Clark in an International Formula 2 race at Hockenheim in Germany. To most people Clark was motor racing, and the memory of this charismatic figure is still alive today.
What really happened at Hockenheim? Should Clark have won Indianapolis three times instead of just once? Many of the answers to questions about the talented Scot are contained in this memento of his unique career. It not only tells how Clark became the number one racing driver in the world, but also reveals his feelings and attitudes towards life, and gives an insight into the opinions of those close to him.
One of the outstanding features of this work is the collection of photographs of Clark, perhaps the largest ever assembled in one volume, and most of them previously unpublished. They show Jimmy Clark behind the wheel (be it of a sports car, a milk float or a Formula 1 Grand Prix car), triumphant and disappointed, pensive and joking; each feeling and important occasion is recorded.
There is a listing of Clark's race results not, as is usual, in strict date order, but arranged chronologically under the different cars he drove.
This book is a superb tribute to Clark, a man of whom Colin Chapman said No one ever before or since will have such a profound effect on me . . . I've never had a driver like him.'
Former Editor of Motor World magazine in Scotland, Graham Gauld has contributed to nearly every motoring magazine in Britain, as well as to many abroad. He was chosen by Clark to assist with his autobiography in 1963, and later Gauld wrote his own biography of Clark which is one of the very few motoring books to have appeared in the best sellers' list.
