Jim Clark, he's my only idol in the sport. I followed his career since 1963, when I was 14 years old. Today, at seventy, I still consider him the best of all. From the South of Brazil, a fraternal hug and thanks for these memories!
Lino, your fellow Brazilian Ayrton Senna visited the Jim Clark room in Duns Scotland and bought all the Jim Clark pencils for all his friends back home in Brazil.
From 1966 when I was 9, my dad wouldn't take me the year before when I was 8. Even at that age he just looked different to the other drivers, I can still remember that feeling w....and he broke down and had car trouble all weekend...
Racing God JIM CLARK - Unmatched Maestro. By far the Greatest Driver Ever - No doubt. He is and was "The Best of the Best" (Fangio, Senna, Prost, Stewart and countless others about Clark). No other driver in history until today was so superior as Clark - No other driver as so much "Grand Slam" - Pole/Win/Fastest Lap/Leading every lap of the race - like him. And all that from just 72 starts... ! This man is the Olymp of driving - the Michelangelo of racing - a dynamic art at the highest level. So smooth, so precise, so fast....simply out of this world. One, who won in Spa by 5 minutes (!) in monsoon rain with only one hand at the wheel (!) because of gearbox trouble...One, who takes back a complete lap (!) in Monza and back into the lead... One, who took pole on the original 22,8 km Nürburgring track by 9 (!) seconds and more....One who won Indy by 2 whole (!) laps... In 1965 he had the most succesful year of any driver in the history of the sport: He won the F1 World Championship, the Tasman Series with F1 cars, the Indy 500, the British and French F2 Championship, the British Touring car Championship, totally over 50 (!) victories in one season !!!! For eternity and by lightyears unmatched in the sport. That`s just some examples of his mesmeric unique genius...
I have absolutely no doubt that Jim Clark was the greatest driver of all time. Case in point- Only driver to win the world championship and the Indy 500 in the same year!
Yes, and anyone watching Clark in the sixties could see it. His cornering method was unique, and very smooth. He was VISIBLY faster than anyone else. Not only that, but he had the least brake, tyre and suspension wear of any other driver. I watched him in countless races and never ever saw him miss an apex. Just watching him throw a Cortina saloon cart around Brands Hatch was breathtaking. It was staggering how fast he was around Paddock Hill Bend. But there is more: He won in EVERY single class of car, from saloons to sports cars, Formula 2 and 1, touring cars. You name it, he was equally brilliant in everything. Do I exaggerate? No. You have to have been there to witness it. The greatest and most naturally talented racing driver of all time, no question.
@Joe Cool That is what people used to say who saw Jim Clark drive that he looked the slowest but he was by far the fastest of his generation and perhaps of all time. He looked ''Slow" because he was the smoothest driver of them all and smoothness looks slow but is theoretically the fastest way to drive.
@@fingerhorn4 I was lucky enough to see one of Jim's lesser-known achievements - qualifying for the 1967 German GP at the old Nurburgring. He was only visible for a few seconds at the corner where I was watching, but you could see that he just had an 'edge' that none of the other greats of the period had. Not really a surprise when the track announcer announced that he qualified 8 seconds faster than the second-place driver (Denny Hulme if I recall correctly.)
He was so smooth and easy on the cars, very rarely broke one. Greatest driver ever, given the variety of types he drove, excelled in all forms of racing. I was 17 when he died and I cried.
I was 11 when he died, and I cried too. I had been following the Tasman series and F1 as much as was possible in those days. My favourite drivers were actually Graham Hill and Chris Amon, but Jim Clark was unquestionably the master. His death was such a huge loss to the world of motor racing, leaving a feeling of sadness, tragedy and emptiness.
I never got to see him race as I’m only 17 but as soon as I started watching motorsport I discovered Clark and he instantly became my favourite driver ever, not just because he was a fellow Scot but because of his natural talent and ability. Even now I would consider him the greatest
No one could drive the lug nuts off a Lotus Cortina like Jim Clark! Unbelievable footage of him carrying one, or sometimes two wheels close to a foot off the pavement and cornering perfectly. I believe he once said the Cortina was one of his favorite drives! As many as 50,000 people were at his funeral, which says a great deal about the love and respect his many fans had for him. RIP Jim, you were the best!
A magnificent era of F1 drivers - Clark, Stewart, Hill, Rindt, Bandini, Brabham and Hulme of course - McLaren, Amon, others I have forgotten - they shaped my boyhood fascination with racing.
UN TRES GRAND CHAMPION D UNE GENTILLESSE ET D UNE MODESTIE NON FEINTE TOUJOUR UN MOT AIMABLE POUR SES FANS DONT JE FAISAIT PARTIE TOUJOUR ABORDABLE DANS LES PADOCKS C ETAIT LE LOT DE BEAUCOUP DES CHAMPIONS DE CES ANNEES LA PAS COMME MAINTENANT!!
Young people today have no idea how important Jim Clark was, and what a phenomenon he was. Also, many people today don't realize Spa-Francorchamps was a much longer circuit back in the 1960s when Clark dominated than it is today. And much more dangerous as well. Juan-Manuel Fangio considered Jim Clark the greatest race car driver of all time. Enough said.
I saw Jim win at Indy and was fortunate enough as a young guy to see him and Graham and the others in Gasoline Alley at Indy. Jim was a gentleman as was Graham. Even AJ who does not like anything not American, he still calls Mario a “ a foreigner, spoke well of Clark after Jim ran wheel to wheel with NASCAR drivers at, I’ve forgotten which, a high banked stock car track. Jim was smooth as silk
Jim Clark's true greatness was his total dominance in whatever car he drove, GP, Sports, GT, saloon: in those glorious days when F1 drivers were free to drive the spectrum of cars....
I've seen Clark race(on TV)and he was my favorite driver. My dad and I used to watch anything race cars the US TV stations would supply. I still think Jimmy was the best ever, the GOAT, the finest driver, in F1. When both Fangio and Senna say he was the best ever, I believe them.
Can you imagine Clarke in the Mercedes today. The metamorphosis in cars from 1962 to 1982 in just 20 years is phenomenal. If you take the same time line 2001 to 2021 is there such a huge metamorphosis.
Note the in-car footage shows Jim Clark perfectly touching the apexes of every corner with perfect precision. This is part of the reason he was so fast - he always used maximum track width and almost never misjudged his cornering. Note his smooth technique. No fuss, no histrionics. Just genius car control.
Sept 18 , 2023. I am witnessing the greatness of Verstappen. I have seen Hamilton. Heard of Schumacher, Senna , Prost , Lauda , Stewart but to me JIM CLARK is and will be the greatest driver of all time.
It's unbelievable what all of this men have done... everyone who has driven such a car on the race tracks and with the security standarts they had in the past ownes my greatest respect.
Now 2021 20 Oct. And what an amazing driver you still remain. Your talents go beyond incomprehension, truly the number 1 race driver, to this day, and no one can match up to your skills. And all this started because you was curious. R.I.P, and continue to do so. You truly are an idol to all drivers.
i was a little girl and there always seemed to be an accident/fatality/fireball on the news (and the latest from northern ireland, vietnam, going to the moon and the black panther) so i never watched the races because of it. then there was nikki lauda going back to racing with horrific burn scars. i didn't start watching properly until lewis hamilton came on the scene and now they are racing with full fuel tanks again and grossjean last year and sainz a few wees ago.
@Joe Cool Jackie Stewart was good but he himself clearly knew Jim Clark was his superior and not only his. Jackie Stewart also mentioned on many occasions that he copied everything Jim Clark did because why not copy the greatest right?
I agree, the guy was always thinking.I watched him intentionally get the Lotus 49 sideways in exactly the same place in practice ( where. People just didn’t get sideways). When the Lotus 49 was first introduced Graham Hill broke his regularly not Jimmy. The guy had an Aura about him I still remember. He was quick by anybody’s standards, getting the best out of a car ( the Lotus 49) that was a bit of a handful when first introduced. No Jim was an extraordinary driver , very fit too.
Guess in Indi, engineer at the time did not figure out that the fuel trap was on the "wrong" side of the car... interesting to see them pass over the car, pulling hard the fuel line!
I was born 25/6/64. When I was 3, asked my dad why he was so sad, because he had been sad for days. Reply " Jim Clark was killed at Hockenheim". Wanted to ask what Hockenheim was, then realised shouldn't ask. Understood when I watched Senna, my hero, die...
Jim Clark, Juan Manuel Fangio and Tazio Nuvolari. Three greatest Grand Prix racers of all time imo. Although Ayrton Senna was greater than life in many ways and the only idol I've ever had, I think these three are just a bit more exceptional.
You state Jim Clark drove in Formula 3, this is not true, he drove a Lotus 18 in Formula Junior, a formula which evolved into what became F3, by the time F3 evolved Jim was in F1, in my opinion, for what it's worth, Jim was ,by far the greatest racing driver ever.
Miss information. In my mind there's no question Jimmy Clark was the finest race driver of all times. He DID win in the 500 that first year, it just was not awarded to him,, Parnelli Jones overran a black flag spewing on all over!!!! his oil tank cracked right in the middle dumping roughly 4 gallons of oil all over . Later Jimmy was interviewed and he said he could've passed but it would've been risky. He said he also saw the black flags and figured he'd win the race and never tried to overtake. In the meantime if you'll notice the rest of the field was slipping and sliding and crashing all over. Thanks a lot Parnell ! freaking jerk!.
I and just I decide what I watch: NO you MUST watch this. Youaren't allowed to force me anything. Jim Clark was one of the great ones, but why isn't even mentioned in this video.
Schumacher is the GoAT, Hamilton is the record breaker, Fangio was the ground breaker, but the best F1 driver of all time is Jim Clark and second isn't really very close.
Woeful video editing by employing artificial camera shake. There was never any camera shakes of decades ago. All cameramen back then, ensured their camerawork was up to professional standard.
Jim Clark, he's my only idol in the sport. I followed his career since 1963, when I was 14 years old. Today, at seventy, I still consider him the best of all.
From the South of Brazil, a fraternal hug and thanks for these memories!
He WAS the best, some people may disagree but that's only because they're wrong.
Lino, your fellow Brazilian Ayrton Senna visited the Jim Clark room in Duns Scotland and bought all the Jim Clark pencils for all his friends back home in Brazil.
Certainly better than the prima donnas of today .. like Scamilton .....
@@andyelliott8027 yes he was the best.rog. Pacific sunset records.
From 1966 when I was 9, my dad wouldn't take me the year before when I was 8. Even at that age he just looked different to the other drivers, I can still remember that feeling w....and he broke down and had car trouble all weekend...
Racing God JIM CLARK - Unmatched Maestro. By far the Greatest Driver Ever - No doubt. He is and was "The Best of the Best" (Fangio, Senna, Prost, Stewart and countless others about Clark). No other driver in history until today was so superior as Clark - No other driver as so much "Grand Slam" - Pole/Win/Fastest Lap/Leading every lap of the race - like him. And all that from just 72 starts... !
This man is the Olymp of driving - the Michelangelo of racing - a dynamic art at the highest level. So smooth, so precise, so fast....simply out of this world. One, who won in Spa by 5 minutes (!) in monsoon rain with only one hand at the wheel (!) because of gearbox trouble...One, who takes back a complete lap (!) in Monza and back into the lead... One, who took pole on the original 22,8 km Nürburgring track by 9 (!) seconds and more....One who won Indy by 2 whole (!) laps...
In 1965 he had the most succesful year of any driver in the history of the sport: He won the F1 World Championship, the Tasman Series with F1 cars, the Indy 500, the British and French F2 Championship, the British Touring car Championship, totally over 50 (!) victories in one season !!!! For eternity and by lightyears unmatched in the sport. That`s just some examples of his mesmeric unique genius...
Mozart at the wheel, indeed!
never complained about luck, never passed badly, a joy to race with apparently....and well liked by all the other drivers
I have absolutely no doubt that Jim Clark was the greatest driver of all time. Case in point- Only driver to win the world championship and the Indy 500 in the same year!
I agree 100% percent!
Yes, and anyone watching Clark in the sixties could see it. His cornering method was unique, and very smooth. He was VISIBLY faster than anyone else. Not only that, but he had the least brake, tyre and suspension wear of any other driver. I watched him in countless races and never ever saw him miss an apex. Just watching him throw a Cortina saloon cart around Brands Hatch was breathtaking. It was staggering how fast he was around Paddock Hill Bend. But there is more: He won in EVERY single class of car, from saloons to sports cars, Formula 2 and 1, touring cars. You name it, he was equally brilliant in everything. Do I exaggerate? No. You have to have been there to witness it. The greatest and most naturally talented racing driver of all time, no question.
@Joe Cool That is what people used to say who saw Jim Clark drive that he looked the slowest but he was by far the fastest of his generation and perhaps of all time. He looked ''Slow" because he was the smoothest driver of them all and smoothness looks slow but is theoretically the fastest way to drive.
Exactly he also has a the record number of grand slams (pole, fastest lap, win and lead all laps) which is 8, that is 3 more than Schumacher
@@fingerhorn4 I was lucky enough to see one of Jim's lesser-known achievements - qualifying for the 1967 German GP at the old Nurburgring. He was only visible for a few seconds at the corner where I was watching, but you could see that he just had an 'edge' that none of the other greats of the period had. Not really a surprise when the track announcer announced that he qualified 8 seconds faster than the second-place driver (Denny Hulme if I recall correctly.)
He was so smooth and easy on the cars, very rarely broke one. Greatest driver ever, given the variety of types he drove, excelled in all forms of racing. I was 17 when he died and I cried.
I was 11 when he died, and I cried too. I had been following the Tasman series and F1 as much as was possible in those days. My favourite drivers were actually Graham Hill and Chris Amon,
but Jim Clark was unquestionably the master.
His death was such a huge loss to the world of motor racing, leaving a feeling of sadness, tragedy and emptiness.
I was nine, and me too. Even my Dad was kind of broke up about his death.
I never got to see him race as I’m only 17 but as soon as I started watching motorsport I discovered Clark and he instantly became my favourite driver ever, not just because he was a fellow Scot but because of his natural talent and ability. Even now I would consider him the greatest
No one could drive the lug nuts off a Lotus Cortina like Jim Clark! Unbelievable footage of him carrying one, or sometimes two wheels close to a foot off the pavement and cornering perfectly. I believe he once said the Cortina was one of his favorite drives! As many as 50,000 people were at his funeral, which says a great deal about the love and respect his many fans had for him. RIP Jim, you were the best!
Watching this on April 7th 2021. "What a man and what a driver!"
A magnificent era of F1 drivers - Clark, Stewart, Hill, Rindt, Bandini, Brabham and Hulme of course - McLaren, Amon, others I have forgotten - they shaped my boyhood fascination with racing.
We are probably similar ages born 1954, I was lucky enough to see Jim Drive in the Tasman Series.
@@beagle7622 Yep - thats me - born in '54. Not ashamed to say I cried the day Jim Clark died.
Jim's most feared competitor as was told to this driver's father..............the driver?.......Dan Gurney who treasured that compliment all his life.
UN TRES GRAND CHAMPION D UNE GENTILLESSE ET D UNE MODESTIE NON FEINTE TOUJOUR UN MOT AIMABLE POUR SES FANS DONT JE FAISAIT PARTIE TOUJOUR ABORDABLE DANS LES PADOCKS C ETAIT LE LOT DE BEAUCOUP DES CHAMPIONS DE CES ANNEES LA PAS COMME MAINTENANT!!
Young people today have no idea how important Jim Clark was, and what a phenomenon he was. Also, many people today don't realize Spa-Francorchamps was a much longer circuit back in the 1960s when Clark dominated than it is today. And much more dangerous as well. Juan-Manuel Fangio considered Jim Clark the greatest race car driver of all time. Enough said.
Jim Clark is, in my opinion the greatest driver ever to have graced the motorsport stage. And I absolutely cannot be convinced otherwise.
Lino , we are contemporaries, I too regard him as the true "GOAT" ...I remember where I was that fateful Sunday. Gentleman Jim .
I saw Jim win at Indy and was fortunate enough as a young guy to see him and Graham and the others in Gasoline Alley at Indy. Jim was a gentleman as was Graham. Even AJ who does not like anything not American, he still calls Mario a “ a foreigner, spoke well of Clark after Jim ran wheel to wheel with NASCAR drivers at, I’ve forgotten which, a high banked stock car track. Jim was smooth as silk
Clark and Chapmen was a match made in heaven!
Thank you. What I would have given for this in 1962-1965, as a kid.
Jim Clark's true greatness was his total dominance in whatever car he drove, GP, Sports, GT, saloon: in those glorious days when F1 drivers were free to drive the spectrum of cars....
Absolutely great film footage. A true gem and thank-you!
A greatly missed gentleman racer! RIP
I've seen Clark race(on TV)and he was my favorite driver. My dad and I used to watch anything race cars the US TV stations would supply. I still think Jimmy was the best ever, the GOAT, the finest driver, in F1. When both Fangio and Senna say he was the best ever, I believe them.
One of my heroes and I wasn't even alive to see him totally dominate the sport
Bless the sacred memory
Can you imagine Clarke in the Mercedes today.
The metamorphosis in cars from 1962 to 1982 in just 20 years is phenomenal.
If you take the same time line 2001 to 2021 is there such a huge metamorphosis.
Fanjo and Clark are the GOT
Note the in-car footage shows Jim Clark perfectly touching the apexes of every corner with perfect precision. This is part of the reason he was so fast - he always used maximum track width and almost never misjudged his cornering. Note his smooth technique. No fuss, no histrionics. Just genius car control.
Sept 18 , 2023. I am witnessing the greatness of Verstappen. I have seen Hamilton. Heard of Schumacher, Senna , Prost , Lauda , Stewart but to me JIM CLARK is and will be the greatest driver of all time.
It's unbelievable what all of this men have done... everyone who has driven such a car on the race tracks and with the security standarts they had in the past ownes my greatest respect.
Just shows what a class of driver Jim Clark was ,he could win the engine turned off lol
Now 2021 20 Oct. And what an amazing driver you still remain. Your talents go beyond incomprehension, truly the number 1 race driver, to this day, and no one can match up to your skills. And all this started because you was curious. R.I.P, and continue to do so. You truly are an idol to all drivers.
He was such a smooth natural driver with great car empathy. For that reason always my favourite. After his death I stopped following F1 for years.
i was a little girl and there always seemed to be an accident/fatality/fireball on the news (and the latest from northern ireland, vietnam, going to the moon and the black panther) so i never watched the races because of it. then there was nikki lauda going back to racing with horrific burn scars. i didn't start watching properly until lewis hamilton came on the scene and now they are racing with full fuel tanks again and grossjean last year and sainz a few wees ago.
He was number one for me. To be so dominant in an era of fragility.
Followed by Fangio then Senna then from pre war Hermann Lang.
@Joe Cool Agreed mate. Stewart was Clarke protégé. Nuvolari was an incredible driver too.
@Joe Cool Jackie Stewart was good but he himself clearly knew Jim Clark was his superior and not only his. Jackie Stewart also mentioned on many occasions that he copied everything Jim Clark did because why not copy the greatest right?
If i had my one opportunity to get in a time machine just once. Theres no doubt i would use that time to watch Jim Clark race in person.
During his day in the sun, Jim Clark was the best of the best.
All the drivers trusted him, all the teams worried about how to beat him!!!
I think if Clark had been racing in the 90’s he wouldn’t have had any trouble dealing with Prost senna and Schumacher.
I agree, the guy was always thinking.I watched him intentionally get the Lotus 49 sideways in exactly the same place in practice ( where. People just didn’t get sideways). When the Lotus 49 was first introduced Graham Hill broke his regularly not Jimmy. The guy had an Aura about him I still remember. He was quick by anybody’s standards, getting the best out of a car ( the Lotus 49) that was a bit of a handful when first introduced. No Jim was an extraordinary driver , very fit too.
Guess in Indi, engineer at the time did not figure out that the fuel trap was on the "wrong" side of the car... interesting to see them pass over the car, pulling hard the fuel line!
If Clark had lived I don’t think Jackie Stewart would have got any titles.
That is hypothetical. JYS was a damned fine driver in his own right.
Old Spa looks scary as hell
Greatest of the time..
Think what Jim Clark could have done in a Lotus 72. The GOAT without question.
Jim also drove in Rally cars
Ironically, some of those greatest drives were at Spa, a circuit Jim Clark detested from the very first time he drove there in 1960.
Whats going on at 19:23?. Th guy with the fire extinguisher stepping over an invisible obstacle !!!
I was born 25/6/64. When I was 3, asked my dad why he was so sad, because he had been sad for days. Reply " Jim Clark was killed at Hockenheim". Wanted to ask what Hockenheim was, then realised shouldn't ask.
Understood when I watched Senna, my hero, die...
7:40 Holy Sh*t, it's Schumacher 😲
Haha.
Jim Clark, Juan Manuel Fangio and Tazio Nuvolari. Three greatest Grand Prix racers of all time imo. Although Ayrton Senna was greater than life in many ways and the only idol I've ever had, I think these three are just a bit more exceptional.
Without doubt the greatest of his time.
GOAT
You state Jim Clark drove in Formula 3, this is not true, he drove a Lotus 18 in Formula Junior, a formula which evolved into what became F3, by the time F3 evolved Jim was in F1, in my opinion, for what it's worth, Jim was ,by far the greatest racing driver ever.
The best driver and gentleman of any era, he had only Bruce Mclaren and Piers courage as his contemporaries.
Love to the Quing of sport 💖
Miss information. In my mind there's no question Jimmy Clark was the finest race driver of all times. He DID win in the 500 that first year, it just was not awarded to him,, Parnelli Jones overran a black flag spewing on all over!!!! his oil tank cracked right in the middle dumping roughly 4 gallons of oil all over . Later Jimmy was interviewed and he said he could've passed but it would've been risky. He said he also saw the black flags and figured he'd win the race and never tried to overtake. In the meantime if you'll notice the rest of the field was slipping and sliding and crashing all over. Thanks a lot Parnell ! freaking jerk!.
Parnoily
@@russbellew6378 that's a good one! Thanks man I could use a laugh
@Michael paulos
Credit to Dan Gurney, who coined "Parnoily" during a contemporary interview.
john Surtees was 2 wheel and 4 wheel champion
What a star.... just can’t compare to the cattle driving f1 today
Golden!
I love to race Lotus 49 at Monza on iracing.
I and just I decide what I watch: NO you MUST watch this. Youaren't allowed to force me anything. Jim Clark was one of the great ones, but why isn't even mentioned in this video.
19:36 "I say" "ding dong"..
Subscribing...
Schumacher is the GoAT, Hamilton is the record breaker, Fangio was the ground breaker, but the best F1 driver of all time is Jim Clark and second isn't really very close.
Won 🏆 THE 500 2 LAPS AHEAD OF THE FIELD. IMORTAL 🙏 🤲
Woeful video editing by employing artificial camera shake.
There was never any camera shakes of decades ago.
All cameramen back then, ensured their camerawork was up to professional standard.
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Fangio said he was the best ever, all you need to know
Wow some serious hedging going on in the title of this video. “Seemed” needs to be replaced!😅
Who do you think the best driver ever is/was?
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