In 1968, The Racing World Lost A Gifted Champion And Was Suddenly Confronted With Its Own Mortality



When Jim Clark slipped the surly bonds of Earth on that April afternoon in 1968, the racing world not only lost a great champion, it lost a trailblazer — and it lost a whole lot more of its innocence.
“Stunning,” said Formula One champion Jackie Stewart, remembering when the word of Clark’s death on slick tires and the wet roads of a Formula Two race in Hockenheim, Germany, reached him. “He was the driver’s driver. For everybody he was the complete racing driver.”

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