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

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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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