Grand tour - Jim Clark

[Paul Rice]

Just watched this weeks Grand tour on Prime, what a terrific tribute to Jim Clark by Hammond and the team. Really told the story of what a great driver he was.

 

[andyglym]

Nice one, shall be sure to watch it later.

 

[Robert Wiles]

Jim Clark was truly one of the greats. He could drive anything faster than anyone else and was my boyhood hero. I was 11 when he was lost and his death was the first in my life that I mourned.

 

[Grumps]

Not watched any yet. We shall however be starting them tonight

 

[Stevo7682]

In my old work I used to service a 1968 lotus elan that was one of a number of cars built after Jim Clark's death that were fitted with black and silver Lotus badges.

 

[andyglym]

Superb! A great tribute, wasn't bad, was he

 

[mrscalex]

Amongst my research into the history of Scalextric production in the 1960s I met the man responsible for the company’s relationship with Jim Clark. Jim Clark was one of the first people to endorse a product and his face was on many sets.

I was told a few stories including the fact that when he died the company destroyed all unused box lids as a mark of respect and scrambled round locally in Havant (Portsmouth) to find someone to print new lids. This being at the height of Scalextric popularity.

 

[t-tony]

Jim Clark was a great driver, and, he also had a brilliant engineering mind producing great cars for him to display his talents, I would say they both were good for each other. Colin Chapman was exceptional too.

Tony.