Today marks the 55th anniversary since we lost the great Jim Clark, so let's look back at some of his finest performances 🏆 We rank his all-time top 10 drives 👇 F1 Indy500
This is often cited as Clark's finest drive – indeed, some have suggested it is the greatest F1 drive of all time.
It was clearly a great drive, so, why isn't it number one here? A bit more delving into this race explains its position. faster than everything else once it arrived in 1967. From its debut at the Dutch GP, the Cosworth DFV-engined car was on pole for every round. At high-speed Spa, Clark qualified 3.1s faster than the next car.
He overtook Hulme, beginning to show the signs of engine trouble, for the lead on lap 28 and finally broke the tow, initially with the just-unlapped Clark's help. Now the lead went up remarkably quickly. From 2.4s at the end of lap 29, Hill's lead read as follows for the next 10 successive laps: 5.2s, 9.7s , 12.2s, 14.8s, 16.7s, 18.1s, 20.8s, 22.2s, 24.3s, 26.1s.
Clark himself did not believe the drive was his best. In 'Jim Clark - Portrait of a Great Driver' by Graham Gauld, journalist Gerard Crombac, who was a close friend of Clark's, even suggested that he was irritated the race was held in such high regard.
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