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Lotus Celebrates Life of Jim Clark with Launch of Lotus Clark Type ... 11/06/2008 18:57. June 2008 -- Jim Clark is considered by many as the finest and most
naturally gifted racing driver of all time. He won the F1 World
Championship twice for Team Lotus in 1963 and in 1965. In total, he won 25 Grand Prix races and was the first Briton to win the Indianapolis 500. Clark won a third of all the F1 races he entered, as well as racing in other formulae such as F2, F3 and Touring Cars. Typically he would race in as many as three different categories per race meeting! How many of the current crop of F1 drivers would do that? In tribute to Jim Clarks achievements, Lotus, in association with Classic Team Lotus, is producing the Clark Type 25 Elise SC, with a donation for each of these special cars sold going to the Jim Clark memorial fund. This Elise, limited to just 25 cars in... // Auto Spectator |