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...waist, clutching a stick for support, a bent figure hobbled onto the starting grid at Holland's Zandvoort race track last week, made his way slowly to a sleek green-and-gold car sitting in the front row. Then, with a smirk at the astonished crowd, Jack Brabham dropped the cane, pulled off the whiskers, revved up the engine of his Brabham-Repco racer, and roared off to win the Dutch Grand Prix...
...little charade was Brabham's way of thumbing his nose at Dutch and British sportswriters who have taken to calling him the grand old man of auto racing. At 40, Australian Brabham is the oldest driver on the Grand Prix circuit. When he first arrived in 1955, determined to make a name for himself amid the sophisticates of European racing, Brabham had more lead in his foot than skill in his hands. Watching him hurtle recklessly around the track, his fellow drivers would not have given a plugged sixpence for his chances of success-or survival. "The marvelous thing...
...little Scot covered the 15 laps in a record 99.79 m.p.h., swept to the finish about one-half mile in front of Graham Hill's B.R.M. and Dan Gurney's Brabham. Gulping champagne from the winner's trophy, the normally unemotional Clark crowed: "I'm happy as a king! This was the one that was missing! I am the world champion...
...different things. The 210-mile South African Grand Prix was the first big race of the 1965 season; 50,000 fans turned out to watch, and everybody who was anybody was there-Champion Surtees in his Ferrari; Britain's Graham Hill, the 1962 winner, in his B.R.M.; Jack Brabham, 1959 and 1960 champion, in his own Brabham-Climax. But Clark's practice lap had won him the pole position, and the starter's flag barely fluttered before he shot into the lead. By the 13th lap, he was already lapping stragglers. Twice, he shattered the official track...
...winnings to $13,130) and talked wistfully about joining the men's pro tour. "I could wear a hood or some disguise so they wouldn't recognize me," she said. > Dan Gurney, 33: the Grand Prix de France, averaging 108.7 m.p.h. in his green, Climax-powered Brabham, to beat Britain's Graham Hill by 41 sec.; at Rouen-Les Essarts. The Californian's victory was overshadowed, however, by the magnificent performance of Scotland's Jimmy Clark, the 1963 Grand Prix champion whose Lotus blew a piston on the pre-race practice lap. Running on only...