Word: chapman
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...spent eight years winning 14, and Argentina's five-time World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio, who had 16 when he quit racing at the age of 47. Says Moss: "In terms of sheer native ability, Jim probably has more than any champion in history." Lotus Designer Colin Chapman puts it even more emphatically: "Jim Clark is the greatest racing driver the world has ever seen...
...drove the Reivers' Lotus Elite in a ten-lap race at Brands Hatch, found himself involved in "a whale of a dice" with another Elite driven by a persistent, mustachioed fellow who bore a striking resemblance to Actor David Niven. His competitor, it later turned out, was Colin Chapman -a young, prematurely grey engineer who had graduated from London University in 1948, set up shop in 1952 as Lotus Cars, Ltd. For eight of the ten laps, Jim managed to stay in front. Then an Austin-Healey Sprite grazed his Lotus on a corner. Jim had all he could...
...Full 10%. It was the start of a lasting friendship. "The formula for a champion race driver," says Chapman, "is 10% natural ability, 90% experience and dedication." His own dice with Clark at Brands Hatch had convinced him that Jim "had the 10% in full." Already hard at work on a revolutionary Grand-Prix-car design-a "monocoque" body shell that needed no tubular skeleton, was actually little more than a steerable gas tank on wheels-Chapman decided that Clark was just the man to drive it. If he could...
Some break. Chapman's new monocoque Lotuses had proved to be a sensation all right. Stirling Moss had crashed in one and nearly been killed; Mike Taylor had crashed in one and nearly been killed; Allen Stacey had crashed in one and been killed. "I wouldn't drive a car like that," growled the U.S.'s Phil Hill. "You never know what piece is going to break off next." In the Dutch Grand Prix, Clark's gearbox broke; in the British Grand Prix, it was his suspension. In 1961, Jim finally was able to sign full...
...Dumb Walter; Beckett's Happy Days; Chekov's Uncle Vanya; and Brecht's Trumpets and Drums). Students will attend some rehearsals, discuss the plays, and perhaps take a bit part in the Brecht for credit in the course. Lectures will be by the Load's three Faculty directors, Robert Chapman, Daniel Seltzer, and George Hamlin. A warning: you'll be competing for grades with some of the members of the Summer Players (They have to be enrolled in Summer School in order to Join the company, and some of them will be taking Hum S-9 for the surest...