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Clark escaped mostly because his car was too slow. Driving a new model Lotus-Climax that had been wrecked last April and practically rebuilt from scratch, Jimmy was having engine trouble, was running on only seven cylinders. After four sputtering laps, a mechanic waved a message board that read "Surt -20." With 16 laps to go, Ferrari's John Surtees already had a 20-sec. lead...
...Scotland's Jimmy Clark, 28: the British and European Grand Prix with a record average 94.14 m.p.h. over the twisting 80-lap, 212-mi. course at Brands Hatch, England. In his green factory Lotus, Clark spurted into the lead at the start, was never headed and took the checkered flag just 2.8 sec. ahead of fellow Briton Graham Hill in a thrilling dice that saw the two zipping around nose to tailpipe for most of the race. The win, Clark's third in five Grands Prix so far, gave last year's world champion a total...
...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 seven cylinders, Clark still leaped into the lead at the start, broke the track record four times, was 161 sec. ahead of Gurney when he had to quit after 30 of the 57 laps...
...practice, Jimmy's 1964 Lotus developed mechanical trouble, and he had to trade it in on a 1963 model that was geared too low for the ultrafast Spa Franchorchamps course. So there he was, a few laps from the end, touring unhappily around in fourth place. Out front in a Brabham-Climax, the U.S.'s Dan Gurney was burning up the track, leading Britain's Graham Hill and New Zealand's Bruce McLaren by 40 sec., and Clark by 90 sec. Play safe? Not Gurney...
Leaving Delhi last week, a special train crawled slowly through a yellow haze of summer dust. In one coach, heaped with red roses, jasmine and white lotus blooms, stood a large silver-and-copper urn holding Nehru's ashes.*Reaching Allahabad, Nehru's home town, late that night, the urn was carried in procession through the predawn coolness to the riverbank and loaded aboard a white-painted amphibious "duck." The boat moved out to a spot where the muddy brown current of the sacred Ganges is joined by the green water of the Jumna River. Airplanes circled overhead...