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...took Designer Chapman until last year to work the bugs out of his Grand Prix Lotus, with its rear-mounted Coventry Climax engine...
...face and listen to his Lowlands burr, it is hard to believe that Jimmy Clark, 27, leads a double life. For part of the year, he is a hard-working Berwickshire farmer who tends to his sheep and Aberdeen Angus. But for the rest, on Europe's Grand Prix circuit, Clark races fast cars. "The new Stirling Moss," his opponents call him, and the recently retired master concurs. Says Moss: "Jimmy is the last man I'd want to see in my rearview mirror...
...Obvious. That is a view few seem likely to get. The starter's flag had barely fluttered at last week's 273-mile Grand Prix of France before Clark's green-and-yellow Lotus shot into the lead. Roaring down Reims's long straightaway at 180 m.p.h., Clark set a new lap record of 131.147 m.p.h., and coasted across the finish line more than 1 min. ahead. The victory, Clark's third in 22 days, ran his season's point total to 27,* and gave him a virtual hammerlock on the 1963 Grand Prix...
...gears, forward and reverse, and the "freewheeling" engine (turning between 30,000 and 70,000 r.p.m.) provided no slowing effect on corners, putting a fantastic strain on the brakes. Nevertheless, the car never even needed a change of tires; and Britain's Graham Hill, the 1962 Grand Prix champion, who shared the wheel with the U.S.'s Richie Ginther, completed the full 24 hours at an average speed of 108 m.p.h. for seventh place overall. Said Hill: "Just like a Sunday afternoon drive with my family...
...race). Owned by Paris Hotelman Francois Dupré and a stablemate of Match II, which won last year's $125,000 Washington, D.C., International, Relko picked up $98,950 for his afternoon's outing at Epsom. > Britain's Graham Hill: the 195-mile Grand Prix of Monaco, deftly guiding his B.R.M. around the twisting, hilly course at a record average speed of 72.4 m.p.h. The 1962 world racing Champion, Hill was trailing the Lotus of Scotland's Jimmy Clark by 25 sec. on the 79th lap when Clark was forced out with a jammed gearbox...