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People were beginning to whisper about Scotland's Jimmy Clark, 28. Two years ago he was the world's No. 1 race-car driver-the Grand Prix cham pion, winner of a record seven races. In 1964, it looked like the same story all over again when Clark won three out of the first five Grand Prix races. Then everything went wrong...
...broken valve cost him the German Grand Prix. A shaft snapped in Austria, a tire blew in the Indy 500, an oil line burst in the Mexican Grand Prix after Clark had led for 64 of the 65 laps. Britain's John Surtees won the 1964 Grand Prix championship; Clark finished third. To top it off, he got into a friendly snowball fight in the Italian Alps last month, twisted his back, and wound up with a slipped disc. The experts wondered: Was Clark washed...
...time trial and a race are two 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...
...didn't I?" It was enough to confuse anybody. In one of the wildest finishes in racing history, Britain's Surtees became the 1964 Grand Prix champion-by the humbling margin of a leaky oil line and a bent exhaust pipe...
Going into the tenth and final race at Mexico City last week, three drivers were still battling for the championship, and it would have taken a mathematical wizard to figure all the possibilities. Under the complicated system of Grand Prix scoring (nine points for a first place, six for a second, four for third, etc.), Britain's Graham Hill was leading with 39 points, Surtees was second with 34, and Scotland's Jimmy Clark, the 1963 champion, had 30. Now, if Hill won, it was all over. But if Clark won and Hill and Surtees were...