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Jim Clark was a Scottish auto racing driver and athlete who competed for the Lotus F1 team. He was a citizen of the United Kingdom and spoke English. His racing career included participation in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Over the course of 73 starts, he achieved 33 pole positions, 32 podium finishes, and 25 wins, accumulating 274 points.
Born in Kilmany in 1936, Clark worked as a farmer and film actor in addition to his athletic pursuits. He was honored with the award of Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He died in a traffic collision at the Hockenheimring on April 7, 1968.
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Motorsport
- Team
- Lotus F1
- Position
- Driver
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jim
- Family name
- Clark
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Kilmany
- Place of death
- Hockenheimring
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 24 Hours of Le Mans
- Sport
- auto racing
- Country for sport
- Scotland
- Image
- Jim Clark 1965.jpg
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- Jim Clark
- date of birth
- 1936-03-04
- date of death
- 1968-04-07
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- cause of death
- traffic collision
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- James Clark
- number of wins
- 25
- points for
- 274
- podium finishes
- 32
- pole positions
- 33
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 73
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
24 Hours of Le Mans career Years1959–1961 TeamsBorder Reivers Best finish3rd (1960) Class wins0
James Clark (4 March 1936 – 7 April 1968) was a British racing driver from Scotland who competed in Formula One from 1960 to 1968. Clark won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in 1963 and 1965 with Lotus, and—at the time of his death—held the records for most wins (25), pole positions (33), and fastest laps (28), among others. In American open-wheel racing, Clark won the Indianapolis 500 in 1965 with Lotus, becoming the first non-American winner of the race in 49 years.
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