Jim Clark claimed a second F1 title with an imperious performance at the Nürburgring on this day in 1965. The Scot's campaign that year remains unrivalled in terms of its success and diversity: Tasman champion, Indy 500 winner, that second world championship clinched by August… not to mention numerous victories in F2, sports and saloon cars. Here we present a detailed diary of his astonishing '65, one that is unlikely ever to be matched
January 1: Clark celebrates New Year and his almost full recovery from a slipped disc – the result of a snowball fight in Italy! – by leading all 85 laps of the South African Grand Prix from pole position in a Lotus 33, its low-slung exhausts indicating the short-stroke, flat-crank version of Coventry Climax's 1.5-litre V8. He records East London's first 100mph race lap in the process and wins by 29sec – despite being shown the chequered flag one lap too early and pausing for a confab with team boss Colin Chapman before completing a banker lap....
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