Jim Clark: Portrait of a Great Driver.

"The best Driver of His Time": First Edition of Jim Clark: Portrait of a Great Driver; Signed by Racing Legend Stirling Moss

Jim Clark: Portrait of a Great Driver.

CLARK, Jim] Graham Gauld; Foreword by Stirling Moss.

$600.00

Item Number: 112433

London: Paul Hamlyn, 1968.

First edition of this biography on Jim Clarke. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Stirling Moss on the title page, who contributed the foreword. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.

Jim Clark was a British Formula One racing driver from Scotland, who won two World Championships, in 1963 and 1965. Clark was a versatile driver who competed in sports cars, touring cars and in the Indianapolis 500, which he won in 1965. He was particularly associated with the Lotus marque. Clark was killed in a Formula Two racing accident in 1968 in Hockenheim, West Germany. At the time of his death, aged 32, he had won more Grand Prix races (25) and achieved more Grand Prix pole positions (33) than any other driver. In 2009, The Times placed Clark at the top of a list of the greatest-ever Formula One drivers.

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