Tom Clarkson and Allan McNish discover the memorial to racing icon Jim Clark at the site of his death in Hockenheim, Germany in 1968., external Clark would have been 80 this year. Remembering Jim ...

Sitting on pole position was Jim Clark, winner of the 1963 and 1965 world championships and the heavy favourite again in '68. Behind him ... of the F2 season at Hockenheim and the BOAC 500 at ...

Forty years ago, on April 7 1968, Jim Clark was killed when his Formula 2 Lotus crashed off the road at the Hockenheim circuit in Germany. He had started in 72 world championship F1 races ...

On this day in 1968, Scottish racer Jim Clark died after a crash during a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim. In his too-brief career, he displayed prodigious natural talent, collecting two Formula 1 ...

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Within three years, he was dead. On April 7, 1968, his car somersaulted into a wood at Hockenheim during a Formula 2 race. Jim Clark, racing champion and mixed arable farmer, did not survive.

Clark won 25 of the 72 grand prix races he entered and secured pole position on 33 of these. He also won the Indianapolis 500 in 1965. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Jim Clark’s first ...

It is 60 years since Jim Clark first won the British Grand ... Selzer was working for another team when he heard of Clark's tragic death at Hockenheim in Germany in 1968. The Scot was only 32 ...

A £115,000 supercar capable of clocking speeds of 170mph has been unveiled in tribute to legendary British racing driver Jim Clark ... same year. Clark's death in a crash at Hockenheim, Germany ...

A duck flaps and fusses out of the water and flies on to the trunk of a fallen beech that lies across the channel, blocking what is left of the path that leads to the spot where Jim Clark ...

That day my hero, Jim Clark, died in a Formula 2 accident on the Hockenheim circuit in Germany, when a rear tyre deflated and sent him into the trees at far too high a speed for any kind of recovery.