F1 IN AMERICA: The story of the US racer who was the only driver feared by the legendary Jim Clark


When the great and good of world motorsport gathered on a sad day in April 1968 to lay Jim Clark to rest in Chirnside’s graveyard in his native Scotland, his father spoke quietly and privately to a tall, handsome American racer.
“You were the one driver that my son feared,” he told him gently. At that time no accolade could have been of greater impact nor more emotionally challenging.
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