{"id":692,"date":"2007-04-09T04:48:39","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T10:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/04\/09\/39\/"},"modified":"2007-04-09T04:48:39","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T10:48:39","slug":"39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"39"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By way of reading Emily&#8217;s birthday post at <a href=\"http:\/\/genxperspective.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/39.html\">TXP<\/a>,\u00a0 I noted that Saturday was the 39th anniversary of an obscure death that I remember almost as clearly as that of Martin Luther King, two days earlier&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Motor racing world champion Jim Clark was killed in a car crash during a race.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ddavid.com\/formula1\/clark_bio.htm\">Jimmy Clark<\/a> was a &#8220;champion&#8221; in the same sense that Tiger Woods is a &#8220;Good Golfer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"558\" height=\"421\" src=\"http:\/\/www.automobiliauk.com\/images\/classic-clark-1000.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the greatest Formula 1 driver ever, he passed the unbreakable records of Fangio and Nuvolare in only eight years of professional racing. \u00a0 Ayrton Senna and Jackie Stewart both passed his win record &#8211; but both of them raced longer careers and busier schedules.<\/p>\n<p>A natural talent, Clark&#8217;s record in F1 may be equalled, but there&#8217;s never be another.<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;ll never be a car as cool as the 1.5l 1965 Lotus F1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By way of reading Emily&#8217;s birthday post at TXP,\u00a0 I noted that Saturday was the 39th anniversary of an obscure death that I remember almost as clearly as that of Martin Luther King, two days earlier&#8230;: Motor racing world champion Jim Clark was killed in a car crash during a race. Jimmy Clark was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}