Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29270 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-04-22
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Full Screen, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 60 minutes

Special Features
4:3 Full Frame
DVD 5
English
Region 0
Dolby Digital Stereo English
Dolby Digital Stereo

Synopsis
Jim Clark won an amazing 27 Grand Prix from only 72 starts and was World Champion in both 1963 and 1965. This disc traces his incredible story through fascinating archive footage.

Customer Reviews

Jim Clark and a lost era of racing
Fans of Jim Clark or of motor racing in the 1960s won't be disappointed by this DVD, which mixes extensive footage of Clark, with interviews with friends and rival drivers of the time. In comparison to modern documentary footage, these interviews can seem a bit wooden - they seem to have been pooled from a variety of sources, compiled over several years - but there is nevertheless a genuineness about them which simply adds to the overall authenticity.

Where the DVD scores heavily is the extensive footage of Clark racing in all kinds of machinery - Formula 1, 2, sports cars, GT's and at the Indy 500- all complete with the original audio commentaries. Not only is the skill and bravery that his contemporaries so often speak of clearly apparent, the innocence that seems to have been motor racing 35 years ago is a sight to behold: hay bales instead of Armco barriers, spectators standing next to pit lanes and precious few advertising logos and hoardings. Jim Clark's own blue racing overall's adorned with a single "Dunlop" patch seem to sum the whole thing up.

In keeping with a man who seems to have been at his best racing behind the wheel and a little lost in the accompanying circus, there is plenty of footage of him but only one, short extract of a BBC interview. His friends have done the talking, Clark the driving.

The DVD is all the better for not dwelling on his death. Its mentioned at the beginning and again at the end. There's no footage of the accident, no morbid "reconstructions" or computer graphics and you're left not to dwell on what might have been, but to marvel at the achievements of a sheep farmer from the Scottish borders, who kept his early racing secret from mum and dad.