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Anyway, here goes... Jim Clark is probably the one for me. A gentleman driver, a true sportsman, and supremely talented behind the wheel of almost any car (F1, F2, saloons Lotus Cortina, etc.) A career tragically cut short in the F2 race at Hockenhiem (due to a Lotus failure?) before he could fulfil his destiny results wise.
Agree totally.  Before my time so didn't get to see him, but he is always talked about by his peers as though he was on a different level to them, and he knew it apparently. Stats... 72 GP starts, 33 poles, 28 fastest laps, 25 wins - amazing. Senna, who I did get to see, was a cut above too, but we didn't get to see enough of what he could do..
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The Classic Team Lotus guys were not complimentary about Mansell. They didn't say that much about Clark, didn't have to, but they did say what a gentleman Ronnie Peterson was. Andretti didn't get rave reviews either.
I just missed the Clark era, starting to spectate at GP's in 1971. In period, Stewart was an irritating boy scout. In truth, F1 came second to endurance racing at that time, and my hero's of the time were the Porsche 917 masters - Rodriguez, Siffert, Elford, Redman and so on. Fittipaldi was the star of the early seventies, and still visits Hethel to see Hazel Chapman. A real gent apparently. Watching Peterson drifting a Lotus 72 round Woodcote lap after lap was a spectacle which may never be matched.
The current crop in my view are not in the same league, although its hardly fair to compare era's. History records the positions at the end of each race, and when you read the recent F1 results tome, you'll see that the champion each year may have won on points, but may not have been the most successful lap by lap.
Alonso stands out this year, but Raikkonen is clearly extremely talented, and in a better car would be even better. Button, Webber (and Coulthard) are good number two's. Button fluked his championship - right car right time, but the record books won't reflect that. It's no use having speed without reliability which has been Hamilton's curse this year. If that makes me sound passionate about F1 I'm not!!!! The last race I went to was 1986, and I don't watch the races all the way through on the tv now, but still have a passing interest.
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We need Susie Wolf & Rahel Frey to migrate from DTM to brighten up the boring male only grid.
Saw them racing at Brands this year and they are wonderful machines - cars not bad either.
Certainly a lot closer interesting racing and the sound was pure magic as they popped and spat fire on the overun.
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"As they popped and spat fire on the overun"
They sound like interesting ladies!
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 Your'e not a journalist by any chance Budster 
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Your'e not a journalist by any chance Budster Good gracious, no! But now I know that I won't be the next Archbishop of Canterbury, I'm not sure what to do next  Bud __________ 2003 - 4/4 ps As for racing drivers, I rather like the Duncan Hamilton approach 
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But now I know that I won't be the next Archbishop of Canterbury, I'm not sure what to do next Bud __________ 2003 - 4/4 
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Good gracious, no! But now I know that I won't be the next Archbishop of Canterbury, I'm not sure what to do next Bud  I don't think they get paid enough to run a Morgan so no loss there and of course Romney will need a job somewhere, Sainsury's might take him on the nightshift.
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Jim Clark did it for me as a young lad on the borders at Duns a couple of hours run for me is his museum . I read before the advent of motorways and the 70mph he could get from Duns in the borders down to the Lotus factory Norwich 4 hours in his Lotus Cortina .
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He wouldn't be able to do it now, with the motorway!!!
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