JIM CLARK

AT THE WHEEL

the world motor racing champion's own story

Jim Clark

Publisher: ARTHUR BAKER, 1964, First Edition, First Impression

FIRST EDITION HARDBACK BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION. DUSTJACKET PRESENT, THOUGH HAVING LOSS AND A VERTICAL TEAR, AS PER PHOTOS. THE JACKET IS NOW PROTECTED IN A REMOVABLE CLEAR PLASTIC SLEEVE. ALL INTERNALS CLEAN AND TIDY. THE BOOK IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED AND THERE ARE NO INSCRIPTIONS. THIS IS NOT AN EX-LIBRARY BOOK. 

Jim Clark, at twenty-seven the world’s youngest-ever Champion Racing Driver, has now written the remarkable first-hand story of his meteoric rise to fame. The son of a Scottish farmer, Clark tells how his passion for motor cars and racing grew from his first lessons on a tractor in his father’s fields. He recounts the double autobiography of a life split between the shepherd’s crook and the steering wheel, in which only a few hours sometimes separate a local sheep fair and the dusty roar of a Grand Prix circuit on the other side of the world. Clark’s story takes in his first drive on a racing circuit, the immediate recognition of his talent by an expert, his early days with Lotus, the anxious moments in the pits, the triumphs and disasters of the great races in a brilliant young career, his private fears and ambitions and his views on a racing driver’s personal life. The Champion reveals the formula of skill, courage and luck which carried him past the chequered flag time and time again, and brought him the ultimate success in the most dangerous sport of all without a single scratch to show for it.

He introduces himself before a race – ‘I bite my nails’ – and on the track – ‘I love the challenge of striving for perfection….. of doing something that little bit better each time I race’. This book gives the readers a passenger seat in the world’s fastest cars, from which to watch the soft-spoken Scot drive himself to the top of the world.