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Having sat in the grandstand at Paddock at Brands and watched Jim Clark go on to win driving his Lotus Cortina one-handed, really impressed me. Early on in the race, the right hand leg of his seat collapsed, and he spent the rest of the race holding himself upright by hanging on to the roll bar with his right hand.
In those days, of course, he didn't have the luxury of power steering and paddle-shift gear changing, so it just highlighted his pure genius behind the wheel. And when he got out of the car at the end of the race, it was as though it was just no big deal; a mere inconvenience, that's all.
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