JIM CLARK BY EMMA CAPENER
Bad luck dogged reigning F1 champion Jim Clark at the beginning of the 1966 season. At Monaco and Spa he was forced to retire, and at Reims he was unable to start after being struck in the eye by a bird during practice. His first podium of the year didn’t come until the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort… and even there he was hard done by. Despite the fact that his 2-litre Lotus was underpowered compared with the 3-litre cars in the field, an inspired Clark took the lead on lap 24 and opened a good gap to Jack Brabham. ‘Even with 3 litres Brabham could do nothing about this sort of driving,’ wrote an awestruck Denis Jenkinson in Motor Sport. Maddeningly, Clark then suffered a coolant leak that necessitated two stops, and he had to nurse his Lotus and its cooked engine home. Third place was his reward for one of the performances of his life – a drive that inspired artist Emma Capener to produce this extraordinarily detailed pencil drawing of Clark at Zandvoort, working from a portrait taken by the great F1 snapper Rainer Schlegelmilch.
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FARER PORTOBELLO CHRONOGRAPH
Inspired by the brightly painted buildings of London’s Portobello Road, this 38.5mm chronograph features an ‘Orangina’ colour ceramic bezel insert, and is powered by a hand-wound Sellita
