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The Grand Tour, Jim Clark

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 8:48 pm
by Dominic
Just watched this week's Grand Tour. Usual circus act, with the exception of the piece on Jim Clark. It's worth taking a look if you have not already. :thumbsup

Re: The Grand Tour, Jim Clark

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:44 pm
by campbell
Yes.

The Jim Clark piece is one of the best TGT / TG features ever. Brilliant bit of work.

Jim Clark is a hero of James’ too. He loved it.

Re: The Grand Tour, Jim Clark

Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 12:31 am
by duggiesmith
Great TV. Such a refreshing change to see a serious article on GT.
I'm still a fan of their usual larking about, but it's nice to know they can still do some proper motor journalism.
👍

Re: The Grand Tour, Jim Clark

Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 2:25 am
by IanD
Look forward to it then.
After good feelings from episode 1 and Detroit, a bit of the seriousness without too much of the very annoying silliness and stupidity, Eposide 2 and the bit i’ve seen of 3 are totally about the annoying, contrived and pre-planned stupidness and not a lot more.

Re: The Grand Tour, Jim Clark

Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 6:31 pm
by scott_e
Great feature on Jim Clark. A lot i didnt know, brings a tear to the eye.

Re: The Grand Tour, Jim Clark

Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 8:35 pm
by C7Steve
Just watched the feature on Jim Clark. Awesome. :thumbsup


Steve.

Re: The Grand Tour, Jim Clark

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 12:48 pm
by ScottJ-PS
I'd like to see this but a refuse to pay Amazon a single penny .

Re: The Grand Tour, Jim Clark

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 9:25 pm
by campbell
In which case you will need to wait for YouTube. I guess.

You saying you never give Amazon any business. At all?

Re: The Grand Tour, Jim Clark

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 9:38 am
by Scotty C
IanD wrote:
Sat Feb 09, 2019 2:25 am
Look forward to it then.
After good feelings from episode 1 and Detroit, a bit of the seriousness without too much of the very annoying silliness and stupidity, Eposide 2 and the bit i’ve seen of 3 are totally about the annoying, contrived and pre-planned stupidness and not a lot more.
i stopped watching half way through series 2 because of the f**king around, but i started watching this series and it almost becomes background tv with looking on the net.

Will see what the next episode brings.

Re: The Grand Tour, Jim Clark

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 6:27 pm
by campbell
Freddie will be chuckling along to it soon, I expect.

Re: The Grand Tour, Jim Clark

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 7:03 pm
by Rag_It
Incredibly evocative piece - really really enjoyed it!

Re: The Grand Tour, Jim Clark

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 9:56 pm
by KennyT
Agreed, it was a good watch.

Although I listened to a podcast with Derek Bell recently (Dinner with Racers) and he told the story that the cause of the accident he believed was most likely due to a misfire, not a deflation of the left rear tyre.
Bell was in that race but retired some laps before, he gives a longer explanation and mentions a discussion he had with a Lotus engineer working on Clark's car that weekend who agrees they had been suffering a misfire. He described the likelihood of the left rear giving up where it did as very low as Clark didn't run wide on the exit of the stadium section or turn 1 and there was a long straight before the corner of his accident along which, if the tyre had begun to deflate, it's unlikely Clark would have entered the corner at full racing speed. On a particularly cold day and in low grip conditions, without any external influence it's unlikely the tyre would just deflate.

However, on a long right hander with the power on and in low grip conditions, a sudden loss of throttle from a misfire would shift the weight forward and off the back left causing it to step out, did it step out and spit the car in to the trees?

Disclaimer- I am paraphrasing the story or Derek Bell from a podcast I heard a few weeks ago, the views are not mine.. although it does sound plausible.

Re: The Grand Tour, Jim Clark

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 12:18 am
by rossybee

Re: The Grand Tour, Jim Clark

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 6:00 pm
by ed
Really enjoyed this, I had no idea how talented he was. Legend!!

Re: The Grand Tour, Jim Clark

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:19 pm
by ScottJ-PS
rossybee wrote:
Thu Feb 14, 2019 12:18 am
https://youtu.be/Pg-_htM1f5k

Brilliant :thumbsup
Amazon have cancelled that link, video no longer available due to copyright infringement .