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  Jim Clark - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
Jim Clark's 1967 Italian Grand Prix drive in Monza is regarded one of the greatest drives ever in F1.
Jim Clark also raced at Crimond in the North East of Scotland on 16th June 1956 in his very first car race he was behind the wheel of a DKW "sonderklasse".
Jim Clark is buried in the village of Chirnside in Berwickshire.
www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Jim_Clark   (1669 words)

  
 Jim Clark Rally Online
The Jim Clark Rally for 2007 will be moving from its traditional July date to May. Calendar changes are being made to the Tesco 99 British Rally Championship in order to spread its constituent events over the year.
The Jim Clark Rally, one of the most popular and certainly the largest such event in the UK, will be staged on the weekend of 25th to 27th May in 2007.
Jim Clark Rally Manager Colin Pagan said: “A reshaping of the British Rally championship, of which we are a round, has meant we had to rethink when we would stage the Jim Clark.
www.jimclarkrally.com   (228 words)

  
 Grand Prix Hall of Fame - Jimmy Clark - Biography
Clark was leading the race until the last lap when his engine seized and the title fell to Surtees and Ferrari.
Clark won at Zandvoort in the legendary engine's first start yet it was too late in the season and Clark had to settle for 3rd place in the World Championship.
Jim Clark was arguably the best driver the world has seen and certainly one of the most versatile.
www.ddavid.com /formula1/clark_bio.htm   (1148 words)

  
 Shutterfly | Chairman & Shutterfly Investor | Jim Clark
Clark’s personal interest in digital photography and Shutterfly’s unique business model attracted him to the company soon after it was founded.
Clark was also chairman and financial backer of Neoteris, a network security startup company founded in 2000, which was acquired by Net Screen in 2003 and subsequently by Juniper Networks.
Clark served as an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and then as an associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University.
www.shutterfly.com /about/bio_sub_clark.jsp   (247 words)

  
 Salon Brilliant Careers | Jim Clark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jim Clark hardly seemed destined to be the man who rewrote the rules of American business.
Later, Clark and his engineers had to sell even more of their equity, leaving them with an ever smaller piece of what it was obvious would become an extremely profitable pie.
Clark knew he was no manager; fixated on the big picture, it was obvious even to him that he lacked the ability to sweat the myriad details necessary to run a company.
www.salon.com /people/bc/1999/11/24/clark/print.html   (2422 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Jim Clark
Clark would drive exclusively in Formula One for the innovative Colin Chapman at Lotus, who more often than not produced the fastest cars.
Clark certainly benefited from the first pukka monocoque F1 car, the Lotus 25, in 1962, and again from the power of the Ford DFV V8 in the Lotus 49 in 1967.
Clark lost both the 1962 and 1964 World Championships in the final races through mechanical frailty, and had the 49 been more reliable in 1967 he would have triumphed then, too.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/drv-clajim.html   (537 words)

  
 F1A&G - Jim Clark
Clark's total of 25 career GP wins broke the record set by the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio, and in the more than 30 years since has
But the single fact which tells the most about him is that only once did Clark finish second; in other words, if he made it to the flag, he invariably made it before anyone else.
Whether Clark, a private and soft-spoken man, would have prospered in the modern era of F1 sponsorhip and downforce will never be known, but his absence ended a time of relative innocence in Formula One.
www.f1-grandprix.com /clark.html   (431 words)

  
 The Official Formula 1 Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
And when the sport took Jim Clark's life the racing world mourned the loss of one of its best-loved champions, the unassuming Scottish driving genius whose personal integrity and admirable human qualities endeared him to fans and rivals alike.
James Clark, junior, was born on March 4, 1936, and brought up with his four sisters on the family farm in Scotland's Berwickshire hills near the border with England.
Clark just managed to avoid the terribly mutilated body as it lay on the track but his Lotus was spattered with blood.
www.formula1.com /archive/halloffame/driver/125.html   (1108 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Handiwork: Livres en anglais: Jim Clark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jim Clark's second collection of poems finds him in a more narrative and meditative mode, although the lyricism of his first collection, Dancing on Canaan's Ruins, is still much in evidence.
Jim Clark can move from lyrical wistfulness to comedy to narrative brilliance in a breath.
In poems such a "The Land Under the Lake" Jim Clark touches the buried depths of memory and family connections, and the heights of formal brilliance, poetic authority.
www.amazon.fr /Handiwork-Jim-Clark/dp/1879934590   (327 words)

  
 Jim Clark Photography
Jim is the author and photographer of two books: West Virginia: The Allegheny Highlands (Westcliffe Publishers) and Mountain Memories: An Appalachian Sense of Place (WVU Press).
Jim continues to be active in NANPA activities including the annual summit, regional events, and the instructional road show programs.
Jim serves on the advisory board for Nature’s Best Magazine and he is a member of Fuji Film’s Talent Team Program.
www.jimclarkphotography.com /bio.htm   (315 words)

  
 Jim Clark
Jim Clark was born in Kilmany, (in the county of Fife), to a Scottish farming family.
Clark enjoyed immediate success In Formula 2, and Jim signed on with with Lotus for Formula 1 as well, when the Aston Martin drive failed to materialize.
Clark was leading the race until the last lap when his engine seized and the title went to Surtees and Ferrari.
silverstone.fortunecity.com /cosworth/633/jimclark.htm   (1099 words)

  
 Columbus Blue Jackets: Hockey Department   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jim Clark was named assistant general manager of the Columbus Blue Jackets on July 13, 1998 and has served as the club’s executive vice-president and assistant general manager since July 6, 2001.
Clark came to Columbus from the Florida Panthers, where he was a key member of the club’s scouting staff from 1995 to 1998.
Clark accumulated 10 years of Junior A hockey experience before joining the professional ranks, serving in various capacities for the Western Capitals in his hometown of Summerside, Prince Edward Island.
www.bluejackets.com /team/office/bio.php?id=3   (502 words)

  
 Jim Clark - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jim Clark was born and raised in the steel mill town of Braddock Pennsylvania located about 6 miles east of Pittsburgh.
Jim has also served as a representative in Oregon, Washington and Idaho for a manufacturer of grain and protein analyzers.
Jim was elected to the Idaho House of Representatives in 1996.
www.clarkforidaho.com /bio.shtm   (215 words)

  
 Netscape's Clark: Keep Internet Explorer with Windows | CNET News.com
But Clark is worried that the proposed breakup of the software giant doesn't adequately guard against Microsoft regaining overwhelming power over the Internet.
Clark's argument strikes an ironic note, given his former company's role in the legal fight over whether Microsoft could make the Web browser a part of its Windows operating system.
Clark's advice has little chance of making it into policy, however, even if senators like what they hear.
news.com.com /2100-1001-241708.html   (587 words)

  
 Jim Clark - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Member
James Clark Jr., the apple-cheeked Scotsman born March 4, 1936 to a sheepherder in Kilmany, Scotland, is considered one of the greatest drivers ever.
Clark turned the tables in 1963, however, putting together a string of four straight Grands Prix wins en route to the championship.
Clark came to Indy in a sleek, rear-engined Chapman Lotus.
www.motorsportshalloffame.com /halloffame/1990/Jim_Clark_main.htm   (449 words)

  
 Jim Clark - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Clark se diferenciaba de los pilotos actuales de Fórmula 1 en su habilidad para conducir y ganar en cualquier tipo de vehículo.
Clark fue el mejor en una época en donde la habilidad nata y genialidad para conducir del piloto bajo cualesquiera circunstancias eran mucho más importante que la tecnología y las asistencias externas.
Clark está enterrado en el pueblo de Chirnside en Berwickshire.
es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Clark   (1150 words)

  
 James H. Clark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clark was born in Plainview, Texas and endured a difficult childhood.
Clark began taking night courses at Tulane University's University College, where despite his lack of a high school diploma, he was able to earn enough credits to be admitted to the University of New Orleans.
Clark served as an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 1974 to 1978, and then as an associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University from 1979 to 1982.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_H._Clark   (749 words)

  
 Jim Clark: consummate entrepreneur - Jan. 31, 2000
NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Jim Clark may not be a household name, but he is arguably the most innovative and restless entrepreneur of the modern age.
Clark maintains the company -- now merged with erstwhile competitor WebMD -- is going to revolutionize the health care industry.
    Clark admits he has nothing to lose with these ventures except his stellar reputation as the one guy who is always one step ahead of the rest in picking out the next big thing.
www.cnnfn.com /2000/01/31/electronic/clark   (1641 words)

  
 Jim Clark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jim (or Jimmy) Clark OBE (born 4 March 1936 – died 7 April 1968) was a Scottish Formula One (F1) racing driver.
That year he also competed in the Indianapolis 500 for the first time, and only the oil on the track from winner Parnelli Jones' car prevented him from winning, as he finished in second position and won Rookie of the Year honours.
Clark's 1964 thru 1966 Indy starts represent the best 3-year starting streak of the 1960's.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Clark_(racing_driver)   (1707 words)

  
 Welcome to my Jim Clark web site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
But a few minutes, during the 1968 Tasman Cup races in New Zealand, when I had Jim Clark all to myself, is one of my most vivid boyhood memories.
Jim Clark succeeded in the World Driver's Championship, the Indianapolis 500 and Indy car racing, the British and European Touring Car Championships, the Tasman Cup, the British and European Formula Two Championships, won races in the Lotus 23B and the difficult Lotus 30 sports cars, and proved adept at rallying and even NASCAR racing.
Two images are scans of my Team Lotus-supplied official photographs of Jim Clark (1968) and Jim Clark at the wheel of the Lotus 49 (1967).
www2.eis.net.au /~bramwell/welcome.htm   (573 words)

  
 Jim Clark
Clark says his success is really founded on a deep understanding of technology.
But Clark says his business successes must also be attributed to the team-building skills he honed while teaching at Stanford from 1979 through 1985.
According to Clark, administrative costs now account for a fifth of the trillion dollars spent on health care annually.
soe.stanford.edu /AR95-96/jim.html   (772 words)

  
 Wired 2.10: Why Jim Clark Loves Mosaic
But Clark was clearly unhappy with how he'd been treated at his own company, and during the course of a lengthy interview, he let his hair down, revealing that he almost resigned when SGI executives, including company president Ed McCracken, were resistant to his ideas for bringing the company into the future.
What he didn't say then was that while it appeared that SGI was adapting to Clark's view of the future, a future in which SGI technology would fuel interactive-TV networks and Nintendo videogames, he was viewed less like a visionary than as an eccentric uncle - tolerated, but not taken very seriously.
In April, Clark announced that he had formed Mosaic Communications Corporation - which would be producing a commercial version of Mosaic with new and improved features - with Mosaic author Marc Andreessen.
wired.com /wired/archive/2.10/jim.clark.html?person=jim_clark&...   (849 words)

  
 CD Baby: JIM CLARK: Buried Land
Born in Byrdstown, Tennessee, midway between Music City and the Smoky Mountains, Jim Clark grew up on a farm on the Cumberland Plateau surrounded by music - from the unadorned a capella harmonies of the Church of Christ, to the old-time country of his father's guitar and mandolin playing.
Combining his talents as a singer and musician with his abilities as a writer and an interpreter of his own work, Clark has crafted a unique multi-disciplinary performance of poetry and stories rooted in the Appalachian foothills of his birth and complementary old-time mountain music played on the guitar, banjo, mountain dulcimer, and autoharp.
Clark is currently an associate professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Barton College, in Wilson, North Carolina.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/jimclark   (245 words)

  
 Why Jim Clark Likes Microsoft   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Clark startled the crowd at the second annual four-day Internet Summit by predicting that Microsoft would surpass America Online as the dominant Internet network and volunteered that he holds 1 million shares of the Redmond, Wash.-based company.
Although his old firm ultimately was acquired by AOL, Clark says Microsoft "has the advantage" in the coming years because Microsoft Explorer has won the browser war.
Although Clark is the one who brought Microsoft's anticompetitive business tactics to the attention of law enforcement officials, he didn't voice any strong ethical convictions about the company's fate Tuesday morning.
www.thestandard.com /article/0,1902,16927,00.html   (624 words)

  
 Tasman-Series.com : The 2.5L Tasman Series 1964-69
This article by the legendary Colin Chapman was written soon after Jimmys tragic death at Hockenheim in 1968 and published in the compilation Jim Clark : Tribute to a Great Driver by Graham Gauld.
And of course, in many ways, this is an ideal driver for an engineer to work with - unfortunately, you do find that some drivers who have some little engineering knowledge will form their own conclusions about what is happening, and, possibly subconsciously, make the facts fit their conclusions.
"I think the thing about Jimmy Clark as a driver was that he was relaxed, he was always in command of the situation and he very very rarely drove beyond nine tenths of his capacity.
www.tasman-series.com /people/internationals/jclark/jclark.asp   (2562 words)

  
 The New New Thing (Main Page)
He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third, separate, billion-dollar company: first Silicon Graphics, then Netscape-which launched the Information Age-and now Healtheon, a startup that may turn the $1 trillion healthcare industry on its head.
Despite the variety of his achievements, Clark thinks of himself mainly as the creator of Hyperion, which happens to be a sailboat.
Clark claims he will be able to sail it via computer from his desk in San Francisco, and the new code may contain the seeds of his next billion-dollar coup.
www.wwnorton.com /catalog/fall99/newnewthing.htm   (430 words)

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