Every boy dreams of becoming a racer and winning the most prestigious racing competitions in the world. But only a few out of millions want to become a racer. Only the elite manage to leave their mark in history. One of these was the British race car driver Roger Clark.
Roger Albert Clark was born on August 5, 1939 in the UK. The British race car driver competed in international rallies in the sixties and seventies of the last century. He was the first Briton to win the World Rally Championship.
Biography
Roger Clarke made his club debut in 1956 and continued to win. Won his first UK rally title in the 1965 Rally at the Ford Cortina GT (a car built by Ford of Great Britain in various guises from one thousand sixty-two to one thousand eighty-two, and was the best-selling car of the United Kingdom of the seventies years). Roger Albert Clark repeated this achievement in one thousand and seventy-second, one thousand and seventy-third and one thousand and seventy-fifth years with a replacement driver Jim Porter Ford Escort RS (it was a small family car, which was produced by Ford with one thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight, up to two thousand and four).
Roger Clark also won the Acropolis Rally in 1968 (The Acropolis Greece Rally is a rally competition, part of the European Rally Championship schedule. The rally was held on the very dusty, rough and rocky, mountain roads around Athens during the Greek hot summer season. The rally is known because he was extremely cruel to competing cars and drivers.
In 1970, Roger Albert Clark won the annual Irish Scheme automobile rally. (First held in one thousand thirty-first year, making it the third oldest rally in the world). He also won the Scottish Rally (the highlight of the Scottish Rally Championship is June each year. Warm weather and unique forest stages attract competitors from all over the world. The first Scottish rally took place in one thousand nine hundred and thirty-second).
Clark's most outstanding performances were in the UK Rally. His most famous successes came at the RAC Rally, his country's largest rally race. Roger Albert Clark won twice, in 1972 with Tony Mason (a British shift driver at the rally, as well as a TV presenter, writer, and correspondent). This team also finished second, ultimately, twice in one thousand and seventy-fourth year and in one thousand and seventy-fifth year, the only British team to make a breakthrough in a period spanning thirty-five years.
In 1975, the British race car driver was one of the two recipients of the Segrave Trophy (the Segrave Trophy was awarded to a British compatriot who achieves the most outstanding demonstration of the possibilities of transport by land, sea, air or water). The trophy is named after Sir Henry Segrave.
In 1976, Roger Albert Clark, with co-driver Stuart Pegg, accomplished the WRC feat. (It was formed from well-known and popular international rallies, most of which were previously part of the European Rally Championship and / or the International Championship for Manufacturers). In the future, this feat will not be repeated by any race driver for more than fifteen years.
In 1979, Roger Clark was awarded the MBE. (The Greatest Order of the British Empire, often abbreviated unofficially to the "Order of the British Empire") is the youngest and most populous order of gallantry in the British and other Commonwealth award systems).
In total, the work of the famous British racing driver made a great contribution, there are forty national and international victories.
Car Racing Titles
- UK Rally Champion 1965
- Great Britain rally champion 1972.
- Great Britain rally champion 1973.
- Great Britain rally champion 1975.
Personal life
The family of Roger Clark is not far from motorsport. His brother Stan Clark was also a racer. Both of his sons followed their father in motorsport. Ollie Clark is now a race car driver, and Matt Clark is an engine designer. Ollie Clark was a competitor in the “Time Attack British Series” (winning the championship in 2008), and also took part in the “UK Network Q Rally” (Wales Rally the UK is the largest and highest profile rally in the United Kingdom) and the FIA Cup for Serial Car Drivers. " The second son, Matt Clark, is now the main engine manufacturer in the family-owned tuning company.
Died a British race car driver in Leicester, East Midland, England, UK, January 12, 1998, at the age of fifty-eight.
