Jim Clark was born on 4 March 1936 in Kilmany, Fife. When he was six the Clark family moved to Berwickshire when Jim's father took over Edington Mains Farm near the village of Chirnside.

In 1955, armed with a Sunbeam Talbot Mk 3 Saloon, Clark joined the Berwick and District Motor Club and began to compete in a few local rallies and driving test meetings.

He was soon involved in sports car racing encouraged by his fellow farmer Ian Scott-Watson with whom he formed the Border Motor Racing Club.

During 1956 and 1957 Clark raced his friend's DKW 3-6 Sonderklasse Saloon and Porsche 1600S as well as his own Sunbeam on the local airfields at Winfield and Charterhall, In 1958, thanks to Scoff-Watson's enthusiasm, the Border Reivers Motor Racing Team was re-formed using McBain's garage in Chirnside as a base. Their first purchase was a second-hand D-Type Jaguar.

In 1958 Clark raced the D Type Jaguar with considerable success and had his first foreign outing at the Spa Grand Prix, In 1959 he successfully drove the Reiver's Lotus Elite and a Lister Jaguar. Clark made his debut at Le Mans where he and codriver Sir John Whitmore finished second in their class.

In 1960, Jim Clark joined Colin Chapman's Team Lotus and showed great promise driving the Lotus 18 in his first Fl season. In 1961. although racing the uncompetitive Lotus 21, Clark again showed great potential. In 1962 he took over as number one driver for Lotus taking second place in the Fl World Championship.

In the next five years Clark won the world Championship twice and was third twice. In 1965 he became the first Briton to win the Indianapolis 500-mile race.

On April 7, 1968. one of the world's greatest drivers was killed in an unimportant F2 race at Hockenheim.

The Jim Clark Room. After Jim Clark's death his parents gifted the majority of the awards and trophies he had won in his racing career to Duns Town Council. After a public appeal a room was fitted out in Duns to display the collection. The Jim Clark Trophy Room was officially opened in 1969 and by 1992 it had welcomed over 200.000 visitors. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Clark's death in 1993 Berwickshire Distrct council decided to refurbish the Room' and provide a museum' devoted to the career of Jim Clark which would appeal to visitors of all ages and interests,

The refurbished room' was re-opened by Jackie Stewart on April 2 1993 as part of a Jim Clark Festival weekend. For the first time the room provides a comprehensive account of Clark's career in a fascinating display of trophies. awards, photographs, model cars and other memorabilia.

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