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Racing against the mountain
Up until 2017, when Zurich hosted a Formula E round, motor racing in Switzerland was banned. Against that backdrop, Jim Clark’s run at the Ollons–Villars hillclimb remains an evocative snapshot of a different era: raw machinery, unforgiving gradients and a driver at one with the road.
A brief look back
The F1i archive revisits Clark’s effort on the Swiss mountain course – a reminder of the sport’s timeless appeal away from grand prix circuits, and of a champion whose finesse translated everywhere he drove.
