In the village of Kilmanny in North-east Fife you will find a life size bronze statue of two time Formula One motor racing world champion Jim Clark.
Jim Clark OBE was born in 1936 at Kilmany Home Farm in the tiny village, the youngest child of five and the only boy. At the age of six, the family moved to Edlington Mains Farm, near Duns in the Scottish Borders.
Jim started entering rally and hill climb races as soon as he was old enough to drive and won races throughout the UK. In 1960 he joined the Lotus Formula One team and won his first three races during 1962. He won his first world championship in 1963 after winning seven of the ten races. He finished a close second in 1964 and also won the British Touring Car Championship. He won his second world championship in 1965 after winning six out of the ten races, despite missing the Monaco Grand Prix to race in the Indianapolis 500 which he won. He won a further six races in 1966-68.
He was killed during a Formula Two race in Germany at the Hockenheimring, when his Lotus left the track and crashed into the trees on April 7th 1968.
He was buried in the village of Chirnside near the family farm and is commemorated by a memorial stone at Hockenheim. In 1997 the Jim Clark Memorial Appeal erected a statue in his birthplace at Kilmany.
Kilmany is situated just off the A92 road in the north Fife countryside, and the statue is a few hundred yards south of the road along a tree-lined narrow minor road in the village on its western edge.
