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THIS YEAR ABSOLUTELY BULGES with anniversaries, and one of the most spectacularly exciting Formula 1 races ever run took place on May 12, 1962. The 14th BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone was the most important preseason non-Championship race, and this edition saw a classic confrontation over 52 laps between Team Lotus’s Jim Clark, and BRM’s Graham Hill.

Jimmy was driving the spaceframe-chassised Lotus 24 with 1½-litre Coventry Climax V8 engine, while Graham was in the latest BRM P578 with its fuel-injected BRM V8 power unit. Jimmy had

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