Pages packed with stuff we’d love to find under the tree this year
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JIM CLARK BY EMMA CAPENER
Bad luck dogged reigning F1 champion Jim Clark at the beginning of the 1966 season. At Monaco and Spa he was forced to retire, and at Reims he was unable to start after being struck in the eye by a bird during practice. His first podium of the year didn’t come until the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort… and even there he was hard done by. Despite the fact that his 2-litre Lotus was underpowered compared with the 3-litre cars in the field, an inspired Clark took the lead on lap 24 and opened a good gap to Jack Brabham. ‘Even with 3 litres Brabham could do nothing about this sort of driving,’ wrote an awestruck Denis Jenkinson in Motor Sport. Maddeningly, Clark then suffered a coolant leak that necessitated two stops, and he had to nurse his Lotus and its cooked engine home. Third place was his reward for one of the performances of his life – a drive that inspired artist Emma Capener to produce this extraordinarily detailed pencil drawing of Clark at Zandvoort, working from a portrait taken by the great F1 snapper Rainer Schlegelmilch.
From £99 emmacapenerart.com
FARER PORTOBELLO CHRONOGRAPH
Inspired by the brightly painted buildings of London’s Portobello Road, this 38.5mm chronograph features an ‘Orangina’ colour ceramic bezel insert, and is powered by a hand-wound Sellita SW510M movement with a 63-hour power reserve.
£1650. farer.com
LOTUS 75TH ANNIVERSARY PEN BY ONOTO
Colin Chapman was uncommonly clever and determined but he could not possibly have imagined, as a cash-strapped student building the very first Lotus in 1948, that his marque would endure as it has done. Lotus turned 75 this year and to celebrate the occasion Onoto was engaged to produce this limited-edition pen, made with aluminium recovered from significant Lotus racing cars – in particular the pioneering Lotus 72.
£2295. onoto.com
COSWORTH DFV T-SHIRT
Cosworth has teamed up with Cult of Machine to produce a range of gear that includes this shirt, emblazoned with a detailed print of the legendary Double Four Valve – the V8 engine, introduced in 1967, that dominated in Formula 1 for over a decade.
£55. thecultofmachine.com
SPITFIRE P7350 CUFFLINKS
P7350 has had several brushes with death. It was damaged in the Battle of Britain and again later in World War Two; then, in 1947, it was sold for scrap before being rescued and restor
