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The Story of Jim Clark’s Hero Masten Gregory: The Greatest American F1 Driver You’ve Never Heard Of

Masten who?

You may have never heard of the short-sighted, deep-voiced, short-sighted runner they called ‘the Kansas City Flash,’ but right off the bat I should mention hero-worshipped double world champion Jim Clark, Masten Gregory of Missouri long before yours. Stella’s career took off.

And F1 driver and 1959 Le Mans winner Carroll Shelby, father of the Shelby Cobra, believed that Gregory was better than his fellow Americans Dan Gurney or Phil Hill, and that he could one day beat Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss. …