Not shy of spending the night before a rally sitting at the bar, Clark was hardly rallying’s poster boy on how to prepare for events, but his method didn’t slow him down.
A four-time British Rally Champion and two-time winner of the RAC Rally, Clark’s sideways driving style made him a crowd favourite not just in his home country, but around the world.
His life was tragically cut short at the age of 58 after he suffered a stroke on January 12, 1998, but four years prior to that he was in Australia, driving an Austin Healey in the Tour ’t Adelaide tarmac rally.
He was a guest speaker at a special Historic Rally Association function in Melbourne, and RallySport Magazine’s self-confessed Roger Clark fan-boy, Jeff Whitten, had the pleasure of interviewing the great man.
The following article was printed in the January 1994 issue of Australian Rallysport News.
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