Jackie Stewart

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SirJackie StewartOBE

Stewart at the2014 6 Hours of Silverstone
Born	John Young Stewart (1939-06-11)11 June 1939 Milton,Dunbartonshire,Scotland
Formula OneWorld Championship career
Nationality	British
Active years	1965–1973
Teams	BRM,Matra,March,Tyrrell
Entries	100 (99 starts)
Championships	3 (1969,1971,1973)
Wins	27
Podiums	43
Career points	359 (360)
Pole positions	17
Fastest laps	15
First entry	1965 South African Grand Prix
First win	1965 Italian Grand Prix
Last win	1973 German Grand Prix
Last entry	1973 United States Grand Prix

Sir John Young StewartOBE(born 11 June 1939) is aBritish former Formula One racing driverfromScotland.Nicknamed the "Flying Scot", he competed inFormula Onebetween 1965 and 1973, winning threeWorld Drivers' Championshipsand twice finishing as runner-up over those nine seasons. He was the only British driver to win three championships untilLewis Hamiltonin 2015.

Outside of Formula One, he narrowly missed out on a win at his first attempt at theIndianapolis 500in 1966 and competed in theCan-Amseries in 1970 and 1971. Between 1997 and 1999, in partnership with his son,Paul,he was team principal of theStewart Grand PrixF1 racing team. After retiring from racing, Stewart was anABC networktelevision sports commentator for both auto racing, covering the Indianapolis 500 for over a decade, and for several summer Olympics covering many events, being a distinctive presence with his pronounced Scottish accent. Stewart also served as a television commercial spokesman for both theFord Motor CompanyandHeinekenbeer.

Stewart was instrumental in improving the safety of motor racing, campaigning for better medical facilities and track improvements at motor racing circuits. AfterJohn Surtees' death in 2017, he is the last surviving Formula One World Champion from the 1960s. He is also the oldest living F1 winner.

Early life

Stewart was born inMilton,Dunbartonshire,Scotland,a village fifteen miles west ofGlasgow.Stewart's family wereAustin,and laterJaguar,car dealers and had built up a successful business. His father had been an amateurmotorcycle racer,and his brotherJimmywas a racing driver with a local reputation who drove forEcurie Ecosseand competed in the1953 British Grand PrixatSilverstone.

Stewart attended Hartfield primary school in the nearby town ofDumbarton,and moved toDumbarton Academyat the age of 12. He experienced learning difficulties owing to undiagnoseddyslexia,and due to the condition not being understood or even widely known at the time, he was regularly berated and humiliated by teachers and peers alike for being "dumb" and "thick".Stewart was unable to continue his secondary education past the age of 16, and began working in his father's garage as an apprentice mechanic. He was not actually diagnosed with dyslexia until 1980, when his oldest son Mark was diagnosed with the condition. On learning that dyslexia can be genetically passed on, and seeing very similar symptoms with his son that he had experienced himself as a child, Stewart asked if he could be tested, and was diagnosed with the disorder, by which time he was 41 years old.He has said: "When you've got dyslexia and you find something you're good at, you put more into it than anyone else; you can't think the way of the clever folk, so you're always thinking out of the box."

At the age of 13, Stewart won a clay pigeon shooting competition and then went on to become a prize-winning member of the Scottish shooting team, competing in the United Kingdom and abroad. He won the British, Irish, Welsh and Scottishskeet shootingchampionships and twice won the "Coupe de Nations" European championship. He competed for a place in the Britishtrap shootingteam for the1960 Summer Olympics,but finished third behind Joseph Wheater and Brett Huthart.

Stewart's first car was a light greenAustin A30with "real leather [covered] seats" which he purchased shortly before his seventeenth birthday for £375, a detail he was able to recall for an interviewer sixty years later. He had saved up the purchase price from tips received from his job at the family garage.He took up an offer from Barry Filer, a customer of the family business, to test in a number of his cars atOulton Park.For 1961, Filer provided aMarcos,in which Stewart scored four wins, and competed once in Filer'sAstonDB4GT.In 1962, to help decide if he was ready to become a professional driver, he tested aJaguar E-typeat Oulton Park, matchingRoy Salvadori's times in a similar car the year before.He won two races, his first in England, in the E-type, andDavid MurrayofEcurie Ecosseoffered him a ride in theTojeiroEE Mk2, and theirCooper T49,in which he won atGoodwood.For 1963, he earned fourteen wins, a second, and two-thirds, with six retirements.

In 1964, Stewart again signed with Ecurie Ecosse.Ken Tyrrell,then running theFormula Juniorteam for theCooper Car Company,heard of the young Scotsman from Goodwood's track manager and called upJimmy Stewartto see if his younger brother was interested in a tryout.Stewart came down for the test at Goodwood, taking over a new, and very competitive,Formula ThreeT72-BMC whichBruce McLarenwas testing.Soon, Stewart was bettering McLaren's times, causing McLaren to return to the track for some quicker laps. Again, Stewart was quicker, and Tyrrell offered Stewart a spot on the team.

Racing career

Stewart at the1969 Dutch Grand Prix.

Stewart in1969with theMatra MS80at theNürburgring.

Stewart in theTyrrellenteredMarch 701at the1970 Dutch Grand Prix.

Tyrrell 003,the car that took Stewart to the 1971 World Championship

Stewart (right) in conversation withMike Kranefussin1973

In1964,Stewart drove inFormula Three(F3) for Tyrrell. His debut, in the wet atSnettertonon 15 March, was dominant; he took a 25-second lead in just two laps before coasting home to a win by 44 seconds.Within days, he was offered aF1ride with Cooper but declined, preferring to gain experience under Tyrrell; he failed to win just two races (one to clutch failure, one to a spin) in becoming F3 champion.After runningJohn Coombs' E-type and practising in aFerrariatLe Mans,Stewart took a trial in an F1Lotus33-Climax,in which he impressedColin ChapmanandJim Clark.Stewart again refused a ride in F1 but went instead to the LotusFormula Two(F2) team. In his F2 debut, he was second at the difficultCircuit Clermont-Ferrandin aLotus 32-Cosworth.

While Stewart signed withBRMalongsideGraham Hillin1965,a contract which netted him £4,000, his first race in an F1 car was for Lotus, as stand-in for an injured Jim Clark, at the non-championshipRand Grand Prixin December 1964; after qualifying in pole position the Lotus broke in the first heat, but he won the second and claimed fastest lap.On his World Championship F1 debut inSouth Africa,he finished sixth. His first major competition victory came in theBRDC International Trophyin the late spring, and before the end of the year he won his first World Championship race atMonza,fighting wheel-to-wheel with teammate Hill's P261.Stewart finished his rookie season with a win, three seconds, a third, a fifth, and a sixth, and third place in the World Drivers' Championship. He also piloted Tyrrell's unsuccessful F2 Cooper T75-BRM, and drove theRover Company's revolutionary turbine car at the24 Hours of Le MansalongsideGraham Hill.

At the start of the1966season, Stewart won theTasman Seriesfrom his BRM teammate Graham Hill in two-litre BRMs and also raced closely with his great rival and friend Jim Clark who was somewhat disadvantaged by an unreliableLotus 39which was let down by its old 2.5-litre Climax engine. In F1, after his promising start the previous year, 1966 was a poor year for Stewart; the 3-litre H16 BRMs were unreliable, although Stewart did win theMonaco Grand Prixin a 2-litre engined car. The most significant event in that year was his accident at theBelgian Grand PrixatSpa-Francorchamps,which sparked his campaign to improve safety in F1 and caused him to miss theFrench Grand PrixatReims.

Stewart had some success in other forms of racing during the year, winning the1966 Rothmans 12 Hour International Sports Car Raceand almost winning theIndianapolis 500on his first attempt, inJohn Mecom'sLola T90-Ford,only to be denied by a brokenscavenge pumpwhile leading by over a lap with eight laps to go. However, Stewart's performance, having had the race fully in hand, sidelined only by mechanical failure, won himRookie of the Yearhonours despite the winner,Graham Hill,also being an Indianapolis rookie.Stewart appeared at 24 Hours of Le Mans test day on 3 April 1966 driving a Ford GT40 Mk II version ofHolman & Moodyand the Ford GT40 owned byAlan Mann Racing.

BRM's fortunes did not improve in1967despite closely contesting theTasman Serieswith Jim Clark, who probably raced closer and harder with him than at any time in their careers. While Clark usually won, Stewart won a victory in theNew Zealand Grand Prixwith Clark attempting to run him down in the last laps with bodywork flying off his Lotus. In F1, the BRMs were still struggling with reliability problems and Stewart came no higher than second, at Spa, while having to drive one-handed while holding the car in gear with the other. In F2 he won events atKarlskoga,Enna,Oulton Park, andAlbiin a Tyrrell-enteredMatra MS5orMS7.He also placed 2nd driving a works-enteredFerraridriving withChris Amonat the BOAC 6 Hours atBrands Hatch,the 10th round ofWorld Sportscar Championshipat the time. Stewart also attempted to run the1967 National 500NASCARrace but did not qualify for the race.

For1968,Stewart switched to Tyrrell'sMatra Internationalteam, where he drove aMatra MS10-Cosworth.After a promising start in South Africa with theMatra MS9development mulehe missedJaramaandMonacodue to an F2 injury at Jaramaand his first win of the season was in heavy rain atZandvoort.Another win in rain and fog at theNürburgringfollowed, where he won by a margin of four minutes. He also won atWatkins Glenbut his car failed atMexico City,and so he lost the drivers' title to Hill.

In1969,driving theMatra MS80-Cosworth,Stewart had a number of races where he completely dominated the opposition, such as winning by over two laps atMontjuïc,a minute in front atClemont-Ferrandand by more than a lap atSilverstone.With additional wins atKyalami,Zandvoort,andMonza,Stewart becameworld champion.Until2005he was the only driver to have won the championship in a car built by a French constructor and remains the only driver to win the world championship in a car built in Franceas well as in a car entered by aprivateer team.Also that year, Stewart led at least one lap of every World Championship Grand Prix, and remains the only driver to achieve this feat.

For1970,Matra insisted on using their ownV12 engines,while Tyrrell and Stewart wanted to continue with the Cosworth and maintain their connection toFord,which conflicted with Matra's recent connections toChrysler.Tyrrell decided to build his own car and in the interim bought a chassis fromMarch Engineering;Stewart took theMarch 701-Cosworthto wins at theDaily MailRace of Champions and Jarama, but development on the car stalled and it was soon overcome by the Lotus team's new72.The newTyrrell 001-Cosworth,appeared in Augustand suffered problems but showed promise. Tyrrell continued to be sponsored by French fuel companyElf,and Stewart raced in a car paintedFrench Racing Bluefor many years. Stewart also continued to race sporadically in F2, winning atCrystal Palaceand placing atThruxton.A projected Le Mans appearance, to co-drive the 4.5 litrePorsche917KwithSteve McQueen,did not come off, due to McQueen's inability to get insurance.He also had a one-off race in Can-Am, in therevolutionaryChaparral 2J.Stewart qualified third, in what was the car's first outing, but brake failure ended his race.

Stewart went on to win the F1 World Championship in1971using theTyrrell 003-Cosworth, winningSpain,Monaco,France,Britain,Germany,andCanada.He also did a full season in Can-Am, driving aCarl HaassponsoredLola T260-Chevrolet.During the 1971 season, Stewart was the only driver able to challenge the McLarens driven byDenny HulmeandPeter Revson.Stewart won two races, at Mont Tremblant and Mid Ohio, and finished 3rd in the championship. The stress of racing year round and on several continents eventually caused medical problems for Stewart. He won the 1971 world championship despite havingmononucleosisand crossing theAtlantic Ocean186 times due to media commitments in the United States.During the1972season, he missed theBelgian Grand PrixatNivellesdue togastritis,and had to cancel plans to drive a Can-Am McLaren; he won the Argentine, French, U.S., and Canadian Grands Prix to come second toEmerson Fittipaldiin the drivers' standings. Stewart also competed in aFord Capri RS2600in theEuropean Touring Car Championship,with F1 teammateFrançois Cevertand other F1 pilots, at a time where the competition between Ford andBMWwas at a height. Their best result was at the 6 Hours of Paul Ricard, finishing second. In 1972 Stewart also received theOBE.

Entering the1973season, Stewart had decided to retire. In 2023, Stewart revealed on theBeyond the Gridpodcast: "It was at Indianapolis and I was getting depressed by the pace of my life, the limit of being at home, I had two little boys and of course Helen. I had been doing enormous travel, in the days we speak of and my day as a racing driver, we don't make the money that is made today and to make proper money you had to do a lot of races. It wasn't just the question of Formula 1, nobody did Formula 1 so I was doing Can-Am, was doing Indianapolis, Touring Cars, GT Cars, everything you can think of on a global basis and most of my friends was dying as it went along. In fact Helen my wife counted 57 friends that had died that holidayed with, travelled with and of course raced with. I think it all got on top of me and I had mononucleosis one year (1971) and had gastritis that burst and thought why am I doing this to this extent. I had made good money." He nevertheless won at South Africa, Belgium, Monaco, and the Netherlands. His last and then record-setting 27th victory came at theNürburgringwith a 1–2 for Tyrrell. He recalled: "Nothing gave me more satisfaction than to win at the Nürburgring and yet I was always afraid. When I left home for the German Grand Prix I always used to pause at the end of the driveway and take a long look back. I was never sure I'd come home again." After the fatal crash of his teammateFrançois Cevertin practice for the1973 United States Grand PrixatWatkins Glen,Stewart retired one race earlier than intended and missed what would have been his 100th Grand Prix. Stewart had already won the Drivers' Championship at theItalian Grand Prixtwo races previously; this was a race where Stewart had to come into the pits to change a flat tyre, and drove from 20th to finish 4th.

Stewart held the record for most wins by a F1 driver (27) for 14 years untilAlain Prostwon the1987 Portuguese Grand Prix,and the record for most wins by a British F1 driver for 19 years untilNigel Mansellwon the1992 British Grand Prix.In his commentary work for race broadcasterChannel 9during qualifying for the1988 Australian Grand Prix,Stewart said that he had been asked numerous times if he was unhappy about losing his record to Prost, going on to say that he was happy that his record had been taken by someone of the calibre of Prost, as he believed him to be the best driver in F1.Until2015,Stewart was the only British driver to win three championships; this record was broken by future seven-time World ChampionLewis Hamilton.WhenJohn Surteesdied in March 2017, Stewart became the last surviving F1 World Champion from the 1960s.He also became the oldest living F1 winner upon the death in 2022 of six-time race winnerTony Brooks,who raced during the 1950s.

Racing safety advocate

AtSpa-Francorchampsin1966,Stewart ran off the track while driving at 165 mph (266 km/h) in heavy rain, and crashed into a telephone pole and a shed before coming to rest in a farmer's outbuilding. His steering column pinned his leg, while ruptured fuel tanks emptied their contents into the cockpit. There were no track crews to extricate him, nor were proper tools available. Stewart was rescued by fellow driversGraham HillandBob Bondurant,who had also crashed nearby. There were no doctors or medical facilities at the track, and Stewart was put in the bed of a pickup truck, remaining there until an ambulance arrived. He was first taken to the track's first aid centre, where he waited on a stretcher, which was placed on a floor strewn with cigarette ends and other rubbish. Finally, another ambulance crew picked him up, but the ambulance driver got lost driving to a hospital inLiège.Ultimately, a private jet flew Stewart back to the UK for treatment. After his crash at Spa, Stewart became an outspoken advocate for auto racing safety. Later, he explained: "If I have any legacy to leave the sport I hope it will be seen to be an area of safety because when I arrived in Grand Prix racing so-called precautions and safety measures were diabolical."

Stewart campaigned withLouis Stanley(BRM team Boss ) for improved emergency services and better safety barriers around race tracks. He said: "We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous."As a stop-gap measure, Stewart hired a private doctor to be at all his races, and taped aspannerto the steering shaft of his BRM in case it would be needed again. Stewart pressed for mandatory seat belt usage and full-face helmets for drivers, which have become unthinkable omissions for modern races. Likewise, he pressed track owners to modernize their tracks, including organizing driver boycotts of races at Spa-Francorchamps in 1969, the Nürburgring in 1970 being joined by his close friendJochen Rindt,and Zandvoort in 1972 until barriers, run-off areas, fire crews, and medical facilities were improved. Some drivers and press members believed the safety improvements for which Stewart advocated detracted from the sport, while track owners and race organizers baulked at the extra costs. Stewart later said: "I would have been a much more popular World Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular."

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/laps	Podiums	Points	Position
1964	British Formula Three	Tyrrell Racing Organisation	8	7	4	7	7	54	1st
	French Formula Three		?	?	?	?	?	0	NC
	Trophées de France	Team Lotus	3	0	0	0	2	12	5th
	British Formula Two		2	1	0	0	2	0	NC
	British Saloon Car Championship – Class B	Red Rose Motors	2	0	0	0	0	4	6th
1965	Formula One	Owen Racing Organisation	10	1	0	0	5	33	3rd
	British Formula Two	Tyrrell Racing Organisation	4	0	0	1	1	6	8th
	Trophées de France		3	0	1	0	0	4	9th
	24 Hours of Le Mans	Owen Racing Organisation	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	10th
1966	Formula One	Owen Racing Organisation	8	1	0	0	1	14	7th
	Tasman Series		8	4	3	5	5	45	1st
	Trophées de France	Tyrrell Racing Organisation	4	0	0	0	0	8	5th
	Can-Am	Mecom Racing Enterprises	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	USAC Championship Car		1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	British Formula Two	Tyrrell Racing Organisation	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
1967	Formula One	Owen Racing Organisation	11	0	0	0	2	10	9th
	Tasman Series		6	2	3	1	2	18	2nd
	European Formula Two	Tyrrell Racing Organisation	5	1	1	1	3	0	NC‡
	USAC Championship Car	Mecom Racing Enterprises	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
1968	Formula One	Matra International	10	3	0	2	4	36	2nd
1969	Formula One	Matra International	11	6	2	5	7	63	1st
	European Formula Two		4	2	0	2	4	0	NC‡
1970	Formula One	Tyrrell Racing Organisation	13	1	4	0	4	25	5th
	British Saloon Car Championship – Class C	Team Broadspeed	1	0	1	1	0	0	NC
	Can-Am	Chaparral Cars Inc.	1	0	0	1	0	0	NC
1971	Formula One	ElfTeam Tyrrell	11	6	6	3	7	62	1st
	Can-Am	Carl Haas Racing	10	2	2	1	4	76	3rd
1972	Formula One	ElfTeam Tyrrell	11	4	2	4	5	45	2nd
1973	Formula One	ElfTeam Tyrrell	14	5	3	1	8	71	1st
	European Touring Car Championship – Div. II	FordKöln	3	0	1	0	0	0	NC

^‡Graded drivers not eligible for European Formula Two Championship points

Complete British Formula Three results

(key) (Races inboldindicate pole position) (Races initalicsindicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Pts
1964	Tyrrell Racing Organisation	CooperT72	BMC	MAL	SNE 1	GOO 1	OUL 1	AIN 1	SIL 1	MAL 1	BRH 6	OUL 1	MAL	1st	54 (55)
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Complete British Saloon Car Championship results

(key) (Races inboldindicate pole position; races initalicsindicate fastest lap.)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Pts	Class
1964	Red Rose Motors	Ford Cortina Lotus	B	SNE	GOO	OUL ?	AIN 6	SIL	CRY	BRH	OUL					21st	4	6th
1970	Team Broadspeed	Ford Escort TC	C	BRH	SNE	THR	SIL	CRY	SIL	SIL 26	CRO	BRH	OUL	BRH	BRH	NC	0	NC
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Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key) (Races inboldindicate pole position, races initalicsindicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	WDC	Pts
1965	Owen Racing Organisation	BRMP261	BRMP56 1.5V8	RSA 6	MON 3	BEL 2	FRA 2	GBR 5	NED 2	GER Ret	ITA 1	USA Ret	MEX Ret						3rd	33 (34)
1966	Owen Racing Organisation	BRMP261	BRMP60 2.0V8	MON 1	BEL Ret	FRA	GBR Ret	NED 4	GER 5										7th	14
		BRMP83	BRMP75 3.0H16							ITA Ret	USA Ret	MEX Ret
1967	Owen Racing Organisation	BRMP83	BRMP75 3.0H16	RSA Ret		NED Ret	BEL 2		GBR Ret										9th	10
		BRMP261	BRMP60 2.1V8		MON Ret			FRA 3
		BRMP115	BRMP75 3.0H16							GER Ret	CAN Ret	ITA Ret	USA Ret	MEX Ret
1968	Matra International	MatraMS9	Ford Cosworth DFV3.0V8	RSA Ret	ESP	MON													2nd	36
		MatraMS10					BEL 4	NED 1	FRA 3	GBR 6	GER 1	ITA Ret	CAN 6	USA 1	MEX 7
1969	Matra International	MatraMS10	Ford Cosworth DFV3.0V8	RSA 1															1st	63
		MatraMS80			ESP 1	MON Ret	NED 1	FRA 1	GBR 1	GER 2	ITA 1	CAN Ret	USA Ret	MEX 4
1970	Tyrrell Racing Organisation	March701	Ford Cosworth DFV3.0V8	RSA 3	ESP 1	MON Ret	BEL Ret	NED 2	FRA 9	GBR Ret	GER Ret	AUT Ret	ITA 2						5th	25
		Tyrrell001												CAN Ret	USA Ret	MEX Ret
1971	ElfTeam Tyrrell	Tyrrell001	Ford Cosworth DFV3.0V8	RSA 2															1st	62
		Tyrrell003			ESP 1	MON 1	NED 11	FRA 1	GBR 1	GER 1	AUT Ret	ITA Ret	CAN 1	USA 5
1972	ElfTeam Tyrrell	Tyrrell003	Ford Cosworth DFV3.0V8	ARG 1	RSA Ret	ESP Ret			FRA 1	GBR 2	GER 11								2nd	45
		Tyrrell004					MON 4	BEL
		Tyrrell005										AUT 7	ITA Ret	CAN 1	USA 1
1973	ElfTeam Tyrrell	Tyrrell005	Ford Cosworth DFV3.0V8	ARG 3	BRA 2														1st	71
		Tyrrell006				RSA 1	ESP Ret	BEL 1	MON 1	SWE 5	FRA 4	GBR 10	NED 1	GER 1	AUT 2	ITA 4	CAN 5	USA DNS
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Non-championship Formula One results

Stewart on his way to third place in theWorld Championship Victory RaceatBrands Hatchin 1971

(key) (Races inboldindicate pole position, races initalicsindicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1964	Team Lotus	Lotus33	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	DMT	NWT	SYR	AIN	INT	SOL	MED	RAN 17
1965	Owen Racing Organisation	BRMP261	BRMP56 1.5V8	ROC 2	SYR	SMT 10	INT 1	MED	RAN
1966	Owen Racing Organisation	BRMP83	BRMP75 3.0H16	RSA	SYR	INT	OUL Ret
1967	Owen Racing Organisation	BRMP83	BRMP75 3.0H16	ROC	SPC Ret	INT Ret	SYR
	Tyrrell Racing Organisation	MatraMS7	Ford Cosworth FVA1.6L4					OUL 2	ESP Ret
1968	Matra International	MatraMS10	Ford Cosworth DFV3.0V8	ROC 6	INT	OUL 1
1969	Matra International	MatraMS80	Ford Cosworth DFV3.0V8	ROC 1			OUL 9
		MatraMS10			INT 3	MAD
1970	Tyrrell Racing Organisation	March701	Ford Cosworth DFV3.0V8	ROC 1	INT 2
		Tyrrell001				OUL Ret
1971	ElfTeam Tyrrell	Tyrrell001	Ford Cosworth DFV3.0V8	ARG	ROC 2	QUE 2	SPR 3
		Tyrrell003						INT Ret	RIN	OUL	VIC 3
1973	ElfTeam Tyrrell	Tyrrell006	Ford Cosworth DFV3.0V8	ROC	INT 1
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Complete Tasman Series results

(key) (Races inboldindicate pole position; results initalicsindicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pos.	Pts
1966	Owen Racing Organisation	BRM P261	BRMP60 1.9V8	PUK 2	LEV Ret	WIG 1	TER 1	WAR 4	LAK Ret	SAN 1	LON 1	1st	45
1967	Owen Racing Organisation	BRM P261	BRMP111 2.1V8	PUK 1	WIG Ret	LAK Ret	WAR 1	SAN Ret	LON Ret			2nd	18
Source:

Non-championship Tasman Series results

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2
1967	Owen Racing Organisation	BRM P261	BRMP111 2.1V8	LEV 2	TER

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
1965	Owen Racing Organisation	Graham Hill	Rover-BRM	P 2.0	284	10th	2nd
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Indianapolis 500 results

Year	Car	Start	Qual	Rank	Finish	Laps	Led	Retired
1966	43	11	159.972	14	6	190	40	Oil Pressure
1967	24	29	164.099	13	18	168	0	Engine
Totals						358	40

Consultant

While continuing to be a spokesman for safer cars and circuits in Formula One, Stewart began a partnership with theFord Motor Companyin 1964 that lasted 25 years. Signing on to promote Ford products in Britain, as a consultant he trained Ford's engineers how to recognize through first hand experience, various improvement opportunities in the development of new automobiles.

Commentator

ABC's Wide World of SportsandNBC Sportsworld

Stewart during his ABC tenure, 1978

During the period 1971 to 1986, Stewart coveredF1races,NASCARraces andIndy carraces (including theIndianapolis 500) as acolor commentator,and also functioned ashostfor the latter. He was aplay-by-play announcerfor theLuge at the 1976 Winter Olympicsand theEquestrian at the 1976 Summer Olympics(partnered withChris Schenkel) onABC's Wide World of Sports.He was noted for his insightful analysis, Scottish accent, and rapid delivery, which once caused ABC's lead sports commentatorJim McKayto remark that Stewart spoke almost as fast as he drove. In his bookWinning Is Not Enough,Stewart revealed that he used notes to read from to do a TV broadcast as he could not read from an autocue due to his dyslexia. In 2023, Stewart revealed on the Beyond the Grid Podcast "I was doing ABC's Wide World of Sports because I was reasonably good at it, I got to know how to do it by a man called Jim McKay who is the best commentator of sport in the world weather it was the Olympics or all sorts of different sports. I would go to Atlanta, Georgia to do a Stock Car race and we would be telecasting it not live, it would be for the following week or week after that. I would fly in Concorde more often than anything else and fly into the location was of a race, ABC had all the things organised so I would have a helicopter to get me out of the track and get me back into the night flight, I would never take Concorde on the evening flight because it was slower sleeping on a plane than on a 747 but I would always use Concorde from the UK or Switzerland to the United States. I had it very well organised."

Stewart was often critical of driver safety in his broadcasts especially of driver negligence with fireproof clothes. In the1977 Daytona 500,Bobby Wawak got burned after his car caught fire, Stewart said: "The drivers themselves are negligent, drivers should always wear flame resistant underwear and thermal underwear. The accident we seen today is just typical if you're not properly protected." Stewart also revealed there was tension between him and ABC Sports producerRoone Arledgeas Stewart was doing commercials forFord Motor Companyas well and several of the commercials aired onWide World of Sportswhich he was a regular commentator there and that led him to leaving ABC in 1986. Stewart revealed in his book that "Wide World of Sports began to lose its soul when ABC first merged withESPNand then withCapital Cities,prompting severe headcount cuts and reduced budgets. "Later, Stewart coveredCART-sanctionedIndy carraces starting atLong Beachin 1987 onNBC SportsWorld,along with Paul Page. He returned in 1988, along with Charlie Jones. Stewart only covered road course and street races in his brief time at NBC. He did not return in 1989 and was replaced byJohnny RutherfordandTom Sneva.

Australian and Canadian TV coverage

Stewart worked on Australian and Canadian TV coverage from late 1986 to the mid-1990s.

British TV coverage

Stewart occasionally appeared withMurray Walkeras a co-commentator on the BBC's F1 coverage, including the British Grands Prix of 1979 and 1993.

Team owner

Rubens Barrichellodriving for Stewart'sF1 teamin1997.

In 1997, Stewart returned to Formula One, withStewart Grand Prix,as a team owner in partnership with his son, Paul.The team was a development of the previousPaul Stewart Racingteam that had previously competed in lower formulae. As the worksFordteam, their first race was the 1997Australian Grand Prix.The only success of their first year came at the rain-affectedMonaco Grand PrixwhereRubens Barrichellofinished second. The following year, 1998, was less competitive, with no podiums and few points.

After Ford acquiredCosworthin July 1998, the team risked designing and building a new engine for 1999. The SF3 was consistently competitive throughout the season. The team won one race at theEuropean Grand Prixat theNürburgringwithJohnny Herbert,while Barrichello took three third places, pole in France, and briefly led his home race atInterlagos.The team was later bought by Ford and becameJaguar Racingin 2000 (which subsequently becameRed Bull Racingin 2005). Stewart is also the head sports consultant/patron for theRoyal Bank of Scotland.In March 2009, he waived his fee for the year in response to the bank losing £24bn in 2008.

Honours and awards

Stewart in the Silverstone pit lane for the2014 British Grand Prix

Nicknamed "The Flying Scot",Stewart receivedSports Illustratedmagazine's 1973 "Sportsman of the Year"award, the only auto racer to have won the title.In the same year, he also wonBBCTelevision's "Sports Personality of the Year"award, and was named asABC'sWide World of SportsAthlete of the Year, which he shared with American pro football playerO. J. Simpson.In 1990, he was inducted into theInternational Motorsports Hall of Fame.In 1996, he was awarded an honorary doctorate byHeriot-Watt Universityin Edinburgh.In 1998 Stewart received an honorary doctorate fromCranfield Universitywhere he later served as chairman of the steering committee for the MSc Motorsport Engineering and Management.

Stewart was a subject of the television programmeThis Is Your Lifein January 1970 where he was surprised byEamonn AndrewsatThames Television's Euston Road Studios. In the1971 Birthday HonoursStewart was created an Officer of theOrder of the British Empire(OBE).In 2001, he received aknighthood.In both cases, the honour was for services to motor racing.In 2002, he became a founding patron of theScottish Sports Hall of Fameand an inaugural inductee. In 2003 the World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities presented Stewart the Sport Shooting Ambassador Award.The Award goes to an outstanding individual whose efforts have promoted the shooting sports internationally.On 27 November 2008, Stewart was awarded an honoraryDoctor of Science (D.Sc.)degree from theUniversity of St Andrews.

On 26 June 2009, Stewart was awarded the Freedom of West Dunbartonshire at a special ceremony in his hometown of Dumbarton. In 2010, Stewart was named as a founding member ofMotor Sportmagazine's Hall of Fame. On 28 January 2012, Stewart gave the starting command for the 50th Anniversary of the Rolex 24 at Daytona.He assumed the role after previously announced Grand MarshalA. J. Foytwas forced to cancel his visit due to complications from his recent knee surgery.In 2020, the British magazineThe Economistranked champion drivers by the relative importance of car quality to driver skill. According to this ranking, Stewart was the 4th best driver of all time, behindJuan Manuel Fangio,Jim Clark,andAlain Prost.Objectivemathematical models,such as Eichenberger and Stadelmann (2009, 4th), original F1metrics (2014, 2nd),Bellet al.(2015, 4th),FiveThirtyEight(2018, 20th), and updated F1metrics (2019, 2nd), put Stewart consistenly among the greatest Formula One drivers ever.

Other appearances

Stewart greets fans in the pit lane at the2005 United States Grand PrixatIndianapolis

Stewart appears in the 1966 John Frankenheimer movieGrand Prixdoing all the driving scenes for actorBrian Bedford,who played Scott Stoddard, as Bedford did not know how to drive. Stewart was the subject in the 1972Roman Polanski-produced filmWeekend of a Champion,in which Polanski shadows him throughout a race weekend at the1971 Monaco Grand Prix.He appeared in an anachronistic cameo in a 1977 episode ofLupin IIIas a competitor in the1977 Monaco Grand Prix.In 1979,George Harrison,a good friend of Stewart's, released a single titled "Faster"as a tribute to Stewart,Niki Lauda,Ronnie Peterson,and fellowFormula Onerace car drivers.He appeared as a spokesman, with his son Mark, in a 1983 commercial for theVectrexgame console.Stewart also wrote the foreword for the bookThe Centenary of the Car 1885–1985by Andrew Whyte in 1984. He participated inPrince Edward's 1987 charity television special,The Grand Knockout Tournament.

Stewart featured in a special presentation video of the then all newFord Mondeoin 1993, the video was given away free on the front cover ofWhat Car?magazine in 1993. He was featured in the video to the 2000 song "Supreme"by British singer,Robbie Williams.Stewart appeared in several UPS commercials in 2002 and 2003 as a consultant forDale Jarrettto convince Jarrett to "race the Big Brown truck". He also once appeared on the UK motoring programTop Gearas a driving instructor for hostJames May.He is also interviewed in some depth inMartin Scorsese's 2011 documentary biography of Harrison,George Harrison: Living in the Material World.2018 saw the 50th anniversary of the relationship between Stewart and luxury watch brandRolex.In 2018, he Stewart appeared in US commercials forHeinekenbeer, in which he refused an offered beer saying "I'm still driving" before driving away in aJaguar F-Type.

Helmet

Crash helmet of Stewart withRoyal Stewart Tartan

Stewart's helmet was white, with the red, green, blue, white, and yellowRoyal Stewart tartansurrounding the top.

Personal life

Stewart has been married to his childhood sweetheart Helen McGregor since 1962, and they have two sons:Pauland Mark.Paul is a former racing driver, who later ran Paul Stewart Racing with his father, before selling it in 1999. Mark is a film and television producer. The couple currently live in the Buckinghamshire village ofEllesborough,on a 140-acre farm that was the hunting grounds of the nearby Prime Minister's country house,Chequers.Between 1969 and 1997 the couple lived inBegnins,near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, and later sold his house toPhil Collins.

Stewart dictated his autobiography titledWinning Is Not Enoughdue to hisdyslexia.In a 2009 interview, and in the book, he discusses his close relationship with his older brotherJimmy,who was also a successful racing driver in his youth but had a long struggle with alcoholism. Jimmy died in 2008.In 2018, he set up the charity Race Against Dementia. In 2016, Helen McGregor Stewart was diagnosed at theMayo Clinicwithfrontotemporal dementia.As of 2018,she has limited short-term memory and impaired mobility, and requires round-the-clock care support. Stewart believes that the application of Formula 1's technology and out of the box thinking could bring about earlier solutions to society coping with dementia.

See also

• Grand Prix Drivers' Association
• Sid Watkins

External links

• The official web site of Sir Jackie Stewart, sirjackiestewartat theWayback Machine(archived 12 March 2011)
• Jackie Stewart at the International Motorsports Hall of Fameat theWayback Machine(archived 19 November 2005)
• COLLAGE: Jackie Stewart's Grand Prix Album, a signed limited edition bookat theWayback Machine(archived 20 June 2010)
• Jackie Stewart - Grand Prix History – Hall of Fameat theWayback Machine(archived 19 September 2012)
• The Scotsman newspaper, Heritage and Culture, "I risked my mother's wrath in order to be a driver"
• The Herald newspaper (Glasgow), "Sir Jackie, was not diagnosed with dyslexia until he was 42"atarchive.today(archived 30 May 2012)
• Jackie Stewart statistics
• Video Tribute to Jackie Stewart and his Tyrrell teammate François CevertonYouTube
• Sunday Times article 13 September 2009
• Jackie StewartatIMDb
• Jackie Stewartat theScottish Sports Hall of Fame