Sir John Young Stewart OBE was born on 11 June 1939 and is a British former Formula One racing driver from Scotland.
81 Facts About Jackie Stewart
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Jackie Stewart was the only British driver to win three championships until Lewis Hamilton in 2015.
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Jackie Stewart served as a television commercial spokesman for both the Ford Motor Company and Heineken beer.
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Jackie Stewart was instrumental in improving the safety of motor racing, campaigning for better medical facilities and track improvements at motor racing circuits.
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Jackie Stewart was born in Milton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, a village fifteen miles west of Glasgow.
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Jackie Stewart's family were Austin, and later Jaguar, car dealers and had built up a successful business.
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Jackie Stewart's father had been an amateur motorcycle racer, and his brother Jimmy was a racing driver with a local reputation who drove for Ecurie Ecosse and competed in the 1953 British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
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Jackie Stewart attended Hartfield primary school in the nearby town of Dumbarton, and moved to Dumbarton Academy at the age of 12.
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Jackie Stewart experienced learning difficulties owing to undiagnosed dyslexia, 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".
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Jackie 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.
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Jackie Stewart was not actually diagnosed with dyslexia until 1980, when his oldest son Mark was diagnosed with the condition.
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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, Jackie Stewart asked if he could be tested, and was diagnosed with the disorder, by which time he was 41 years old.
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Jackie Stewart won the British, Irish, Welsh and Scottish skeet shooting championships and twice won the "Coupe de Nations" European championship.
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Jackie Stewart competed for a place in the British trap shooting team for the 1960 Summer Olympics, but finished third behind Joseph Wheater and Brett Huthart.
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Jackie Stewart had saved up the purchase price from tips received from his job at the family garage.
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Jackie Stewart took up an offer from Barry Filer, a customer of the family business, to test in a number of his cars at Oulton Park.
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For 1961, Filer provided a Marcos, in which Jackie Stewart scored four wins, and competed once in Filer's Aston DB4GT.
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Jackie Stewart won two races, his first in England, in the E-type, and David Murray of Ecurie Ecosse offered him a ride in the Tojeiro EE Mk2, and their Cooper T49, in which he won at Goodwood.
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Jackie Stewart came down for the test at Goodwood, taking over a new, and very competitive, Formula Three T72-BMC which Bruce McLaren was testing.
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Soon Jackie Stewart was bettering McLaren's times, causing McLaren to return to the track for some quicker laps.
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Again, Jackie Stewart was quicker, and Tyrrell offered Jackie Stewart a spot on the team.
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Jackie Stewart again refused a ride in F1, but went instead to the Lotus Formula Two team.
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Jackie 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.
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Jackie Stewart piloted Tyrrell's unsuccessful F2 Cooper T75-BRM, and drove the Rover Company's revolutionary turbine car at the 24 Hours of Le Mans alongside Graham Hill.
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At the start of the 1966 season, Jackie Stewart won the Tasman Series from his BRM teammate Graham Hill in two-litre BRMs and raced closely with his great rival and friend Jim Clark who was somewhat disadvantaged by an unreliable Lotus 39 which was let down by its old 2.5-litre Climax engine.
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Jackie Stewart had some success in other forms of racing during the year, winning the 1966 Rothmans 12 Hour International Sports Car Race and almost winning the Indianapolis 500 on his first attempt, in John Mecom's Lola T90-Ford, only to be denied by a broken scavenge pump while leading by over a lap with eight laps to go.
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However, Jackie Stewart's performance, having had the race fully in hand, sidelined only by mechanical failure, won him Rookie of the Year honours despite the winner, Graham Hill, being an Indianapolis rookie.
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In F1 the BRMs were still struggling with reliability problems and Jackie Stewart came no higher than second, at Spa, while having to drive one-handed while holding the car in gear with the other.
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Jackie Stewart placed 2nd driving a works-entered Ferrari driving with Chris Amon at the BOAC 6 Hours at Brands Hatch, the 10th round of World Sportscar Championship at the time.
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Jackie Stewart attempted to run the 1967 National 500 NASCAR race but did not qualify for the race.
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Jackie Stewart won at Watkins Glen but his car failed at Mexico City, and so he lost the drivers' title to Hill.
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In 1969, driving the Matra MS80-Cosworth, Jackie Stewart had a number of races where he completely dominated the opposition, such as winning by over two laps at Montjuic, a minute in front at Clemont-Ferrand and by more than a lap at Silverstone.
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Also that year, Jackie Stewart led at least one lap of every World Championship Grand Prix, and remains the only driver to achieve this feat.
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For 1970, Matra insisted on using their own V12 engines, while Tyrrell and Jackie Stewart wanted to continue with the Cosworth and maintain their connection to Ford, which conflicted with Matra's recent connections to Chrysler.
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Tyrrell continued to be sponsored by French fuel company Elf, and Jackie Stewart raced in a car painted French Racing Blue for many years.
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Jackie Stewart continued to race sporadically in Formula Two, winning at Crystal Palace and placing at Thruxton.
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Jackie Stewart had a one-off race in Can-Am, in the revolutionary Chaparral 2J.
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Jackie Stewart went on to win the Formula One world championship in 1971 using the Tyrrell 003-Cosworth, winning Spain, Monaco, France, Britain, Germany, and Canada.
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Jackie Stewart did a full season in Can-Am, driving a Carl Haas sponsored Lola T260-Chevrolet.
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Jackie Stewart won two races, at Mont Tremblant and Mid Ohio, and finished 3rd in the championship.
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Jackie Stewart won the 1971 world championship despite having mononucleosis and crossing the Atlantic Ocean 186 times due to media commitments in the United States.
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Jackie Stewart competed in a Ford Capri RS2600 in the European Touring Car Championship, with F1 teammate Francois Cevert and other F1 pilots, at a time where the competition between Ford and BMW was at a height.
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Jackie Stewart nevertheless won at South Africa, Belgium, Monaco and the Netherlands.
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Jackie Stewart had already won the Drivers' Championship at the Italian Grand Prix two races previously; this was a race where Jackie Stewart had to come into the pits to change a flat tyre, and drove from 20th to finish 4th.
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Jackie Stewart held the record for most wins by a Formula One driver for 14 years until Alain Prost won the 1987 Portuguese Grand Prix, and the record for most wins by a British Formula One driver for 19 years until Nigel Mansell won the 1992 British Grand Prix.
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Jackie Stewart's steering column pinned his leg, while ruptured fuel tanks emptied their contents into the cockpit.
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Jackie Stewart was rescued by fellow drivers Graham Hill and Bob Bondurant who had crashed nearby.
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Jackie Stewart 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.
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Jackie Stewart campaigned with Louis Stanley for improved emergency services and better safety barriers around race tracks.
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Jackie Stewart pressed for mandatory seat belt usage and full-face helmets for drivers, which have become unthinkable omissions for modern races.
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Some drivers and press members believed the safety improvements for which Jackie Stewart advocated detracted from the sport, while track owners and race organizers baulked at the extra costs.
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Jackie Stewart was a play-by-play announcer for the Luge at the 1976 Winter Olympics and the Equestrian at the 1976 Summer Olympics on ABC's Wide World of Sports.
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Jackie Stewart was noted for his insightful analysis, Scottish accent, and rapid delivery, which once caused ABC's lead sports commentator Jim McKay to remark that Stewart spoke almost as fast as he drove.
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Jackie Stewart revealed there was tension between him and ABC Sports producer Roone Arledge as Stewart was doing commercials for Ford Motor Company as well and several of the commercials aired on Wide World of Sports which he was a regular commentator there and that led him to leaving ABC in 1986.
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Later, Jackie Stewart covered CART IndyCar races starting at Long Beach in 1987 on NBC SportsWorld, along with Paul Page.
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Jackie Stewart only covered road course and street races in his brief time at NBC.
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Jackie Stewart did not return in 1989 and was replaced by Johnny Rutherford and Tom Sneva.
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Jackie Stewart worked on Australian and Canadian TV coverage, from late 1986 to the mid-1990s.
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Jackie Stewart occasionally appeared with Murray Walker as a co-commentator on the BBC's F1 coverage, including the British Grands Prix of 1979 and 1993.
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In 1997 Jackie Stewart returned to Formula One, with Jackie Stewart Grand Prix, as a team owner in partnership with his son, Paul.
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Jackie Stewart received Sports Illustrated magazine's 1973 "Sportsman of the Year" award, the only auto racer to have won the title.
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In 1998 Jackie Stewart received an honorary doctorate from Cranfield University where he later served as chairman of the steering committee for the MSc Motorsport Engineering and Management.
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Jackie Stewart was a subject of the television programme This Is Your Life in January 1970 where he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at Thames Television's Euston Road Studios.
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On 26 June 2009, Jackie Stewart was awarded the Freedom of West Dunbartonshire at a special ceremony in his hometown of Dumbarton.
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In 2010, Jackie Stewart was named as a founding member of Motor Sport magazine's Hall of Fame.
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On 28 January 2012, Jackie Stewart gave the starting command for the 50th Anniversary of the Rolex 24 at Daytona.
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Jackie Stewart appears in the 1966 John Frankenheimer movie Grand Prix doing all the driving scenes for actor Brian Bedford, who played Scott Stoddard, as Bedford did not know how to drive.
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Jackie Stewart was the subject in the 1972 Roman Polanski-produced film Weekend of a Champion, in which Polanski shadows him throughout a race weekend at the 1971 Monaco Grand Prix.
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Jackie Stewart appeared in an anachronistic cameo in a 1977 episode of Lupin III as a competitor in the 1977 Monaco Grand Prix.
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George Harrison, a good friend of Jackie Stewart's, released a single, "Faster", in 1979, as a tribute to Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda, Ronnie Peterson and fellow Formula One race car drivers.
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Jackie Stewart participated in Prince Edward's 1987 charity television special, The Grand Knockout Tournament.
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Jackie Stewart was featured in the video to the 2000 song "Supreme" by British singer, Robbie Williams.
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Jackie Stewart appeared in several UPS commercials in 2002 and 2003 as a consultant for Dale Jarrett to convince Jarrett to "race the Big Brown truck".
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Jackie Stewart is interviewed in some depth in Martin Scorsese's 2011 documentary biography of Harrison, George Harrison: Living in the Material World.
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In 2018, he Jackie Stewart appeared in US commercials for Heineken beer, in which he refused an offered beer saying "I'm still driving" before driving away in a Jaguar F-Type.
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Jackie Stewart's helmet was white, with the red, green, blue, white and yellow Royal Jackie Stewart tartan surrounding the top.
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Jackie Stewart has been married to his childhood sweetheart Helen McGregor since 1962, and they have two sons: Paul and Mark.
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Paul is a former racing driver, who later ran Paul Jackie Stewart Racing with his father, before selling it in 1999.
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Jackie Stewart dictated his autobiography titled "Winning Is Not Enough", due to his dyslexia.
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In 2016, Helen McGregor Jackie Stewart was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic with frontotemporal dementia.
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Jackie 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.