18 Facts About Jody Scheckter

Jody Scheckter competed in Formula One from 1972 to 1980, winning the Drivers' Championship in 1979 with Ferrari.

Jody Scheckter was born in East London, Eastern Cape, and educated at Selborne College and Hudson Park High School.

Jody Scheckter rapidly ascended to the ranks of Formula One after moving to Britain in 1970.

Jody Scheckter is one of only two F1 drivers to compete under this number, the other being Damon Hill.

Jody Scheckter was behind Cevert when he crashed, and he stopped his McLaren, got out of his car and attempted to help Cevert out of his destroyed Tyrrell, but the 29-year-old Frenchman had been cut in half by the circuit's poorly installed Armco barriers and was already dead.

Jody Scheckter left for Walter Wolf's new team in 1977 and Jody Scheckter gave the team a win in its maiden race.

Jody Scheckter won twice more with the team and was often on the podium, but finished second on points behind a more dominant Niki Lauda.

Jody Scheckter was the last driver to win a Drivers' Championship for Ferrari until Michael Schumacher twenty-one years later in 2000.

Jody Scheckter was brought in by ABC's Wide World Of Sports as a Pit reporter for the 1983 Monaco Grand Prix.

Jody Scheckter was a guest commentator for ITV during the 1999 San Marino Grand Prix, replacing Martin Brundle.

In 1981, Jody Scheckter won the World Superstars competition in Key Biscayne, Florida.

Jody Scheckter defeated athletes such as Russ Francis, Renaldo Nehemiah, Peter Muller, Rick Barry, Gaetan Boucher and Andy Ripley.

The sale of the company provided funds to allow Jody Scheckter to help the racing careers of his sons Tomas and Toby.

In 2004, Jody Scheckter was reunited with his championship-winning Ferrari at the South African two-seater F1x2 Charity Grand Prix at Kyalami in South Africa.

Jody Scheckter now spends his time as a biodynamic farmer, having bought the 2,500 acres Laverstoke Park Farm, near Overton, Hampshire, 40 miles south west of London.

Laverstoke Park Farm was featured on BBC's Escape To the Country where Jody Scheckter showed viewers how Buffalo Mozzarella was made.

In December 2009, Jody Scheckter announced his intention to produce a biodynamic sparkling wine by 2012.

Jody Scheckter is married and has had six children: two, Toby and Tomas, from his previous wife Pamela; and four, Hugo, Freddie, Ila and Poppy, from his current marriage to Clare.