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Sir John Young Stewart is a British former racing driver, broadcaster and motorsport executive from Scotland who competed in Formula One from 1965 to 1973. Nicknamed "the Flying Scot", Stewart won three Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles with Tyrrell, and—at the time of his retirement—held the records for most wins (27) and podium finishes (43).
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Born 11 June 1939 · Q3188
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“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.”
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Public attention spiked: 2,723 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.8× the usual 721, with 5 article edits. Editors noted: BRM (1965–1967) MOS:REPEATLINK
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Yahoo! Sports: How Jackie Stewart Taping A Wrench On The Steering Wheel Made F1 Safer
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 th
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Stewart revealed on the Beyond the Grid podcast: "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
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Of six-time race winner Tony Brooks, who raced during the 1950s
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The British magazine The Economist ranked champion drivers by the relative importance of car quality to driver skill
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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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Stewart set up the charity Race Against Dementia
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Is the last surviving Formula One World Champion from the 1960s
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Helen McGregor Stewart was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia
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In 2014 Helen McGregor Stewart was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
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Stewart was named as a founding member of Motor Sport magazine's Hall of Fame
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The World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities presented Stewart the Sport Shooting Ambassador Award
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Became a founding patron of the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame and an inaugural inductee
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And 2003 as a consultant for Dale Jarrett to convince Jarrett to "race the Big Brown truck"
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (2001).
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(which subsequently became Red Bull Racing in 2005)
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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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Stewart returned to Formula One, with Stewart Grand Prix, as a team owner in partnership with his son, Paul
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Was awarded an honorary doctorate by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh
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The video was given away free on the front cover of What Car
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Was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame
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And was replaced by Johnny Rutherford and Tom Sneva
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On NBC SportsWorld, along with Paul Page
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George Harrison, a good friend of Stewart's, released a single titled like Stewart's book, "Faster", as a tribute to Stewart, Niki Lauda, Ronnie Peterson who was killed in 1978, and to other Formula One race car drivers
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“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”
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Won the FIA Formula 1 World Championship with _Retired Motorsport (1973).
Awarded BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award (1973).
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Won Segrave Trophy (1973).
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Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1972).
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Stewart also received the OBE
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Won the FIA Formula 1 World Championship with _Retired Motorsport (1971).
Using the Tyrrell 003-Cosworth, winning Spain, Monaco, France, Britain, Germany, and Canada
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Won the FIA Formula 1 World Championship with _Retired Motorsport (1969).
Won Formula One World Champion (1969).
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The Nürburgring in 1970 being joined by his close friend Jochen Rindt, and Zandvoort in 1972 until barriers, run-off areas, fire crews, and medical facilities were improved
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Driving the Matra MS80-Cosworth, Stewart had a number of races where he completely dominated the opposition, such as winning by over two laps at Montjuïc, a minute in front at Clemont-Ferrand and by more than a lap at Si
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Despite Stewart closely contesting the Tasman Series with Jim Clark, who probably raced closer and harder with him than at any time in their careers
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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
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And competed in the Can-Am series in 1970 and 1971
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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-championship Rand Grand Prix in December 1964; after qualifying in pole position the Lotus b
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Stewart again signed with Ecurie Ecosse
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Stewart drove in Formula Three (F3) for Tyrrell
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To help decide if he was ready to become a professional driver, he tested a Jaguar E-type at Oulton Park, matching Roy Salvadori's times in a similar car the year before
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Stewart has been married to his childhood sweetheart Helen McGregor since 1962, and they have two sons: Paul and Mark.
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Born 1939-06-11.
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