Sir Jackie Stewart

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Biography

Sir John Young Stewart, OBE better known as Jackie Stewart, and nicknamed The Flying Scot, is a British former racing driver from Scotland. He…more

Born

6/11/1939, Milton, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland

Birth Name

John Young Stewart

Gender

Male

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    • In September 2007 Max Mosley branded Jackie a "certified halfwit" during a tirade in response to his criticisms of the $100m fine handed down to McLaren in the wake of the F1 Spying Scandal.
    • Sir Jackie gave the highly appreciative crowd something to cheer about when he drove one of his famous blue Tyrrell F1 cars at the inaugural Scottish Classic SpeedFair event at Knockhill Racing Circuit in 2007. Despite his Scottish roots, this was actually the first time ever that the legendary racing driver has appeared on a Circuit in front of his Scottish fans since his early racing events at Charterhall and Winfield Airfields in the Scottish Borders. Sir Jackie was warmly greeted by the thousands of fans at Knockhill and spent a generous amount of time signing autographs and obliging with the many hundreds of requests for photographs.
    • Sir Jackie was awarded the MIA's 'most outstanding contribution to the motor sport industry' honour.

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    • Sir Jackie: One of the weaknesses that we've got in our sport [F1], in my opinion, is the lack of training. This is the only sport that I can think of that doesn't have coaching. If you think about coaching and communication, that's where I think there is a gap [in F1]. For sure it makes a difference - you have coaches in football, rugby, cricket, golf. Even the great Tiger Woods wouldn't walk ten metres without his coach, yet racing drivers don't need any help at all. When you suggest that they might benefit from it, there is a resistance. I don't understand that.
    • Sir Jackie: The discipline of not making mistakes is what wins. To finish first, first you must finish. My record was 99 starts and 27 wins, and it wasn't that I was necessarily that fast. It was just that I thought fairly carefully about how you had to go quickly, but you couldn't go over-the-top.
    • Sir Jackie: (on a possible successor to Max Mosley after the FIA President's 2008 sex scandal) I believe it can't be someone from within the sport. It needs to be a captain of industry, a CEO of standing, man or woman," he said, despite admitting a number of approaches from those who believe he should take on the job. But this cannot be a racing driver. I don't care who he is, how many championships he has won. No racing driver I know of is well enough prepared to take on that job. It needs to be someone who is expert in economics and business structures. It cannot be a retiring team owner or team principal. The alignments are all wrong.

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