Jackie Stewart: “I removed emotion completely when I drove racing cars – I had to…”
F1 Beyond The Grid
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4.7 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
He’s regarded as one of the very best drivers of all-time; a man who, when he walked away from F1, had amassed three world championship titles and a then-record 27 Grand Prix victories. But that he was able to walk away at all was something of a success in itself, for so many of his friend and rivals were not so fortunate in an era when death lurked around every corner.
This week’s guest on Beyond The Grid, presented by Bose, is that icon of late Sixties and early Seventies F1 racing: Sir Jackie Stewart. Now 79, the proud Scot is still firing on all cylinders, so get ready for stories of flat-sharing with fellow champ Jim Clark, his view on what made him so successful, the perils and mind-set of racing in F1’s ‘killer years’, and why he eventually founded a Grand Prix-winning F1 team of his own…
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| 0:58.7 | History of Formula One. |
| 1:29.6 | Running of his son's team, Paul Stewart Racing. |
| 1:32.4 | The outfit then made the jump to Formula One in 1997 as Stewart Grand Prix and went on to win one race. |
| 1:39.2 | And would you believe it? |
| 1:40.1 | I was actually shadowing Jackie for an article I was writing that famous weekend at the |
| 1:45.3 | Nürburgring in 99. |
| 1:47.3 | We caught up in his hotel room at the Mexican Grand Prix. |
| 1:50.4 | Jackie had a typically busy day at the track, but he was as articulate and as engaging as ever. |
| 1:56.8 | Even with the noisy day of the dead celebrations going full-chat outside. |
| 2:01.8 | I'd go so far as to say he was in top form. |
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