Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1986, and the presenter was Michael Parkinson. In the colourful history of Formula One motor racing, Arcaste way has his own very special place.

When he retired from the sport in 1973, he'd been the world champion on three occasions,

and he crossed the line first a record 27 times in 99 races and that

record still stands.

Nowadays the racing driver is a successful businessman forever on the move traveling

360,000 miles a year.

Nowadays reported more in the glossier gossip columns than on the sports pages.

He is Jackie Stewart.

Jackie, welcome, I would imagine that you make a fairly restless castaway, would that be true?

No.

In fact, after about four days, maximum five days, I truly become a vegetable, and I really don't think very

much, I don't want to think, I get right inside myself. I relax totally. So I think this

island life is going to probably suit me quite well really. Few people might

agree knowing me as I am today but if they were really to know me

I think they would see that site too.

But of course it is a hectic lifestyle that you've devised for yourself nowadays but in

fact life began in fairly tranquil surroundings didn't Lee in Scotland.

I suppose so.

Thinking back it was Dumbarton, a

we village called Dumbuck in those days, which has been lately renamed,

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