Jackie Stewart

Jackie Stewart was born in Milton, Scotland on the 11th of June 1939. He started life with cars from a young age in Dumbartonshire as a petrol attendant in a family garage. As well as this he became an exceptional clay pigeon shooter and did it for Scotland.

Jackie first drove for the national Scottish team Ecurie Ecosse and was spotted by Ken Tyrrell who offered him a seat with his cooper formula three team in 1964. He went on to win every race but two.

In 1965, his first year in F1, he drove for BRM with Graham Hill and came third in the World Championship. In 1966 Jackie was involved in a really bad accident which had a massive effect in the sport. He vowed to find ways of making the sport safer and by doing this he became quite unpopular amongst the teams and drivers.

In 1968 Ken Tyrrell arrived with his F1 team and Stewart joined him. He came second in the championship and his greatest victory was in Germany where in bad weather he won the race four minutes ahead of everyone else! In 1969 Jackie won his first championship and led a revolution in racing safety by campaigning for safer circuits. In 1970 Ken Tyrell build his own car but it proved to be very uncompetitive but in 1971 with the improved car Jackie won the World Championship again after winning six grands prix.

In 1972 he was beaten to a third championship but in '73 he got his third with five wins and eight podiums it was to be his final year in F1. When he stopped racing there were plenty of other things to do with his time and he took on a number of jobs such as, Senior executive of Ford and Goodyear, TV commentator, President of the Springfield boys club and President of the British racing drivers club.

In 1995 Jackie announced that he was going to start a team called Stewart grand prix and along with Ford he got some sponsors. His son became managing director and he became the chairman. It took three seasons to get a race win. In 1999 he sold the team to ford and it became Jaguar.