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Jackie Stewart

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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.


— Jackie Stewart


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From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.


— Jackie Stewart


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Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax.


— Jackie Stewart


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I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.


— Jackie Stewart


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In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.


— Jackie Stewart


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It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.


— Jackie Stewart


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The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.


— Jackie Stewart


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There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.


— Jackie Stewart


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The marshals had no tools to help him and it took his teammate Hill and Bob Bondurant who had also craJackie Stewartd nearby to get him out. Likewise he pressed track owners to modernize their track including organizing driver boycotts of races at Spa-Francorchamps in 1969 the Nürburgring in 1970 and Zandvoort in 1972 until barriers run-off areas fire crews and medical facilities were improved. There were no doctors or medical facilities at the track and Stewart was put in the bed of a pickup truck remaining there until an ambulance arrived.

He is well known in the United States as a color commentator (pundit) of racing television broadcasts and as a spokesman for Ford where his Scottish accent has made him a distinctive presence. He also competed in Can-Am. In 2009 he was ranked fifth of the fifty greatest Formula One drivers of all time by journalist Kevin Eason who wrote: "He has not only emerged as a great driver but one of the greatest figures of motor racing.

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