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Jackie Stewart: Races
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Jackie Stewart was a great racing driver, but what pray are his qualifications for such statements. He'll know more about the restaurants in Geneva than he does about any scottish restaurant I'll warrant..........and as for not finding Scots workers in hotels and the like, these are often the poorest paid jobs in the community today, and is it SO surprising (while I impugn the education of no one in the service industry anywhere) that Scots, with their traditional high emphases on the benefits of education might not IMMEDIATELY see that serving tables is their first preferred career choice.
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Jackie Stewart was the driving force behind the transformation of motor racing from a sport where death was almost routine. When Stewart began racing, the risks were blithely accepted with a shrug of the shoulders as an occupational hazard. But the determined little Scot, who was to see many of his friends and colleagues perish, pursued his campaign with remarkable fervour long after his own retirement and he more than any other individual is responsible for the emergence of the highly organised and remarkably safe sport we know today. As if this weren't enough, Stewart was ... a truly great racing driver, a triple World Champion who was a more than worthy successor to his great idol Jim Clark.
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The name Jackie Stewart is synonymous in America with auto racing. The series he became a legend of, Formula One (F1)... is virtually unknown in the States. Arguably the most watched sport internationally, F1 is the most advanced auto racing series in the world. From 1964-73, The "Wee Scot" established a race-win record in his trademark tartan helmet that remained unbroken in F1 for fourteen years. His driving style has been characterized as smooth, precise, persistent, consistent, and remarkably quick. Off the track, he is known to be good natured and humorous.
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Settled in the canton of Vaud since 1969, Jackie Stewart sent his children to the prestigious Aiglon College in Villars. He now lives an active retirement. He created his own F1 team in 1996, Stewart Racing, which he recently sold to Ford for 140 million dollars. He is ... a sports consultant for the American station ABC.
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Stewart, like Clark, had raced initially without parental consent, but elder brother Jimmy was already a racer for the world famous Ecurie Ecosse. The moment he sat in a fast car, the young man, who did not yet understand that his deficiencies at school were caused by dyslexia, discovered something that he could really do well. It filled the void left by his failure to make the British shooting team for the 1960 Olympic Games. From a quiet beginning, Stewart soon showed his mettle in a borrowed Marcos before himself joining Ecosse. But it was when he was signed for F3 by Ken Tyrrell, after beating Bruce McLaren in a test at Goodwood, that his career really took off. After dominating F3 in Tyrrell's Cooper-BMC in 1964, Stewart turned down an offer from Lotus to drive for BRM in 1965.
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John Young Stewart was born in Milton in Dumbartonshire, Scotland in 1939. As a child he exhibited exceptional eye-hand coordination, and his father, a former motorcycle racer who owned a garage and sold Jaguars, had hopes that his youngest son would become involved in racing. Stewart grew up around cars and soon became an adept apprentice mechanic. Meanwhile, his older brother, Jimmy Stewart, went from a successful run of local races to qualifying for the British Grand Prix in 1953. Eliminated from the race at Copse after his Ecurie Ecosse car hydroplaned on a wet track, Jimmy Stewart was involved in an even more serious accident while racing at Le Mans, France, forcing him to leave the sport. Stewart's parents, thankful that their oldest son was still alive, discouraged their youngest son, 15-year-old Jackie, from taking up car racing.
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