Stewart was also a driving force behind increasing the safety of motor racing by advocating for better medical facilities and track upgrades at racetracks.
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Sir Jackie Stewart is a Scottish-born British former Formula One driver. He was known as the “Flying Scot” because he competed in Formula One from 1965 to 1973, winning three World Drivers’ Championships and finished second twice. Outside of Formula One, he raced in the Can-Am series in 1970 and 1971, and came close to winning the Indianapolis 500 on his maiden attempt in 1966. Between 1997 and 1999, he was the team principal of the Stewart Grand Prix Formula One racing team, which he co-owned with his son Paul. Stewart was also a driving force behind increasing the safety of motor racing by advocating for better medical facilities and track upgrades at racetracks.
Stewart was born in Milton, Dunbartonshire, a community fifteen miles west of Glasgow, Scotland. Stewart’s family had developed a profitable business as Austin and later Jaguar automobile dealers. His father was an amateur motorcycle racer, and his brother Jimmy was a well-known local racing driver who competed in the 1953 British Grand Prix at Silverstone for Ecurie Ecosse.
Jackie Stewart was married to TV actress Helen Stewart in 1962. Helen was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in 2014. Helen’s short-term memory is deteriorating, and dementia is engulfing her mind and body. This horrible affliction is wreaking havoc on the Stewart family, as it is on millions of other dementia-affected families around the world. “I have been fortunate to have a wonderful career and my wife Helen was by my side through it all,” Jackie had said earlier of Helen. “We should have been able to share those memories forever but dementia steals that away. Without urgent progress, one in three people born today, will go on to suffer dementia and that is unacceptable.”
Stewart dominated the opposition in a series of races in 1969, winning by more than two laps at Montjuc, a minute ahead at Clemont-Ferrand, and more than a lap at Silverstone, all while driving the Matra MS80-Cosworth. Stewart became world champion after victories at Kyalami, Zandvoort, and Monza.
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Stewart’s medical difficulties were induced by the stress of racing all year and on different continents. Despite having mononucleosis and crossing the Atlantic Ocean 186 times due to media engagements in the United States, he won the 1971 world championship. He missed the Belgian Grand Prix in Nivelles during the 1972 Grand Prix season due to gastritis.
Stewart announced his retirement at the start of the 1973 season. Despite this, he was victorious in South Africa, Belgium, Monaco, and the Netherlands. Tyrrell’s final and then-record-setting 27th victory came at the Nürburgring, where he scored a 1–2. Stewart had previously won the Drivers’ Championship at the Italian Grand Prix two races prior; this was a race in which Stewart had to pit to fix a flat tyre and drove from 20th to 4th place.
