Jody Scheckter is married and has six children: two from his previous marriage to Pamela, Toby and Tomas, and four from his present marriage to Clare, Hugo, Freddie, Ila, and Poppy.
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Jody David Scheckter (born 29 January 1950) is a former motor racing driver and business owner from South Africa. From 1972 until 1980, he raced in Formula One, winning the Drivers’ Championship with Ferrari in 1979. Scheckter is still the only African to have won the Formula One World Championship. Scheckter was educated at Selborne College and Hudson Park High School in East London, Eastern Cape. Scheckter now works as a biodynamic farmer, having purchased the 2,500-acre (1,000-hectare) Laverstoke Park Farm near Overton, Hampshire, some 40 miles (64 kilometres) west of London.
Critics predicted he wouldn’t get along with Ferrari’s dictatorial management, but he exceeded expectations and helped the team win another Constructors’ Championship, while Scheckter’s regular finishes, which included three wins, earned him the Drivers’ Championship in 1979. In his 1980 title defence, however, he struggled miserably, even failing to qualify for one event. Scheckter announced his departure from the squad and the sport after scoring only two points. Scheckter was Ferrari’s last driver to win a Drivers’ Championship until Michael Schumacher did so twenty-one years later, in 2000.
Jody Scheckter is married and has six children: two from his previous marriage to Pamela, Toby and Tomas, and four from his present marriage to Clare, Hugo, Freddie, Ila, and Poppy. Ila, his 21-year-old daughter, died on October 17, 2019. Clare Scheckter moved to the UK in 1996 after a successful commercial career in the United States, where she was crucial in the establishment of Laverstoke Park Farm, a 2,500-acre organic and biodynamic estate in Hampshire, England. Her passion for education led to the establishment of the Laverstoke Park Education Centre in 2002, which has hosted over 15,000 young people for free farm educational visits since its opening by HRH The Princess Royal.
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Since 2006, Clare Scheckter has served as a school governor. She was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the University of Winchester in 2011 for her contributions to education, and she has served on the MOD Independent Advisory Panel in Hampshire since 2012, including as chair since 2018. This panel is responsible for reviewing the wellbeing of trainees from all three armed forces attending a tri-force training college. She devotes most of her time to the volunteer sector, having been appointed as a Trustee of the Enham Trust in 2014, which provides assisted and independent living and work for persons with a wide range of disabilities, and most recently as a Trustee of the Countess Brecknock Hospice in Andover.
Clare served as President of the South of England Agricultural Society for one year in 2015, with a focus on teaching and motivating the next generation. Laverstoke Park Farm lends the use of the farm to host CarFest, a three-day family event of music, vehicles, and food that attracts 28,000 guests per day and 18,000 campsites. Last year, it raised slightly about £1.6 million for the national charity BBC Children in Need. In 2013, Clare was made a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire.
