Jackie Stewart

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Racing career

He competed in Formula Three for Tyrrell in 1964. In the wet at Snetterton on March 15th, his debut was dominating; he led by 25 seconds in just two laps before coasting home in 44 seconds. He was offered a Formula One ride with Cooper but refused, opting to gain knowledge under Tyrrell; he failed to win only two races (one to clutch loss, one to a spin) in becoming the F3 champion within days.

He began working in a Ferrari at Le Mans and practising in an F1 Lotus 33-Climax, impressing Colin Chapman and Jim Clark. Stewart refused to ride F1 again, but instead transferred to the Lotus Formula Two team. He was second in his first F2 appearance in a Lotus 32-Cosworth to take second in the demanding Circuit Clermont-Ferrand.

He signed with BRM in 1965, his first race in a F1 car was for Lotus as stand-in for an injured Jim Clark, but the Lotus won the first heat and claimed fastest lap; after qualifying in pole position, he claimed the second heat and claimed fastest lap. He came in sixth place on his World Championship F1 debut in South Africa. In the late spring, he gained his first major tournament victory, and before the year's end, he defeated Monza's P261. Stewart's rookie season featured a win, three seconds, a fifth, and sixth, as well as third and third position in the World Drivers' Championship. Along with Graham Hill, he also piloted Tyrrell's failing F2 Cooper T75-BRM and sped into Le Mans.

Stewart won the Tasman Series from his BRM colleague Graham Hill in two-litre BRMs, and he also rode closely with his great rival and friend Jim Clark, who was somewhat handicapped by an unreliable Lotus 39, which was let down by its old 2.5-litre Climax engine.

In F1, Stewart's 1966 was a rough start to the previous year, although Stewart did win the Monaco Grand Prix in a 2-litre engined vehicle. His crash at the Belgian Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps in 2011 caused him to increase F1's safety and caused him to postponed the French Grand Prix in Reims.

Stewart had some success in other sports throughout the year, including the 1966 Rothmans 12 Hour International Sports Car Race and nearly winning the Indianapolis 500 on his first attempt, only to be denied by a broken scavenge pump while leading by over a lap with eight laps to go. Despite the fact that Stewart had the race completely in hand, but lost solely by mechanical failure, he was awarded Rookie of the Year awards. Despite the winner, Graham Hill, was also a rookie in Indianapolis. Stewart appeared on Le Mans test day in 1966, driving a Ford GT40 Mk II version of Holman & Moody and Alan Mann Racing's Ford GT40.

BRM's fortunes did not improve in 1967, despite closely contested the Tasman Series with Jim Clark, who undoubtedly raced closer and harder with him than at any other time in their careers. Although Clark normally won, Stewart claimed a victory in the New Zealand Grand Prix, with Clark attempting to run him down in the last laps with bodywork flying off his Lotus. The BRMs were still struggling with reliability issues, and Stewart came in second place at Spa, although they were forced to drive one-handed while keeping the vehicle in gear with the other. In F2, he won events at Karlskoga, Enna, Oulton Park, and Albi, as part of a Tyrrell-entered Matra MS5 or MS7. At the 10th round of the World Sportscar Championship at the time, he came in 2nd, leading a works-entered Ferrari at Brands Hatch. Stewart also attempted to run in the 1967 National 500 NASCAR championship, but did not qualify for the event.

He moved to Tyrrell's Matra International team, where he raced a Matra MS10-Cosworth in Formula One for 1968. With the Matra MS9 development mule, he got off to a promising start in South Africa, but in heavy rain at Zandvoort, his first victory of the season was delayed. In rain and fog, the Nürburgring triumph was followed by another win, where he won by a margin of four minutes. He also won at Watkins Glen, but his car died in Mexico City, and so he lost the drivers' title to Hill.

Stewart had a number of races where he absolutely controlled the opposition, such as winning by over two laps at Montjuc and a lap at Silverstone. Stewart became the world champion after winning further at Kyalami, Zandvoort, and Monza. He was the first driver to win the world championship in a French car as well as in a privateer entry. Stewart rode at least one lap of every World Championship Grand Prix this year, and he remains the only driver to do so.

Matra insisted on using their own V12 engines for 1970, while Tyrrell and Stewart wanted to keep the Cosworth and maintain their connection to Ford, which was in opposition with Matra's new links to Chrysler. Tyrrell wanted to build his own car and purchased a chassis from March Engineering in the interim; Stewart took the March 701-Cosworth to wins at the Daily Mail Race of Champions and Jarama but the Lotus team's new 72 advanced the car quickly, but it was soon defeated by the Lotus team's new 72. The latest Tyrrell 001-Cosworth appeared in August and had a failure in August but showed promise. Tyrrell continued to be sponsored by French fuel company Elf, and Stewart raced in a French Racing Blue car for many years. Stewart won at Crystal Palace and placed at Thruxton, where he continued to compete sporadically in Formula Two. Because of McQueen's inability to obtain insurance, a planned Le Mans appearance to co-drive the 4.5 litre Porsche 917K with Steve McQueen did not happen. In Can-Am's grand Chaparral 2J, he had a one-off race. Stewart came in third in what was the car's first outing, but a brake failure ended his race.

Stewart won the Formula One world championship in 1971 using the Tyrrell 003-Cosworth, winning Spain, Monaco, France, Britain, Germany, and Canada. He spent a full season in Can-Am, driving a Carl Haas sponsored Lola T260-Chevrolet. Stewart was the only driver able to challenge the McLarens driven by Denny Hulme and Peter Revson during the 1971 season. Stewart won two events at Mont Tremblant and Mid Ohio, and finished 3rd in the championship.

Stewart's medical problems arose as a result of the strain of racing year round and on several continents. Despite suffering mononucleosis and crossing the Atlantic Ocean 186 times due to media commitments in the United States, he won the 1971 world championship. He missed the Belgian Grand Prix at Nivelles due to gastritis and had to cancel plans to drive a Can-Am McLaren, but finished second in the drivers' standings, second to Emerson Fittipaldi. Stewart also competed in a Ford Capri RS2600 in the European Touring Car Championship, alongside F1 teammate François Cevert and other F1 pilots, during a period when the rivalry between Ford and BMW was at an all-time peak. They came in second at the 6 Hours of Paul Ricard, their highest result. Stewart was also awarded the OBE in 1972.

Stewart had to return to England in 1973 after getting to that age. He has also gained success in South Africa, Belgium, Monaco, and the Netherlands. Tyrrell's last and then historic 27th victory came at the Nürburgring, winning by 1–2 on Tyrrell. "Nothing gave me more joy than to win at the Nürburgring, and yet I was always afraid." Stewart later said that he had to be recalled. "I used to pause at the end of the driveway and take a long look back before heading home for the German Grand Prix." I was never positive that I'd return home again." Stewart retired one race earlier than planned and missed what would have been his 100th Grand Prix after his teammate, François Cevert, died in preparations for the 1973 United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. Stewart had already won the Italian Grand Prix two times at the Italian Grand Prix two races before; this was a race where Stewart had to come into the pits to change a flat tyre and finish fourth, rather than fourth.

Stewart held the record for most victories by a Formula One driver (27) for 14 years until Alain Prost won the 1987 Portuguese Grand Prix, setting the record for most major titles won by a British Formula One driver for 19 years before Nigel Mansell claimed the 1992 British Grand Prix. Stewart said in his commentary for Channel 9 during qualifying for the 1988 Australian Grand Prix that he had been asked several times if he was concerned about losing his reputation to Prost, and that he was delighted that his name had been taken by someone of Prost's calibre as he considered him to be the best driver in Formula One.

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