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Jackie Stewart Biography

Sir John Young "Jackie" Stewart, OBE (born 11 June 1939) is a British former Formula One racing driver from Scotland. Nicknamed the "Flying Scot", he competed in Formula One between 1965 and 1973, winning three World Drivers' Championships, and twice finishing as runner-up over those nine seasons.

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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.

Improve, Leadership, Past, Time, Years

For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you've probably experienced more in seven minutes. . . than most people have experienced in all their life in the way of fear, in the way of tension, in the way of animosity towards machinery and to a racetrack.

Lap, Machinery, People, Quick, Way

Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.

Cases, Good, Good Luck, Luck, Misfortune, Misfortunes Of Others

From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died.

Chance, Drivers, Five, Years

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.

Champion, Hear, Might, People, Wolrd

Cornering perfectly is like bringing a woman to climax.

Climax, Like, Perfectly, Racing, Woman

Sometimes you need to ease off in order to go faster

Ease, Faster, Needs, Order

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

Driver, Racing, Retired, Today, Very Happy

When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.

Accident, Air, Driver, Fire, Surprised, Toxic

Cornering is like bringing a woman to a climax. Both you and the car must work together. You start to enter the area of excitement at the corner, you set up a pace which is right for the car and after you've told it it is coming along with you, you guide it along at a rhythm which has by now become natural. Only after you've cleared the corner you can both take pleasure in knowing it's gone well.

Car, Knowing, Natural, Together, Work, Working Together

There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.

Fire, Impact, Impacts, Incredibly, Technology

There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.

Car, Eat, Enough, Ferrari, Racing, Spaghetti

Nobody's perfect, but all of us can be better than we are.

Nobody'S Perfect, Perfect, Self Improvement

In my sport, the quick are too often listed among the dead

Among, Dead, Listed, Quick, Sport, Sports