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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy. |
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Vote: | I think probably fire was the biggest concern, and there were a number of accidents involving fire, in particular those befalling Piers Courage, Jo Schlesser and Clay Regazzoni. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Nobody wants a big accident. But I believe there is a degree of complacency because we haven't lost a driver in Formula 1 since that terrible weekend in Imola over 10 years now, and before that Elio de Angelis was killed in testing eight years before that. |
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Vote: | The biggest issue for anyone who wants to do improvements is you need the money to afford them, and we are doing what we can to afford them. |
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Vote: | The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world. |
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Vote: | There were a lot of conscientious drivers. In particular Jo Bonnier, Graham Hill, Jody Scheckter and Denny Hulme. |
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Vote: | There were no medical facilities, but now today it is like an intensive care unit. Who would want to argue against that? People were dying regularly. |
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Vote: | This is undoubtedly the most important moment in my racing career. I have won Grands Prix, I have won world championships, but to win as a Constructor is the highest emotion imaginable. |
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Vote: | We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well. |
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Vote: | We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous. |
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Vote: | We're relieved that we've been able to retain the British Grand Prix in this country, as I'm sure Bernie is too. |
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Vote: | When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion, but I haven't seen a weekend where he doesn't go off the circuit. At every race he always has a spin or runs through the gravel trap. He usually doesn't hit anything, but nevertheless it is an error that could not have been made in the days I raced. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | You can never stop thinking about safety. There are always new improvements coming along. The people who work in the sport are creative and new ideas like deformable crash structures are fantastic. |
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Vote: | You will always have the best drivers of each era, and they will always be the best of that time, and they are Jim Clark, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Juan Manuel Fangio, Ayrton Senna. |
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Sir John Young Stewart OBE (born June 11, 1939 in Dumbartonshire, Scotland), better known as Jackie Stewart, is a three-time Formula One racing champion representing Great Britain. He has been appointed an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire). He's also well known as a commentator of racing television broadcasts where his accent made him a distinctive presence.
Jackie's early involvement with cars was in the family business, Dumbuck Garage, in Dumbarton, Scotland, where he worked as an apprentice mechanic. His family were Jaguar dealers and had built up a successful practice. Jackie's brother Jimmy was a racing driver with a growing local reputation. He drove for Ecurie Ecosse and actually competed in the British Grand Prix of 1953, or at least he did until he went off at Copse in the wet. It was only natural that Jackie would soon become involved in motor racing like his older brother. After his brother was injured in a crash at Le Mans the sport was discouraged by their parents and Jackie took up shooting. In target shooting Stewart made a name for himself and almost made it to the Olympics only just missing the team for 1960.
But he took up an offer from Barry Filer, a customer of his family business, to test in a number of his cars at Oulten Park. Jackie Stewart impressed all who were in attendance that day. Ken Tyrrell who was running the Formula Junior team for Cooper heard of this young Scotsman from a track manager and called up his brother Jimmy to see if his younger brother was interested in a tryout. Jackie came down for the test and took over a car that Bruce McLaren was testing. McLaren at that time was already an experienced Formula One driver and the new Cooper F3 was a very competitive car in its class. Soon Stewart was besting the times of McLaren causing McLaren to return to the track for some quick laps. Again Stewart was faster and Tyrrell seeing the obvious, offered Stewart a spot on the team. This would be the beginning of a great partnership that would see them one day at the pinnacle of the sport. But this was still 1963 and Jackie Stewart still had a lot to learn. In 1964 he drove F3 for Ken Tyrrell and won his first race at Snetterton. Since Tyrrell did not compete in Formula One at that time he joined Graham Hill at BRM in 1965. His first contract netted him £4,000! On his debut in South Africa he scored his first Championship point. Before the end of the year he won his first race at Monza. 1966 saw him almost win the Indianapolis 500 on his first attempt only to be denied by a broken scavenge pump with eight laps to go.
In Formula One, he switched to Ken Tyrrell's team where he drove Matra during the 1968 and 1969 seasons. After a dispute between Tyrrell and Matra concerning the use of Ford engines, Stewart drove a March until Tyrrell built its own cars.
Stewart became world champion in 1969 driving a Cosworth-powered Matra MS80. As of today he is the one and only driver to have won the championship driving a French car. He went on to win the Formula One world championship in 1971 and 1973 with Tyrrell cars. He also received Sports Illustrated magazine's 1973 "Sportsman of the Year" award. In 1990, he was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.
Stewart retired in 1973, subsequently becoming a consultant for the Ford Motor Company. At the same time, he became a spokesman for safer cars and circuits in Formula One. Stewart's concern for safer vehicles in F1 came from his near-death accident in Belgium during a race. Stewart was in flames and it took a terribly long time for the medical assistance to arrive. In 1997 Stewart returned to Formula One, with Stewart Grand Prix, as a team owner in partnership with his son, Paul, and the Ford Motor Company. The team was later bought by Ford and became Jaguar Racing in 2000. More recently, Robbie Williams honored him in his song Supreme. Stewart received a knighthood in 2001.
Victories
*World Champion 1969 Matra
*World Champion 1971 Tyrrell
*World Champion 1973 Tyrrell
...(more on Wikipedia)
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