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Sir John Young "Jackie" Stewart OBE (born 11 June 1939) is a British former racing driver, broadcaster and motorsport executive from Scotland, who competed in Formula One from 1965 to 1973. Nicknamed " The Flying Scot ", Stewart won three Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles with Tyrrell , [ b ] and—at the time of his retirement ...
Jackie Stewart suffered a puncture early in the race which dropped him to 20th, but charged through the field to finish fourth, which was enough to secure his third (and final) Drivers' Championship. Stewart's Tyrrell teammate François Cevert finished fifth, scoring what would turn out to be the final points of his Formula One career.
Ken Tyrrell had lost a great driver and Jackie Stewart an outstanding teammate at the circuit where Cevert had taken his only Grand Prix win. "It was a horrendous accident which took the life of a wonderfully charming, personable, handsome young man, who was a tremendous friend to both Helen and me," Stewart said.
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The 1966 Tasman Championship for Drivers was a motor racing competition for racing cars [1] complying with the Tasman Formula. [2] The championship was jointly organised by the Association of New Zealand Car Clubs Inc. and the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport. [1]
When Jackie Stewart was injured, driving for BRM, in 1966, both he and Stanley were unimpressed with the medical help available at the circuit. [3] Stanley became a strong ally of Stewart in his campaign to improve safety and created the International Grand Prix Medical Service in 1967.
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