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  Jackie Stewart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Sir John Young Stewart, MBE (born 11 June 1939 in Milton, West Dunbartonshire), better known as Jackie Stewart, and nicknamed The Flying Scot, is a Scottish three-time Formula One racing champion.
Jackie's early involvement with cars was in the family business, Dumbuck Garage, in Milton, where he worked as an apprentice mechanic.
Jackie's father had been a motorcycle racer, and Jackie's brother Jimmy was a racing driver with a growing local reputation.
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 Jackie Stewart - Wikipedia
In seiner ersten Saison konnte Jackie Stewart die in ihn gesteckten Erwartungen voll erfüllen, indem er den dritten Rang in der Gesamtwertung der Formel-1-Weltmeisterschaft belegte und in Monza seinen ersten Großen Preis gegen seinen Teamkollegen Graham Hill errang.
Der neue Tyrrell 001 konnte mit Stewart in den letzten drei Rennen der Saison tatsächlich neue Maßstäbe setzen - außer in der Zuverlässigkeit.
Jackie Stewart, mittlerweile verheiratet und Vater zweier Söhne, versprach seiner Frau Helen, nach der Saison 1973, Schluss mit dem Rennsport zu machen.
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 Famous Scots - Jackie Stewart
Born in Dumbartonshire on 11 June 1939, Jackie Stewart was educated at Dumbarton Academy.
Stewart moved on to BRM and Formula 1 in 1965 and won his first Grand Prix at Monza in Italy, finishing third in the World Championship in his first season.
Stewart remained as chairman of Stewart Grand Prix with his son as deputy chairman.
www.rampantscotland.com /famous/blfamstewartj.htm   (439 words)

  
 Jackie Stewart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Jackie's brother Jimmy was a racing driver with a growing local reputation.
Jackie Stewart impressed all who were in attendance that day.
Jackie came down for the test and took over a car that Bruce McLaren[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] was testing.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jackie_stewart.htm   (1392 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Jackie Stewart has tumour removed
Formula One legend Jackie Stewart is recovering from an operation to remove a pre-cancerous tumour from his cheek, it has emerged.
Stewart's wife Helen is still recovering from breast cancer and just two years ago his son, Paul, was diagnosed with cancer of the colon, which is now in remission.
Sir Jackie was born in Dumbartonshire as the son of a garage owner and he entered Formula One, after a spell in F3, with the BRM team in 1965.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/2517517.stm   (372 words)

  
 Jackie Stewart - The London Speaker Bureau
Jackie Stewart competed against some of the great names of Grand Prix legend: fellow-Scot Jim Clark, to whom he was so close, Gurney, Surtees, Hill, Rindt, Fittipaldi and their peers.
Jackie Stewart has been recognised as a sportsman, by the award of the OBE, and as an inspirational motivational speaker by honorary doctorates from as far afield as Michigan, Glasgow Caledonian University, Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, and most recently at the University of Stirling.
Jackie Stewart is also President of the Springfield Boy’s Club and the Scottish Dyslexia Trust; Vice-President of the British Dyslexia Association and the Disabled Driving Association; Trustee of the Grand Prix Mechanics Charitable Trust and the Scottish International Education Trust.
www.londonspeakerbureau.co.uk /speakers/viewSpeaker.aspx?speakerid=190   (788 words)

  
 Jackie Stewart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Template:Formula One people 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.
In 1997 Stewart returned to Formula One with Grand Prix as a team owner in with his son Paul and the Ford Company.
Stewart was the master, the first F-1 driver to see and explore the prospects of profits in F-1 racing and also the first to really concern about F-1 security in races.
www.freeglossary.com /Jackie_Stewart   (371 words)

  
 F1A&G - Jackie Stewart
In between, Stewart won the F1 World Championship three times (including 1973, his final season), finished second twice, broke Clark's record for career GP wins and almost single-handedly ushered in the modern era of F1 driver safety.
But Stewart also witnessed the tragic deaths of Clark, Jochen Rindt and many other friends and colleagues in the dangerous pursuit that was 1960s open-wheeled F1 racing.
Jackie Stewart's greatest race may have been in the 1968 German GP at the 14-mile, 187-corner Nürburgring, where in the mist and torrential rain (and driving with a broken wrist) he outpaced the field to win by just over four minutes from Hill.
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 Scotsman.com Sport - Jackie Stewart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
SIR Jackie Stewart announced yesterday that he is to stand down as president of the British Racing Drivers' Club in the spring.
SIR Jackie Stewart went for a walk in Monza's atmospheric royal park, on the outskirts of Milan...
SIR Jackie Stewart faces the toughest battle of his career today as he attempts to hang on to the...
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 Jackie Stewart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Former BRDC president Sir Jackie Stewart's parting gesture to the grand prix at Silverstone was a letter late last week to the British prime minister.
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.
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.
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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Jackie Stewart
When Stewart came into Formula One in 1965 Clark was at the very height of his powers, yet frequently he was the only man ahead of the former Olympic-standard clay pigeon shooter from Dumbarton, who made a quite remarkable debut with BRM.
Stewart, like Clark, had raced initially without parental consent, but elder brother Jimmy was already a racer for the world famous Ecurie Ecosse.
Where his closest rival, Jochen Rindt, was aggressive and flamboyant, Stewart achieved similar results with Clark-like smoothness, precision and persistence, and the acumen for which the Scottish race is famed.
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 Jaguar Racing takes over the Ford Stewart Formula One Racing Team
Jackie Stewart, Chairman of Jaguar Racing said: "The birth of a new Formula One team is always an emotional event and I am proud to be associated, once again, with a marque I drove in the early stages of my career and a marque which has such a distinguished and successful racing heritage.
Jackie Stewart also announced that Jaguar Racing would continue to have the enthusiastic support of major partners HSBC, MCI Worldcom, Lear and Hewlett Packard.
Jackie Stewart, 3 time World F1 Drivers Champion (with Matra 1969, Tyrell 1971 and Lotus 1973) and his son Paul have put together the Stewart Ford Team.
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 8W - Who? - Jackie Stewart
Stewart's quick rise to Grand Prix fame was the ultimate result of being a Jaguar dealer's younger son, but it wasn't a foregone conclusion.
Although Stewart and Tyrrell started off in fine style with a clear victory in Argentina and pole in South Africa and was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his racing accomplishments, his form began to tail off on the Grand Prix circus’ return to Europe.
Jackie’s progress was also halted by 003 becoming more outdated, as the Tyrrell team focused its efforts on completing two new-generation cars, 005 and 006.
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 Grand Prix Hall of Fame - Jackie Stewart - Biography
Stewart: "I lay trapped in the car for twenty-five minutes, unable to be moved.
Jackie Stewart followed through with a decision that he had made at the beginning of the year and retired from racing.
In 1997 Jackie Stewart returns to Formula 1 not as a driver but team owner in partnership with his son and Ford Motor Company.
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 USNews.com: Money: Jackie Stewart on Driving
Stewart, a three-time Formula 1 champion, Jaguar Racing chieftan and handling guru for a generation of Ford vehicles, has a knack for smoothing out the hairiest hairpins, moving through them faster than his competition.
But, as Sir Jackie told us on the winding roads of Marin County, it doesn't take a race-car driver to be a champion when it comes to driving well.
Jackie says many of the same principles he uses on the track apply on the Interstate as well.
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 Ford Motor Company - Press Release - FORD HONOURS SIR JACKIE STEWART AS THEIR 40-YEAR BUSINESS ASSOCIATION DRAWS TO A ...
Stewart and Ford have agreed to conclude their formal association which began in 1964 when the up-and-coming Scottish racing driver was given his first contract to promote Ford products in Britain.
Stewart brought a new level of professionalism to the profile of the Grand Prix driver, and built on this stature in his post-racing career, epitomising the sport’s transformation from a purely sporting focus to a commercialised environment.
Stewart’s talent was spotted early by Ford when Walter Hayes, who would later become the godfather of Ford’s Formula One programme and Ford’s global head of communications, approached the young driver at a motor show in London in 1964.
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 The Official Formula 1 Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In his six seasons with Tyrrell, Stewart was nearly always the driver to beat and remained so until he retired at the end of 1973 at the age of 34.
Stewart was well-placed to cash in on the dividends provided by the arrival of major sponsors when Formula One racing became a global television spectacle - a phenomenon in which he also played a major role.
He was always a winner (even his new Stewart Grand Prix team won in 1999 before he sold it to Ford, who re-branded it Jaguar, which went nowhere) and Jackie Stewart remains one of the best known Formula One champions.
www.formula1.com /archive/halloffame/driver/127.html   (1153 words)

  
 thewireweb: Music > Celebrity Interviews > Jackie Stewart
In the early days of mp3.com, a number of cyber-divas emerged onto the scene and one such emergence was that of Jackie Stewart.
Jackie: I teach private singing lessons, free lance vocal direct at children's theaters, vocal arranging for San Jose state, and work at elementary schools through an outreach program to bring musical theater into the schools.
Jackie: Well, my husband/family are the most important things to me. It would be nice to make a career in music (Broadway, opera, pop, anything), but that's not what it's all about to me. Being a teacher, I like to see people inspired or happy.
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 Jackie Stewart News
Out-going British Racing Drivers' Club president Sir Jackie Stewart admitted to those present at the club's AGM that the biggest regret of his time in office had been the failure to get government backing for...
Damon Hill is on the verge of succeeding Jackie Stewart as president of the British Racing Drivers' Club, the body that runs Silverstone race track, Britain's Formula One venue.
Stewart standing down as BRDC President Management restructuring in place at the BRDC Stewart is not seeking re-election of the BRDC The British Racing Drivers' Club announced today that Sir Jackie Stewart,...
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 The racing driver Jackie Stewart.
Born John Young Stewart in Dumbartonshire in 1939, Jackie Stewart was to become was of the greatest racing drivers ever, excelling in Formula One.
In 1963, a customer had heard that Jackie was quite good behind the wheel and persuaded him to race a Formula Three car at Oulton Park, England, much to his parents dismay.
In 1997 however, Jackie Stewart returned as the chairman of Stewart Racing, in an environment that, largely thanks to him, was far safer for drivers and spectators alike.
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 Scotsman.com News - Jackie Stewart - Sir Jackie still stopping the traffic 40 years on   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
SIR Jackie Stewart went for a walk in Monza's atmospheric royal park, on the outskirts of Milan, on Sunday armed with a chipped tartan-trimmed white crash helmet, a less than burnished and uninscribed trophy plus a 1965 motorsport annual.
The wheel-to-wheel racing, Sir Jackie recalls, turned out to be less dangerous than the enthusiastic crowd, who trapped the new champion and his wife Helen in a toilet block, before they took refuge in a tyre truck, which was nearly overturned.
SIR Jackie Stewart believes Michael Schumacher should have quit at the end of last season when he was at his peak, writes Ian Parkes.
news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=665&id=1895762005   (1320 words)

  
 Jackie Stewart - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Member
Although diminutive in size, Jackie Stewart, "The Flying Scot," was a giant in racing circles.
In 1972, a bleeding ulcer plagued Stewart's efforts, and he thought about retiring, even though his many endorsements and public appearances had made him one of the most recognizable figures in racing.
Although now retired, Stewart remains an eloquent spokesman for racing, through television commentary and other means, and is especially keen on racing safety.
www.motorsportshalloffame.com /halloffame/1990/Jackie_Stewart_main.htm   (578 words)

  
 Jackie Stewart News, Information and Gossip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The special relationship Jackie Stewart establishes with her chemistry students has helped win her a state award.
Stewart, who teaches at Quincy High School, has been named the Chemistry Industry Council of Illinois' Teacher of the Year and received the 2006 Davidson Award.
End of the season is too late - Stewart : Sir Jackie Stewart has expressed doubt that Ferrari is really giving Michael Schumacher until the end of the year to make his decision whether to race or not in 2007.
www.sportsblogz.com /JackieStewart   (182 words)

  
 Jackie Stewart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Lorsqu'on pense à Jackie Stewart, on a immédiatement l'image d'une Tyrrell bleue qui remporte encore une autre victoire, et d'un pilote avec des lunettes noires et des favoris.
Aujourd'hui, Jackie Stewart s'occupe d'un organisme qui aide les mécaniciens victimes d'accidents.
Jackie s'est associé avec son fils Paul, qui gère une équipe de course très active en Formule 3000, en Formule 3 et en Formule Vauxhall, pour revenir en Formule 1 en 1997 sous les couleurs de Stewart Racing.
www.f1-legend.com /histoire/pilotes/pil_stewart.htm   (992 words)

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