Scottish racing driver
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He won three world championships and 27 races in nine seasons, then walked away holding every major Formula One record. But the harder fight was the one he waged off the track — dragging a sport that killed drivers every few months into an era where they might actually survive a crash.
Born 11 June 1939 in Scotland, John Young Stewart entered Formula One in 1965 and earned the nickname "the Flying Scot" for the speed that brought him three World Drivers' Championship titles with Tyrrell and, by his 1973 retirement, records for most wins and podium finishes that stood for decades. He finished runner-up twice across those nine seasons and remained the only British driver with three titles until Lewis Hamilton matched him in 2015. He nearly won the Indianapolis 500 on his first attempt in 1966 and raced Can-Am before stepping back from the cockpit to become a television comment…
Sourced, dated quotes from Jackie Stewart
I would have been a much more popular World Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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