Talk:Jackie Stewart

message: Re this bit - "It was at Indianapolis and I was getting depressed by the pace of my life, the limit of being at home."
 
It is worth pointing out that (due to various delays) the 1973 Indy 500 (which Stewart commentated on for ABC) took place on Wednesday May 30 and not on the previous Sunday as planned, and the Monaco GP (which he won) was then on Sunday 3 June (with practice and qualifying for it taking place even earlier in that same week). It just gives an idea of how crammed his schedule had become.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Indianapolis_500
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Monaco_Grand_Prix  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr gobrien (talk • contribs) 11:30, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Very crowded 1973 schedule

message: Should there be a mention that he "cameos" in the music video for the Robbie Williams song "Supreme"?
(Specifically, footage of Jackie from the 1970s is spliced with footage of Robbie, to make it look like they were both 1970s racing drivers). --Athcnv 20:25, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia 

message: What the devil was McLaren doing testing an F3 car?
:Just part of his job as a works Cooper driver. DH85868993 13:00, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: List of Formula One fatal accidents identifies 11 drivers who have been killed in F1 cars since Stewart's retirement. Off the top of my head, I can't think of an individual season before Stewart's retirement in which more than 11 F1 drivers were killed, so it's possibly a bit of a stretch. DH85868993 13:00, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Slow down!

message: He was awarded an honourary degree from University of Edinburgh in 2006, is this ok to add? Or is it not that notable? James (talk) 12:45, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: To my knowledge he has several, IIRC 1997 one from Glasgow Caledonian University.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.219.195.8 (talk) 12:03, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Degree 

message: Should Jackie's nationality be listed as British or Scottish? Krashski35 (talk) 13:21, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nationality of F1 drivers has been standardised as the nationality of their racing licence, so JYS is listed as British. The lead makes clear that he is Scottish. -- Ian Dalziel (talk) 13:24, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nationality 

message: This page
http://www.formula1.com/teams_and_drivers/hall_of_fame/127/
says Jackie won all of his Championships with BRM. It never even mentions Matra. Whats up?
--158.106.52.10 (talk) 16:17, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it says he won them all with Tyrrell, which is true - one with the Tyrrell Matra-Cosworth, two with Tyrrell-Cosworths. -- Ian Dalziel (talk) 22:21, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Team Jackie won his championships with 

message: "During Stewart's F1 career, the chances of an F1 driver who raced for five years being killed in a crash were two out of three."
While the number of drivers killed in crashes was undoubtably high, a perfunctory examination of the numbers reveals the 'two out of three' to be an exaggeration. Many of the drivers of the time also raced in Formula 2, Le Mans, Indianapolis, and other events such as hillclimbing and sports car races. Of those who started the 1965 season 11 out of 49 died in crashes during their careers, and 5 of these were F1 related. The majority of the drivers of Stewart's era who raced for five seasons or more actually survived.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.9.97.204 (talk) 09:24, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mortality rate? 

message: This section currently reads " The marshals had no tools to help him, and it took his teammate Hill and Bob Bondurant, who had both also crashed nearby, to get him out." I saw him on TV last night describing the accident and he related that Hill pulled over and stopped to help him "when he could have carried on racing". He mentioned nothing about Hill crashing. danno 17:37, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Both spun without hitting anything, I think. --Ian Dalziel (talk) 22:30, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you're right. There's a clip on YouTube of Graham Hill talking about Stewart's crash. Hill spun off at the same place and it was only by chance that he spotted Stewart's car in a ditch - I don't think he'd have seen it from the track. Halmyre (talk) 06:32, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spa crash 

message: How long has he lived there?  Can anyone find something that verifies this 'fact'?  Not saying it's not true, I just though he still lived in Switzerland.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boredreiver (talk • contribs) 15:50, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This interview indicates that he has had a home in Buckinghamshire since at least April 2009, and that he also has a home near Lake Geneva. DH85868993 (talk) 02:02, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buckinghamshire? 

message: To be pedantic, are we sure that he was born in Milton, West Dunbartonshire?  Even in 1939 probably most mothers gave birth in a maternity hospital rather than at home.  As it happens, there was a maternity hospital at Overtoun, which was arguably within Milton, which might have been open in 1939 although it is now closed.  However he could have been born further afield e.g. in Braehome in Helensburgh or even Lennoxtown. PatGallacher (talk) 00:08, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Our usual source  says Milton, same as his brother. If any sources can be dug up to suggest somewhere else, then it can be changed. His autobiography should clear it up, if anyone has a copy. Bretonbanquet (talk) 00:19, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the Wikipedia entry for Overtoun House, it didn't become a Maternity Hospital until 1947. The Statutory Register of Births indicates that there was a John Young Stewart born in the parish of West Kilpatrick in 1939, which rules out Lennoxtown and Helensburgh. I'll check the autobiography when I can lay my hands on it. Halmyre (talk) 07:16, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

text:  UPDATE - I've checked the autobiography and he does say that both he and his brother were born at the family home in Milton (on the dining-room table!). Halmyre (talk) 13:58, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Pretty impressive stuff. I bet Vettel wasn't born like that. Bretonbanquet (talk) 21:40, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

text: OK, done. Halmyre (talk) 09:55, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Place of birth 

message: This BBC profile  has good stuff on his safety campaigning. Onanoff (talk) 20:06, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: More ingredients

message: There are three places in the article currently that mention the spectator's spanner. Two of them contain paragraph-length descriptions of how this incident intensified his interest in safety. One of those ought to be removed. I think it should be the first one, but I'll leave the decision to you folks who have been working on this fine article. 98.247.224.9 (talk) 02:43, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I've had a shot although I think it could do with a bit more work and tidy up e.g. the consistency - the article constantly switches between referring to the names of Grands Prix or the names of the tracks, for instance. I've cut back on the commentator references in the lead-in and replaced it with a line about his safety campaign, which is surely more notable. Halmyre (talk) 07:33, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  That spanner 

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message: The source does not say this was said by Stewart - it simply states this as fact. This seems to have been changed following complaints on this talk page that the figure is obviously an exaggeration - but seeing as those complaints still stand, this line should probably be removed. --Eldomtom2 (talk) 20:39, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "By Stewart's reckoning, a driver who raced for five years had a two-thirds chance of being killed in a crash"