Sir John Young Stewart, better known as Jackie Stewart was born in 11 June 1939 in Milton, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. He is nicknamed as the flying Scot. Jackie Stewart competed in formula one between 1965 and 1973 winning three world championship titles. He also competed in the Can Am championship.
In 1964 he drove in Formula Three for Ken Tyrrell and won his first race at Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit. Since Tyrrell did not compete in Formula One at that time, he joined BRM alongside Graham Hill in 1965. On his debut in South Africa he scored his first championship points. His first major competition victory came in BRDC International Trophy, and before the end of the year he won his first world championship race at Monza.
In 1966 he almost win the Indianapolis 500 in his first attempt, were he was leading the race by over a lap, with eight laps to go, when his scavenge broke. Having had the race fully in hand and sidelined only by a mechanical failure he won the rookie of the year honors. In Formula One, he switched to Ken Tyrrell's team where he drove Matra chassis during the 1968 and 1969 seasons. His winning drive during the rain and fog of the 1968 German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring, where he won by a margin of four minutes, is considered as one of
the finest ever, even though his rain tires were probably better than those of the competition Stewart became world champion in 1969 driving a Cosworth-powered Matra MS80. Up until September 2005 when Fernando Alonso in a Renault became champion, he was the only driver to have won the championship driving for a French marque and, as Alonso's Renault was actually built in the UK, Stewart remains the only driver to win the world championship in a French-built car.
Stewart went on to win the Formula One world championship in 1971 using the excellent Tyrrell 003 and again in 1973.
His last and then record-setting 27th GP victory, came at the 1973 German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring with a convincing 1-2 for Tyrrell. After the fatal crash of his teammate Franηois Cevert in practice for the 1973 United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, Stewart retired one race earlier than intended and missed what would have been his 100th GP.
