Did You Know?....Sir Jackie Stewart.....

[ToraToraTora]

3 times world champion and all round F1 legend Jackie Stewart is also an Olympian. In Rome 1960 Sir Jackie represented GB in the Trap Shooting, widely regarded as the favourite at the time he had a bit of a poor competition by his standards and got bronze.

[Sqad]

Yes...he opened a Trap Shooting Club in Scotland.

[Sqad]

Near Gleneagles I think.

[New Judge]

He taught Princess Anne to shoot clays.

[237SJ]

Yes, he's pally with P Ann. He was with her when I met him. At least he was friendly, unlike her.

[Stickybottle]

After being trapped by his steering wheel at Spa in 1966 Jackie Stewart subsequently always had a spanner taped inside his cockpit

[ToraToraTora]

great story about that SB. He ended up in a barn just off the track at spa with petrol leaking into the car. In his book he said he was just waiting to be burned alive as he could not get out of the car, hence the spanner in future. Graham Hill had stopped to help and they got him out of the car but his race suit was soaked in fuel and burning him so he had to strip off and later arrive back in the pit Bowlock naked in the back of a horse drawn cart a most undignified entrance but grateful to be alive.

[Stickybottle]

Best not post a YouTube video about it TTT

it will only get deleted by the over zealous mod ! Lol

[TTG]

Think his accident led to him leading a group who got safety changes to racing.

[New Judge]

Incredible as it may now seem, seat belts were not made mandatory in F1 until 1972 (JS began his F1 career in 1965). Drivers (so the saying goes) preferred to be thrown clear in the event of a crash. Mind you, they may not have so silly as that sounds. The incidence of fire in F1 cars following a collision was horrendously high. Fuel tanks were no better than in a family car (the fuel "cells" used today are made of Kevlar). Fuel was sloshed about in the pits in jerry cans and open churns. Pit fires were commonplace. Proper medical facilities were rare at F1 meetings. After JS had his crash in Spa he was rescued by fellow drivers and was taken back to the pits on the back of a pick up truck, where he had to wait until an ambulance was called. This took him to the track's first aid post where he had to wait for another ambulance to take him to Liege hospital. The ambulance driver got lost on the way to the hospital. Happy days!