"Sir John Young" ""Jackie"" "Stewart", Order of the British Empire/OBE is a Formula One drivers from Great Britain/British former Formula One racing driver from Scotland.

List of motorsports people by nickname#F/Nicknamed the "Flying Scot", he competed in Formula One between 1965 and 1973, winning three List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions/World Drivers' Championships. He also competed in Can-Am. In 2009 he was ranked fifth of the fifty greatest Formula One drivers of all time by journalist Kevin Eason who wrote: "He has not only emerged as a great driver, but one of the greatest figures of motor racing."

He is well known in the United States as a color commentator (pundit) of racing television broadcasts having worked in that role in the Indianapolis 500, Daytona 500 and the Monaco Grand Prix from 1971 to 1986. In 1976 Stewart became the play-by-play announcer for the 1976 Winter and 1976 Summer Olympics, and he served as Presenter/host of the Indianapolis 500 coverage for Wide World of Sports (U.S. TV series)/ABC's Wide World of Sports and ABC Sports, from 1982 to 1984. He has also been a spokesman for Ford Motor Company/Ford, Rolex and Moët.

Between 1997 and 1999, in partnership with his son, Paul Stewart (racing driver)/Paul, he was team principal of the Stewart Grand Prix Formula One racing team.

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It's great to remind yourself where it all began, ... My life has been like a magic carpet ride ever since.

From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died.

He's now walked away, I understand, from that commitment, which is unusual.

This would double the price after seven years - this is unaffordable.

It will be great to work with Rowan as he's a good racer and races in his own cars.

If he had retired last year he would have done so as the complete hero, the dominant person.

During my time as president we have fought many battles, not least almost annually the one to retain the British Grand Prix.

You can never stop thinking about safety. There are always new improvements coming along. The people who work in the sport are creative and new ideas like deformable crash structures are fantastic.

I think Alonso has demonstrated his ability to take on the best of the championship contenders.