Persons [ ] Sometimes you Need to Ease off in order to go Faster | Jackie Stewart, 1939-
Jackie Stewart
“When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion, but I haven’t seen a weekend where he doesn’t go off the circuit. At every race he always has a spin or runs through the gravel trap. He usually doesn’t hit anything, but nevertheless it is an error that could not have been made in the days I raced.”
“Cornering is like bringing a woman to a climax. Both you and the car must work together. You start to enter the area of excitement at the corner, you set up a pace which is right for the car and after you’ve told it it is coming along with you, you guide it along at a rhythm which has by now become natural. Only after you’ve cleared the corner you can both take pleasure in knowing it’s gone well.”
“Sometimes you need to ease off in order to go faster.”
“For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you’ve probably experienced more in seven minutes…than most people have experienced in all their life in the way of fear, in the way of tension, in the way of animosity towards machinery and to a racetrack.”
“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.”
“In my sport, the quick are too often listed among the dead.
“There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.”
“Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.”
“Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver.”
“There’s enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.”
“I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.”
“Nobody’s perfect, but all of us can be better than we are.”
Jackie Stewart, 1939-
Racing driver
Competed in Formula 1 from 1965 to 1973. Nicknamed “the Flying Scot”. Stewart won three Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship titles and held the records for most wins (27) and podium finishes (43).
