Jackie Stewart has been unwell
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EmailAddress said:
Comes across as a bitter, narcissistic, racist to me, but I've never met the chap so I've only got decades of interviews and television appearances to base my opinion on.
Certainly have to respect his achievements towards bettering the sport he loves.
This is pretty much my opinion too, seems like doing a lot for safety sixty years ago now means you can have racist, bigoted views unchallenged…Certainly have to respect his achievements towards bettering the sport he loves.
FNG said:
I didn’t know he was a racist, I have to say.
What’s he gone and said?
Some of his comments about a certain driver, come across as both racist and classist. He thinks that motorsport is for a certain type of gentleman, and not for the black kids from the ‘hood (to paraphrase only slightly). What’s he gone and said?
Personally, as a massive LH fan, I think that JS is a character of his age, and find it difficult to hold much against him given all the work he did on safety.
I don’t think he means ill, he’s 84 and I’m sure many of us have parents and grandparents who say something slightly out of line by modern standards now and again.
Sandpit Steve said:
Some of his comments about a certain driver, come across as both racist and classist. He thinks that motorsport is for a certain type of gentleman, and not for the black kids from the ‘hood (to paraphrase only slightly).
Personally, as a massive LH fan, I think that JS is a character of his age, and find it difficult to hold much against him given all the work he did on safety.
I don’t think he means ill, he’s 84 and I’m sure many of us have parents and grandparents who say something slightly out of line by modern standards now and again.
Certain driver with, ironically, a Scottish slave-owner's family name.Personally, as a massive LH fan, I think that JS is a character of his age, and find it difficult to hold much against him given all the work he did on safety.
I don’t think he means ill, he’s 84 and I’m sure many of us have parents and grandparents who say something slightly out of line by modern standards now and again.
I find him a closet racist that lets his guard slip occasionally, like many of his generation. Being over 80, you would expect him to have learnt a thing or two.
I was a big fan of Clark and after his death, Stewart always seemed to be a sort of imitation of his compatriot, a pound shop version.
But he was denigrated and criticised by various media, particularly Motor Sport, as they didn't like the playboy image - long hair, flash wife, flashier clothes, yet Moss et al were always seen with a selection of girls hanging on their every word and every arm. He had a way with him that wasn't seen as normal racing driver stuff, and when he started the safety drive, vitriol was heaped on him from the media, again particularly Motor Sport. I actually cancelled my subscription to the mag and didn't read it again for decades. That showed 'em.
I became a fan of his. Brave on the circuits, and as brave, if not more so, off it. Mind you, he has brought whining to an art form.
He's good and bad, just like any other driver. Just like any of us. He has his attitudes instilled as a youth and seems happy with them. I had mine instilled by whom I now realise were enlightened parents and I'm happy with mine, so perhaps a bit of understanding might be called for. Sartorially, he's an affront to the eyes. If he is a racist, he only occasionally lets it slip. His views on Hamilton are laughable at times. He's not so much yesterday's man as last week's and should be viewed as and old grandfather who can be unintentionally hyper-amusing at the Xmas lunch table, to be excused by 'that's just him'. I'm willing to cut him a bit of slack given the thrill of following him back in the day and the work he did with safety.
I wish him well.
But he was denigrated and criticised by various media, particularly Motor Sport, as they didn't like the playboy image - long hair, flash wife, flashier clothes, yet Moss et al were always seen with a selection of girls hanging on their every word and every arm. He had a way with him that wasn't seen as normal racing driver stuff, and when he started the safety drive, vitriol was heaped on him from the media, again particularly Motor Sport. I actually cancelled my subscription to the mag and didn't read it again for decades. That showed 'em.
I became a fan of his. Brave on the circuits, and as brave, if not more so, off it. Mind you, he has brought whining to an art form.
He's good and bad, just like any other driver. Just like any of us. He has his attitudes instilled as a youth and seems happy with them. I had mine instilled by whom I now realise were enlightened parents and I'm happy with mine, so perhaps a bit of understanding might be called for. Sartorially, he's an affront to the eyes. If he is a racist, he only occasionally lets it slip. His views on Hamilton are laughable at times. He's not so much yesterday's man as last week's and should be viewed as and old grandfather who can be unintentionally hyper-amusing at the Xmas lunch table, to be excused by 'that's just him'. I'm willing to cut him a bit of slack given the thrill of following him back in the day and the work he did with safety.
I wish him well.
None of us are perfect. He’s fundamentally a good man who saved countless lives by being stubborn and outspoken. Underneath it all he’s a lovely bloke who has spent a lot of his life caring for his brother and now his wife.
I’m also entirely biased because he also showed great kindness to my father and even took the time to call me after his death. Didn’t have to but he did.
I’m also entirely biased because he also showed great kindness to my father and even took the time to call me after his death. Didn’t have to but he did.
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