0:00:02 > 0:00:06I'm James Martin, chef and unreserved petrol-head.
0:00:06 > 0:00:08CAR ENGINE REVS
0:00:08 > 0:00:12Now I'm going to retrace the steps of one of my all-time heroes,
0:00:12 > 0:00:16'70s F1 legend, Sir Jackie Stewart...
0:00:16 > 0:00:18I'm Jackie Stewart and I'm a racing driver.
0:00:18 > 0:00:22..by attempting to drive just like Jackie.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Smooth, smooth, smooth.
0:00:24 > 0:00:26Right on the limit!
0:00:26 > 0:00:27It's Jackie Stewart!
0:00:27 > 0:00:29I'll discover a tale of triumph...
0:00:29 > 0:00:32- COMMENTATOR:- It puts Jackie Stewart amongst the all-time greats.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34..and tragedy.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36It was in the fifth lap that something went wrong.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39JACKIE STEWART: I was in tears when I put my visor down.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42Jackie Stewart was an icon to a generation...
0:00:42 > 0:00:45Jackie Stewart's sunglasses, £2.95.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47..who changed motorsport forever.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51The most important thing to me is to live to be a very old man.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56And now I'm going to experience the Jackie Stewart story...
0:00:56 > 0:00:57from the driver's seat.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01That's how Jackie Stewart did it!
0:01:01 > 0:01:04- And for a cook you're doing very well.- I do all right!
0:01:13 > 0:01:16Since becoming a head chef in my early 20s,
0:01:16 > 0:01:21there's always been something else in the back of my mind.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Cars.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27I'm pretty sure I'm a petrol head. I've got olive oil through this vein
0:01:27 > 0:01:29and I think I've got petrol running round this vein.
0:01:29 > 0:01:34Motor vehicles are a huge part of my life. I like model cars.
0:01:34 > 0:01:38When I bought this house, it was a small, two-bedroom bungalow.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42One of my idols there, the legend Steve McQueen. Bedroom bike.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46I actually didn't live in the house cos the first thing I built was the garages.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Starting to get into the boys room now.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52The garages had underfloor heating, were air-conditioned.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Fuel pumps here. Nelson Piquet's helmet. Classic.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58I was having a bath with a measuring jug to wash my hair.
0:01:58 > 0:02:03Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe, one of my pride and joys. 288 GTO, 1985.
0:02:03 > 0:02:08I lived in that for seven years while the cars were living in luxury
0:02:08 > 0:02:11but...for me, I'm in a dream.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14CAR ENGINE REVS LOUDLY
0:02:14 > 0:02:19I love this car, you can always hear the turbos whining.
0:02:19 > 0:02:24To me, the 1960s and 1970s for Formula 1 was a magical era.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27When you're looking back at those old races,
0:02:27 > 0:02:29these cars were sideways most of the time.
0:02:29 > 0:02:30Proper driving.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35I think out of that era came huge legends,
0:02:35 > 0:02:38the most famous of which is, of course, Sir Jackie Stewart.
0:02:38 > 0:02:42Nobody has ever seen the finish of a motor race like this.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44Jackie Stewart racing towards the finishing line.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46In my opinion,
0:02:46 > 0:02:51Jackie Stewart is the greatest person in the history of motorsport.
0:02:51 > 0:02:55I think most people would regard Jackie as the master of the art.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58Just look at what he has done.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02Sir Jackie Stewart is a three-time Formula 1 World Champion.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04It's Jackie Stewart!
0:03:04 > 0:03:09His high-profile safety campaign changed the sport forever.
0:03:09 > 0:03:14If I did not prepare myself for an accident and I think I'd be a fool.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16I think we'll look back on his legacy as the first person
0:03:16 > 0:03:20to be brave enough to stand up and say, "This is not right."
0:03:20 > 0:03:22For all of Jackie's clever thinking,
0:03:22 > 0:03:26there underlies a tremendous driving talent.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35With the '70s icon as my guide, now I'm going to re-trace his steps
0:03:35 > 0:03:40before driving his legendary Tyrell Formula 1 car for myself.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42To be honest, I'm actually quite nervous.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44For God's sake, I've got pictures of him on the wall.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47He might think I'm a stalker!
0:03:47 > 0:03:49But it will be a fascinating insight
0:03:49 > 0:03:51into what it takes to be a racing driver.
0:03:52 > 0:03:53I'm here to see Jackie Stewart.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55GATE INTERCOM BEEPS
0:03:55 > 0:03:56Thank you.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01I'm meeting Sir Jackie for the very first time
0:04:01 > 0:04:04at his 120-acre property in Buckinghamshire.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11He's obviously come a long way from his days working on the forecourt
0:04:11 > 0:04:13of his parents' garage.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19- Morning, James.- Sir Jackie, lovely to meet you.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21- Welcome to Clayton House. - Thank you very much.
0:04:23 > 0:04:28Once the fastest of his generation, Jackie now leads a more sedate life.
0:04:30 > 0:04:31I like the cows.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35First we headed to Jackie's barn,
0:04:35 > 0:04:40which, like any agricultural storage facility, is packed full of F1 cars
0:04:40 > 0:04:42from his days as a team manager.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45And some of the silverware from his 27 wins -
0:04:45 > 0:04:48a record that stood for 14 years.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51- This is just a small selection of what you've got.- Yeah.
0:04:51 > 0:04:52I gave all my big ones away.
0:04:52 > 0:04:57That one there is when I won the Nurburgring by four minutes
0:04:57 > 0:05:01on a very wet and foggy day, so that might be my most cherished.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05- Nurburgring, what was it then, 13 miles?- 14.7 miles around.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09- 180-odd corners or something. - 187 corners.
0:05:09 > 0:05:13- For a cook you're doing very well. - I do all right!
0:05:14 > 0:05:18Next, Jackie wanted me to meet was his wife, Helen,
0:05:18 > 0:05:21a woman to whom he attributes much of his success.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- Helen, this is James.- Hi, there, Lady Helen. Great to see you.
0:05:24 > 0:05:28Jackie has been with Helen since the tender age of 18...
0:05:28 > 0:05:29Press that.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32..and they're still very much in love.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35# The day my true love... #
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Oh, I get shivers up my back!
0:05:38 > 0:05:40THEY LAUGH TOGETHER
0:05:40 > 0:05:44When Helen and I met, I walked in and there was Helen.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47There was a number playing when that happened, we'll never forget it.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50It was Love Letters In The Sand.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52# Love letters in the sand... #
0:05:52 > 0:05:56There can't be that many jet-setting icons with 50-year marriages.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04But then Jackie Stewart isn't your typical racing legend.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07The journey that you went on, what was that moment like
0:06:07 > 0:06:10when he won the Formula One World Championship for the first time?
0:06:10 > 0:06:13I couldn't believe it because...
0:06:13 > 0:06:17I was so proud of him anyway and the fact this had happened to us.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20# People try to put us down
0:06:20 > 0:06:22# Talking 'bout my generation... #
0:06:22 > 0:06:25You were an integral part of Sir Jackie's career.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28I know, without me he wouldn't be world champion!
0:06:28 > 0:06:30But also you were one of the first pit girls.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33You were there timing, you were there at all the races.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35You were looking great on the side of the pits.
0:06:35 > 0:06:36Oh, yeah, but that was the case.
0:06:36 > 0:06:41It was a very exciting, colourful, glamorous period of motorsport.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45He asks my advice on should he keep his hair long?
0:06:45 > 0:06:48I liked the sideburns.
0:06:48 > 0:06:53The sideburns got longer, and the longer they got, the faster I got.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56Was the helmet your idea, the race helmet with the tartan?
0:06:56 > 0:06:57The tartan was.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00We're both very strong Scots.
0:07:00 > 0:07:04Helen got out a sort of silk tartan band.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06It wouldn't go right round, there was a little bit at the back.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09We couldn't afford that much more.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13The Scottish thing. It was a big deal.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Jackie raced during a golden era.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18He and Helen were members of a Formula 1 Rat Pack,
0:07:18 > 0:07:21a handful of superstars who shared a closeness
0:07:21 > 0:07:23that would be unthinkable today.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27There was a great camaraderie and a great group of people.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Graham Hill, one of the funniest men you could ever have.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33Jim Clark, one of the most introverted but genuine men you would have ever known.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36Jochen, most exciting.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38We all lived together
0:07:38 > 0:07:41and with that... So many people were getting killed.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44And therefore people acted in a different way.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48One year we had, in four consecutive months, somebody die.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51That was the most difficult time for Helen
0:07:51 > 0:07:55because all the wives hung out together.
0:07:55 > 0:07:56And we had two little boys.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59That was my biggest fear, that something would happen
0:07:59 > 0:08:01and Helen would be left with them.
0:08:02 > 0:08:08Paul came home one day and said, "Mummy, when is Daddy going to die?"
0:08:08 > 0:08:12- Really?- I said, "Who told you that?" He said, "School."
0:08:12 > 0:08:16I said, "Well, let's just say a wee prayer and hope he doesn't."
0:08:16 > 0:08:17That really hurt me.
0:08:17 > 0:08:21I said, "Look, I'm very careful, I don't take any chances
0:08:21 > 0:08:23"and I've got great people looking after me."
0:08:23 > 0:08:28The reality was I was awfully safety conscious.
0:08:28 > 0:08:33I think the closeness we had in those days has washed through all our life.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Where we've been together for such a long time.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37The boys have grown up healthy
0:08:37 > 0:08:40and we've now got nine grandchildren from two boys.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42Not bad batting average!
0:08:42 > 0:08:44THEY LAUGH
0:08:45 > 0:08:49But I wanted to go back to the very start of the story,
0:08:49 > 0:08:52and I was about to discover that Jackie's love of cars
0:08:52 > 0:08:56began on the forecourt of his parents' garage.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58- This is something special.- Right.
0:08:58 > 0:09:04My mother had an Austin Atlantic, it was blue. Nobody else had one.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07- Can you imagine in Scotland? - I've never seen one before.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10It was way ahead of its time.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12CAR ENGINE STARTS
0:09:12 > 0:09:15- There we are. Good. - And we're off.- Yeah.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21Growing up, Jackie couldn't wait to join the family business
0:09:21 > 0:09:23as an apprentice mechanic.
0:09:23 > 0:09:28After all, his school years were the most difficult of his life.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31I was 15 and left school with a dyslexic problem.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33I was a disaster at school.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36When you can't keep up with the rest of your friends,
0:09:36 > 0:09:38it's not a nice thing.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41You're called stupid, dumb and thick by your teachers,
0:09:41 > 0:09:43and that was a fact.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46I had no self-respect, I had no esteem.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49I was totally complexed.
0:09:49 > 0:09:54I was bitter and twisted that I was so much of a failure inside of me.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58So I have to prove myself, I suppose, looking back now.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01'And prove himself he did, but not behind the wheel.'
0:10:01 > 0:10:04Here we are. All in one piece.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07'It was on the shooting range
0:10:07 > 0:10:11'that Jackie first put his brilliant hand-eye coordination to good use.'
0:10:11 > 0:10:14And I'll take my... Right.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17'When I was 14 and a half, I really started to shoot.'
0:10:17 > 0:10:21And my first competition I went into, I won.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24Shooting was just... turned my life right around.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27I mean, to be good at something, you know, to win,
0:10:27 > 0:10:31and to be applauded, was a completely new experience for me.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34'In fact, he was so good
0:10:34 > 0:10:37'he was a member of the Scottish shooting team.'
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Pull!
0:10:41 > 0:10:42GUNSHOT
0:10:43 > 0:10:47Now, the idea is to try and make it dust like that. JAMES LAUGHS
0:10:49 > 0:10:52It turns out that dyslexia - something we both suffer from -
0:10:52 > 0:10:54drove Jackie to succeed.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58To this day, I can't recite the alphabet.
0:10:58 > 0:11:03I was 42 when I was assessed and told I was dyslexic. And it was like...
0:11:03 > 0:11:05I was saved from drowning.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07- I was 36 when it happened to me. - Well, there you are.
0:11:07 > 0:11:11The great thing about being a dyslexic for both of us -
0:11:11 > 0:11:15and surely it's helped you - you find other ways of doing things.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18- I got into food because I felt that I could cook.- Yeah.
0:11:22 > 0:11:23Pull.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26GUNSHOT
0:11:26 > 0:11:30- Oh! It was behind that.- That was a miss. I'll let you have a go.
0:11:30 > 0:11:31There you go.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33Pull.
0:11:33 > 0:11:34GUNSHOT
0:11:34 > 0:11:38- That was dust.- Yeah.- You're pretty good at this, aren't you?
0:11:38 > 0:11:40A bit lucky sometimes.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44My shooting life was hugely important to my motor racing life.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47To try and avoid a miss, I'd get myself ready,
0:11:47 > 0:11:49I'd get myself relaxed, I would breathe correctly
0:11:49 > 0:11:53and then I would go for the target. So you remove emotion.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55That's what I did while shooting, and I learned that from shooting.
0:11:55 > 0:11:59I won most of my races in the first five laps,
0:11:59 > 0:12:02because everybody else was all wound-up.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05Oh, you were a bit late on that one.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09'The personality of Jackie really, really has come out of today,'
0:12:09 > 0:12:13and you can understand why he stood out in amongst others.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16'The house that he's got and the lifestyle that he's got,
0:12:16 > 0:12:18'that's been hard-earned.'
0:12:18 > 0:12:21He's probably one of the most driven people I've ever met.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26Shooting provided Jackie with success,
0:12:26 > 0:12:30but his love of cars soon became too much to ignore.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33In 1962, a customer at his parents' garage
0:12:33 > 0:12:35offered him a test run in a sports car.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38He posted a time that was so impressive
0:12:38 > 0:12:41he attracted the attention of talent spotter Ken Tyrrell.
0:12:43 > 0:12:47I'd heard that he'd been driving very quickly and I invited him down
0:12:47 > 0:12:49to drive my Formula 3 car.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52And he put up such a terrific performance in that car
0:12:52 > 0:12:55that there wasn't any doubt in my mind then
0:12:55 > 0:12:58that he was going to be a very fine driver indeed.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01That was a very big break.
0:13:01 > 0:13:05It was a sort of rocket ship into Formula 2 and then Formula 1.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08It was like I was his son, almost.
0:13:08 > 0:13:13What did your mum think when you went back that day and said,
0:13:13 > 0:13:14"I want to race?"
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Oh, that was a disaster.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20I was entering under the name of A.N. Other - ANOther,
0:13:20 > 0:13:22so that my mother wouldn't find out.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26- Right. What would have happened if she'd have found out?- I don't know.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30I hate to think. But she never, ever recognised I was a racing driver.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34And then I won the World Championship, not a word.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36No recognition of that.
0:13:36 > 0:13:40And when I retired, she looks at me and she says, "Hmm!
0:13:40 > 0:13:41"You're well out of it."
0:13:41 > 0:13:43THEY BOTH LAUGH
0:13:43 > 0:13:45And that was it.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50- COMMENTATOR:- 'And driving a BRM was the up-and-coming Jackie Stewart.'
0:13:50 > 0:13:52After winning the F3 Championship,
0:13:52 > 0:13:57Jackie was signed to BRM as an F1 driver in 1965.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00His team-mate - World Champion Graham Hill.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02It was an ideal opportunity
0:14:02 > 0:14:05to go up against someone who was extremely well-regarded.
0:14:05 > 0:14:09Jackie learned a lot
0:14:09 > 0:14:11from my dad about how to become
0:14:11 > 0:14:12a professional racing driver.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14- COMMENTATOR: - 'BRM's first and second.'
0:14:14 > 0:14:18And although they were in mortal combat in races,
0:14:18 > 0:14:21the relationship between my dad and Jackie was pretty good.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23I also like him as a friend too.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26'There is a good deal of clowning about
0:14:26 > 0:14:28'before BRM goes on to win once again.'
0:14:28 > 0:14:31There was no, "He's my number two, I'm the number one,
0:14:31 > 0:14:34"you just sit back and watch." None of that.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37'Jackie Stewart fast asleep in front of the BRM.'
0:14:41 > 0:14:45It was in the Italian Grand Prix that Graham Hill's number two
0:14:45 > 0:14:48first showed he had the potential to be number one.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52There was a group of us.
0:14:52 > 0:14:56And eventually we drew away from some of them.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59- COMMENTATOR:- 'Clark's Lotus let him down and he had to retire.'
0:14:59 > 0:15:03And it was left with Graham and I, with quite a few laps still to go.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06'This was the chance for the BRMs to get their own back.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08'Jackie Stewart in one of them.'
0:15:08 > 0:15:09And he and Graham
0:15:09 > 0:15:12had a real old tear-up that just went on and on and on.
0:15:12 > 0:15:17The two of them were racing hard for that Monza victory.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21We were given a signal by Tony Rudd, the team manager, "Ease off,"
0:15:21 > 0:15:23because we had such a big lead,
0:15:23 > 0:15:26and yet we were actually going as fast, if not faster.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31In the end, Graham made a mistake and I went through on the inside
0:15:31 > 0:15:34and took about a three-second lead.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38'Jackie Stewart in one of them brought off a fantastically narrow win,
0:15:38 > 0:15:41'beating Hill in the other BRM by just over three seconds.'
0:15:41 > 0:15:44And it was Jackie who came out on top that day at Monza
0:15:44 > 0:15:47and took his first ever Grand Prix win.
0:15:48 > 0:15:52The Italian crowd is the most passionate crowd in the world.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56They stream onto the racetrack and give you such a welcome
0:15:56 > 0:15:57and such recognition.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01Graham was fantastic.
0:16:01 > 0:16:06Not once did he complain, not once did he have a cross word with me.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08And it must have been frustrating for him,
0:16:08 > 0:16:12because, in quite a few cases, I would be quicker than him.
0:16:18 > 0:16:24'Very soon, I'd be strapping myself into Jackie's 1973 Tyrrell F1 car,
0:16:24 > 0:16:27'and I was feeling a little unprepared.
0:16:27 > 0:16:31'So I'd arranged to meet 1979 World Champion Jody Scheckter
0:16:31 > 0:16:33'for some extra tuition.'
0:16:33 > 0:16:34- Hi, Jody.- Hi, James.
0:16:34 > 0:16:39So how do I begin to learn how to drive like Sir Jackie Stewart?
0:16:39 > 0:16:41- Well, he is known for his smooth driving.- Yeah.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44The theory behind that is you have so much traction in your tyres.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47You've got to keep it on the maximum of that tyre the whole way round.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50'I wasn't quite sure what Jody was talking about.
0:16:50 > 0:16:54'But I was starting to realise there was more to driving fast than meets the eye.'
0:16:54 > 0:16:59- You're getting your maximum traction that way.- Right.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02'The proof would be in my driving.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05'Am I smooth enough to emulate Jackie?'
0:17:05 > 0:17:06ENGINE REVS
0:17:12 > 0:17:16I'm no stranger to track days but this was different..
0:17:18 > 0:17:20I had a World Champion to impress...
0:17:21 > 0:17:25..and a data-logging computer tracking my every move.
0:17:27 > 0:17:31Brake hard. Straight line.
0:17:31 > 0:17:36Back in the pits, Jody and John the boffin were analysing my lap.
0:17:36 > 0:17:37Oh, my God, look at that.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40So we can look at your line through the different corners.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42So, for example, on this chicane,
0:17:42 > 0:17:44you could probably get closer to the edge
0:17:44 > 0:17:48to come out at the corner quicker there.
0:17:48 > 0:17:53'If I was going to improve, I'd need to take some tips from my hero.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56'So we watched Jackie's smooth driving in action.'
0:17:56 > 0:17:59You can see you're actually just doing very, very little movements
0:17:59 > 0:18:00- with the steering wheel.- Yeah.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04But the best way was smooth, there's no question about that.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07Jackie believed his way of driving was safe and efficient
0:18:07 > 0:18:11and developed a way of teaching it to the man on the street.
0:18:11 > 0:18:15'So we take off from the line as smoothly and as cleanly as we can.
0:18:15 > 0:18:20'The question is to keep the ball in the dish all of the time, going through all of the corners.'
0:18:20 > 0:18:22Smoother driving IS the best way of driving.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27Thankfully, Jody had lined up a modern-day equivalent
0:18:27 > 0:18:28of Jackie's contraption.
0:18:28 > 0:18:29So what's the plan?
0:18:29 > 0:18:33- OK, so you've got to go through these pylons.- Yeah.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35And you've got to keep the orange in there
0:18:35 > 0:18:37and you've got to be like Jackie Stewart.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43OK. Oh, oh.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48- It's actually not as easy as it looks.- No, no.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51Come on, you've got to get smoother than that. Oh, oh!
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Jackie would have been much smoother.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56'And the faster Jody made me go,
0:18:56 > 0:18:58'the more difficult it was to stay smooth.'
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Agh! Missed it.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11You're having a laugh.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14Yeah, I'll have an orange whilst you're waiting, then.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18It's weird, your eyeline first of all goes to this
0:19:18 > 0:19:21and keeping it in the pan, but then you become much smoother
0:19:21 > 0:19:24because you're not concentrating on it, if that makes sense.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Bit faster, that's good.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32'After what seemed like hours of patient tuition...
0:19:32 > 0:19:33'I got it.'
0:19:35 > 0:19:37- Yes!- Well done, well done.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42Yes! Get in there.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44Well done, man - that's a lot better.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Well, I'm hoping this orange has improved my lap time.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51Fingers crossed for the next lap.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55ENGINE REVS
0:19:56 > 0:20:01The on-board computer would compare this lap time with my last.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04But I was busy concentrating on driving like Jackie Stewart.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09That's 110 mile an hour round that corner.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11Smooth, smooth, smooth.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Brake, look out for the turning point. In.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16It feels so much quicker.
0:20:16 > 0:20:17Power out.
0:20:17 > 0:20:18That feels wicked.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23I'm using gears that I never did before.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33So much quicker out the exit.
0:20:38 > 0:20:39And done.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43- Woo-hoo! - HE LAUGHS
0:20:43 > 0:20:46It certainly felt good.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48That's showing the delta time, so he's half a second up.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51'But would the data show I was a smoother driver?'
0:20:51 > 0:20:55So how do you think it is between the one that I did this morning?
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Yeah, I think it's impressive.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00First of all, you were three and something seconds quicker.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02And then, also, you were very smooth.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04So what about conveying this? Cos it's a different thing
0:21:04 > 0:21:08driving one of these to driving one of the old Formula 1 cars.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10Well, you know, the fundamental is the same.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12You've got to get to the limit of the car
0:21:12 > 0:21:16and it'll be harder to get to the limit of the car in a faster car.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20- But what about impressing Sir Jackie?- Well, that's a hard one.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22But, you know, it's up to you. I think you'll...
0:21:22 > 0:21:24If you do well, he'll let you know.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30- COMMENTATOR:- 'And into the lead, Jackie Stewart's BRM, number 12.'
0:21:30 > 0:21:35Jackie's second season as a Formula 1 driver couldn't have started better.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37'Jackie Stewart, the winner, on the road to the Championship.'
0:21:37 > 0:21:39'Now back to Spa...'
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Having won the first race at Monaco,
0:21:41 > 0:21:44he arrived in Belgium with high hopes.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46'Completing the front rank, Jackie Stewart...'
0:21:46 > 0:21:49But it was a race that would change everything for Jackie.
0:21:51 > 0:21:55Motor racing is dangerous. There's a mystique about danger.
0:21:55 > 0:22:00There's an attraction. But you don't want to be having accidents.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03To finish first, first, you must finish.
0:22:03 > 0:22:07But Spa in 1966 was a race Jackie was never to finish.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09'And that's all we've seen -
0:22:09 > 0:22:12'only six cars have gone through at the end of the first lap.'
0:22:12 > 0:22:15I had no idea what had happened to Jackie.
0:22:15 > 0:22:20But another two wives, one drowned about half a bottle of whiskey,
0:22:20 > 0:22:24one went hysterical, because they had no idea what happened.
0:22:24 > 0:22:28'The drivers encountered a fierce rainstorm
0:22:28 > 0:22:32'at the 145-mile-an-hour corner at the bottom of the hill.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36'And that was where Graham Hill saw, in the field, the other BRM,
0:22:36 > 0:22:40'that of Jackie Stewart, upside down with Jackie still in it.'
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Jackie bounced off a wall, off the front of a cottage,
0:22:46 > 0:22:52and landed with his BRM literally banana-shaped around him.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54And I was soaked in fuel -
0:22:54 > 0:22:57high-octane aviation fuel in those days.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59It was burning my skin right off me.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02And there was nobody there.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04No marshals, no help.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07He was in his own bomb.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11But that day wasn't going to be his tenth of a second.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15It just wasn't.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19And that was the day that he formulated his creed
0:23:19 > 0:23:22that he was paid to show his skill and not to show his bravery.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27# Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on... #
0:23:27 > 0:23:31Despite his experience at Spa, life was good for Jackie.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34He had become a key part of the racing fraternity
0:23:34 > 0:23:38and was best friends with Scottish ace Jim Clark.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41He was the best driver I ever raced against.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44I think it's impossible to overemphasise
0:23:44 > 0:23:46just how important Jimmy Clark was to Jackie.
0:23:46 > 0:23:50You know, they even shared a flat together at one point.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52The fellow Scot took Jackie under his wing
0:23:52 > 0:23:55and helped him adjust to life in Formula 1.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59I learned so much from Jim Clark, seeing him, how he dressed,
0:23:59 > 0:24:01how he ate, how he talked,
0:24:01 > 0:24:05how he wasn't infatuated by his own success,
0:24:05 > 0:24:09and I spent my life as a professional racing driver trying to do just that.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14Jackie was hungry for the same success as his friend, Jim,
0:24:14 > 0:24:18but his BRM car was becoming less and less competitive.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21To win a world title, he needed to be in a better vehicle.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26Fortunately, he was approached by the man who first discovered him -
0:24:26 > 0:24:27Ken Tyrrell.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31Ken tapped him on the shoulder one day and said,
0:24:31 > 0:24:34"Why don't you drive for me next year?"
0:24:34 > 0:24:38I said, "Ken, you don't have a racing team, you don't have Formula 1."
0:24:38 > 0:24:40He said, "Well, what if I had?"
0:24:40 > 0:24:42I said, "Well, then we could talk about it."
0:24:42 > 0:24:46They never actually signed a contract between the two of them.
0:24:46 > 0:24:51They shook hands on it and that became their contract.
0:24:51 > 0:24:55And we just had a gentleman's understanding.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57Tyrrell sourced a car that would suit the Scot
0:24:57 > 0:24:59and built a team around him.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03Jackie's future was full of promise,
0:25:03 > 0:25:04but his commitment to racing
0:25:04 > 0:25:07was about to be put under intense emotional strain.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14- COMMENTATOR:- 'It was in the fifth lap that something went wrong.
0:25:14 > 0:25:18'Clark's car had not reappeared in front of the timekeepers.'
0:25:21 > 0:25:24Jim Clark ran off the road,
0:25:24 > 0:25:29hit a tree and suffered unsurvivable head injuries
0:25:29 > 0:25:32and the car was smashed to pieces and broken in two.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36Helen was the one who broke the news to Jackie
0:25:36 > 0:25:39and Jackie recalls just sobbing his heart out.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46If Jim Clark could die, anybody could die.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49He would have been the last person we would have expected
0:25:49 > 0:25:50to lose in a race car.
0:25:53 > 0:25:57Jackie responded to the death of his hero in the only way he knew how...
0:26:01 > 0:26:05..with the greatest performance of his entire life.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08- COMMENTATOR:- 'You can call it the Grand Prix that nearly got lost -
0:26:08 > 0:26:10'lasting fog and torrential rain,
0:26:10 > 0:26:12'3,000 feet up in the Eifel mountains.'
0:26:12 > 0:26:17They were conditions in which a race would not even be started these days.
0:26:19 > 0:26:23And it's one of the great motor racing drives of all time.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26He beat everybody by almost a lap.
0:26:26 > 0:26:30And you don't do that unless you're a real virtuoso,
0:26:30 > 0:26:31one of the real greats.
0:26:31 > 0:26:35'Jackie Stewart, number six, in a Matra-Ford,
0:26:35 > 0:26:37'was piloting his car as though he had built-in radar.'
0:26:37 > 0:26:40To win there in those conditions
0:26:40 > 0:26:44and to show such enormous balls and driving at that rate
0:26:44 > 0:26:48just put him onto a plain that was so far ahead of everybody else
0:26:48 > 0:26:50it was just untouchable.
0:26:52 > 0:26:57And it's one that justified his stance on safety in later years
0:26:57 > 0:27:01because nobody could accuse him of being chicken.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04'Stewart took the chequered flag at an average speed
0:27:04 > 0:27:06'of 86.82 miles an hour.'
0:27:06 > 0:27:10Jackie and team Tyrrell had shown the world what they were capable of.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14But many people doubted that a new team could win
0:27:14 > 0:27:16the 1969 world title.
0:27:19 > 0:27:23He was a World Champion in the making, but he hadn't done it yet.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26So for Jackie Stewart to take the gamble and say, "You know what?
0:27:26 > 0:27:29"I'm going to go with Ken Tyrrell and his new team,"
0:27:29 > 0:27:32that was a gamble but it paid off big time.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34'This left the field wide open for Jackie Stewart
0:27:34 > 0:27:36'and his Anglo-French Matra-Ford.'
0:27:36 > 0:27:40He had an overpowering effect on my way of thinking,
0:27:40 > 0:27:42my preparation, my commitment...
0:27:42 > 0:27:46'The man with his sights set on the 1969 Drivers' Championship.'
0:27:46 > 0:27:50..and to allow my natural ability to be able to display itself.
0:27:54 > 0:27:58'And Jackie Stewart fulfils the promise that talent spotter Ken Tyrrell saw in him.'
0:27:58 > 0:28:031969, I think I won six Grand Prixs. I think four were back-to-back.
0:28:03 > 0:28:07'Can Stewart hold the line? It's the last lap. Somebody is challenging.
0:28:07 > 0:28:08'It's Rindt going through.
0:28:08 > 0:28:12'It's over the line together, and it's almost a dead heat.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14'It's Jackie Stewart!
0:28:14 > 0:28:18'Nobody has ever seen the finish of a motor race like this.'
0:28:18 > 0:28:21'The South African Grand Prix, the Spanish, the Dutch,
0:28:21 > 0:28:23'the French, the German, and finally Monza
0:28:23 > 0:28:25'had clinched the Championship
0:28:25 > 0:28:28'and written a cheque for £100,000 in prize money.'
0:28:28 > 0:28:32After a triumphant season, Jackie won his first world title,
0:28:32 > 0:28:33aged just 29.
0:28:33 > 0:28:37Ken Tyrrell and the mechanics, the Matra designers, and everyone else,
0:28:37 > 0:28:40really put the thing together in a very good package.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42Really, it was only left for me to drive the car
0:28:42 > 0:28:44because I think we had a pretty perfect setup.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47I almost inherited the Jim Clark position
0:28:47 > 0:28:50as the leader within Formula 1.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53'15 years ago, Jackie Stewart got Fangio's autograph.
0:28:53 > 0:28:57'Now he's the idol, one of the new generation,
0:28:57 > 0:28:59'making fortunes in sport.'
0:28:59 > 0:29:01He's the best racing driver driving today.
0:29:01 > 0:29:07As a businessman, I think he may be even better.
0:29:10 > 0:29:12By the end of the '60s, Jackie had hit the big time.
0:29:14 > 0:29:18The Stewarts moved to Geneva, where they enjoyed an idyllic lifestyle,
0:29:18 > 0:29:22something I've come to the Alps to get a taste of.
0:29:22 > 0:29:24Well, I think I have a wee surprise for you.
0:29:24 > 0:29:27I'm going to give you a taste
0:29:27 > 0:29:31of Jackie Stewart's jet-set period of the early '70s.
0:29:31 > 0:29:33- Right there.- Oh, look at this!
0:29:33 > 0:29:35- A De Tomaso Pantera.- Pantera.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42This exotic super car was the stuff of many a boyhood fantasy.
0:29:42 > 0:29:47And when Jackie's sponsor, Ford, bought the Italian manufacturer,
0:29:47 > 0:29:50he was the recipient of a new company car.
0:29:51 > 0:29:54'For Jackie Stewart, getting home is a treat.'
0:29:54 > 0:29:57- Well, you can see it's a good looker. - It certainly is.
0:29:57 > 0:30:00Let's go for a spin up on the Alps and then you can drive it.
0:30:00 > 0:30:05Give you a bit of reminiscence to the swinging '70s, as it really was.
0:30:05 > 0:30:09- Thank you. This is a boyhood dream, this.- Yeah. Oh, yeah.
0:30:15 > 0:30:18Now, when you first came to Switzerland,
0:30:18 > 0:30:21you kind of had an image and marketed that image.
0:30:21 > 0:30:26Well, I guess I was the first what I would call
0:30:26 > 0:30:32truly commercial sportsman, particularly in motorsport.
0:30:32 > 0:30:35By the time I was threatening the World Championship,
0:30:35 > 0:30:37- suddenly advertising arrived.- Yeah.
0:30:37 > 0:30:41And the great thing about motorsport for a sports person is,
0:30:41 > 0:30:45if you're a football player, there's the boots and the strip,
0:30:45 > 0:30:50if you're a Grand Prix racing driver, there's tyres, fuel and oil,
0:30:50 > 0:30:53there's engines, there's cars, there's sparking plugs.
0:30:53 > 0:30:56Yeah, but it's not just that. Things like the sunglasses, the hat,
0:30:56 > 0:30:58the image - everything. Tartan...
0:30:58 > 0:31:01That was lifestyle too, you must remember.
0:31:01 > 0:31:02# Baby, here I am
0:31:02 > 0:31:05# I'm a man that's on the scene... #
0:31:05 > 0:31:08It was the swinging '60s to begin with.
0:31:08 > 0:31:11The lifestyle was synonymous with money.
0:31:11 > 0:31:17I was seeing other, well, I'd say rich people living a rich style.
0:31:17 > 0:31:21To afford that, you couldn't do it just by driving cars.
0:31:21 > 0:31:25You had to have outside commercial relationship.
0:31:25 > 0:31:27# Pretty little thing Let me light your candle
0:31:27 > 0:31:30# Cos, mama, I'm sure hard to handle now... #
0:31:30 > 0:31:35Business is no different than sport. I love doing deals.
0:31:35 > 0:31:39I get as much satisfaction doing business today as I ever got
0:31:39 > 0:31:43driving a racing car. You've got to have the great attention to detail.
0:31:43 > 0:31:45And that attention to detail, somebody told me,
0:31:45 > 0:31:47that even came down to what you were wearing.
0:31:47 > 0:31:50- Didn't you have a shirt with a shorter sleeve?- Yes.
0:31:50 > 0:31:53- No, it was wider. I'm wearing one now.- Yeah.
0:31:53 > 0:31:59My left cuff is wider than my right cuff
0:31:59 > 0:32:03so that if I'm photographed, the watch is visible.
0:32:03 > 0:32:05# Cos, mama, I'm sure hard to handle now... #
0:32:05 > 0:32:08And it was Jackie's financial nous that drove the decision
0:32:08 > 0:32:13for the family to leave their UK home and relocate to Switzerland.
0:32:13 > 0:32:16When I left in 1968,
0:32:16 > 0:32:21I had to pay 93% tax.
0:32:21 > 0:32:25As a racing driver, the chances are I was going to be killed.
0:32:25 > 0:32:29Helen would have had nothing left. It was a big move.
0:32:29 > 0:32:33Very unpopular in the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Record,
0:32:33 > 0:32:37the Scotsman newspapers, and it still isn't popular today.
0:32:40 > 0:32:43'And with that, it was time to fulfil my childhood fantasy
0:32:43 > 0:32:45'and drive the Pantera.'
0:32:47 > 0:32:51- Oh, we've got the hat on! - I got this for you.- Look at that.
0:32:51 > 0:32:53- How is that? Good? - Wow, that looks like a...
0:32:53 > 0:32:55- Pull the sideburns down a bit. - ..a '70s child!
0:32:55 > 0:32:58THEY LAUGH
0:32:58 > 0:33:01- And the shades!- I feel as if I'm in the zone.- Oh, wow.
0:33:03 > 0:33:07This is what my started my love of cars, this car.
0:33:07 > 0:33:11'Sometimes, though, it's better not to fulfil your dreams.'
0:33:11 > 0:33:14It's weird the seatbelt, it's flapping around.
0:33:14 > 0:33:17- Yeah.- Pretty pointless to be honest.
0:33:17 > 0:33:20'Ever the gentleman, Jackie tried to distract me.'
0:33:20 > 0:33:22Look at this vista, isn't this wonderful?
0:33:22 > 0:33:24Look at that castle up there, right at the top there.
0:33:24 > 0:33:26As much as I love the countryside,
0:33:26 > 0:33:28- I'm just concentrating on what's in front of me.- Good!
0:33:28 > 0:33:32Three-times Formula One world champion sat next to me!
0:33:32 > 0:33:36- Well, I'm well braced.- Never mind well braced, you need to be well insured, that's the thing!
0:33:37 > 0:33:39Off the power, on the brakes.
0:33:39 > 0:33:42- The steering!- Off the brakes.
0:33:42 > 0:33:46Gently gas pedal. Whoa! There we go, sheer acceleration.
0:33:46 > 0:33:48JAMES LAUGHS
0:33:50 > 0:33:53Jackie became motorsport's first millionaire,
0:33:53 > 0:33:56but he was about to learn that money in the bank
0:33:56 > 0:33:58wouldn't guarantee another world title.
0:33:58 > 0:34:02The first race in the 1970 Grand Prix season.
0:34:02 > 0:34:06The '70s began with Jackie Stewart as the reigning world champion.
0:34:06 > 0:34:09But the French company who built his winning car
0:34:09 > 0:34:12refused to supply Tyrell for the new season.
0:34:12 > 0:34:16That meant they had to buy an off-the-shelf alternative.
0:34:16 > 0:34:19'The world champion's number on a march.
0:34:19 > 0:34:21'A brand-new body, Ford Cosworth engine.'
0:34:21 > 0:34:24Now Jackie had little chance of keeping up with Austrian star
0:34:24 > 0:34:28Jochen Rindt in his expertly-engineered Lotus.
0:34:28 > 0:34:31You've had a very good chance to look at the new cars on the track.
0:34:31 > 0:34:32Which of them impresses you most?
0:34:32 > 0:34:34Actually none of them impresses me very much
0:34:34 > 0:34:36because they're all the same.
0:34:36 > 0:34:40As Jackie struggled in his slow, unreliable car,
0:34:40 > 0:34:43Rindt grew ever-closer to the world title.
0:34:43 > 0:34:47I think the fastest at the moment is certainly Jochen Rindt.
0:34:47 > 0:34:50Jochen Rindt now has a commanding lead of 20 points in the championship.
0:34:50 > 0:34:51But despite their rivalry,
0:34:51 > 0:34:55Jackie and Helen were close friends with Jochen and his wife.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58Jochen was great, and Nina was fantastic.
0:34:58 > 0:35:00She was one of the most beautiful women in the world.
0:35:00 > 0:35:03He was somebody who had an important part in my life,
0:35:03 > 0:35:07and one of THE drivers I would have trusted under any circumstance.
0:35:14 > 0:35:17But Rindt's season ended in tragedy.
0:35:20 > 0:35:24I literally was there by his side, I mean literally.
0:35:25 > 0:35:28And they wouldn't admit that he'd died because in Italy,
0:35:28 > 0:35:30had he died on the track,
0:35:30 > 0:35:34they would have had to cancel that Grand Prix for the weekend.
0:35:39 > 0:35:42I was in tears when I put my visor down.
0:35:44 > 0:35:48And I went out and I passed the spot that Jochen died
0:35:48 > 0:35:49and then I got on it...
0:35:51 > 0:35:54..and I did the fastest lap I'd ever done.
0:35:56 > 0:36:00But the death of the Austrian star was just one of many.
0:36:00 > 0:36:05In 1970, three drivers died in three months.
0:36:05 > 0:36:09Jochen was in September. Piers Courage was in June
0:36:09 > 0:36:11and so was Bruce McLaren in June,
0:36:11 > 0:36:16and somehow or another it was part and parcel of life at that time,
0:36:16 > 0:36:23and the shock, the despair, the grief will never be erased.
0:36:23 > 0:36:26Jochen in fact won the world championship in 1970,
0:36:26 > 0:36:29the first posthumous world champion ever.
0:36:29 > 0:36:34That year Jochen's wife, Nina, collected the world title on his behalf.
0:36:36 > 0:36:40Off the track, Jackie took his safety campaign to a whole new level.
0:36:40 > 0:36:42Are you all wearing seat belts?
0:36:42 > 0:36:45You have to. It's entirely your responsibility.
0:36:45 > 0:36:48The most important thing to me is to live to be a very old man.
0:36:48 > 0:36:51If I did not prepare myself for an accident
0:36:51 > 0:36:55by using the best helmet, the best clothes, the best thermal underwear,
0:36:55 > 0:36:59the best seat belts, I think I would be irresponsible. I think I would be a fool.
0:36:59 > 0:37:03Crash barriers, run-off areas, and flameproof protection
0:37:03 > 0:37:06were just a few of the things that Jackie pushed for.
0:37:06 > 0:37:09Terribly important that everyone pays the right amount of attention.
0:37:09 > 0:37:12Everyone, from car designers to track owners,
0:37:12 > 0:37:15were at the receiving end of his battle for safety.
0:37:15 > 0:37:18Jackie was not the most popular driver,
0:37:18 > 0:37:20certainly not with some commentators who thought
0:37:20 > 0:37:23he was taking the masculinity out of the sport.
0:37:23 > 0:37:27If these people are afraid of racing, well, give up.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29People thought Jackie Stewart was a wimp.
0:37:29 > 0:37:31The attitude in those days
0:37:31 > 0:37:34was the throttle works both ways.
0:37:34 > 0:37:36If you're going too fast, then back off a bit.
0:37:36 > 0:37:39But Jackie didn't stop at motorsport.
0:37:39 > 0:37:44He used his star profile to put safety on the agenda in every walk of life.
0:37:44 > 0:37:48Now, I've lost friends very close to me
0:37:48 > 0:37:50and I tell you it hits you very, very hard.
0:37:50 > 0:37:54If you're walking on the pavement or crossing a road,
0:37:54 > 0:37:58I think you've got to give as much concentration to what you're doing
0:37:58 > 0:38:01as I have to when I'm driving a racing car.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10But on the track Jackie still had a job to do.
0:38:10 > 0:38:12To make sure he had the right car to do it in,
0:38:12 > 0:38:15Ken Tyrell commissioned his own Formula One vehicle.
0:38:17 > 0:38:20Ken, without anybody knowing, got Derek Gardner,
0:38:20 > 0:38:25a wonderful designer who had designed this car in his own living room.
0:38:25 > 0:38:28I would go up secretly and get into his garage
0:38:28 > 0:38:32and get seat fittings for this car of the future.
0:38:32 > 0:38:36The Tyrell F1 car was ready for the 1971 season,
0:38:36 > 0:38:40but would the home-made car perform on the world stage?
0:38:42 > 0:38:44Jackie Stewart hadn't won a Grand Prix
0:38:44 > 0:38:46since his Spanish victory a year ago.
0:38:46 > 0:38:50Sure enough, when it came out, immediately it was fast.
0:38:50 > 0:38:55After five laps, Stewart took the lead and there he stayed.
0:38:57 > 0:39:00His sixth Grand Prix victory is won in the world championship for the
0:39:00 > 0:39:05second time, and the manufacturer's title for Ken Tyrell,
0:39:05 > 0:39:11and puts the name of Jackie Stewart firmly amongst the all-time greats of motor racing.
0:39:11 > 0:39:13The Flying Scot was back,
0:39:13 > 0:39:17and in Monza he was crowned double world champion.
0:39:20 > 0:39:24Leaving aside your undisputed skill, dammit,
0:39:24 > 0:39:28what single factor do you think contributed towards your victories this year?
0:39:28 > 0:39:31I think, again, my skill.
0:39:31 > 0:39:34LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:39:38 > 0:39:42To drive Jackie's winning Tyrell, I'll need to experience
0:39:42 > 0:39:45the extreme G-forces an F1 car can produce.
0:39:46 > 0:39:49And that's why I'm here at the home of British motorsport.
0:39:49 > 0:39:53One of my pet hates is a passenger in a fast car
0:39:53 > 0:39:55so it would be actually my idea of hell,
0:39:55 > 0:40:00being in strapped into something that's super-quick by, um...
0:40:00 > 0:40:03by a driver that I don't even know.
0:40:03 > 0:40:06And, of course, that's exactly what's going to happen
0:40:06 > 0:40:09in this hypersonic F1-style two-seater.
0:40:14 > 0:40:16It's a bit basic.
0:40:18 > 0:40:22There's not a lot of room in here. I'm just wondering what that is.
0:40:25 > 0:40:27If it had one seat, then I'd be interested.
0:40:28 > 0:40:31Well, I'm hoping the guy knows what he's doing.
0:40:31 > 0:40:36I haven't ever seen a two-seater racing car like this before.
0:40:41 > 0:40:45Hi, James. I'm Jack. 2012 British Formula 3 champion.
0:40:45 > 0:40:48- I'm your driving coach for the day. - And have you driven this before?
0:40:48 > 0:40:52Er, the first time I drive it will be you in a few moments.
0:40:52 > 0:40:57- You are having a laugh, aren't you? - It's only a racing car.
0:40:57 > 0:40:59"It's ONLY a racing car"?
0:40:59 > 0:41:03- How old are you?- 19.- 19?
0:41:03 > 0:41:06Jack's a great kid, but he's a kid.
0:41:06 > 0:41:10You know? He probably still plays with Star Wars figures and Lego when he gets back home.
0:41:10 > 0:41:15It's going to be interesting to see you try and get in the back, that's for sure!
0:41:17 > 0:41:18Oh!
0:41:18 > 0:41:20Not nervous, are you?
0:41:20 > 0:41:24- Proper bricking it, to be honest, yeah.- Oh!
0:41:24 > 0:41:25I'm not good as a passenger.
0:41:25 > 0:41:27I'm certainly not good sat in the back seat.
0:41:27 > 0:41:30And on that thing you can't actually see anything in front of you.
0:41:30 > 0:41:33Yeah, I'm not really looking forward to it.
0:41:42 > 0:41:44Jeez!
0:41:44 > 0:41:47See, actually, this is quick enough, to be honest.
0:41:49 > 0:41:51'As we accelerated out of the pit-lane,
0:41:51 > 0:41:53'I braced myself for the physical forces
0:41:53 > 0:41:56'that I know a Formula One car can generate.'
0:42:00 > 0:42:01My God!
0:42:01 > 0:42:03At this moment in time,
0:42:03 > 0:42:07I'm supposed to say something to let you know how it feels.
0:42:08 > 0:42:10I can't say anything!
0:42:14 > 0:42:15Whoa!
0:42:15 > 0:42:17HE LAUGHS
0:42:19 > 0:42:23I can feel the whole car slipping in his hand. It's right on the limit.
0:42:23 > 0:42:25You can feel it. Look at that!
0:42:25 > 0:42:28HE LAUGHS
0:42:31 > 0:42:35'In the late '60s, aerodynamics completely changed motorsport.
0:42:35 > 0:42:39'Modern-day F1 cars with their sharp nose and wings front and rear,
0:42:39 > 0:42:41'can be traced back to Jackie's day.
0:42:41 > 0:42:46'The overall effect pushes the car to the tarmac,
0:42:46 > 0:42:49'meaning it can corner at phenomenal speeds.'
0:42:49 > 0:42:52The G-force left to right through there, at the end,
0:42:52 > 0:42:54your neck... Argh!
0:42:56 > 0:42:58'And as for Jack, my junior racer...'
0:43:00 > 0:43:03What a driver! Unbelievable.
0:43:09 > 0:43:11That's enough for me.
0:43:11 > 0:43:15Slow down! Otherwise I'll phone his mother.
0:43:15 > 0:43:18HE LAUGHS
0:43:18 > 0:43:20'It ended up being an enjoyment, to be honest.
0:43:20 > 0:43:23'An experience that I've never felt before in my life.
0:43:23 > 0:43:26'I'd much rather be in the front seat than in the back seat.'
0:43:26 > 0:43:30You've got twice as much horsepower in the Tyrrell
0:43:30 > 0:43:34as opposed to that thing. But it's going to be incredibly hard work.
0:43:36 > 0:43:39'The celebrity life. Stewart spends more time in the air
0:43:39 > 0:43:43'than the South African Airways captain who flew him into Johannesberg.'
0:43:43 > 0:43:47By 1972, Jackie was a global superstar,
0:43:47 > 0:43:51but his relentless drive for success was pushing him over the edge.
0:43:51 > 0:43:53This year was different somehow.
0:43:53 > 0:43:56I was very tired. I was very uptight.
0:43:56 > 0:43:58And I couldn't unwind.
0:43:58 > 0:44:02I just destroyed myself health-wise. I just burned out.
0:44:02 > 0:44:05I missed a few Grand Prixs.
0:44:05 > 0:44:09I lost the World Championship. I finished second that year.
0:44:09 > 0:44:14And then I thought I might retire because I was feeling so bad.
0:44:14 > 0:44:17There's puddles round the track. The place is a mess.
0:44:17 > 0:44:20And maybe in the wet you can accept that?
0:44:20 > 0:44:23- I should think I will... be able to accept it.- Well, anyway.
0:44:23 > 0:44:29April of '73, I made a complete decision that I was going to retire,
0:44:29 > 0:44:33but I would race until the end of the year for Ken's sake.
0:44:33 > 0:44:35But Jackie made the decision
0:44:35 > 0:44:38knowing he was handing over the reigns to a safe pair of hands,
0:44:38 > 0:44:41his young understudy, Francois Cevert.
0:44:41 > 0:44:44'And a very promising number two in the Tyrrell team...'
0:44:44 > 0:44:46For Jackie, there were two aims, I think, that year.
0:44:46 > 0:44:50To wrap up another title, to end on a high, but to give Francois
0:44:50 > 0:44:53that little leg up to make sure that he could continue in that vein
0:44:53 > 0:44:57for the Tyrrell family, which was so important to all of them.
0:44:57 > 0:44:59- And then, second?- First.
0:44:59 > 0:45:02First for the left - the right one. And the...
0:45:03 > 0:45:07But in Monte Carlo you don't want to be nervous.
0:45:07 > 0:45:10Because I knew I was retiring,
0:45:10 > 0:45:13there was nothing that I kept back from Francois.
0:45:13 > 0:45:17He was a very attractive man for the ladies.
0:45:17 > 0:45:20He had unbelievable eyes. He had a great sense of humour.
0:45:20 > 0:45:23He had a fantastic physique, like a young fighting bull.
0:45:25 > 0:45:28And as a racing driver and as a team-mate,
0:45:28 > 0:45:31I couldn't have had a better one.
0:45:31 > 0:45:32There was an affection there,
0:45:32 > 0:45:36a genuine affection that Jackie had for Francois.
0:45:36 > 0:45:38He was part of the Stewart family.
0:45:40 > 0:45:43You would think that Jackie teaching me everything he knows,
0:45:43 > 0:45:47I will become another Jackie Stewart.
0:45:47 > 0:45:51- But yet?- Well, but for the moment I'm far to be as good as Jackie Stewart.
0:45:51 > 0:45:53So I am Francois Cevert.
0:45:55 > 0:45:59Team Tyrell had a bright future.
0:45:59 > 0:46:02All Jackie had to do, was go out in style.
0:46:06 > 0:46:09In 1973, we just couldn't do a thing wrong.
0:46:09 > 0:46:12They were like two brothers on the same team.
0:46:15 > 0:46:18Jackie kept his decision to retire a secret
0:46:18 > 0:46:22and approached his final season with renewed vigour.
0:46:22 > 0:46:25'Jackie Stewart racing towards the finishing line.
0:46:28 > 0:46:30'With team-mate Cevert second,
0:46:30 > 0:46:33'a triumph for Stewart and the British Tyrrell Ford.'
0:46:37 > 0:46:40The end of that season was at Watkins Glen.
0:46:40 > 0:46:43And Jackie had already wrapped the championship up.
0:46:43 > 0:46:46That was just going to be his 100th race.
0:46:46 > 0:46:48On Friday, we practiced, and we were quick.
0:46:48 > 0:46:50We looked like we could win the race.
0:46:52 > 0:46:57On the eve of Jackie's final race, Ken Tyrrell came to him with a plan.
0:46:57 > 0:47:01"Everybody would love it if you're leading the race,
0:47:01 > 0:47:04"and you move over and let Francois win."
0:47:04 > 0:47:08I said, "Oh, Ken, you're asking a lot.
0:47:08 > 0:47:12"This is my last race ever. If I can win the race, I'd love to."
0:47:12 > 0:47:15He said, "Yeah, but you'd be even bigger if you didn't."
0:47:15 > 0:47:20'Mr Cevert was the winner of the 1971 Grand Prix in the United States.'
0:47:20 > 0:47:24Suddenly there is no noise and there is no cars coming back to the pit.
0:47:28 > 0:47:34Francois Cevert was killed in an absolutely appalling accident.
0:47:36 > 0:47:39I was one of the last to arrive,
0:47:39 > 0:47:43and, er, there was debris everywhere.
0:47:43 > 0:47:47And Francois was still pretty much half in the car.
0:47:47 > 0:47:51I would hate for anybody to see that.
0:47:53 > 0:47:57I was so shocked by it, but then I was so angry
0:47:57 > 0:47:59that the sport could do this.
0:47:59 > 0:48:03And I stayed for what I thought was long enough.
0:48:03 > 0:48:06But looking back, I wish I hadn't left when I did.
0:48:06 > 0:48:08'Tyrrell Ford went through the guardrail.
0:48:08 > 0:48:12'No reason has been given for the accident.'
0:48:12 > 0:48:15Everybody on the team were terribly affected, naturally.
0:48:18 > 0:48:21Jackie got together with Ken Tyrrell and they decided
0:48:21 > 0:48:24that they were going to withdraw the team.
0:48:24 > 0:48:27That was how it ended for Tyrrell that year.
0:48:27 > 0:48:30And certainly that's how Jackie Stewart's career ended.
0:48:35 > 0:48:38He missed his 100th grand prix.
0:48:38 > 0:48:41He achieved his World Championship for the third time.
0:48:41 > 0:48:43But he did it in very tragic circumstances.
0:48:45 > 0:48:50I then said I was no longer going to be a racing driver.
0:48:50 > 0:48:54It was a decision I have never, never, ever regretted.
0:48:54 > 0:48:59I was never tempted ever to go back. It just never entered my head.
0:49:06 > 0:49:0940 years on, Francois has his own bench
0:49:09 > 0:49:11in the ground of Stewarts' house...
0:49:12 > 0:49:15..along with dozens of Jackie's fallen comrades.
0:49:17 > 0:49:19It is very moving when you're here
0:49:19 > 0:49:22because you look out and you just see benches,
0:49:22 > 0:49:25and that's a friend of yours that's died.
0:49:26 > 0:49:32- Francois Cevert, he would have been the number one driver in '74.- Yeah.
0:49:32 > 0:49:35And I think he would have went on to win the World Championship, He was that good.
0:49:35 > 0:49:38You know, what should have been a terrific ending for me,
0:49:38 > 0:49:42cos I think we could have won the race. And that was the end of that.
0:49:44 > 0:49:47'But Cevert's death wasn't in vain.
0:49:49 > 0:49:52'I'm at McLaren to meet a man who took Cevert's place
0:49:52 > 0:49:54'in the Tyrrell team - Jody Scheckter.
0:49:56 > 0:50:00'Jody benefitted first hand from Jackie's safety crusade,
0:50:00 > 0:50:04'which gained even more momentum once he retired.'
0:50:04 > 0:50:06This is the car very similar to the one you drove?
0:50:06 > 0:50:08Yeah, it's the same car as I drove.
0:50:08 > 0:50:12Now so much has changed since that crash of Cevert.
0:50:12 > 0:50:14I mean, you were there, so you actually saw what happened?
0:50:14 > 0:50:17I was on the scene, I tried to get him out, and, you know, he died.
0:50:17 > 0:50:20I just remember, well everything carried on.
0:50:20 > 0:50:23And I said, "A guy's just died", you know.
0:50:23 > 0:50:27You had a huge off in a car not dissimilar to this, didn't you?
0:50:27 > 0:50:29At Silverstone, yeah, I remember that, yeah.
0:50:29 > 0:50:32'Jody Scheckter's lost it.'
0:50:32 > 0:50:35'Miraculously, no-one was seriously hurt.
0:50:35 > 0:50:37'The new breed of cars fulfilled their promise,
0:50:37 > 0:50:39'and not one of them caught fire.'
0:50:39 > 0:50:41But, you know, if you look at the cars before,
0:50:41 > 0:50:45say when Jackie started, these are a massive improvement.
0:50:45 > 0:50:48You know, Jackie, if he gets into something, he doesn't stop.
0:50:48 > 0:50:51I suppose that he talked so much, they just gave up!
0:50:52 > 0:50:56Sir Jackie's tireless work transformed the sport -
0:50:56 > 0:51:00something that hits home when you look at Lewis Hamilton's car.
0:51:00 > 0:51:03So it's not until you look at a modern Formula One car do you see
0:51:03 > 0:51:07all the safety features they were starting to work on in the '70s.
0:51:07 > 0:51:10It's gone a long, long way. I mean, if you go here,
0:51:10 > 0:51:13you just feel how solid it is compared to that car.
0:51:13 > 0:51:16- You don't have to do much more. And this is all padding.- Yeah.
0:51:16 > 0:51:21So if you have a side crash, it's going to protect you.
0:51:21 > 0:51:23Jackie Stewart was unique in motorsport
0:51:23 > 0:51:25because he fought against the grain,
0:51:25 > 0:51:27whereas everybody else just got in a race car
0:51:27 > 0:51:30and took it for granted that these things happen.
0:51:30 > 0:51:36He was unique that he stood on his own, at times, and still does.
0:51:36 > 0:51:39He moved it on more than anybody in the history of motor racing.
0:51:39 > 0:51:41They are so much safer now.
0:51:41 > 0:51:46The last person killed in a Formula One car was the great Ayrton Senna.
0:51:46 > 0:51:48Senna, yeah, yeah.
0:51:48 > 0:51:51Motorsport will always be inherently dangerous.
0:51:51 > 0:51:54But what Jackie Stewart has left
0:51:54 > 0:51:59is something that will be blue-stamped throughout motorsport
0:51:59 > 0:52:00from now on.
0:52:00 > 0:52:03Um, and what he did was save people's lives.
0:52:08 > 0:52:10Before Sir Jackie and I parted company,
0:52:10 > 0:52:13there was one last thing for me to do.
0:52:13 > 0:52:16We were at Lake Como, which could only mean one thing -
0:52:16 > 0:52:19I'd be driving round Monza.
0:52:19 > 0:52:22I have to say, I want a little bit more of this lifestyle.
0:52:22 > 0:52:25But the problem is I've go to get in a Formula One car!
0:52:27 > 0:52:30To say that I'm not nervous is an understatement.
0:52:30 > 0:52:35I get to drive your 1973 winning Tyrrell.
0:52:35 > 0:52:41Yeah, a wonderful car. It's a very famous car. You'll like it to drive.
0:52:41 > 0:52:43But it's quite tricky, quite a nervous car.
0:52:46 > 0:52:48So Lake Como's a special place
0:52:48 > 0:52:51and Monza has a huge stamp on your career.
0:52:51 > 0:52:54You were always hyped up for Monza.
0:52:54 > 0:52:57Everybody gets wound up, just because of the atmosphere.
0:52:57 > 0:53:03This was for me part of the build-up, part of the chemistry,
0:53:03 > 0:53:05that allowed me to get rid of all that tension
0:53:05 > 0:53:08and get rid of all that expectation.
0:53:08 > 0:53:12You brought your family here. The kids are running around.
0:53:12 > 0:53:15You could have walked out that door and never seen them again.
0:53:15 > 0:53:18Emotion's fantastic to get rid of.
0:53:18 > 0:53:22The car feels your nervousness if you have it.
0:53:23 > 0:53:27The speeds that you're doing around Monza in the Tyrrell I'm driving,
0:53:27 > 0:53:30I mean the top speed, what would you get out of it?
0:53:30 > 0:53:35187, 188 mph.
0:53:35 > 0:53:37We never quite cracked 200.
0:53:39 > 0:53:41Don't look at me, I'm not going to be doing it either!
0:53:41 > 0:53:43- Oh, yes, you are.- I'm calm.
0:53:43 > 0:53:45I'm quite happy to sit here all day, to be honest,
0:53:45 > 0:53:47and leave the car for you lot.
0:53:47 > 0:53:50Well, maybe I sort of felt like that too sometimes!
0:54:03 > 0:54:06I'm unbelievably nervous.
0:54:06 > 0:54:12And...to say that I'm not scared is a bit of an understatement.
0:54:12 > 0:54:16You know, I'm driving something that is a 1970s Formula One car,
0:54:16 > 0:54:18and they're inherently dangerous.
0:54:18 > 0:54:20A lot of people were killed on this track.
0:54:20 > 0:54:23You know, Francois was killed in this car.
0:54:23 > 0:54:28It fills me with trepidation, fear, excitement.
0:54:28 > 0:54:30Can I do that?
0:54:30 > 0:54:32- A little bit like that.- Just for me!
0:54:34 > 0:54:38Well, this is your baby for the day. You couldn't have any better.
0:54:38 > 0:54:44Right, in you go. Both hands back. That's it. Just slip right down.
0:54:44 > 0:54:46- OK.- All right?
0:54:57 > 0:54:59Well, listen, I hope you enjoy it. It's a great car.
0:54:59 > 0:55:02Just take your time, particularly the first lap.
0:55:06 > 0:55:08ENGINE STARTS
0:55:10 > 0:55:12Oh, my God!
0:55:12 > 0:55:14OK, James.
0:55:24 > 0:55:25Oh, my God!
0:55:26 > 0:55:29Well, he must be a wee bit nervous,
0:55:29 > 0:55:33because to be in that car around Monza, with so much history...
0:55:35 > 0:55:37I'm actually at Monza!
0:55:37 > 0:55:39..you know, it's a big moment.
0:55:39 > 0:55:42Hit the brakes.
0:55:42 > 0:55:45'Jackie's advice was to tip-toe around the first chicane.'
0:55:48 > 0:55:50Then it was time to open the Tyrrell up
0:55:50 > 0:55:54and find out just how magical this car really is.
0:56:00 > 0:56:02My God, this is incredible!
0:56:04 > 0:56:06Now he's getting a few revs over. That's good.
0:56:25 > 0:56:28I'm going to go up the pit wall and see him through.
0:56:41 > 0:56:43Good!
0:56:43 > 0:56:46Bump, bump, down a couple of gears now.
0:56:46 > 0:56:48ENGINE POPS One...
0:56:48 > 0:56:51ENGINE POPS ..two... Three?
0:56:51 > 0:56:52ENGINE POPS ..three.
0:56:52 > 0:56:55Second gear. Oh, get it in there!
0:56:55 > 0:56:58Into the first chicane and then he's going to accelerate out of that.
0:56:58 > 0:57:02There he goes. Heading down towards the next chicane.
0:57:08 > 0:57:11What a car!
0:57:14 > 0:57:17He's going to go through on a bit of a dip underneath a bridge.
0:57:17 > 0:57:19How cool is this?!
0:57:22 > 0:57:25Now he's going down the main straight.
0:57:37 > 0:57:40It looks good to me. I think he's got it fine.
0:57:40 > 0:57:44I've never really seen a Tyrrell go round this racetrack. It's nice.
0:57:44 > 0:57:46'..steal the march on someone else.
0:57:46 > 0:57:48'Will it be Stewart, Rindt, McLaren or Beltoise?
0:57:48 > 0:57:51'It could be any of them. And they're inside now...'
0:57:51 > 0:57:54I still love the sport. I absolutely love it.
0:57:54 > 0:57:57For all the bad things that have happened, there's, you know,
0:57:57 > 0:58:01a hundred better things that have happened in many ways.
0:58:01 > 0:58:05And it still gives me enormous joy just to be around the cars
0:58:05 > 0:58:10and to be able to see somebody having that much pleasure out of it,
0:58:10 > 0:58:12that in itself is terrific.
0:58:12 > 0:58:15'It looks to me as if Stewart's just got it!'
0:58:24 > 0:58:27'Jackie Stewart the winner. Jochen Rindt in second place.'
0:58:41 > 0:58:44I cannot believe it.
0:58:45 > 0:58:49'Unmistakeably the world champion, without any question.'
0:58:52 > 0:58:55Honest to God, I was in tears on the back straight as I was coming in.
0:58:55 > 0:59:00I didn't want to come in. I just wanted to keep going round and round.
0:59:00 > 0:59:04Just...just incredible. Absolutely incredible.
0:59:04 > 0:59:07Just let me sit here.
0:59:07 > 0:59:09Good.
0:59:09 > 0:59:11What an experience.
0:59:11 > 0:59:14If there's a heaven, it's got a steering wheel and four tyres!
0:59:14 > 0:59:15And it's painted blue!
0:59:15 > 0:59:17THEY BOTH LAUGH
0:59:17 > 0:59:21# Faster than a bullet from a gun
0:59:21 > 0:59:25# He is faster than everyone
0:59:26 > 0:59:29# Quicker than the blink of an eye
0:59:29 > 0:59:34# Like a flash You can miss him going by
0:59:34 > 0:59:35# No-one knows quite how he does it
0:59:35 > 0:59:37# But it's true, they say
0:59:37 > 0:59:42# He's the master at going faster. #
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