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My school days
were the worst part of my life.

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"You stupid boy, you're stupid,
dumb and thick. Sit down."

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So, school, for me...
I was a complete disaster.

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So, therefore... you're a...
you're a desperate person to win,

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because you've failed
so much in normal life.

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That when you find something
you've got to do,

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you do it with much more focus,
much more commitment, much more

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just ambition.

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You know, your early life, I think,

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has a lot to do
with how you develop.

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- Jackie!
- Jackie!

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- Jackie!
- Jackie, come over!

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I mean, my early life
was such an aggravation

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because of my school problems.

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The only benefit I think was

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that I couldn't do the things
that other people did...

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So there's no alternative
but to try and do it another way.

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There is a Chinese curse which says,
"May he live in interesting times."

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Like it or not,
we live in interesting times.

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They are times
of danger and uncertainty,

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but they are also the most creative
of any in the history of mankind.

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This year's Formula 1
World Championship

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will be contested in 11 races
on three continents.

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And there is Jackie Stewart,
the young Scotsman,

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a rising star in the sport
and a 1969 championship contender.

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The swinging 1960s
were a fantastic time.

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I had just started marriage,
I had just started motor racing,

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and my career
was going like a rocket ship.

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But the sport
was incredibly dangerous.

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And here the most disastrous sight
that you can see on any

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Clark had been killed instantly

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as his car careered off the track
at over 150 mph

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Jackie Stewart has broken
his collarbone and several ribs,

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And Helen Stewart is by his side.

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Stewart is pulling ahead
in the 1969 season so far.

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Does he have what it takes?
Can he become World Champion?

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I was brought up on the River Clyde,

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just about 12 miles from Glasgow.

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Mother and father did well,
both of them worked in the garage.

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Jackie was a very, very nervous boy.

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He was very thin, and I think
he suffered in his early youth,

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a wee bit
from an inferiority complex.

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Why? I don't know.

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And due to his lack of stature,

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he didn't like school.
He just hated it.

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We all enjoy the works
of Robert Louis Stevenson...

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At that time,
there was 54 of us in that class.

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But your reading skills
are poor to middling...

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And when that teacher would have

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each and every one of us to stand up
and read something out of a book.

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I couldn't do it.

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Just a mass of letters and words
that you can't understand...

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Particularly MacDonald,
Stewart and Lindsay...

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It's a feeling of panic,
it's just a jungle...

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And I just thought I was stupid.

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And I was told I was stupid,
dumb or thick, or all three.

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And that hurt. Badly.

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I left school at 15
with no education.

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You know,
at least my family had a garage.

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And that was where I went to work.

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I was preparing cars for customers,

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and one of them
was a quite well-off customer.

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And as a little reward,
he gave me the chance to drive

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in a very small event in Scotland,

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which I finished second.

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He said, "Oh, well,
you should do the next one."

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And I won the next one.

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Four different cars
and four wins this weekend

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for the young Scotsman
Jackie Stewart,

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and team owner Ken Tyrrell
is already taking an interest.

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In the early 1960s we were always
looking for new young talent.

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And so I invited Jackie down
for a test drive at Good wood.

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And Jackie got in the car,

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not having driven
a single-seater of any sort before,

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and in five laps he had gone quicker
than Bruce McLaren had been.

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And I think from then on,
we knew that Jackie had arrived.

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And Jackie Stewart wins
the 1966 Grand Prix of Monaco,

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driving for BRM.

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And a superb victory
for the young Scotsman,

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seen here with his wife Helen.

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Helen, when you first met Jackie,

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were you interested in cars at all?

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No! Not at all!

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I just wasn't the slightest bit
interested, even watching.

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What, so did you...
did you rebel at all?

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Yeah, I did rebel a bit
and it didn't work.

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It didn't work at all!

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Now Jackie Stewart's office
is the cockpit

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of his French-built
Matra racing car.

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1969 is only Matra's second season.

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How can they compete with teams like
BRM, Ferrari and Lotus?

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Here's team leader Ken Tyrrell.

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I think we have
an advantage over them,

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because being a small outfit,

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we're not involved with the politics
large companies get involved in.

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Our aim is to win motor races
and we can concentrate on that.

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Welcome to Silver stone
for the British Grand Prix of 1969,

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and a full house today
in the grandstands...

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Today's grid includes
world champions Denny Hulme,

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Jack Brabham, John Surtees,

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Graham Hill,
and top team drivers Jochen Rindt,

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Bruce McLaren,
Jacky Ickx, Chris Amon,

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Piers Courage and Jackie Stewart.

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I always wanted to
be good at something.

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It might be that I want to be better
than other people. I don't know.

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I remember that from early age

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that I wanted to succeed
and do things well.

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And this hasn't changed at all.
I really desperately want success.

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It's been a hard-fought season,
and Stewart now has four wins,

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but Lotus-driver Jochen Rindt
was faster in practice

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and is on pole position...

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You're leading the championship.
Are you feeling pressure?

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I try to remove pressure
and not to get overexcited.

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I had to consciously
remove all of my emotions.

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- No panic.
- Three minutes!

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I was completely neutral.

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And by the time of the race,
I'm completely and utterly calm.

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I am absolutely ice-cold neutral.

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This is where your advantage lies:
In your calmness.

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Rindt putting on a tremendous show,

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not being rattled by
the masterful Stewart behind him...

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Some people believe they've got to
think of themselves as the best

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in order to succeed.
And that they're gonna win.

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I never, ever thought that.

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The people I raced against,

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I was always surprised that I went
as fast or faster than them.

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He's got to catch up
to make contact again with Rindt.

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So there's nothing for it

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but to belt after him,
just as hard as the Matra will go.

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I was always thinking
everybody else is better than me.

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And he's right up with him there,
he's gonna try and take him!

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Stewart's back in the lead...

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And I've always thought that.

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Stewart's back in the lead again.

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And Stewart now...

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Rindt's coming in,
he's in trouble.

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Jochen Rindt's in trouble.
He's coming into the pits.

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Jackie, five wins out of six
and five more to go...

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- How many more do you want to win?
- As many as possible, obviously.

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It's very nice to have won so many
and I'm very thankful for this.

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And I'd just like to win some more.

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They had a tremendous show,

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one of the best Grand Prix's
we've seen for a long time.

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And a worthy winner,

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and man's who's got 45 points
in the World Championship...

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Sir Jackie Stewart,
it's wonderful to be here,

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sitting next to your 1969 Matra.

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I have to ask you:
Does it feel like 50 years ago?

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Yes, in a way. I mean this car here
is so special to me.

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I think as history goes by,
people have a desire to look back...

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And lots of people do, because
the great old days were wonderful.

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Hey, it's good to hug.
It's good to hug.

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It's lights out and away we go,

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Hamilton covers off his teammate,
Leclerc in third from Verstappen

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I'm not one who thinks like that.

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I think today
is better than yesterday,

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and tomorrow
is going to be better than today.

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And when I think back,

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it's difficult for me to identify
the halcyon years of my life so far.

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- Sir Jackie Stewart, OBE...
- I'm thinking they're still to come.

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It is possible
that the World Championship of 1969

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may be decided here today,
at the Monza Autodrome.

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If Jackie Stewart
finishes fifth or better,

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he will become World Champion.

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Things were a little fraught.
People were getting a bit on edge.

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But at the same time,
you've got to try and keep calm.

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And to try and do that
is, really, very difficult.

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Jochen Rindt, still desperately
chasing his first Grand Prix win,

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in the very fast,
but temperamental, Lotus 49B,

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designed of course
by team leader, Colin Chapman.

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Tremendously experienced
Jackie Stewart,

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who is almost literally
able to tune himself down

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at the beginning of a race so that
he's drained himself of all emotion.

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You know, the manners in the group
were really perfect.

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And they're in our sight now,
in your sight now,

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Rindt...
Rindt up into second place...

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You had to be very sure what
everyone was doing

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because you were
in very close company

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literally inches apart
at some times.

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Down to the Vialone, 185 mph,

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four cars, virtually together.
Down to the Parabolica they come.

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Can Stewart hold the line on this?
The last lap, someone's challenging,

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it's Rindt going through,
Jochen Rindt takes the lead

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in the Parabolica on the last
corner of the last lap...

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It must be... it's,
it's over the line together,

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and it's almost a dead heat.

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It's Jackie Stewart, Rindt,
Beltoise and McLaren.

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Jackie Stewart
won the Italian Grand Prix

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from Jochen Rindt
by about half a car's length.

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Nobody has ever seen the finish
of a motor race like this!

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And this makes Jackie Stewart
unmistakably the world champion

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of 1969.

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He had to finish in fifth place
to be the world champion

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and he has, in fact, won the race.

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Just five years ago Stewart
was working at his parents' garage,

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and he's now
Formula 1 champion of the world.

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That was a dream.

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I could never have dreamt

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that it could have turned out
the way it did.

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Oh, Jesus!

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This was the start of realising
that I had become World Champion

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and things
were gonna be different...

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"Hail to King Jackie",
as just said in Sports Illustrated.

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Will you welcome please,
Mr Jackie Stewart!

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Although he isn't
in the Cassius Clay league yet,

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Jackie Stewart is racing with
characteristic dash to a new title,

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one of the world's
richest sportsmen...

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To have won the World Championship
was for us both...

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We've come a long way.
I mean, but I think

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I was terribly proud of him, but.

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I think, to be part of it
was worth the drama

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of going through all the races.

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But he did it.

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I worked hard
at being world champion.

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I did all the functions.

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It's very easy for you
to be adversely affected

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by being in the public eye.

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We do The Today Show,
The New York Time, AP...

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You get money, you get
all sorts of things thrown at you.

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World Champion Jackie Stewart:
This is your life!

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And if there is any
inherent weakness in your character,

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it will find you out.

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From the opening to the airport,
where I flew to New York and Mexico.

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He needs to keep himself busy,
he's a workaholic.

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I think it's a...
it's the pressure of life,

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of what I've got to do.
It's not selfishness.

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People that you were meeting,
there was such a kaleidoscope.

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The Beatles,
The Stones, Frank Sinatra

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Elizabeth Taylor came with us
to the Grand Prix in Monte Carlo...

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There's been no time to absorb the
blur... We have no time to reflect.

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I fly to Scotland to see my parents,
literally for 45 minutes,

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and I get back
on the plane to London.

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Don't you morally respond
to what's happening in the world?

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I mean, I couldn't
point Vietnam out on the map,

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never mind anything else.

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I was being paid quite a lot.
And I had to deliver.

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I've never prostituted myself,
and, really, I feel that...

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Yeah but in that film there's a
scene with your hair being cut by.

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They're trying to project the image
of a modern racing driver

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for their purposes,
not for Jackie Stewart.

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That is to allow them to do
with your existence as they please!

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00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,320
Yes, to a certain extent,
and they're paying me to do that.

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- Oh, so you're willing to sell it?
- Yes.

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You mean morality
and principles?

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- No, no, no, look.
- I mean you're selling yourself.

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- No!
- A film on the life of Stewart.

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One of the most important aspects
of your life is your fucking hair?

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When we're walking down...
I told you about him,

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the German commentator.

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Every time
he comes in a more stupid outfit.

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Okay?

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Some people say the same about me!

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All the way through my career
as a racing driver,

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and the success I achieved in that,

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I kept a secret.

256
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I could neither read or write.

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I could do my signature,
only because I practised,

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time and time again.

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00:20:57,720 --> 00:20:59,720
I still can't
read or write correctly.

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I can't do the alphabet,
I don't know the alphabet.

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I faked it.

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You find ways of avoiding

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being faced with
having to write something

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or having to read something...

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00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,080
You find different ways of

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getting people to provide for you.

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"What did you say again?
Just read that out to me."

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No, I tell you, I was good at that.

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- Jackie!
- Jackie!

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With the 1970s fast approaching,
he's becoming an idol, a pop star.

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Thanks very much!

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And don't forget wife Helen.

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She's in on the act, too!

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We were very much
the "in couple" at that time.

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And it was nice to be trendy
and a woman of the time.

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I feel I should look more
like a girlfriend than

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a very staid wife!

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So, what do you make
of the great hair debate?

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Should he keep his hair long?
It's a great

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point of conversation at the moment!

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- And what do you think?
- Well, I encourage him to do it.

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It's my fault he did it.

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00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:44,080
He's always enjoyed dressing well,
but when I first met Jackie,

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he used to dress terribly.

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He thought it was in good taste,
I thought it was old-fashioned.

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- Are we leaving this plain, or...
- That's up to you, really.

287
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But there's a serious side
to Stewart's image.

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The former garage mechanic,
who left school at 15,

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is now representing
several big companies,

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as well as pushing his own brand.

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His commercial activities may
just be a glimpse of the future

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the sports star as millionaire?

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Appearances, promotions,
and getting paid.

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A long way up from the garage floor.

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00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:32,520
Every year Stewart earns about
£200,000 in low tax Swiss Francs,

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making him the second highest paid
sportsman in Europe.

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The highest? A bullfighter.

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My tax rate in Britain was 93%,

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so we moved to Switzerland.

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I didn't want to leave Scotland,
but my tax people just said,

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"Look, if anything were to
happen to you, you've got no capital

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00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:01,560
sufficient to support Helen
and two children

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00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,400
if you were either
critically injured or killed."

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00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,600
And the same night, on Saturday,
I've got to fly back to London.

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00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:17,040
- How old are they now?
- Erm, Mark is two and a half.

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00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:20,280
And Paul is five on 29 October.

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00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:23,680
- Does he understand the risks?
- Oh no.

308
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,400
- Not at all.
- Not at all? You're certain of that?

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00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:30,240
Er, no, I can't be certain of it,
because er

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I remember when Jochen had a crash,

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in Barcelona, and

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Paul saw the crash
on television.

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And he says, you know...
"Uncle Jochen had a crash."

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I said, "I know." He said,
"Uncle Jochen's got a sore head."

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00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:53,120
I said, "Yeah." He said,
"He fell out his racing car."

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00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,800
He said,
"You be careful, won't you?

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You won't
fall out your racing car?"

318
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,000
Welcome to the 1970
Formula 1 World Championship.

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Motor racing was so unsafe then,

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00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:27,200
because whatever aspect of Formula 1
you looked at,

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00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,320
it was inherently dangerous.

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00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,320
I don't see my motor racing
as something very brave.

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I mean, I'm not a brave man at all,
I'm sort of cowardly man.

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00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,840
Twice a year, when I left home
to go to Nürburgring

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and I left to go to Spa,

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00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,360
I consciously questioned
whether I were coming back.

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00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:26,120
The cars were dangerous:
Virtually mobile petrol tanks

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00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,200
with an engine strapped on one side
and a driver on the other.

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00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,880
There were no fences or barriers,

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no run-off areas. There was trees,
bushes, telegraph poles, the public

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or barbed-wire fences
to keep the cattle

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00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,120
from going on the roads
or the track.

333
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,040
It was pathetic.

334
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,960
In recent years, there has been
a grim death toll: Jim Clark,

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00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,400
Bruce McLaren, Piers Courage...

336
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,240
And we were killing people
at that time, like ten-a-penny.

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00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,840
Ludovico Scarfiotti,
Lorenzo Bandini, Mike Spence...

338
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,560
So I took on with a venom

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00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:16,400
the issues of getting
better safety into motor sport,

340
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:17,920
in particular to Formula 1.

341
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,560
Jackie decided he was
going to do something about it

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00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,120
at a time when motor racing

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00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:30,720
was regarded as
a gigantically macho sport.

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00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:36,320
I mean, we closed Spa-Francorchamps
and the Nürburgring,

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00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,080
the two
great racetracks of the world.

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The attitude then was,
"Who is this wimp Jackie Stewart

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00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:49,080
who's going round saying
motor racing ought to be safer?

348
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,800
If you don't like the heat,
get out of the kitchen."

349
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,400
I never used to think that anything
would ever happen to Jackie,

350
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,760
but now it's happened so many times.

351
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,200
I went straight on at the chicane
and jumped out of third gear.

352
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:21,240
- You know... you've got to...
- I realise now it could happen

353
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,640
I did it twice, I nearly went
straight on into the stadium.

354
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:31,560
I think he thought he was...

355
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,720
He reckoned that if you survived
five years, statistically,

356
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:39,080
if you did that, the chances are
you would be killed.

357
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:44,160
- There are reports of an accident...
- The attitude of the drivers was,

358
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,120
"Well, that's the way it is,
and we'll do it."

359
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,720
Confirmed that
Piers Courage, the 28-year old...

360
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,160
Because they wanted to race more

361
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:56,680
than they were worried about
being killed or maimed...

362
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,480
You know, I don't want to
be racing for ever, that's for sure.

363
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:05,120
I suppose one of these days
I'll have to think about stopping.

364
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,600
But I don't want to do it now.
I don't really want to stop.

365
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,360
Being in the public eye,
you're closely watched.

366
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:35,840
And some of those journalists
really want to dig deep.

367
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,320
Jackie Stewart,
New York City, April 12.

368
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:47,160
I'm always worried they'll find out
I can't read or write.

369
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,920
I don't read the papers
hardly at all.

370
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,560
I read the papers
of something that...

371
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,240
- Do you shy away from reading them?
- No, no.

372
00:29:56,320 --> 00:30:00,880
You know,
the last book I read was, was erm.

373
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:07,920
I used to read a lot of books.
I used to read them on aeroplanes.

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00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,680
Because when you spend
this much time in an aeroplane,

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00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,360
you... you have to read books...

376
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,680
But I was bluffing,

377
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:19,880
because I was frightened
that people would find out.

378
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,120
Jochen was the only man
who I really had to compete against.

379
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,000
He is great friends with Stewart,
but Rindt's Lotus...

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00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,720
He was the only man I had
real respect for as a racing driver.

381
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,600
I mean,
a really high, high respect for.

382
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,720
The Lotus was
the fastest car on the track.

383
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,040
Colin Chapman was a genius
at making things go fast,

384
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:57,880
but not always reliable.

385
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:00,920
And, frankly, not always safe.

386
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:09,040
But to get any sense
into Chapman's skull is impossible.

387
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:12,840
I have never trusted Lotus.

388
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,040
Is it a business relationship?

389
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:18,560
Yes, purely business.

390
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:26,680
Jochen had won the French, you see,
and the Dutch and Monte Carlo.

391
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,080
I'm not all out of step,
quite frankly.

392
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,200
I've seen my world championship
and I've seen it going away,

393
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,640
but I know
there's nothing I can do about it.

394
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,480
I do want it again, but I know
I can't do it in 1970 because

395
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,440
you know,
the Lotus is just too good.

396
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,040
Jochen is
a very, very talented driver

397
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,480
who I enjoy racing with very much.

398
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,760
We are next door neighbours,
we are 300 yards apart.

399
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,240
Helen and Nina
are very good friends,

400
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,880
spend a lot of time together.
Our children play together.

401
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:16,040
Nina's my best friend in racing.
We love doing things together.

402
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:17,840
And she lives just up the road...

403
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,080
She's a lovely lady. Very beautiful.

404
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,000
All the men run after her.

405
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:33,200
Jochen's a tough guy... a hard man,
but a very deep and good friend.

406
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,440
Switzerland is a safe haven
for the Stewart family.

407
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:50,160
But how does Mrs Stewart feel about
her husband's material success?

408
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,760
Material things don't mean
as much to me as at the beginning.

409
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,600
I thought it would be marvellous
to have everything.

410
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,240
But now when you can have all,

411
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,160
it just makes you appreciate
the little things in life,

412
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:09,760
like being with the children,
and Jackie and I being together.

413
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,880
I think it's made us appreciate
just what we do have.

414
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,760
The best days of my life
have been with my children.

415
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:20,320
And still are.

416
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,800
I get this tremendous feeling of

417
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,280
pleasure with the children
and Helen.

418
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,160
This is, I think,
why to Helen and I,

419
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,240
we're in a honeymoon.
We really are.

420
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,200
We're
terribly in love with each other.

421
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,520
Do the two of you know
where you're going?

422
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,960
I don't know where we're going.
It's not a real life. I mean...

423
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:07,760
You know, it's a storybook life.

424
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,600
It's not a life
that will last forever.

425
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,960
Were you on the racetrack
when he had his accident at Spa?

426
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,200
- Were you there at the time?
- In '66? Yes.

427
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:35,760
After that race, I dreamt of people
putting their heads into fire...

428
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:37,160
- Their hands?
- Heads.

429
00:34:37,240 --> 00:34:39,680
Just lying in fire,
ah, it was horrible.

430
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,680
- And have those left you now?
- Oh yes.

431
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,160
But at that time
I lost over a stone in weight.

432
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,000
And I'm not, sort of,
overweight as it is,

433
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,400
so you can imagine
what I looked like.

434
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,800
Paul? What are you gonna be
when you grow up? Do you know?

435
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,240
- Fireman.
- A what?

436
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,320
- Fireman.
- A fireman?

437
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,480
- That's what you wanna be?
- Yes.

438
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,280
- You're sure? Good.
- Yes.

439
00:35:24,720 --> 00:35:26,080
If you recently arrived,

440
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:30,680
welcome to Monza
and the 1970 Grand Prix of Italy.

441
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,640
This afternoon's practice session...

442
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,880
The Italians are incredible.
They follow you all everywhere...

443
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,440
An incredible crowd scene, always.

444
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,200
Obviously,
you've gotta sign autographs,

445
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:59,280
certainly some of them,
you can't sign them all.

446
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:06,680
You seem to go through as if you're
the bull going into the arena,

447
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,600
you're not the bullfighter,
you're the bull

448
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,000
and they're
really pleased to see you.

449
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,080
You're a bigger favourite
than the matador.

450
00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:18,320
Jochen Rindt is
our current championship leader,

451
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,080
and his wife Nina
is also with us this weekend,

452
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,800
so a proper family affair
here at Monza.

453
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:25,560
As a wife, you're in the pits

454
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:29,000
and you don't see very much of
what's happening on the circuit.

455
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,120
Practice is now in full swing.

456
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:40,480
And we have 27 cars competing
for 20 places on tomorrow's grid.

457
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:57,680
Ken came over to me, and he says,
"Jochen's had an accident."

458
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,680
Then Jackie came to me,
who was supporting me...

459
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,400
And I still not realising at all
what was happening.

460
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:34,120
Nina was gonna go to the ambulance.
And somebody came over to us,

461
00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:37,320
and said to her,
"You mustn't go there."

462
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:44,080
And one of the men told me
that Jochen had died.

463
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,280
First of all,
I think Jochen was perhaps

464
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,600
my greatest friend in motor racing.

465
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,440
He was a truly great driver and...

466
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:08,360
This is an important announcement:

467
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:12,600
The track has now re-opened.
Practice will go on for some time,

468
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:17,680
finishing at 6:30pm -
that's half-past six local time.

469
00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:23,280
Ken said, "Right, get in the car.
Hurry up. You better go quick,

470
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,800
Before this session stops,
you've only got ten minutes or so."

471
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,320
My mechanics belted me in.

472
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,320
And then I just started to cry.

473
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:50,760
And I did four laps.

474
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,440
And on my last lap,

475
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,640
I did the fastest time
that I had done ever around Monza.

476
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:07,560
- What's your state at this point?
- I just can't understand it.

477
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,040
It's absolutely beyond me.
I mean, I can't understand

478
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,000
how he could do his fastest lap
feeling like that.

479
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:23,400
I think it must have been

480
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,320
the worst day of my life.

481
00:39:58,600 --> 00:39:59,920
You see,

482
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:04,040
motor racing is stupid when I see

483
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:09,720
the hurt and the sadness and the

484
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:15,160
pain that it causes
to people that I know.

485
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,480
So many memories
and thinking of Jochen.

486
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,840
What Jochen wanted to be
and what he wanted to do.

487
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,360
What he most wanted to be
was world champion.

488
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,160
Which he never knew or he never

489
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,840
could live long enough to know
that he would be world champion.

490
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,320
Jackie and Helen has been fantastic,
both of them.

491
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,920
I'm very, very grateful,
and I love them both for it.

492
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:09,760
It's not easy
for a racing driver's wife.

493
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,560
It's not what it seems.
There's a lot behind the scenes.

494
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,240
Whether it's one's feelings
or what you're thinking.

495
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:23,960
It sounds, seems
and looks glamorous,

496
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,360
but, in fact,
it's just another business.

497
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:29,360
It's a serious business.

498
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,200
Drivers and Formula 1 management

499
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,640
are assembling on the grid
for a special gathering.

500
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,840
The tartan is out for F1 legend,
Sir Jackie Stewart,

501
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:53,880
celebrating his 80th birthday.

502
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,600
Nobody or nothing is irreplaceable.

503
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,000
Unfortunately, that's the truth.

504
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,560
When we saw Jim Clark's death,

505
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,520
we thought
it would never be the same.

506
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,000
When we saw
the death of Ayrton Senna,

507
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:15,880
we thought
it will never be the same.

508
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:19,480
It is the same.

509
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:22,720
Life goes on.

510
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:56,960
When François Cevert came along,
he was different.

511
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,160
I actually saw this young driver

512
00:43:06,240 --> 00:43:09,160
who had clear talent
but had an enormous

513
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,560
appetite to learn.

514
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:20,640
And an enormous amount of energy
to want to deliver.

515
00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:26,960
But he was almost too good-looking
to be a racing driver. Oof!

516
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:30,040
You know, why would you want
somebody like that?

517
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,840
"Can he be a serious
racing driver looking like this?"

518
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,960
You say first round the hairpin,
first on the left of the hairpin?

519
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,320
I told François everything.

520
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:06,040
He knew more than any other teammate
would ever know.

521
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:09,720
Everybody's listening. Helmut!

522
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,000
All my secrets, Helmut!

523
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,040
And Jackie's so good

524
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:21,680
in analysing the car.
He reads the car so well.

525
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,680
But, when the flag drops,

526
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:28,720
He always has
a very easy car to drive.

527
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:30,720
He doesn't have to
fight with his car

528
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:34,440
because the car doesn't
go around the corner well.

529
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:42,920
He always manages to fix his car
so it will be very easy to drive.

530
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,200
Last year you were even less nervous

531
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,480
- before the race...
- Yeah, that's right.

532
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:51,440
You were quite relaxed last year.

533
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,160
As I say again,
Jackie is the one that affects me.

534
00:44:55,240 --> 00:44:57,240
He is nervous this morning.
I can feel it.

535
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,320
I saw a report
in one of the newspapers last week.

536
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,440
It was sort of
Jackie's life with me.

537
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:05,880
And at the bottom of it

538
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,880
were five of our closest friends
who had been killed.

539
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,680
And I suddenly realised
that these five people

540
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,240
are the closest people
we've ever come to in racing.

541
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,360
And there's nobody left in racing
as far as we're concerned.

542
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:30,320
A beautiful start by Stewart...

543
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,680
Are you worried by her ability

544
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:37,840
- to contain all of this?
- No, not at all.

545
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:40,360
No, what I mean is, you know,

546
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,560
I suppose it's possible
she is storing all of this stuff up

547
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:46,720
- and it may some time come out.
- It might do,

548
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,480
but she's got
a tremendous strength of character.

549
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:51,160
I think she's stronger than I am.

550
00:45:51,240 --> 00:45:54,720
- She's much stronger than I am.
- How is she stronger than you are?

551
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:58,600
She sees
the important things in life

552
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,400
and sometimes...
I respect her for it,

553
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,400
she doesn't let her feelings
automatically rumble out.

554
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,640
So you respect her
the same way you respect yourself?

555
00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:09,520
I think Jackie was happy
I was like that

556
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:13,360
because if I was, you know, crying
every five minutes like some girls,

557
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:17,880
which I understand...
But you must be strong for Jackie.

558
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:21,360
Here he comes, the flag is ready.

559
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,880
Jackie Stewart wins
the Monaco Grand Prix for Tyrrell.

560
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,760
I believe in good luck.
You need good luck.

561
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:36,040
Everybody does,
but I don't believe in bad luck.

562
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:48,720
If you have continuous bad luck,
you're not just an unlucky person.

563
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,360
You've got it wrong.
You're doing it wrongly,

564
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:53,000
and you've must recognise that.

565
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:00,720
Would you gamble at all?

566
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,600
In Monte Carlo, I go to the casino.
Maybe the night after the race.

567
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:09,640
And you know,
all I gamble is 25 dollars.

568
00:47:09,720 --> 00:47:11,240
- 25 dollars?
- That's all.

569
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:13,720
- You cheap son of a bitch.
- Yes!

570
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:16,000
- You really are cheap?
- When it comes to betting,

571
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,400
I wouldn't put money
on what I didn't understand.

572
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,720
- You tight-arsed son of a bitch!
- You're absolutely right, I am.

573
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,920
Why would I want to put my money
on something I don't understand?

574
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:34,920
The problem is, Roger,

575
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:39,040
when I'm all...
I've got in my mind a certain

576
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:41,520
attitude towards the car.

577
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:43,280
It's jumping out of gear

578
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,680
and it's hard to get in,
and then the whole thing goes...

579
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:49,560
It's a mechanical happening,
you know,

580
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:52,640
it builds up and builds up,
and it's not in the bump rubbers.

581
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:58,720
Jackie has trouble in communicating
with writing and written words.

582
00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:02,360
But, he has absolutely
no trouble at all

583
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,600
in communicating
with the spoken word.

584
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:11,000
I learnt how to communicate.
I learnt how to explain

585
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:13,960
why the car
was doing this instead of this.

586
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:18,120
It took me longer to explain,
perhaps, than most people,

587
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:22,200
but it was probably more vivid
because I tried harder.

588
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,400
It felt like, to begin with,
there was no brake in the front.

589
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,600
I could press the brake
until there was a hole in my foot.

590
00:48:30,240 --> 00:48:32,200
I was a pain in the arse.

591
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:35,680
People will say, "Oh God, Jackie
goes on and on about this".

592
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,360
It's because I don't think
they've grasped it.

593
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:40,320
And many times,
of course, they have.

594
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:44,520
Engage fifth, then finally it
starts to, but not second.

595
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:51,240
I can say that I think I could
tune into mechanics and engineers,

596
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,680
and I respected them
for what they did

597
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,240
and understood
the quality of their work.

598
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,840
My mechanics
were better at doing what they did

599
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:02,760
than I ever was at what I did.

600
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:06,320
And that's why I'm alive today.

601
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:15,760
We understand
that some of the drivers

602
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:18,760
are concerned about
the safety of the track's surface.

603
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:21,840
So, there will be further updates
on the situation...

604
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:26,080
Safety, the word hits a raw nerve
as far as I was concerned,

605
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:29,520
because safety was a sick joke.
There wasn't any safety.

606
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:36,520
The circuits were dangerous,
and the medical facilities were

607
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:38,160
basic, to put it mildly.

608
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:41,960
With one hour until the track opens,

609
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:45,720
there is an inspection in progress
led by Jackie Stewart,

610
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:49,120
a driver with strong opinions
on motor racing safety.

611
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:53,120
The problem is they've known for
nine months this race will happen,

612
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:56,480
and they've chosen the last week
to resurface a racetrack.

613
00:49:56,560 --> 00:50:00,200
I just want to make sure that

614
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,520
if we practise
and the surface is breaking up,

615
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:05,160
the race will be cancelled.

616
00:50:05,240 --> 00:50:08,480
We don't want any more bullshit
that they will repair the road.

617
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:13,440
We have to recognise that
racing never will be totally safe.

618
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:17,880
The objective within motor sport,
or certainly my objective,

619
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:22,520
is to perhaps remove
its unnecessary hazards.

620
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:28,920
There are many today who feel that
motor sport should be dangerous.

621
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:31,480
Almost gladiatorial.

622
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:34,360
They strongly resist
Stewart's safety campaign.

623
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:40,720
Stirling Moss! He believed
it wasn't our job to be doing that.

624
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:42,960
He believed
that we had to take risks.

625
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:45,840
He always was a good friend,
but we differed on safety.

626
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:50,280
This is something where Jackie and I
don't see eye to eye.

627
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:51,960
I think we have to blame him

628
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:54,160
for the emasculation
of every decent circuit.

629
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:59,320
I believe, you see, that racing
needs an element of danger because,

630
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,840
to me, it's rather like cooking
and not having any salt.

631
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:06,240
I mean, the real flavour comes out
with the danger.

632
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:15,240
Driver safety is one thing,
but Jackie Stewart has his eye

633
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:17,320
on a bigger picture.

634
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:20,920
If we are anything less
than totally responsible,

635
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:23,560
we could lose this sport.

636
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,720
And if we do not
keep our own house in order

637
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:33,840
by containing accidents within
limitations of the track, without,

638
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:39,760
God forbid, without it
reaching the spectators.

639
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:43,800
Our biggest risk is that happening.

640
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,720
As far as I'm concerned,
I need now... I mean,

641
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:49,520
you can go out in a car if you like.

642
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:54,880
There are 25 cars here. You can't
sweep them on a course car.

643
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:57,040
You'd have to do 40 laps.

644
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:00,600
Stewart's efforts
are starting to bear fruit.

645
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:04,560
Not least with the state-of-the-art
mobile medical centre.

646
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,560
Jackie is a gigantically determined,

647
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:16,320
sincere chap, and he - admittedly
in association with other people

648
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:21,000
has made Formula 1
infinitely safer than it ever was.

649
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:24,600
It will never be safe,

650
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:28,520
but that it is as safe as it is now,
is entirely due to him.

651
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:43,280
At that time,
Jackie was seldom home.

652
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:49,560
I had Paul and Mark at home,
so, therefore, it was quite tiring.

653
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:53,480
Jackie was a dedicated family man,

654
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:56,600
although, he hasn't spent the time
that he would like to.

655
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:03,520
Always when he left home, he
wondered if he would be coming back.

656
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:10,160
Some of them didn't get back home,
and they had children.

657
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:19,160
Paul came back one day and said,
"When's Daddy gonna die?"

658
00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:22,960
All the boys say at school
that Daddy's going to die,

659
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:24,520
"because all racing drivers die."

660
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,040
You know, I see this,
and I really

661
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:34,600
feel them. You know,
I feel them very close to me.

662
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:39,560
- One...
- Two...

663
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,960
But, you know, you collect yourself,
and you go on.

664
00:53:50,720 --> 00:53:52,920
And, God dammit,
I am absolutely certain

665
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,720
that this costs you in terms of
relationship with your wife.

666
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:58,560
I think half of the trouble is,
with people like yourself

667
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:02,040
and the other so-called
intellectuals in America,

668
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:04,680
that they spend half their lives
analysing themselves

669
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:06,440
instead of enjoying it.

670
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:09,640
I see,
life is basically a happy affair...

671
00:54:09,720 --> 00:54:11,600
No, it's got
fucking sad moments in it.

672
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:13,600
I've probably seen
a lot more than you.

673
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:17,120
- No doubt you have.
- But I've seen a lot of it, boy,

674
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,040
and I've seen a lot of life.

675
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:21,640
And in seeing that lot of life,
I can understand it.

676
00:54:21,720 --> 00:54:23,760
Probably, a lot further
than some people.

677
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:35,240
You put it to me, three years ago,
in these terms,

678
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:38,640
"When driving a racing car,
you're more aware of your mortality.

679
00:54:38,720 --> 00:54:40,640
You love your kids
and your wife more

680
00:54:40,720 --> 00:54:42,960
because you know
you could be dead in a week."

681
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:48,160
When I'm really on form,

682
00:54:48,240 --> 00:54:50,960
I completely remove emotion.

683
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:52,480
I consciously remove it.

684
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:57,320
And when I see a corner
coming towards me,

685
00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,600
I see that corner in slow motion.

686
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:06,600
Things don't rush past you
at an enormous flurry.

687
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:09,240
They're crystal clear.

688
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:15,280
Your whole system,
your whole physical body,

689
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,000
is so intense.

690
00:55:20,720 --> 00:55:22,640
It's a sort of intoxication.

691
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:28,280
I think it must be
like somebody being high on a drug.

692
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:50,080
I was jetting back and forward
across the Atlantic

693
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:52,840
on the World Championship
in Europe and beyond.

694
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:56,440
The Can-Am Championship was
from June until the end of October.

695
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:10,760
When Jackie Stewart gets it on,
there are few people in the world

696
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:13,360
who can match
his driving style and ability.

697
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:16,120
And right now,
Jackie Stewart is on it.

698
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:24,280
Jackie Stewart is now Formula 1
World Champion for the second time.

699
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:25,720
There he is celebrating

700
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:29,360
with teammate François Cevert
and team boss Ken Tyrrell.

701
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:44,120
Jackie, I know, is going to go on
and set all sorts of new records.

702
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:47,040
This is only
his second World Championship.

703
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:51,080
He set a new standard
in motor racing, a new high, and

704
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:53,840
something for everyone to go for.

705
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:56,200
But, for Christ's sake, lay off.

706
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:02,120
I'm Jackie Stewart.
The race cars I drive costs...

707
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:04,840
Getty Premium sells for less
than most other premiums...

708
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:07,560
Goodyear G800 Supersteels -
performance that lasts

709
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:09,520
Capri - the sexy European...

710
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:17,640
Let's talk about money.
Do you make more money than

711
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:20,600
most drivers, I mean

712
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:22,520
- I think so, yes.
- Why?

713
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:25,520
- Because people think I'm worth it.
- Why?

714
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:29,240
I mean,
it's more than just driving a car.

715
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:34,960
It amounts to the promo activities
that I do and

716
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:39,160
the way that I can talk and the way
I can put together a deal

717
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:42,000
that might be better
than somebody else.

718
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:48,120
I'm not quite sure
if he enjoys the racing,

719
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:51,360
or if he enjoys the fact
that he makes a lot of money.

720
00:58:52,120 --> 00:58:56,720
I can never quite understand.
I've never really asked him.

721
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:11,240
By December, I was so exhausted,
through doing too many things,

722
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:13,520
I couldn't pick up
my World Championship.

723
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:18,680
It was my second World Championship,
and I sent Helen instead.

724
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:22,000
I was just so drained.

725
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:38,600
I was still feeling insecure

726
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:42,120
because I knew I wasn't as clever
as people thought I was.

727
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:47,480
But I still couldn't read,
and I still couldn't spell.

728
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:51,040
You know, Helen didn't know.

729
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:56,320
She did not know. I faked it.

730
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:02,440
Nobody, nobody knew.
It was a very well-kept secret.

731
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:13,440
The thrill of victory,

732
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:16,160
the agony of defeat.

733
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,600
Jackie Stewart
is once again with us today,

734
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:26,320
World Champion racing driver
and our expert on the sport

735
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:29,120
I was starting
to become a regular face

736
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:34,560
on ABC's Wide World of Sports,
a very successful American program me

737
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:36,160
with a big audience.

738
01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:38,600
Full of excitement.
It's the epitome of glamour,

739
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:41,520
It's colourful, it's exciting.
It's everything we want...

740
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:46,200
The trouble was that I found it
impossible to read the teleprompter.

741
01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:49,200
So, I had to fake it.

742
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:51,240
Three of them here and four

743
01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:54,560
I learnt my lines in advance,
trying to make it work.

744
01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:58,120
To observe and comment,
World Champion, Jackie Stewart.

745
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:01,200
Keith, the Alfa Romeo is
what's called a sports prototype.

746
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:03,880
It's a very special
kind of motor car...

747
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:06,720
It was a lot of preparation,

748
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:09,120
but in the end, it seemed to work.

749
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:19,520
I did 25 programmes one year
for ABC's Wide World of Sports,

750
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:22,640
and that was one of the years
I did 43 trips across the Atlantic.

751
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:32,760
But, in fact, the Atlantic travel
proved to be a bit too much for him.

752
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:36,800
This is not the confident Stewart
that we're used to seeing.

753
01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:39,720
He has already missed one race
due to health problems,

754
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:43,960
and Ken Tyrrell must be concerned
about his star driver, especially

755
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:46,720
I got a duodenal ulcer
that haemorrhaged.

756
01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:51,520
I was bleeding internally,
and I was in a mess.

757
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:53,840
There goes Colin Chapman,

758
01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:57,960
and it's Emerson Fittipaldi.
A superb drive...

759
01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:05,520
The Lotus team is making
a big impact in the 1972 season

760
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:07,560
with their brilliant
young Brazilian.

761
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:10,400
I was in a very strong position,
and we had many races

762
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:12,720
that we diced against each other.

763
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:15,000
Or he won, I was second,
or I won, he was second.

764
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:18,640
Really, you know,

765
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:20,120
I knew I wasn't driving well,

766
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:22,600
and I was cursing myself
for being too busy.

767
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:30,760
Fittipaldi is now Formula 1
World Champion of 1972.

768
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:33,040
The youngest ever champion.

769
01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:36,480
That's my first World Championship.

770
01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:43,920
It seemed Jackie didn't like
that Emerson idea.

771
01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:49,000
Emerson Fittipaldi,
World Champion, 61 points.

772
01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:51,560
Runner-up, Jackie Stewart on 45.

773
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:03,280
When you go into sport,
you win, or you lose.

774
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:09,280
The important thing is to win.

775
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:15,040
I don't know how many times
I finished second.

776
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:17,040
I couldn't tell you,

777
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:20,920
because it really doesn't matter.

778
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:30,840
You know, whatever I'm doing,
I try harder.

779
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:35,960
That's still going on in my life.
To this very day.

780
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:38,840
Good morning.

781
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:41,240
How are you?
Good to see you, come back.

782
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:44,920
Hey! Look at you!

783
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:48,600
Jackie is one of the best
drivers in the world.

784
01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:54,440
But I still want to
do things in my life.

785
01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:56,520
A very close friend of mine.

786
01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:59,400
And I do it,
sometimes far too ardently.

787
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:01,840
It's the only way I know how to.

788
01:04:01,920 --> 01:04:04,080
It's the only way
I've achieved anything.

789
01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:05,840
It's the only way I've got success.

790
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:08,520
That takes you away from home.

791
01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:10,600
I mean, Helen's fed up,

792
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:13,280
but she knows that I'm doing my job.

793
01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:17,080
There's sometimes, she says,

794
01:04:17,160 --> 01:04:19,520
"Why do you bother?
Why are you doing this anymore?"

795
01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:22,600
- The Ford Cosworth engine.
- Yes.

796
01:04:25,520 --> 01:04:28,240
I'm doing it
because I'm fulfilled by it.

797
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:33,760
I don't want to remove
what is Jackie Stewart.

798
01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:39,160
Jackie Stewart, one of the main
personalities in motor sport...

799
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:49,840
This is the second Formula 1 race
of 1973,

800
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:54,160
and Interlagos is hosting
the first-ever Brazilian Grand Prix.

801
01:04:56,840 --> 01:05:00,560
Reigning world champion,
Emerson Fittipaldi,

802
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:03,040
- and Jackie Stewart.
- Emerson! Emerson!

803
01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:08,640
Emerson was a star from Brazil,
and a tough competitor.

804
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:15,880
It was very fashionable
to have the sideburns at the time.

805
01:05:15,960 --> 01:05:20,000
I said, "Why not, Jackie has them,
and he's going fast.

806
01:05:20,080 --> 01:05:22,600
I have to have a bigger one
to go even faster than him!"

807
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:27,560
- Emerson!
- Emerson!

808
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:36,920
Once again,
that familiar celebration.

809
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:40,800
Fittipaldi takes the flag.
The local boy has done it,

810
01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:42,840
and Interlagos is loving it.

811
01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:45,640
What do you think of Emerson
as a pilot?

812
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:47,120
- Who?
- Emerson Fittipaldi.

813
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:49,080
The guy
who won the World Championship.

814
01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:50,720
Ah, yes!

815
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:58,520
- The Lotus is unstoppable.
- He drove an excellent race.

816
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:01,480
I'm just sorry
I couldn't be more opposition.

817
01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:06,440
Five races won so far,

818
01:06:06,520 --> 01:06:10,040
three wins for Fittipaldi,
and two for Stewart.

819
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:34,880
Practice is in progress at Zandvoort
on this important weekend...

820
01:06:36,560 --> 01:06:39,280
Fittipaldi in the Lotus,
Stewart in the Tyrrell.

821
01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:41,400
They are on three wins apiece,

822
01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:45,000
but Stewart leads by one point.
Both teams are, of course...

823
01:06:45,080 --> 01:06:48,520
It feels to me the throttle spring
isn't strong enough, huh?

824
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:58,400
Blooming hell, Ronnie's engine is as
rough as a bag of nails, isn't it?

825
01:07:04,880 --> 01:07:07,480
- Where's Emerson?
- He crashed very badly.

826
01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:10,880
Oh no! Oh no!

827
01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:17,040
Where? What happened?

828
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:20,920
He's crashed very heavily
into the guard rail.

829
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:25,840
Fittipaldi's brother.

830
01:07:26,880 --> 01:07:28,200
His wife.

831
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:47,360
Sighs of relief all round.

832
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:50,680
We don't yet know
the extent of Emerson's injuries

833
01:07:50,760 --> 01:07:53,680
or how this might affect
the battle for the championship...

834
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:55,720
But the race will start shortly.

835
01:08:23,240 --> 01:08:26,400
A car has gone off
in the Panoramabocht.

836
01:08:27,080 --> 01:08:30,000
At this point, we don't know
if there's still a man inside.

837
01:08:35,400 --> 01:08:39,320
I just visited the crash site.

838
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:43,560
The man's dead.
I saw it, it was horrible.

839
01:08:43,640 --> 01:08:49,040
I know for sure, it was
Robert Williamson's STP March.

840
01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:57,520
Williamson's dead. No lap
of honour, quiet presentation...

841
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:02,240
Take it.

842
01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:15,280
Jackie Stewart now,
ten points ahead of Fittipaldi,

843
01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:19,720
and a great congratulations
for James Hunt and the Hesketh Team.

844
01:09:19,800 --> 01:09:23,080
This is only James Hunt's fourth
Grand Prix, a great achievement.

845
01:09:31,360 --> 01:09:35,280
I think he thought he was...
it was beginning to get a bit silly.

846
01:09:36,440 --> 01:09:38,680
And I think
he took stock of his life then.

847
01:09:42,840 --> 01:09:46,880
Here I was at the very
height of my skills, my abilities.

848
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:49,680
At the height
of my earning capacity.

849
01:09:51,240 --> 01:09:53,200
All the adulation that went with it.

850
01:09:55,440 --> 01:09:58,520
And I was not
getting much out of it.

851
01:10:01,080 --> 01:10:04,200
I was getting negatives
rather than positives,

852
01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:08,920
and that confused me. It was then
that I decided I was gonna retire.

853
01:10:16,960 --> 01:10:19,440
He didn't want this to be public

854
01:10:19,520 --> 01:10:23,320
because he didn't want Helen
to be having a countdown on,

855
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:26,560
you know, only five more,
only four more, only three more.

856
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:36,960
She'd be waiting for that last race
with climbing anxiety,

857
01:10:37,040 --> 01:10:38,640
to see it finished, if you like.

858
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:42,680
And

859
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:44,880
there were times I felt like
saying to Jackie,

860
01:10:44,960 --> 01:10:46,440
"Give it up." But I didn't.

861
01:10:47,440 --> 01:10:52,200
In fact, I vowed I never would.
And I never have done.

862
01:11:08,960 --> 01:11:11,800
Do you ever feel guilty about,

863
01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:14,240
in effect, the kind of life
you put Helen through?

864
01:11:14,320 --> 01:11:16,920
Oh, hell, yes. Oh absolutely.

865
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:20,600
I think it's a very selfish business
and I do feel guilty.

866
01:11:30,600 --> 01:11:32,080
At the height of my career,

867
01:11:32,160 --> 01:11:36,480
I know I was a wickedly selfish,
self-centred person,

868
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:39,040
and the world
had to circulate around my life.

869
01:11:40,840 --> 01:11:42,600
If you gear it for third gear...

870
01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:46,880
My family, my wife,
my business associates,

871
01:11:46,960 --> 01:11:50,480
my team, my mechanics,
my designers, my Ken Tyrrells

872
01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:54,080
they had to be all fitting around
what Jackie Stewart wanted.

873
01:12:03,760 --> 01:12:05,280
- Do you fancy a game?
- Yes!

874
01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:08,840
- I've got my bat!
- It's a good one.

875
01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:12,160
Now, we've talked a lot
about your husband, Helen, but

876
01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:15,240
what about his teammate?
How do you get on with him?

877
01:12:15,320 --> 01:12:16,640
- François?
- François, yeah.

878
01:12:16,720 --> 01:12:20,320
He's great fun, nice to be with.
And he loves my family

879
01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:23,280
and Jackie.
We get on all so well together.

880
01:12:23,360 --> 01:12:25,560
He's quite a fit young man,
isn't he?

881
01:12:25,640 --> 01:12:28,800
He'd always have these girls coming,

882
01:12:28,880 --> 01:12:31,640
to try get to know me,
so they could to get to know him.

883
01:12:35,040 --> 01:12:39,160
This one here was François...
not kissing me at all, just

884
01:12:41,560 --> 01:12:44,480
kidding on. I think it's so funny
'cause Jackie...

885
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:48,000
He couldn't have cared less anyway.

886
01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:50,760
Because he knew he was safe.

887
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:54,440
It wasn't serious.

888
01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:17,280
Well, we are delighted to see
Emerson Fittipaldi back on the grid.

889
01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:22,680
He's in 14th position, a long way
back from Stewart and Peterson,

890
01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:26,880
with Ickx and François Cevert
in the second Tyrrell, behind...

891
01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:32,160
Five, four, three.

892
01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:45,040
I held nothing back from François.
Nothing!

893
01:13:47,640 --> 01:13:50,520
Tell me about your education
as a driver.

894
01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:54,480
Well, I think it's very simple:
Jackie did all my education.

895
01:13:56,240 --> 01:13:59,680
I was what you could call
a mad driver.

896
01:14:01,680 --> 01:14:05,920
I was driving like hell. I was not
thinking enough to what I was doing.

897
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:09,320
And Jackie stopped all that
and teach me

898
01:14:10,480 --> 01:14:14,080
how you must analyse a car, how
you must think when you are driving,

899
01:14:14,160 --> 01:14:16,680
what kind of vision you must have.

900
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:21,680
Stewart wins in Germany,
his 27th Formula 1 victory

901
01:14:21,760 --> 01:14:24,600
the most races ever won by a driver,

902
01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:27,000
surpassing the late Jim Clark
who had 25

903
01:14:27,080 --> 01:14:29,720
François had
an immense appetite to learn...

904
01:14:30,360 --> 01:14:31,800
And for me it was nice,

905
01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:34,880
because I was with somebody
who I could pass something on to.

906
01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:38,960
And he was quick.

907
01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:43,000
I said to Ken afterwards,
"You know

908
01:14:43,800 --> 01:14:47,480
François, I really think
he could've beaten me today."

909
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:57,160
Jackie is still the maestro for me.
He is the only man,

910
01:14:58,080 --> 01:15:02,640
maybe in the world, to be able to do
a whole Grand Prix of 90 laps,

911
01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:06,080
two hours racing,
without making one mistake.

912
01:15:07,680 --> 01:15:11,400
But I think I am on one lap,
I'm now as fast as Jackie.

913
01:15:13,160 --> 01:15:15,800
What does that mean,
what do you have to do to beat him?

914
01:15:15,880 --> 01:15:17,720
Not to make any mistakes.

915
01:15:17,800 --> 01:15:20,800
And a big one, François!

916
01:15:20,880 --> 01:15:25,120
Jackie Stewart now looks unbeatable
in the race for the championship.

917
01:15:25,200 --> 01:15:29,120
He has 60 points,
followed by Cevert on 45,

918
01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:31,040
Fittipaldi on 42.

919
01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:35,040
François didn't know I was retiring.

920
01:15:35,880 --> 01:15:40,240
He was the obvious team leader
for the following year.

921
01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:44,440
François! François! François!

922
01:16:03,480 --> 01:16:06,280
Every race I went to that year,
I thought,

923
01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:08,600
"Wow, I'll never race here again."

924
01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:13,920
Bloody cork!

925
01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:26,960
All of these events
became very focused in my mind

926
01:16:27,040 --> 01:16:29,120
as the last time I'll be doing that.

927
01:16:31,160 --> 01:16:32,840
So, that was the sweet time.

928
01:16:33,480 --> 01:16:36,880
The last corner, coming into sight -
and Stewart has done it!

929
01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:41,240
Jackie, hi!

930
01:16:42,480 --> 01:16:46,240
He is now World Champion of 1973!

931
01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:51,080
Two Grand Prix still to come
in Canada and the United States...

932
01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:01,920
During the two weeks
before the Grand Prix in America,

933
01:17:02,560 --> 01:17:04,800
we went down to Bermuda.

934
01:17:08,440 --> 01:17:11,240
And Jackie had gone off
to play golf,

935
01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:13,600
we were just lying there,

936
01:17:13,680 --> 01:17:16,720
discussing will Jackie retire,
or will he not retire.

937
01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:20,800
And I said, "Well, if he retires,
you'll be number one anyway."

938
01:17:22,880 --> 01:17:26,640
So he said, "I 'ope so."

939
01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:31,040
"I do not know."

940
01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:38,640
He used to
play the piano a great deal

941
01:17:38,720 --> 01:17:42,720
and he used to play
this wonderful tune from Beethoven,

942
01:17:42,800 --> 01:17:44,240
"Pathétique".

943
01:17:49,280 --> 01:17:51,680
He would always
tease me with that music

944
01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:54,440
because it always upset me
'cause I loved to hear him play.

945
01:17:57,680 --> 01:18:00,160
And when we left there, it was

946
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:05,520
very - I don't know,
I had a funny feeling when I left.

947
01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:15,960
Ladies and gentlemen, if you wish,

948
01:18:16,040 --> 01:18:20,320
you may now smoke -
cigarettes only, please. Thank you.

949
01:18:26,160 --> 01:18:29,040
Funnily enough,
that day François said to me,

950
01:18:29,120 --> 01:18:31,040
"If anything
ever happens to me..."

951
01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:33,840
He didn't believe
in life after death, if you

952
01:18:33,920 --> 01:18:35,280
die, that's it.

953
01:18:36,040 --> 01:18:39,400
I said, "I think you're wrong.
I'm sure there's something.

954
01:18:39,480 --> 01:18:42,080
There can't just be nothing."

955
01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:47,040
So, he said,
"I'll tell you what:

956
01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:50,760
Whoever goes first,
comes back and gives a sign."

957
01:19:03,600 --> 01:19:07,120
See that trophy?
It takes a lot to win it.

958
01:19:11,760 --> 01:19:13,680
That's right, roll it over!

959
01:19:16,400 --> 01:19:19,400
Testing 123, testing 123,
Watkins Glen...

960
01:19:27,880 --> 01:19:33,360
Mr and Mrs Edsel Ford, please head
to the Ford Motor Company bureau,

961
01:19:33,440 --> 01:19:34,960
located to the left of the...

962
01:19:35,040 --> 01:19:37,640
My wife Cynthia and I
were gonna meet Jackie and Helen.

963
01:19:37,720 --> 01:19:39,680
We arrived
in time for practice, and

964
01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:43,840
you know, everybody
was in good spirits.

965
01:19:44,440 --> 01:19:46,000
It was a very festive weekend.

966
01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:57,920
As I got closer
and closer to what would've been

967
01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:00,280
my last race,
at my hundredth Grand Prix,

968
01:20:00,360 --> 01:20:05,080
I wasn't getting hyped up,
nervous or excited about it.

969
01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:08,320
It was the end of a long season.

970
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:10,080
I had secured
the World Championship.

971
01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:13,200
And I had a great feeling

972
01:20:13,280 --> 01:20:17,000
about my career
having come to an end, really.

973
01:20:22,160 --> 01:20:25,800
After the morning practice sessions,
Ronnie Peterson has the fastest time

974
01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:28,720
with 1 minute 39.6 seconds...

975
01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:34,320
Before the last practice,
Ken said to me,

976
01:20:34,400 --> 01:20:38,720
the biggest gesture you could make
in your last Grand Prix,

977
01:20:38,800 --> 01:20:40,600
even if you're leading it,

978
01:20:40,680 --> 01:20:43,280
would be to move over
and wave François through,

979
01:20:43,360 --> 01:20:44,760
and let him win.

980
01:20:45,400 --> 01:20:48,400
And I said, "Ken, that's a big ask.
My last Grand Prix?"

981
01:20:50,240 --> 01:20:52,640
I said, "You have to
let me think about that one."

982
01:20:56,880 --> 01:21:01,080
Stewart's teammate, 29-year-old
Frenchman François Cevert,

983
01:21:01,160 --> 01:21:03,520
has had a tremendous season so far.

984
01:21:03,600 --> 01:21:06,920
He collided with Jody Scheckter
two weeks ago at Mosport,

985
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:08,920
but he's back in the car
this weekend

986
01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:11,160
I cannot be more happy.
Everything I do

987
01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:13,520
about motor racing, I enjoy it.

988
01:21:14,400 --> 01:21:16,160
Anything. Because it is my passion.

989
01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:22,000
I'd got to the pits by that time.
I'd got my books out and everything.

990
01:21:23,320 --> 01:21:27,640
He just looked up, and he goes...
before he put his visor down.

991
01:21:30,320 --> 01:21:32,440
Our final practice session
is just beginning

992
01:21:32,520 --> 01:21:34,440
and will go on
for the next 30 minutes...

993
01:21:51,720 --> 01:21:55,880
There was debris all over the track.
I mean, large parts of it,

994
01:21:56,920 --> 01:21:58,520
but clearly blue.

995
01:22:01,960 --> 01:22:06,720
And I went to the car,
still smoking, steaming.

996
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:09,920
And François is in the car.

997
01:22:12,160 --> 01:22:15,600
And... it was just a horrible sight.

998
01:22:19,320 --> 01:22:20,800
It was just

999
01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:26,560
the violence of it was so horrid.

1000
01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:31,800
Christ, it still

1001
01:22:38,120 --> 01:22:41,240
still bothers me today.

1002
01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:09,240
I often think about him.

1003
01:23:11,200 --> 01:23:15,320
We had long conversations,
François and I, about death and

1004
01:23:16,240 --> 01:23:18,280
what happened
if there was life after death.

1005
01:23:20,840 --> 01:23:23,760
I said, "If it happens to you,
you come back and tell me."

1006
01:23:27,120 --> 01:23:28,440
And he did.

1007
01:23:33,040 --> 01:23:36,160
So, I know there's life after death.

1008
01:23:40,560 --> 01:23:44,520
That's really all I have
on that particular subject.

1009
01:24:05,600 --> 01:24:10,560
I'm not one who looks back
with rose-coloured glasses.

1010
01:24:11,440 --> 01:24:13,280
I'm not one who thinks like that.

1011
01:24:19,480 --> 01:24:22,640
There's been some difficult times.

1012
01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:31,800
But there's also been
unexpected positives.

1013
01:24:39,040 --> 01:24:41,360
I was 43 years of age

1014
01:24:42,360 --> 01:24:44,960
well after I had retired
from racing

1015
01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:49,000
when I was diagnosed
as a severe dyslexic.

1016
01:24:53,560 --> 01:24:56,600
And I suddenly thought, "God,
I've been saved from drowning!"

1017
01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:00,520
I'm not stupid and I'm not thick.

1018
01:25:01,520 --> 01:25:02,840
I'm not dumb.

1019
01:25:20,120 --> 01:25:25,240
Nowadays people are saying
that dyslexia can be an advantage.

1020
01:25:28,480 --> 01:25:30,360
I'm not sure if that's true.

1021
01:25:33,480 --> 01:25:38,680
- But if my story can help people...
- Good.

1022
01:25:38,760 --> 01:25:40,760
Who can't read or write,

1023
01:25:41,560 --> 01:25:44,560
then I'll see that as a success.

1024
01:25:57,880 --> 01:25:59,960
My life's been
a kind of rocket ship

1025
01:26:02,480 --> 01:26:06,840
where the vivid, bright colours
go with the deepest of dark colours.

1026
01:26:09,680 --> 01:26:14,360
And I think that
that's where you get the real taste

1027
01:26:14,440 --> 01:26:16,640
of what is reality.

1028
01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:18,040
In the deepest sense.

1029
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:32,520
And although it had its sour times -
and they were deeply sour

1030
01:26:34,240 --> 01:26:38,880
that also highlighted what
the reality of the good life was,

1031
01:26:38,960 --> 01:26:43,400
and what life had given to me
just by driving a racing car.

1032
01:30:11,960 --> 01:30:15,600
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