🇬🇧 Jackie Stewart

Jackie Stewart is an elite professional who raced Formula 1 from 1965 to 1973, a single-class international championship that fielded amateurs through graded professionals in the same races. He drove for Tyrrell, the team that proved to be his main base across his nine-season career, taking 40 of his 100 starts there.[1]

Stewart won three Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship titles; 1969 with Matra-Ford, then 1971 and 1973 with Tyrrell. Across all nine seasons he took 27 wins and 43 podium finishes from 100 starts. His final season, 1973, brought five wins and eight podiums across the 15 rounds, enough to secure the championship for a third time.[2]

His peers on the grid included multiple former champions. He raced regularly against Graham Hill and Denny Hulme, both established professionals with their own titles; Stewart and Hill were closely matched, as were Stewart and Hulme. He finished ahead of Carlos Reutemann, an elite professional who raced 146 Formula 1 starts, on nine occasions. He also beat Jim Clark, a two-time Formula 1 champion, twice across their meetings.