How to take a corner at speed by Sir Jackie Stewart

How to take a corner at speed by Sir Jackie Stewart - FHM (UK)

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10 жыл бұрын

FHM asks the F1 legend himself how to be a better driver. After all, this is the man who once said that cornering is like bringing a woman to orgasm - bit.ly/187SNTH
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@IAMMRPATRICKBORNAGAIN 5 жыл бұрын

Anyone who can teach Captain Slow to drive quickly around a track, is a legend.

@avarmauk 10 жыл бұрын

"And most people don't like that, and neither does a car" Classic!

@TooManyChoices1 5 жыл бұрын

avarmauk But we live for those few(cars and women) that do perform better with a backside smack or two, like the Corvette and Sarah lol 😆.

@jayrusty2012 4 жыл бұрын

i like that!

@colin5577 5 жыл бұрын

12 people disliked this? Presumably Tesla drivers who think that a corner has 2 phases - check Facebook and post a selfie.

@ToreDL87 5 жыл бұрын

HAHA good one colin

@fernandogagliardo6618 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂🙏🙏🙏🙏 Great!! What a poor society we are living in !!....

@MoRoarSport-VintageRacing1 3 жыл бұрын

Whaaaa HAHAHAHAHAHA Very good one !

@epiphonium 5 жыл бұрын

I am so glad some of these guys are still alive. Sir Jackie Stewart you are a treasure.

@MoRoarSport-VintageRacing1 3 жыл бұрын

Thnx god, he's scottish

@NickThorntonPhoto 10 жыл бұрын

Sir Jackie you Legend

@danielesbordone1871 5 жыл бұрын

This guy was more of a surgeon than a driver.

@Tommy1198S 7 жыл бұрын

One of if not the smoothest drivers ever.

@barrierodliffe4155 5 жыл бұрын

Catholicus It is hard to say one driver was smoother than another, I would rate Prost up with Clark for smooth driving, Stewart not far off

@barrierodliffe4155 5 жыл бұрын

Catholicus I also rate Graham Hill very high, he was not as naturally quick or smooth as Jim Clark but he had some great races. Senna was fast but for me not quite in the same class. Unfortunately Senna died so we do not know what he would have done if he had lived, he may have developed into one of the best or just maybe even the best but that is speculation.

@barrierodliffe4155 5 жыл бұрын

Catholicus I remember at Monaco in 1965 I think it was Graham Hill spun and then drove one hell of a race to win

@Lewis360 5 жыл бұрын

Sir Jackie himself learnt or maybe mentored by Clark who was so smooth, and if the memory serves he liked more Prost than Senna because he was so smooth.

@rodrigoruffa7460 5 жыл бұрын

Fangio was a Master in the art of taking good care of a car. His winning technique was mostly based in less tyre/brake wear, less fuel consumption, less engine/gearbox/suspension failures. Only a handful of pilots achieved such a grade of sensitiveness. He used to say something like if you want to win, you don't need to accelerate more, you need to brake less".

@nicholasjohnson6724 2 жыл бұрын

He might be dyslexic, but wow, his explantions of each step are crystal clear.

@deltic5514 5 жыл бұрын

Jim Clarke was the greatest listen to some documentaries about how he drove.

@chrisb8075 2 жыл бұрын

Legend. I'm a Driving Instructor, and l tell my pupils that if they ever feel or hear the car vibrate, judder, rev too high or otherwise not feel smooth, they should see it as a person in pain and immediately stop it hurting as appropriate. Yep, they often look at me sideways lol.

@DUCATIPUNK 8 жыл бұрын

Words of Wisdom.

@_aaaaaaaaaa_ 5 жыл бұрын

The master has spoken

@gold333 5 жыл бұрын

Didn't Stewart have that class where the student had to lap with a large bowl with an orange inside it attached to the bonnet of the car? The orange was meant to stay inside the bowl throughout the fast lap.

@samlancaster1277 3 жыл бұрын

gold333 It was a table tennis ball ! Unbelievable.

@qazzell 7 жыл бұрын

best advice I have ever heard

@MyAddad 2 жыл бұрын

Jackie always said Jim Clark was the master, "They used to call us batman and Robin...... and I knew who was Robin".....

@Silva_GTR 5 жыл бұрын

Legend 🙌

@saleemwaheed9956 5 жыл бұрын

Everything that comes this mans mouth is amazing!

@letoslavzahrada3274 7 жыл бұрын

it worked for jackie very well...wonder what rindt or peterson version of this would be tho :)

@I8ASUPRAforLUNCH 4 жыл бұрын

Hmmmm, neither of their versions stood the test of remaining alive. But it would've been interesting to know.

@mypinis 3 жыл бұрын

Best driver ever in my eyes.

@mikeford7921 7 жыл бұрын

you tell him Jackie lad

@geoffhalstead1811 5 жыл бұрын

He didn't mention changing down a cog or two. My technique as well when racing at Kyalami. I don't understand or find the reason/s why the majority of drivers today continually feel it necessary to 'saw' at the steering wheel, something that MUST unsettle the car for goodness sakes!

@barrierodliffe4155 5 жыл бұрын

I would guess that changing gear became so automatic that a driver like Sir Jackie Stewart did it without having to think about it.

@rodrigoruffa7460 5 жыл бұрын

That reminds me of Sir Jackie´s analysis on the accident that caused the death of his friend/teammate Francois Cevert @ The Glen. Their Tyrrells were somewhat trickier at the chicane, maybe because of a shorter wheelbase than other cars. They both had different approaches on how to enter the chicane: Jackie in a higher gear, Francois one gear lower than him. This made Cevert´s car go through it at higher RPM, with more power on the wheels but it also made the car more prone to lose traction if the gas pedal was not properly managed. On Sir Stewart´s words, this was possibly what caused the crash. At least that is what I recall.

@dankorcz8158 4 жыл бұрын

Unintentional asmr

@jack4029 5 жыл бұрын

Is he still talking about driving at the end there

@fredsalfa 6 жыл бұрын

Going to watch the movie

@Jamesmax22 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe the greatest driver of all time...

@vivacehome1 5 жыл бұрын

Sir Jackie and Sensei Ayrton

@markymarco2570 2 жыл бұрын

Schumacher used to hit throttle before reaching the apex.

@DB-ci1wt 4 жыл бұрын

Is he talking about Eau Rouge/Raidillon?

@MoRoarSport-VintageRacing1 3 жыл бұрын

About curves and esses anyway

@AccordGTR 5 жыл бұрын

Most people cant even drive a street car at maximum speed around a corner much less a race car. F1 athletes are one of the best athletes out there

@MoRoarSport-VintageRacing1 3 жыл бұрын

I can't do the 1st one, but do the second one easily, for 3 reasons: 1. I don't have faith in street cars. They are not made for going to their limit without high risks. Someone driving a street car to the limit is either stupid or suicidal... or a factory professionnal test-driver doing it while knowing exactly what he's doing because he's working hand in hand with engineers that built the car. 2. In terms of security equipements, street cars are very poor compared to racing cars. Needless to say, you wear a helmet and fireproof overalls when you drive a racing car, if you are enough serious about it. 3. If you want to go fast and to the limits, you have to feel accuratly the car and the road, which is possible in a race car, but not in a street car.

@ImInLoveWithBulla 4 жыл бұрын

Caress me gently, Jackie-san.

@MoRoarSport-VintageRacing1 3 жыл бұрын

Needless to say it is even harder in wet conditions. Ask James Hunt about it 😆

@tonyruaporo5535 5 жыл бұрын

You have to be one with the F1 car

@dukebrooks1999 9 жыл бұрын

He didn't say anything about pecan pie, though.

@StarFox85 Жыл бұрын

a grandpa of all drivers today 5of5

@brentzittel 5 жыл бұрын

So Senna would be the complete opposite of this driving style, really curious to hear his version of this

@user-un5iz6th1n 5 жыл бұрын

Brent Zittel Senna was smooth as hell. Not sure what you mean.

@mjanosh 5 жыл бұрын

You are right, this is actually true what Jacky speaks about only for an F1 30 years ago, not nowadays cars... But then again... who are we to talk about it until we sit in one...

@user-un5iz6th1n 5 жыл бұрын

mjanosh whether he's right at all depends what he meant by what he said. In the ways that matter Senna won in part by being masterful and incredibly intuitive at exactly the skills and techniques Jackie suggests here. If it doesn't seem so at first glance either you're looking at the wrong things or misinterpreting what you see. It's hard to know what to look for or understand what you see without being involved or associated with it. Most ppl don't know and it's not a big deal. But thats where you learn it- by doing it or taking to ppl who do. peace✌️

@WolfsH0ok 5 жыл бұрын

Senna got his wheel 3 inches from the apex, very smoothly, while other drivers were a foot away thats why he was able get so many polls

@barrierodliffe4155 5 жыл бұрын

@@WolfsH0ok Senna was fast, mainly in qualifying for one lap but smooth is not so true, you could see how hard Senna was trying, especially if you watched how he tried so hard when Prost started to catch him, sometimes locking a wheel or making mistakes under pressure. A classic example of smooth would be mexico 1990 and Prost came from 13th o the grid to win yet no one seems to notice, that is smooth he went past Berger, Mansell and Senna yet everyone seems to only notice the battle between Berger and Mansell for second place.

@KayoMichiels 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder if it was just coincidence that he was talking about slapping the car... and then the cover of the magazine depicts a sexy girl...

@SkeletonKeey 5 жыл бұрын

3 parts or 8 parts ... phhffffttttt.

@badgumby9544 2 жыл бұрын

Senna was known for "stabbing" the gas pedal thru corners. Not smooth. Alonzo is known for jerking the wheel thru corners. Not smooth. But, both were quite successful. Could they have been even more successful had they not done those things? Who knows. I have always subscribed to the statement - Smooth is fast. Like Stewart said, very smooth drivers look like they are going slow. But, the stop watch never lies.

@stuwest3653 5 жыл бұрын

He would have made a great NASCAR driver.

@MilesCobbett 7 жыл бұрын

Jackie was good, but did you ever see a video of Ayrton Senna steering wheel motions and foot pedal work? Ayrton Senna was the Master at racing corners and racing in the wet. If only we could have seen his skills against Jimmy Clark ---WOW! what a race.

@jagjet9153 5 жыл бұрын

I can only say that when Sir Jackie won at the N'ring by minutes in a torrential rain storm, Senna's work in more sophisticated and aerodynamic cars, seems to pale in comparison. I don't suggest that Senna's talent was any less impressive. He live a different era and ran on different tires.As we all know is they are the deciding factor in all racing. Controlling a # 10 man's shoe size of a contact patch when all else is optimized is the stuff of the God's. In a conversation with Sir Jackie, he told me that if you hold your arms out in front at eye level and touch your index fingers and thumbs together and form a triangle, that what you see is what you must care about in a Formula 1 car at speed as anything outside of that triangle won't be a factor. Because by the time you get there you will have missed it or be stuck in it. Once I learned to look where I wanted to go, my hands will always take me there, if the car has the ability.

@Haze21449 5 жыл бұрын

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@MisterTwister88 5 жыл бұрын

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@Misano-Red 5 жыл бұрын

I first encountered Senna in 1982; he was certainly not 'as good as any drivers", he was head and shoulders above his peers then and after racing under a F1 super licence. His 1982 Formula Ford 2000 results speak for themselves. www.sennaworld.com/1982.html

@barrierodliffe4155 5 жыл бұрын

Christos Spyrou Senna was no faster than Brundle in F2. When he tried out for F1 Senna was not so impressive, some 2 seconds slower than Piquet at Brabham and about equal to Brundle and Bellof in the McLaren

@pippipster6767 5 жыл бұрын

This is the approach I take on every commute 🤪

@MagicAyrtonforever 5 жыл бұрын

What just happened? :D

@chrishamilton2559 5 жыл бұрын

1:22 Is anybody else seeing some ridiculously hyper-sexualized meme right now? I know I am!

@johnt7630 5 жыл бұрын

In wet conditions, only Senna, Schumacher and Hamilton can match him. Great driver.

@barrierodliffe4155 5 жыл бұрын

Only a few were as smooth, Clark and Prost for instance.

@alainbelanger6788 5 жыл бұрын

Alain Prost look alike

@chicobicalho5621 7 жыл бұрын

If we want to be really technical here, I feel sir Jackie missed out on a few 'parts' of the eight he mentioned: On most corners, before you begin to turn the wheel there is the down shifting, and back then, you stepped on the break (really hard) with the ball of your foot, moved the heel to the accelerator, pressed the clutch with your left foot, and as the shift gear passed through neutral while you down shifted, you released the clutch and tapped the heel on the accelerator at the same time, then pressed the clutch again and engaged the lower gear while keeping the same pressure on the breaks (heel-and-toe, double clutching, or puntatacco, indispensable for non synch, fragile gearboxes of the past; complicated but done amazingly fast), and the refined drivers like sir Jackie revved the engine up precisely to the lower gear's higher revs, so, if you went from 6th to 2nd you had to repeat the procedure 4 times (I counted 36 'parts' just on the downshifting from 6th to 2nd), then he forgot to mention back then you pushed your body against one of the sides of the cockpit (depending on the direction of the turn), and tilted your head to the opposite side, so you actually leaned your body into the turn, in a sense a bit like in a motorcycle, because cockpits were nowhere near as tight fitting and 'ergonomic' as they are today, not to mention in the 1960's no one wore seat belts. I realize the kids today have to deal with a whole lot of buttons and adjustments, all neatly fitted in the steering wheel, but there is something so much more pure and down to earth about the way folks like Stewart, Clark, G. Hill, P. Hill, Brabham, Moss Surtees, Mclaren, Bandini Rodríguez, Rindt, Gurney drove F1 cars, and how physically demanding the driving was. Just the downshifting alone could make an enormous difference, for it had to be done very fast and very accurately, otherwise goodbye gearbox, so, back to Monaco, things were a whole lot more complex in those days, not to mention, the chances of dying or being seriously hurt were incommensurably bigger… and when you add the fact they made a small fraction of the money compared to the boys of today, we have to admit those men were courageous and tough beyond belief.

@bbb462cid 6 жыл бұрын

Clark used trailbraking and a false apex.

@bunkaaa8726 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah man you tell him, after all, what experience does he have..

@barrierodliffe4155 5 жыл бұрын

I would hope Sir Jackie knows a lot more than you do? I have done heel and toe gear changing but I found it was faster to use the left foot for braking and clutchless gearchanging, very smooth if done correctly

@steven2809 5 жыл бұрын

As someone who had to double declutch all the time when I started driving...you don’t ‘heel and toe’ like that. It’s the ball of the foot and the side of the foot which blips the throttle (rally style). Plus left foot braking is usual for fast corners....

@barrierodliffe4155 5 жыл бұрын

It would depend on the relative position of the brake and accelerator pedals, Left foot braking can be done on any corner and so can clutchless gear changing.

@sodazman 5 жыл бұрын

Instructions not clear - car now on tree

@TrueBlueEG8 8 жыл бұрын

Excellent advice, but only really applies to circuit racing, with high levels of grip, rallying requires a more aggressive attitude towards car control.

@barrierodliffe4155 8 жыл бұрын

+TrueBlueEG8 Not really, the best rally drivers are very smooth, sliding into a corner can be done smoothly. aggressive driving is slow driving. Alain Prost one of the smoothest drivers in F1 shows how to drive on ice, he gets the car sliding as much as any other driver but he always comes out of the corner straighter and faster. The perfect line is very hard to achieve but driving smoothly at all times is the best way. The same applies on the road, smooth driving is not slow, it just is better and makes for less strain on the car and tyres

@TrueBlueEG8 8 жыл бұрын

Nonsense the driving styles are completely different , weight transfer is intentionally used to break traction and get the car to slide. Love how you are a self proclaimed expert on everything.

@barrierodliffe4155 8 жыл бұрын

+TrueBlueEG8 Strange how Sir Jackie Stewart has driven many cars including rally cars and he does get the car sliding but it is not just by being aggressive and throwing the car around, have you ever heard of the great rally driver Timo Makkinen? probably not, he was before your time, I watched and learnt how to use what was called the Scandinavian flick from him and have used it on unsealed roads to good effect. You can slide a car yet be under complete control without being aggressive at all or maybe you can`t. I never claim to be an expert on anything but driving fast has been a large part of my life. I learnt by watching and understanding how to drive well. I was fast in many cars, I had some success but do not count myself as a great driver, just a very good one.

@TrueBlueEG8 8 жыл бұрын

Barrie Rodliffe Wow arent you so modest. I am well aware of Timo Makkinen as I have been an avid fan of rallying for many years, so dont try to patronise me. I have driven the Nordeschleife about 50 times, competed in some amateur racing, rally included, and I also build and work on competition cars, however I still consider myself a relatively inexperienced driver, but I guess some peoples egos are bigger than others. Scandinavian Flick is a perfect example of what I mean, deliberately unsettling the car to loose grip, its a fairly aggressive type of car control, not to say it cannot be done with a certain smoothness, but it is relative

@barrierodliffe4155 8 жыл бұрын

+TrueBlueEG8 Sure, you have done so much then you make a very stupid comment, the Scandinavian flick is done best by being smooth. It is not aggressive, you simply turn under braking and get the car sliding one way then turn the other way and go through the corner smooth and fast, no aggression required. The only way to be fast is smooth. Maybe why you work on cars rather than drive them.

@mjanosh 5 жыл бұрын

The statement only works if you want to save tyres! NOT FOR HOTLAPS.

@barrierodliffe4155 5 жыл бұрын

Do you even know what a hot lap is? Maybe ask Sir Jackie Stewart or Alain Prost then practice for many years and you might just about get it.

@cheesie6575 5 жыл бұрын

That’s one technique, but Villeneuve and Senna thrashed their cars and were still pretty quick

@PhillipCowell01 5 жыл бұрын

True, although Jackie lived to see his retirement and old age. When you constantly push your car and yourself past the edge, shit eventually happens.

@barrierodliffe4155 5 жыл бұрын

It was said that after Senna drove a car it was ready to be scrapped, Prost would win and his car was good for another full race with little attention. Quite often Prost would win and Senna would have to slow because his tyres were worn out or he ran out of fuel.

@mickkennedy1344 5 жыл бұрын

"How to take a corner on speed" by Stoned Jackie Stewart.

@raulv04 5 жыл бұрын

Idiot

@MagicAyrtonforever 5 жыл бұрын

LOL you genius :)

@WolfsH0ok 5 жыл бұрын

reminds me of the 90's

@softhotty Жыл бұрын

Listen to what hes saying and then inject or supplant the subject with " How to Take a Woman at speed "

@adithyamahesh6961 5 жыл бұрын

What's up with the salty Senna fans here?

@MrMaccoy1973 5 жыл бұрын

Don't worry ....they will soon apear saying he was the best driver, and all that stuff......bla, bla, bla.....

@chrishamilton2559 5 жыл бұрын

@@MrMaccoy1973 he was. Sir Jackie is not half bad though

@barrierodliffe4155 5 жыл бұрын

chris hamiton. Senna is only the best if you forget how very good many other drivers were, Senna was fast and he stood out because he was always on the limit, other drivers were as fast but knew when to ease up a bit, like Prost who often won races by saving his car and tyres for late in the race, I remember how he often set the fastest lap and some of his overtakes on Senna are real class.

@chrishamilton2559 5 жыл бұрын

@@barrierodliffe4155 I think I found the prost fan! In all seriousness, you are correct, in many different examples. You could talk about Tazio, or Fangio but I don't think any of those guys could have kept up with him. Everyone in the era agrees that he was leaps and bounds ahead of everybody else. Prost was good at knowing what team to jump to at the right time at the end of their rivalry, that helped him A LOT. But to each their own,....I might be a Prost fan if he weren't such a politicking douche,.... but he was

@barrierodliffe4155 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe Nuvolari and Fangio or any of the others could not have kept up with Prost, I do not know. I do know Prost was the best driver of his time. The one thing he wasn't was political. What Prost does not need is ignorant fans, I pity Senna, he has the most ignorant idiotic fanboys ever.