What a great story and an amazing gift. So many drivers owe their lives to Jackie’s war on unsafe cars, tracks and procedures.

Not a fan of racing but Stewart is everything you say.

Merci pour cette évocation d'une autre époque de la F1 qui n'est plus que l'ombre d'elle-même. Enfin un reportage qui sonne vrai. Expérience, passion, nuance, et pondération y font merveille. Qu'elle différence avec autant de prétendus jeunes érudits qui sont inévitables autant qu'ils sont simplement incompétents. Le plus dramatique est que cette sensation qui vient des tripes est incommunicable. Rien, absolument rien ne l'etaye ni ne l'explique. Pas plus la raison que l'analyse. Pourtant elle est là, palpable et vraie. Merci encore pour cette réussite.

@@WhenF1WasRealStewart openly told Dale Earnhardt that driving without a HANS device is insanity. That was during the 24 hours of Daytona, just weeks before Earnhardt died at the Daytona oval race because he didn’t wear a HANS device. It’s such a shame, if je just acquired on like Jackie told him Earnhardt would be alive to this day! Maybe a controversy figur, calling out the travesty modern NASCAR is. That’s at least what I’d imagine him to do. Doing the Podcast together with his son, voicing his unfiltered opinions on what’s wrong with today’s NASCAR and how amazing the golden era was.

Thank you. Yes, looking back at the speeds of the cars and the limited safety measures, I sometimes wonder how more drivers didn't die. The proximity to WW2 and its horrors perhaps made violent death feel more commonplace than it does today.

@WhenF1WasReal Good point. I never thought about that angle. I'm sure they wanted more safety, but pushing tech obviously had priority. In any case, the idea of safety was so underdeveloped in comparison with the present - enough to seem alien to us. Of course, they didn't have a death wish - in your story, Stewart wanted to and did get to walk away. Double the hero!

The drivers knew this, hence they were decent guys. Not like todays prima donnas.

Certainly the only thing like those days still in existence, in terms of "acknowledged danger", would be the Isle of Man TT.

@@UncleKennysPlace ...or driving around Chicago on the the Tri-State.

Add Bianchi

@@huwgrossmith9555Cevert's accident was 1000x worse than Jules (no disrespect to him)

Sadly, Roger Williamsons one is the standout. Marshall’s stood and watched while David Purley stopped his car and tried in vain to help. Another being Roland Ratzenberger, being almost overlooked by what happened the following day. But its not a competion to compare ones who died instantly, or suffered. All were lost doing something they loved.

Williamson's story is an interesting one, which I have considered doing a video on, but which has been well covered elsewhere. David Purley's efforts to save his friend rightly won him the George Medal. But his fireproof race suit and military training gave him an advantage over the Marshalls who were little more than boys in very flammable suits. Had Purley managed to flag down one of the other drivers, they may have been able to right the car and extract Williamson, but I suspect he was long dead of asphyxiation before that could have happened. Like Elio de Angelis, 23 years later, this was a ghastly way to die.

It is believed that Courage died instantly from a broken neck, as one of his front wheels hit him in the head, tearing off his helmet. Jack Brabham said he knew it was bad when he saw Courage's helmet rolling across the track in front of him.

"[Jackie Stewart] is one of the most important people in motorsports history." Amen, brother. Amen. What are they going to name after him when he's gone? There damn well better be a statue of him somewhere.

@@ralphaverill2001 name a racetrack after him.. or maybe change a corner of Silverstone to the Jackie Stewart corner, as a Scotsman I’d love a f1 race in my country and for that track to be named after Sir Jackie Stewart but I doubt we’ll ever build an f1 standard track in Scotland

He's also the driver that keeps pushing safety to become a priority for years even when he doesn't race anymore. His interview on Legends of Speed documentary was amazing too

Jackie Stewart - Class

Jackie Stewart was a true soldier, imagine the trauma he goes through every day...

without Jackie Stewart F1 would probably not exist anymore. The administration was way behind the technology and speed of the cars. Jackie was able to turn the tables regarding safety BECAUSE he was a 3 time winner. I don’t think a driver without a championship could have convinced everyone as he probably would have been driven out of the sport no pun intended. It’s absurd that he doesn’t own a chunk of modern F1. I’m sure he’s fine for cash but still. It was all him, anyone who argues otherwise doesn’t know anything about F1. His push for safety has saved probably 100 lives by now. The only exception being those horrible intermediate slicks they put on the cars after Senna’s death. They made the driving actually more dangerous.

And Niki Lauda too.

Stewart and lauda are heroes for many forms of racing. They knew that racing was dangerous but they also knew it didn't have to be deadly. They also gave a voice and inspiration to other motorsport competitors to become proactive in pushing to promote safety as a Top priority. Thanks to you both 🙏.

Exactly,I feel the same

The tragedy is these deaths occurring at all but for negligence.

Not forgetting Tom Pryce

@@chrisfitmrye ofc but that one in particular was by far the most avoidable

even without the poor barriers, those cars were death traps once they got out of control.

i too was at the glen that weekend, with my dad. that was a very sad weekend to be sure i later spent 40 min with sir jackie in the pits and paddock in montreal in the mid '90s. that was a weekend to remember

I used to go to the Glen for SCCA races in the 80's; a couple times as crew for friends who raced, and once as part of a flag crew. The old guy who headed our turn crew was in the crew that tried to put out Courage's car. They covered it with dirt and sand, and 2 hours later, when they removed the dirt, it re-ignited. A truly horrible accident.

I was at Imola in 1994. On the Saturday morning I was with some mates at Tosa. We moved to Variant Alfa for the afternoon. For the Sunday I was with some Italian friends sitting at Rivazza. It was a bad weekend for F1 with Reubens having a bit accident on the Friday.

I was there too as a 10 year old boy, my first race of any kind, let alone F1

Same here. Now subscribed.

Thank you

Thank you for your encouraging words

@@WhenF1WasRealhe speaks for many that agree with him and are yet silent. Well done. Thank you for using your voice.

Appreciate you kind words, thanks

Plus it's Chris Aymon not Ahmon!

Good thing you clarified that important fact!

These are computer voices, the poor pronunciation is a dead giveaway. The guy that made this video likely doesn't have English as his first language, thus resorting to computer generated voices. Unfortunate but a sign of the times.

@Slakass55 Sorry to disappoint, but definitely not a computer generated voice - and English is very much my first language, born and bred in the East End of London.

@@Slakass55 It's a dead givaway that this is a London accent, and nothing like some of the piss poor AI voices that are infesting more and more videos on youtube. So in this instance matey you are very wide of the mark.

Thank you

Thank You v.m. For this comment as well as thanks for this memorial film! I think it is the best possible and best designed and spoken memorial contribution I haver ever seen to one of the heroic F1 racers with all their racing passion.

Thanks for your kind words, glad you enjoyed it

Very sad how so many died ...I'm sure the modern guys appreciate Jackie Stewarts tireless efforts for safety in the sport Thank you for the very interesting video

Thank you for your kind words

It ain't his narration, it's a computer generated voice. Nonetheless this was a well written piece and a nice way to pay tribute to a great driver.

Thanks so much

Thank you for your support

Thanks so much for your kind words

Merci

You are very kind to say so, I hope you’ll enjoy future videos too

Thank you for your kind words, there are a couple of videos in the pipeline for fans of Kiwi drivers

Thanks so much, glad you’re enjoying the videos

Brutal times for so many F1 drivers! The only way to keep going was to keep going😣😣

Indeed with fatal crashes in recent years in various racing series, the races are terminated at that point.

Even more telling is how F1 has lost so much popularity since it has become safer. Many people preferred it as a death sport. Much like fans of American football who criticize rule changes meant to reduce brain damage.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Courage……….. didn’t die in the fire , a wheel that came off hit him on the head, dislodged his helmet, broke his neck causing fatal injury

David Ward Wednesday June 1, 2005 The Guardian The body of a motorcyclist who died during a practice race in the Isle of Man TT races was left in a body bag in a couple's garden on the island for 90 minutes until all other practice races had finished. Marjorie and Iain Forrest saw the motorcyclist die outside their home on Monday and yesterday called for a new approach to safety during the island's famous TT races. Mrs Forrest said she and her husband ran out of the house when they heard the crash. "The medics were with Mr Karlsson but he died relatively quickly. Officials dismissed the helicopter and put the body in a body bag. They then asked: 'Do you mind if we put the body bag a little further up your drive?' The alternative was to put him on the road." Mrs Forrest drew the curtains so that her twin 14-year-old sons and a 14-year-old friend would not see the body. "The helicopter could not stop to take the body away because it had to be available for the next crash."

Thanks so much; there were certainly too many of these sad stories in the 70s

I was at Mosport for the 1973 Canadian GP, which would be the last starts for Stewart and Cevert.

Thank you

I appreciate the pace too. Great work

Likewise. Too many narrators absolutely blast through it, and I simply can't retain any information when it is shoved down my ears so fast.

Pity you can't pronounce drivers and circuits name correctly. Very poor.

​@timbrown4576 yeah he is speaking english with an english accent how terrible of him. LOL.

Thank you for your words and thoughts on F1 in the 60s and 70s. Looking back now it seems amazing how matter of fact reporting of driver's deaths was back then.

@@WhenF1WasReal Similar to air accidents, in the 60's it seemed a major crash happened twice a month. It was certainly reported in the news on page 1 but quickly fell to the back pages as it was "just another crash", everybody knew there would be another crash somewhere in the world next month.

Indeed they were… of the drivers who took part in the 1970 World Championship, five died in a Grand Prix car, seven died in sportscast racing and one was paralysed in Grand Prix car. Those who raced back then must have had ice in their veins!

Thanks so much… JYS achieved so much on and off the track, he is an absolute legend

Thanks for your appreciation, makes the effort worthwhile

Thanks, definitely more coming

Thanks for you kind words, I hope you'll continue to enjoy future videos too

What a great find and a something to treasure! Hearing Jackie talk about the friends he lost in racing does make you wonder how those men climbed into their cars knowing there was a good chance of never returning. Helen, as well as other driver’s wives and families, must have suffered incredibly through the years their husbands / fathers / sons piloted high speed death traps

Yeah but youd be thrown clear of the wreckage so there was that. We could say those that died just werent very good at flying.

@@batvette @batvette I get the salty, edge lord routine, but these drivers died in unimaginably horrible ways, often in front of their friends, colleagues and family members. There really isn't anything funny about this - being decapitated, cut in half, or incinerated in a magnesium blaze, simply isn't funny at all. Very few drivers were ejected from their vehicles, and those that were suffered terribly. I get it - you're 14 years old, and think you're the original edgy shithead - sorry but you're decades too late. It's all been done before. Why not try to be original? Why not try a bit of humanity?

@@WhenF1WasReal Why does KZfaq do this? Guy posts a shitty, distasteful, sick comment, and it stays up. I post a response questioning his humanity and mine gets taken down. Is this the way KZfaq wants to go?

@@WhenF1WasReal That's three comments I've had removed criticising 'batvette's' attempt at humour. It would seem that I've misinterpreted the content of this channel, and that it's all about laughing at the horrifying deaths of F1 drivers. I suppose I should look elsewhere - a channel where drivers and their loved ones are treated with some respect. If I want a comment to remain I should probably post a joke about a tragic incident. Can't beat a magnesium blaze for laughs eh?

New photo for me too

Hi, I'm not sure it's of the fatal crash - it's always been reported that Piers went straight into the bank with his helmet torn off immediately by a tyre. In the photo, his helmet appears to be still on (though I'm far from certain about that) and of course he's facing in the opposite direction to the impact. I think (again not sure!) that Courage had an incident at the same spot the previous day - maybe it's that??

Thanks, finding artefacts from a period when cameras were less common can be time-consuming, made worthwhile by kind comments like this. For Courage, there's a small consolation that he was probably either killed, or at least rendered unconscious when his head was hit by either the loose wheel or one of the fence posts; and thus didn't suffer the same terror of Roger Williamson a few years later

​​@@ysgol3certainly possible it is yes. Unless it was just after he'd ridden up the bank. Still not a photo I had seen before either way. Definitely a small mercy he was likely dead before the fire.

To me that was a great time, a golden era of gladiators. No pussification of the sport like today.

To HAVE lived!

Everyone talks about the good old days and they were, (Im 61) but we couldnt imagine the free and instant access to so much information that we have now.

Thanks for that info - I always suspected the unforgiving curb to be a factor, it’s great to have that confirmed by someone with experience of racing there

@@WhenF1WasReal Thanks for your kind reply. I remember particularly the sharp left hander coming up out of the boot (the place where the NASCAR course rejoins) as being particularly unforgiving--I see the curb in my mind's eye as being not quite sharp enough to bend a steering link but way sharper than a rumble strip--and sharp enough that if you hit it when you're at the limit to bounce the car off of it and toward the guard rail on the other side of the track. I hit it once in 1994 IIRC, and had that result...I never did it again. With that said however, I just watched "A Lap Around Watkins Glen International" on YT. It's a guy driving a GT3 Porsche and was posted around 5 years ago. I watched the video and it looks like all the curbs are gone and have been replaced with rumble strips. I think that makes the course markedly safer than it used to be, although IMHO it removes a little of the "Separates the men from the boys" aspect of the course. On the other hand, the guard rails are still only a few feet from the edge of the track so there's still very little room for error. And finally, now that I think about it I may have some in-car video of a WGI race in around 2002. I'll see if I can find it. If I do find it I'll post it on my YT page. Apologies for writing a book about this...

Update: I just found a video from around 2000. It's not the one that I was thinking about but it does illustrate a few things that I'll touch on in my description-and you can definitely see the curbs that were all the way around the track at that time. I'm just about to upload it.

Okay, last one, I promise. I just uploaded it to y YT page. I made it private, so it's not publicly available. Leave me a message on my page and I'll send you the link.

they had fire suits by the late 60s. many layers... they just were not as efficient as modern ones.

Thanks so much, hopefully you will enjoy future videos as much

I’m in agreement. Today’s drivers are more than happy to push each other off the road and into an accident because they have - for the most part - never had to confront violent death at the circuit. Hearing them whining on the radio (and I’m talking about every modern F1 driver here) is one of the worst parts of modern F1. When a driver runs wide everyone complains about track limits, but if there were peril off the race track - be that a wall, gravel trap or grass - there would be less inclination to do stupid things and greater punishment for errors - not injuries, but at least a loss of time.

Interesting perspective. I’ve always believed that safer racing conditions has allowed drivers to be more aggressive, and get away with it. But I never thought about it in terms of life and death. I’m always disappointed when an aggressive action results in an injury to another competitor severe enough to cause them to miss the next race, even if my favorite driver is the instigator or beneficiary. I’ve always liked the rules of amateur motorsports that forbids willful contact, the polar opposite of “rubbing is racing”. But there’s no paying audience for most amateur races. The economics of professional motorsports would be much different under the stricter rules of conduct used in amateur motorsports. Fans pay for the privilege of watching the sport directly through ticket sales, or indirectly through subscriptions to cable, satellite, and streaming services, all of which must purchase telecast rights from the sanctioning bodies. Much of the revenue flowing into motorsports is from fans who are there solely to witness aggressive contact that alters the race results or causes carnage. Stricter rules of conduct would likely result in a smaller fan base. Most sports involve a contest between two teams. Motorsports is somewhat unique in the world of sports because many teams compete together at the same time. The results of a typical “game” has about half the fans satisfied and the other half disappointed. The nature of motorsports creates a situation where the majority of fans are disappointed with the race results. With the odds stacked against them, many fans become receptive to aggression by “their guy” that helps to even out those lopsided odds. I’m probably in a minority of people that would like to see NASCAR implement blocking rules that resemble those in open-wheel racing. I also think it is disgusting that it is permissible in that league to be able to win a championship by knocking a competitor out of the way on the final lap of the season finale. But then again, it’s hard to pass in nearly identical equipment running durable tires. There have been so many incremental safety improvements in motorsports, it is easy to forget how much risk has been virtually eliminated. It would be interesting if there were a simulator that could span decades of changes in safety at venues, in equipment, rules, etcetera, that could accurately predict injuries that would have occurred for any given circumstance, at any point in time, and use that simulator to compare the injury outcome of identical crashes occurring in different eras. Project missed races forward to show changes in seasonal points. Project beyond the same season for career-ending injuries. Ask a driver, would you have made that same move 42 years ago knowing the risk? _Should bad driving not have some consequence?_ Great question. My answer is YES. What should those consequences be? I’ll need to ponder some more on that one.

And it's still deadly today if we take a look at Grosjean's crash in Bahrain. He was very lucky to survive the impact due to safety systems like Hans and Halo and that he could free his food by himself quick enough and got away with a burned hand "only".

Your right. Gasly, Ocon & Panis. Considering how successful French drivers were in the late '70's & early '80's they've all but disappeared from the winners rostrum.

@@GBURGE55Actually more than that Before Panis was Alesi, who also only won race

@@MrSniperfox29 I'd forgotten him totally. I watched that race live too.

Thanks for your kind words. I do think the world was different back then, WW2 was something many had lived through and the Vietnam War was still a thing - so violent death was more part of everyday life.

One of the most helpful posts on KZfaq 👍

1.75 works very well to

1.5 is better still.

Jackie Stewart recalls the conversation with Francois in an interview with Motor Sport a few years later, I suspect because he perhaps felt he should have pushed Francois to follow the gearing that Stewart and Amon were using through the Esses. The injured ankles theory has been floated before, and the affect of Sheckter’s pit exit timing can’t be ignored. But I feel that in those final laps, Jackie established to his own satisfaction, that Francois decision to take third gear was the main cause of his crash.

@@WhenF1WasReal Hi, thank you for replying. Indeed, but we'll still never know whether when the skittish Tyrrell, in 3rd, got into trouble in those esses, Francois's ankle damage delayed his 'saving' reaction just fractionally, but enough to kill him.

I witnessed the crash between Cevert and Scheckter at Mosport. It was on the short straight between corner 1 and the top of corner two. Both cars came to rest on the outside of the track next to the Armco barrier. Cevert exited his car quicker then Jody. Cevert then ran back to Scheckters car and began hitting Scheckters helmet with his clenched fists. Cevert was not a happy camper at that moment. Two weeks later, Cevert was killed at the Glen.

@@Canadianshaker1234 Hi, thank you very much for that information. I read about Cevert getting very annoyed - I didn't know he punched Jody's helmet! I reckon Cevert strongly believed he could win that day - for the first time that year of course - partly explaining his reaction. Whose fault do you think the crash was? Scheckter certainly had 'form' in 1973 didn't he. (I read recently that they shook hands about it at the Glen.)

It's been a long time ago but I remember thinking that Cevert was justifiably pissed off at Schecker at the time. Jody was a wild driver back then with a lot of oversteer.

Several sources say the De Tomaso had magnesium used in parts of the chassis - but I have never seen definitive evidence either way; so you're probably right.

The car’s weight transfers from the rear to the front when lifting off the throttle - that behaviour happens more quickly the closer you are to peak power - meaning snap oversteer as the unloaded rear wheels start to slide. In fourth gear the car would be lower in the rev range at the same speed and further from peak power so changes in throttle input wouldn’t destabilise the car as much. JYS was convinced this is what caused Francois to lose control.

Thanks so much for your positive words, I hope you’ll enjoy future videos too