Jackie Stewart Q&A: How do you view safety?

Legendary Formula 1 driver and team principal Jackie Stewart answers questions asked by the fans.
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[@TheShockninja]

This man deserves all the credit in the world for making motorsports as safe as they can be. Thank you Sir Jackie Stewart.

[@bmc8319]

Lot of respect for jackie for making f1 safer than what it was back then

[@fabianrocha9924]

Agreed

[@TheTotallyRealXiJinping]

Sir Jackie Stewart’s voice still as angelic as it has ever been

[@hughtempleton737]

This man is a hero

[@composedlight6850]

It is Jackie Stewart greatest achievement --- to get safety taken seriously.

[@barrybechtel8553]

This is why this man is one of my all time favorites!!!!

[@williamcap2236]

I could listen to Jackie all day !!! the word legend does not even fit him. Good god he lost 57 of his friends. Thank you for making motorsports safer

[@NoelSquitieri]

I remember those days very well. I got so tired of my racing heroes dying one after the other with tragic regularity.

[@Pablo668]

Todays drivers owe this man so so so much.

[@SportingDrivesinColorado]

Thank you for your time, Sir Jackie!

[@liamfriel8749]

Very brave man - and always class! 😁

[@Fraz725]

Brilliant raconteur.

[@pfflyer3381]

Great production! No bs !!

[@tony_c862]

Great Job Jackie, thank you great man

[@AlonsoRules]

This dude got the Nurburgring, old Spa and Charade taken off the calendar for Paul Ricard, Hockenheim and Nivelles

[@tlr5519]

so what? are you arguing against the safety of the drivers? sure the races might've been more exciting, but at what cost? Imagine you being the father of a young F1 driver who loses his son, they could've raced at a safer track, but that wouldn't have been as exiting, nah fam, I'd rather have the safer races

[@lud3re384]

Yep. Which most definitely saved lives. Both drivers and spectators. Ya prick.

[@Boxscot49]

It wasnt just him many people were in favor of those tracks being taken off the schedule back then

[@rezajackson2915]

Because back then those tracks were far more dangerous you absolute muppet

[@almostfm]

@@tlr5519 Unless you're of a certain age, you don't remember a time when at the start of a racing season, it didn't matter what series you followed-you knew that at least one driver was going to die. I think if you don't have that memory, it's a lot easier to think about losing tracks than thinking about the drivers that you _haven't_ lost because they got rid of tracks that were ridiculously dangerous track configurations of the 1960s and early 70s.

[@elietedarce1266]

He commented in 1973 about Swed Savage firery crash and said Savage was using a "foam filling suit" that when exposed to heat would fill the suit with foam. But I found almost no more information about such suit on web just a reference that was a nomex suit able to get filled with foam automaticly. Sounds promissing as a idea. Does anyone knows more about such suit and why it got forgot or abandom?

[@filipposstavro1233]

What is the name of this interview/show?

[@bobterry9062]

Before Stewart came along drivers were admired for their bravery as much as for their skills. Motor racing has never been the same since his arrival on the scene, for better or for worse. depending on your views.

[@almostfm]

I'm not sure how deaths on the track becoming rare could ever be considered "for worse".

[@James-cr8mt]

it has become less of a death sentence and more of an actual sport based on skill, as opposed to skill and lack of fear of death.

[@gort8203]

The cars and tracks have become so comparatively safe now that F1 drivers often behave like they are on a go cart track. Back in Jackie's day, if one car collided with another the result was more often disaster, and the drivers behaved accordingly. Today they often seem to act like they are driving bumper cars.

[@R9naldo]

@@almostfm It's not that, it's the hypocrasy in the FIA, the racing becoming worse and the cars slowly becoming less and less like F1 cars. 2000s F1 cars were the epitome of an F1 car, ultra quick, ultra light, small, sleek, aesthetically pleasing, aggressive to drive and they sounded like F1 cars. Now pair those cars with the fantastic close racing of 2010-2012 (which is entirely possible) and you have perfect F1. But no, the FIA has to follow trends and make their cars hybrid engined and turn them into trucks. Formula One is dying.

[@eoinmurphy210]

f1 was better when it was dangerous

[@hugoagogo9435]

Today Lewis Hamilton tries to be Jackie with his diversity campaign. Lewis will never be Jackie or ever match his impact on the sport. As much as he desperately wants to be a desperate glory hunter will never match a natural legend

[@murielle1703]

Stewart is clever and elegant. Hamilton is cocky.

[@chromaticnomadic]

It is now time to improve 2 things: getting crashed cars off track quicker and THE RACING. Ban DRS...