The pair met when Webber was just 20, with Stewart becoming a mentor, grandfather figure - and literal lifesaver.
Retired Formula 1 star Mark Webber, 47, met the “Flying Scot” – three-time F1 world champion Jackie Stewart, 84 – when he was just 20. Stewart would go on to became a mentor, grandfather figure and literal lifesaver.
He invited me to his house for dinner. I really didn’t want to be late, so I got to his home in Buckinghamshire one hour early and parked around the corner. I was busting for a pee-eye-double-five, so I went into the woods there for a little pit stop, but a security guy came out of nowhere and clocked me: “What are you doing here?” I explained myself, and this guy was like, “Well, we’re watching you.
‘I owe Sir Jackie my life as he was a safety pioneer in our sport. There were a lot of racing fatalities in the 1970s and he lost many friends.’In Valencia, in 2010, I touched another car, flipped, and when my car landed the roll hoop was strong enough to protect me. Without that, I wouldn’t have survived. There was also a medical centre right there at the circuit. Back in Sir Jackie’s day, ambulances would often have to fight traffic just to get out of the circuit.
Motor racing is the most important sport in the world because everybody drives a car: rich or poor, man or woman. There’s nobody who’s been at a traffic light and not seen themselves on the grid. It’s colourful, glamorous and exciting, but it hasn’t always been safe. I lost 57 people while I was a driver, and I’ve got 57 benches on my property in England, each one with a name on it. It was awful. Ridiculous.
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