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#1 Longtimefan

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Posted 13 September 2009 - 19:32

Hello there,

Does anyone know how I can contact Sir Jackie Stewart via either snail mail or email?
I've been searching for a way to contact the great man with no success.

Thanks



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#2 JtP1

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Posted 13 September 2009 - 20:29

Fly to Geneva airport. Hire a car and just follow the Armco barrier from the airport to his house.

#3 Doug Nye

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Posted 13 September 2009 - 20:44

Or if that fails, try writing to him care of the British Racing Drivers' Club at Silverstone, asking them to forward the letter. This they will do.

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#4 MegaManson

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Posted 13 September 2009 - 20:54

Sent you a PM

#5 RA Historian

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Posted 14 September 2009 - 03:07

Fly to Geneva airport. Hire a car and just follow the Armco barrier from the airport to his house.

That is an old one! Think that I first heard it in the early seventies, and many times thereafter. Of course, that does nothing to lessen the humor involved, as I always thought that it was one of the great bon mots of racing. Which raises the point, who first said it?
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#6 Gabrci

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Posted 14 September 2009 - 09:26

Not wanting to spoil the fun, but I don't think he is living in Switzerland anymore. The BRDC way, as Doug said, works though.

Edited by Gabrci, 14 September 2009 - 12:54.


#7 Richard Jenkins

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Posted 14 September 2009 - 10:07

He lives a LOT closer to the BRDC at Silverstone than Switzerland these days....

#8 f1steveuk

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Posted 14 September 2009 - 17:21

Indeed, because Phil Collins was the next owner of JYS' old Geneva home, and even he doesn't live there any more!

#9 wolf sun

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Posted 14 September 2009 - 18:27

Begnins, I think it was - and Jochen Rindt used to live not far away. From what I've heard, quite a few Grand Prix drivers had houses in the little villages around Lac LĂ©man back in the late sixties, early seventies.

#10 Thundersports

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Posted 14 September 2009 - 21:42

Deptford

#11 Glengavel

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Posted 15 September 2009 - 06:33

I think the best way to contact him is c/o British Airways (or whatever his airline of preference is). He must have enough AirMiles for a trip to the moon and back...

#12 Arjan de Roos

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Posted 02 March 2011 - 16:35

Today some dirt in the fuel line. Get well soon JYS!!

#13 Glengavel

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Posted 02 March 2011 - 17:15

Today some dirt in the fuel line. Get well soon JYS!!


Surely a warning to him to slow down a bit? Take a well-earned retirement...

#14 Coral

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Posted 02 March 2011 - 18:07

Get well soon Sir Jackie!

#15 Longtimefan

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Posted 02 March 2011 - 23:15

I don't think he knows how to slow down.
Lovely guy and his email to me was speedy and very informative

Get well soon!


#16 jj2728

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Posted 03 March 2011 - 00:21

All the best Jackie.


#17 jj2728

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Posted 03 March 2011 - 00:21

All the best Jackie.


#18 OV106

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Posted 03 March 2011 - 02:18

Jackie was my idol growing up. 27 Grand Prix wins in 99 races. The day I got to meet him in person was a great thrill.
I wouldn't be the F1 fan I am today without Sir Stewart. God speed.



#19 Hamish Robson

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Posted 03 March 2011 - 08:34

Get well soon JYS!

I had the priveledge of being driven around Boreham race track by him once, it was a sublime demonstration of safe, super-fast driving.

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#20 Roy C

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Posted 03 March 2011 - 08:56

Stewart's spokesman: "Sir Jackie is fully conscious and having precautionary medical checks but we are expecting a full recovery."

Amen to that. Get well soon JYS.

#21 Geoff E

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Posted 03 March 2011 - 10:26

BBC News http://news.bbc.co.u...one/9411842.stm

#22 gm914

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Posted 04 March 2011 - 02:41

Good to hear he's on the up and up.
My Dad's favorite driver(and fellow countryman), while watching F1 in the early 80's together he would tell stories of the Flying Scotsman Jackie Stewart.
He never really followed any other drivers, and lost interest a long time ago, but his stories are what sparked my love for F1 in the first place.

Get well soon, Jackie.