Jackie Stewart Gallery - Americana
Stewart in the paddock at the 1965 Grand Prix, Riverside. His Surtees-run Lola T70 failed to finish its qualifying heat
A pensive Stewart in another shot from Riverside in ’65. At this stage the race was a round of the United States Road Racing Championship, but Can-Am would be introduced the following season and the USRRC was dropped at the end of 1968
Time for a quick chin strap adjustment in the pit garage, before a practice run ahead of the 1966 Indy 500. One year earlier, winner Jim Clark had been the only British driver present; this time he was joined by Stewart and Graham Hill, who won
Stewart in John Mecom Racing’s Lola T90 at Indy in 1966. He was leading with 10 laps to go when failing oil pressure forced him out, though he was still classified sixth. He later took the same car to victory in the Fuji 200
Back to Riverside International Raceway in 1965, with Stewart aboard the Surtees T70. Opened in 1957, Riverside was regarded as one of America’s finest circuits. It closed in 1989 and is now buried beneath a shopping mall
Stewart won the 1971 Questor GP – a combined F1 and F5000 race at Ontario Motor Speedway – in his usual Tyrrell, but during practice had a taste of F5000 in US legend AJ Foyt’s Agapiou Racing McLaren M10B
Stewart ahead of his second appearance at Indy in 1967. Having come close to winning the previous year, he was lying third when his car failed with 32 laps to go. It would be the last time he contested the event
Drinking a high-altitude toast flying home after the 1966 Indianapolis 500. Jackie Stewart and Graham Hill are the central figures in a group that includes Lola Cars founder Eric Broadley (second left) and Len Terry (designer of the 1965 Indy-winning Lotus 38, second from right). Hill’s victory in 1966 would be the first of three for Lola in America’s biggest motor race
Stewart qualified Carl Haas’s Lola T260 third for the 1971 Riverside Can-Am, behind the McLarens of Denny Hulme and Peter Revson. Hulme and Revson finished first and second, but Stewart retired when water worked its way into the oil system
Stewart is all smiles as he chats on the grid ahead of his Indy 500 debut in 1966. He qualified 14th, alongside Billy Foster, but avoided the 16-car first-lap pile-up triggered by Foster’s spin. The race was red-flagged for almost 90 minutes so wreckage could be cleared
Action from the 1965 Los Angeles Times GP at Riverside, with Stewart (no25) being challenged by Dick Macon (McLaren Elva Mk1). Macon finished sixth in the main race, which Stewart did not start after retiring from this qualifying heat
Laguna Seca, May 1965 Dick Carter leads the way in his Ford Mustang, with the Lotus Cortinas of Stewart and Tony Hegbourne in pursuit. Stewart finished 13th overall, seventh in class
Dan Gurney, Graham Hill, Stirling Moss and Jackie Stewart competing with slot cars during a stint as guests on The Ed Sullivan Show, November 15, 1970
F1 drivers on tour –Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill and Jim Clark at Indianapolis in 1966. One year earlier, Clark had skipped the Monaco GP to win the 500
Stewart alone with his thoughts in the Indianapolis pit garage, one day before making his first start in the 500. So close, and yet so far…
US actor James Garner (second left) with Stewart at the 1971 Questor GP. Garner was ‘world champion’ in John Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix movie