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Jean-Pierre Beltoise (Matra MS7), Graham Hill (Lotus 59B). Jackie Stewart (MS7) and Jochen Rindt (59B) occupy the front row at Tulln-Langenlebarn, Austria, for the fifth round of the 1969 European F2 Championship. Rindt won from Stewart, Hill, Beltoise and Stewart’s future team-mate François Cevert
Stewart on the grid at Karlskoga ahead of the 1965 Kanonloppet, with friendly rivals Jim Clark and Graham Hill. It proved to be a disappointing race for all three; Stewart dropped out after eight laps, Clark after seven and Hill after four
Stewart pictured at the tail end of the 1964 season, in which he took his Tyrrell Cooper T72 to victory in seven of 10 BARC F3 Championship races
Stewart on the grid
Stewart three-wheeling through Bottom Bend during the non-championship saloon car race supporting the 1964 British GP at Brands Hatch. He was running second to the sister works Lotus Cortina of Sir John Whitmore, but a mistake at Clearways dropped him to third, behind Jack Sears (Willment Cortina). The Scot nonetheless came away with fastest lap – a new class record
The 1965 London Trophy at Crystal Palace
Jackie Steweart with team-mate John Surtees (no19) and race winner Jim Clark in his Ron Harris-run Lotus 35 (no15)
Post-race celebrations following the F3 event supporting the 1964 French GP at Rouen. Stewart won the two-heat race comfortably, from Tyrrell Cooper team-mate Warwick Banks and Midland Racing Partnership Lola driver Bill Bradley
Helen Stewart looks on at Silverstone in 1964, while her husband takes part in a midweek test. It was a pivotal campaign for Stewart. In his first full year as a single-seater driver he won an F3 title and made his F1 debut, deputising in the Rand GP for Lotus driver Jim Clark… who had been injured in a snowball fight!
Stewart threads his way through the Nouveau Monde hairpin at Rouen, en route to his aggregate F3 victory in 1964. He would later go on to score three victories in the French Grand Prix itself, two of them at Charade and one at Paul Ricard
Stewart greeted by well-wishers in the immediate aftermath of his 1964 French GP support race victory at Rouen. He won the opening heat by 23.7sec and the second by 52.9sec