{"id":1082,"date":"2016-06-03T13:18:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T20:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2016-06-07T12:49:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T19:49:04","slug":"jackie-stewart-on-racing-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/03\/jackie-stewart-on-racing-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Stewart on racing slow"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Monte Carlo should be driven smoothly and quietly \u2026<\/p>\n

You\u2019re doing it with gentleness, you\u2019re being kind to your motor car, it\u2019s being kind to you.\u00a0 You\u2019re great friends, you\u2019re married, you\u2019re having a fantastic affair, everything\u2019s united, you\u2019re not arguing with anyone, when you change gear there\u2019s no rush to change gear.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The 1972 documentary by Roman Polanski about Formula One champion Sir Jackie Stewart Weekend of a Champion<\/em> has been re-released after being hidden for 40 years. It’s on iTunes<\/a> and Amazon<\/a> pretty cheap. It offers an intimate snapshot of a very cool time in Grand Prix racing, and a close portrait of one of the best drivers in motor racing. He won 27 F1 races, and was world champion three times (in 1969, ’71 & ’73).<\/p>\n

\"Jackie<\/p>\n

In one scene, Jackie, having breakfast in his underwear, explains how to take a corner in Monte Carlo. It becomes a master-class in how to take any corner, a whole philosophy of driving, by a world champion at the height of his power. F1 is a fast, loud, aggressive, dangerous, violent, high-energy, high-g thrill ride. But Jackie’s mindset is all smooth, gentle, clean. We might say he is ‘ahead of the car’. He sums it up this way:<\/p>\n

“The smoothest and quietest way\u2014the slowest way\u2014around Monte Carlo is the fastest way.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Monte<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed the whole fly-on-the-wall movie. Cool driving, cool drivers. The racing looks violent, crazy. But in his mind, Jackie is thinking about caressing the corner, about clean lines, and about being slow.<\/p>\n

He wins the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Monte Carlo should be driven smoothly and quietly \u2026 You\u2019re doing it with gentleness, you\u2019re being kind to your motor car, it\u2019s being kind to you.\u00a0 You\u2019re great friends, you\u2019re married, you\u2019re having a fantastic affair, everything\u2019s united, you\u2019re not arguing with anyone, when you change gear there\u2019s no rush to change gear.” The 1972 documentary by Roman Polanski about Formula One champion Sir Jackie Stewart Weekend of a Champion has been re-released after being hidden for 40 years. It’s on iTunes and Amazon pretty cheap. It offers an intimate snapshot of a very cool time in Grand Prix racing, … Continue reading Jackie Stewart on racing slow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[144,45,58,143,50,145],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-driving","tag-mastery","tag-mindset","tag-racing","tag-simplicity","tag-speed"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}