About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Alfonso de Iruarrizaga, Anders Golding, Andrea Benelli, Andrei Inesin, Andri Eleftheriou, Anthony Terras, Antonakis Andreou, Axel Wegner, Bhim Singh II, Chiara Cainero, Christine Wenzel, Ciğdem Ozyaman, Daniel Carlisle, Diana Igaly, Edison Mclean, Ennio Falco, Eric Swinkels, Erik Watndal, Firmo Roberti, Georgios Achilleos, Hans Kjeld Rasmussen, Harald Jensen, Jackie Stewart, Jakub Tomeček, Jan Sychra, Jin Di, John Satterwhite, Jorge Guardiola, Josef Panaček, Juan Giha, Juan Jose Aramburu, Juan Miguel Rodriguez, Karni Singh, Kim Rhode, Konrad Wirnhier, Lauryn Mark, Marko Kemppainen, Matthew Dryke, Michael Buchheim, Mohamed Khorshed, Mykola Milchev, Nasser Al-Attiyah, Panayiota Andreou, Paul Rahman, Petr Malek, Qu Ridong, Rajyashree Kumari, Randal McLelland, Randhir Singh (sport shooter), Richard Brickell, Roberto Castrillo, Roger Dahi, Shawn Dulohery, Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit, Svetlana Demina, Todd Bender, Tore Brovold, Valeriy Shomin, Vincent Hancock, Wei Ning, William Burton Roy, Yevgeni Petrov (sport shooter), Zemfira Meftakhetdinova. Excerpt: Sir John Young 'Jackie' Stewart, OBE (born 11 June 1939) is a Scottish former racing driver. Nicknamed the 'Flying Scot', he competed in Formula One between 1965 and 1973, winning three World Drivers' Championships. He also competed in Can-Am. He is well known in the United States as a color commentator (pundit) of racing television broadcasts, and as a spokesman for Ford, where his Scottish accent has made him a distinctive presence. Between 1997 and 1999, in partnership with his son, Paul, he was team principal of the Stewart Grand Prix Formula One racing team. In 2009 he was ranked fifth of the fifty greatest Formula One drivers of all time by journalist Kevin Eason who wrote: "He has not only emerged as a great driver, but one of the greatest figures of motor racing." Stewart's family were Austin, later Jaguar, car dealers and had built up a successful business, Dumbuck Garage, in Milton, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland where Stewart was born. His father had been an amateur motorcycle racer, and his brother Jimmy was a racing driver with a growing local reputation who drove for Ecurie Ecosse and competed in the 1953 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, until he went off at Copse Corner in the wet. Jackie attended Hartfield primary school in Dumbarton, and moved to Dumbarton Academy at the age of 12. He experienced learning difficulties owing to undiagnosed dyslexia and was unable to continue his secondary education past the age of 16. He has said: "When you've got dyslexia and you find something you're good at, you put more into it than anyone else; you can't think the way of the clever folk, so you're always thinking out of the box." As a result he was not allowed to continue his secondary school programmes and began working in his father's garage. At the age of 13 he had won a clay pigeon shooting competition and then went on to become a prize winning member of the Scottish shooting team, competing in the United Kingdom and abroad. He won the British, Welsh and Sc
