Ian Stewart (racing driver)

Ian Stewart

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1953 British Grand Prix
Last start:	1953 British Grand Prix
Constructors
1953  Ecurie Ecosse
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Ian Macpherson Stewart (born July 15, 1929 in Edinburgh , Scotland , † March 19, 2017 in Crieff , Perthshire , Scotland) was a British racing driver .

Career

Ian Stewart, not related to the Jimmy brothers and three-time Formula 1 world champion Jackie Stewart , began racing on the British Isles in 1951. Initially, a private Jaguar XK 120 was used, with which he competed in national races, especially in England.

Stewart was a founding member of the Scottish racing team Ecurie Ecosse , for which he raced from 1952. Among other things, he won the Jersey Road Race and the Wakefield Trophy in a Jaguar D-Type in the same year .

In 1953 he competed in a Formula 2 - Connaught Type A at the Grand Prix of Great Britain in Silverstone , which was part of the 1953 drivers' world championship . However, after an ignition defect, he had to end the race early. Stewart also took part in some Grands Prix , the results of which were not included in the championship standings. Also in 1953 he and his teammate Roy Salvadori , this time in a Jaguar C-Type , managed to take second place in the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring . At the 24 Hours of Le Mans , he and his partner Peter Whitehead came in fourth.

Stewart's sporting career ended in 1954 in the 1000-kilometer race at the Autódromo Oscar Alfredo Gálvez in Buenos Aires . After a serious accident in the race and the long recovery period that followed, also influenced by his wedding in the same year, Stewart retired from racing in the middle of the season to do farm work in Perth and Kinross , where he lived.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1953	Ecurie Ecosse	Connaught Type A	Lea-Francis 2.0 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1953
						DNF

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1952	Jaguar Cars Ltd.	Jaguar C-Type	Peter Whitehead	failure	Cylinder overheated
1953	Jaguar Cars Ltd.	Jaguar C-Type	Peter Whitehead	Rank 4
1954	David Brown	Aston Martin DB3S Coupe	Graham Whitehead	failure	accident

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953	Jaguar Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar C-Type	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
					4th		2	DNF
1954	Ecurie Ecosse Aston Martin	Jaguar C-Type Aston Martin DB3S	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
			DNF			DNF

Web links

Commons : Ian Stewart  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Ian Stewart at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ian Stewart. In: oOldRacingCars.com. March 22, 2017, accessed March 28, 2017 .