Michael Crichton
January, 1970
"I race for the fun of it," says 30-year-old world champion Grand Prix driver John Young (Jackie) Stewart. "But I'll be the first to say that this is a deadly serious business--and should be conducted that way." The long-haired racing driver's life style is in the best jet-set tradition, but the evidence that he practices what he preaches in his dangerous trade is his track record. Of the eleven Grands Prix run in 1969, Stewart won six--a feat exceeded only once in the half-c...