The Psyche And The Starting Grid

March, 1979

Though he still appeared a most cavalier figure, Jackie Stewart was emotionally bankrupt. He had consumed almost all of his psychic resources.On his way home to Switzerland, he stayed overnight at Kennedy Airport to meet with Peter Manso and discuss the book they were co-authoring: Faster!—"A Racer's Diary," the journal of a Grand Prix season.The season was at an end. It had been excellent for the book but disastrous from every other point of view. Stewart had failed in the defense of...