Thanks to AUSmotive reader Aaron for sending in this amazing photo of Jackie Stewart at the 1970 Spanish Grand Prix. At the time Stewart was the defending World Champion after safely tucking away the first of his three championships in the previous year.
In the photo above the aftermath of a collision between BRM driver Jack Oliver and Ferrari’s Jacky Ickx rages in the background. Stewart, seemingly unperturbed, carries on in spectacular fashion. Thanks to a host of retirements the Scot managed to lap everyone in the field on the way to what ended up being a comfortable victory at Jarama.
Thankfully, Oliver and Ickx did not suffer any serious injuries. They can consider themselves lucky men.
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It’s an awesome photo isn’t it.
This is the kind of image that gives motorsport a bad name. In the 60s and 70s, photographers were paid big money for these kinds of photos. Motorsport isn’t all about smashes and crashes, and fireballs.