The three -time world champion, 85 years old, took a tour of Sakhir behind the wheel of “his” Tyrrell 006 with the heirloom signed also by the seven times world for the Race Against Dementia association. Jackie: “It’s wonderful”
Throughout his life Helen Stewart was “The time trial of life” of her husband Jackie, three times Formula 1 world champion. He accompanied him in every great feat of his career, of the successes in motorsport to the struggle for greater security in Formula 1, up to the battle for awareness on the theme of dyslexia, of which Jackie and the son are both affected. Then, in 2014, a news that changed everything: in Helen was diagnosed with senile dementia, a neurodegenerative disease that involves a progressive decline in cognitive faculties.
initiative
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As always in their life, Jackie and Helen did not give up. The couple, who met in adolescence at Dino’s Café in their hometown, Helensburgh, in Scotland, and remained together for over 60 years, has chosen to fight also in front of this challenge. Thus was born Race Against Dementia, the association created by the former pilot who founded his foundations on research and progress in the medical field in the context of front -time dementia. A disease that affects millions of families all over the world and that in the future explain the scientists and researchers involved in the association, will continue to involve more and more people in the world.
charity
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To raise funds over the past few years Jackie Stewart has organized beneficial campaigns, raising funds and events related to the world of motorsport as guided tours at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the famous motor competition with historic cars that animates the United Kingdom every year.
Tyrrell in Sakhir
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However, it was Stewart’s latest initiative that leaving most of Formula 1 fans for the scope of the project presented during the Formula 1 weekend in Bahrain this weekend: Sir Jackie, 85 years old, turned a track of the Sakhir circuit a track turn behind his Tyrrell 006, the single -seater with which in 1973 he won the world title 1. An impresses. Monumental, given the age of the Scottish champion, who, however, did not limit himself to the event on the track: the helmet worn in Bahrain by Stewart for the tour of honor was in fact signed by the twenty champions of the Formula 1 world. The object with a single value will go to auction and the proceeds of the sale will be totally donated to the Raca Against Dementia association.
iridated signatures
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Among the signatures also that of the seven -time world champion Michael Schumacher, still engaged in his personal struggle for rehabilitation after the accident on Meribel’s Nevi in 2013. Seeing the Kiser signature excited in a few hours thousands of fans all over the world, moved by the presence of the first “signal” by Schumacher after years of total silence for the maintenance of the privacy of the champion. To confirm the authenticity of the signature was Stewart himself who explained: “I find wonderful that Michael was also able to sign the helmet with the help of his wife Corinna for this important cause”.
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