Ihad an enormous enthusiasm and interest for motor sport when I was growing up in the 1950s. And even though my own competitive focus was on Olympic trapshooting for much of the decade, it was in many ways a formative time for my subsequent racing career; it set the tone.
My brother Jim Stewart, or Jimmy as he was known, drove for Ecurie Ecosse, Jaguar and Aston Martin. He raced mostly in sports cars but he did drive some single-seaters too. I remember as a 14-year-old watching him at Silverstone in the British Grand Prix in 1953; he was going well, running as high as sixth for Ecurie Ecosse in a Cooper-Bristol when with a few laps to go he had a shunt at Stowe corner. He would have finished fifth that day without the crash.
After that he raced for Aston Martin at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1954 but he had an accident and was thrown from his DB3S – his arm was badly broken. He injured the same arm in 1955 following a crash in the Nürburgring 1000Kms driving for Ecurie Ecosse
