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Stewart: Modern drivers take more risks because 'because they know it's safer today'

Sir Jackie Stewart has said that Formula 1 drivers would not have been able to get away with some of the more reckless maneuvers if driving in his era. If the very real threat of death was not enough to put a driver off making a dangerous move on a rival during his era of grand prix racing, Stewart says the peer review system of the Grand Prix Drivers Association (GPDA) would have done the job. Article continues under video "If someone behaved badly, the GPDA at the very next race had the person come in in front of everybody and gave them such a bollocking and threat that they should never do anything of that nature again. It was a much more severe penalty for everyone!" Stewart...
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