On your streaming service of choice, look for a movie called Weekend of a Champion featuring everyone’s favourite tartan-clad racer, Sir Jackie Stewart.

It was filmed in 1971, shown in 1972 — and unseen for 40 years until a storage facility contacted the owner of the negatives, asking, “Should we throw this out?”

The rest…I will have to put behind a paywall because I refuse to gloss over the involvement of an infamous character in cinema.

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