Saturday, November 15, 2008

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François Cevert: 35 years after






Thirty years have passed since that October 6, 1973, when a terrible accident at Watkins Glen deprived France and Formula 1 drivers of one of its most skilled and popular , by all accounts a future world champion: François Cévert.Madre Nature was been very generous with this son of Nazi-occupied Paris (he was born February 25, 1944), scion of a wealthy family, beautiful film as an actor, with talent equal to the rail as on the piano keys, at the height career was a true idol of the French girls and was in the limelight for a rumored romance with Brigitte Bardot.Iniziò pushed to run from the future in-law, Jean Pierre Beltoise, against the wishes of the family, putting in light immediately in Formula 3 and, ' 69, in the formula 2.Immediato debut in the highest category on March nel'70 Tyrrell team, after the sudden withdrawal of Servoz Gavin (who is also the protagonist of an extraordinary story, which sooner or later we will talk) and on the advice the great Stewart.E François rode in '71 to make the official team from second to Jackie. That year the rates were Tyrrell, Stewart won by dominating the iris and Cevert just the first full season, won third place in the world and the first race at Watkins Glen.Il '72 season was a disappointing and François was only sixth with 15 points, of that year, remembers the second place in Le Mans on Matra.Nel 1973, Tyrrell returns to the car to beat and Cevert proves to have been fully learned the tricks of Stewart and now to be His livello.Per finished second six times, on some occasions (such as the difficult Nurburgring) seems faster than his team leader, but disciplined, the merely to escort traguardo.Stewart has already decided to retire from sample to end of the year, even if the only Tyrrell are aware of it, and all are in agreement that the '74 will be the year of Cevert, but, as they say in these cases, the fate is in agguato.Il October 6 we run the final race at Watkins Glen, the very fast track of his only trionfo.Alla them up the hill Cevert loses control of Tyrrell for reasons never found, The crash was violent and a wheel come off the ends on the head; François died on colpo.Si speak of mechanical failure, of illness (she had vomited just before) or simply approached a curve too fast, but the real cause was never clarified and of Moreover, little importa.La Tyrrell team withdrew and so Stewart will not run his last race, was the Scottish centesimo.Lo is extremely impressed by the death of his young dolphin, nevertheless makes a strange gesture: when the evidence comes down to resume track and off the seventh time. "I could not stop it" shall declare to those who asked why he came back on track after the death of his friend.

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