I was there and had just turned 14. Had a huge desire to walk the entire track so I could see what the drivers saw. My Da, was not up for it. So I got up at 5:00 AM and walked it as dark turned to light. Climbed the camera towers and all. Rolled back in to camp at about 7:30. Got pelted. Great memory.

RIP Cevert Repose en paix François

PS- there was a juvenile leopard in the paddock that year, on a leash. I'll never forget how he purred when my sister and I were the only ones brave enough to run up to him and pet him. The owner then proceeded to pick this cat up, and throw him over his shoulders and head back to his trailer. Amazing experience. Peterson won, Hunt second. Perfect fall weather.

François Cevert 🙏⭐️ 🇫🇷

@karllinner7875

3 жыл бұрын

Je hais ce circuit

@doniphane_nbs

3 жыл бұрын

@@karllinner7875 je te comprend ...

@joewar-booker5485

2 жыл бұрын

Il est paradoxal que ce soit sa seule victoire officielle en F1 et son accident mortel. Selon la légende, il n'a jamais su que Tyrrell lui réservait le premier poste de pilote pour l'année suivante en raison du départ à la retraite de Jackie Stewart. C'était une surprise qu'ils voulaient lui faire à la fin de la saison. Je suppose, même si cela n'a plus d'importance maintenant, que François se poussait au maximum à l'époque avec le désir d'une offre pour diriger une autre équipe et pouvoir choisir de gagner le championnat du monde maintenant. Ce même 1973, comme Stewart l'a déjà dit, il aurait pu arriver mais il ne l'a jamais voulu. Spécifiquement dans la course allemande, c'était particulièrement évident. Un pilote magnifique, un vrai gentleman. Le Prince Éternel... François Cevert🙏❤

John Player Lotus F1 car,the most beautiful machine ever built.That black and gold paint was stunning.

Very interesting thank you. Just to say, the bit at the start of Jackie walking hurriedly can't have been to do with finding out about Francois's death, Jackie, like many other drivers, had stopped out on the track and saw the scene of the accident which revealed Cevert was clearly dead. It's interesting that Jackie appears driving AFTER the above clip - amazingly he did go out again despite his devastation about Cevert - just to reassure the mechanics that Francois had lost control rather than there being a fault with the car - he said he nearly crashed at the same spot but because he was in 5th gear - Francois had been in 4th - the car was a bit more docile and so Jackie 'caught' it. Jackie withdrew from the race though. Amazing man, Jackie Stewart. Happy 80th to him for last week.

@leemugleston6422

Жыл бұрын

In an interview, Stewart said he suspected a huge bump on the track had thrown Cevert into the inside barrier and then ricochet into the outside Armco. Sure enough he said, he had gone out and found the bump.

@ysgol3

Жыл бұрын

@@leemugleston6422 Hi, thank you for the reply. There are US GP films here on KZread showing how tight and dangerous those 'esses' were. Amazing, isn't it, that a bump in such a dangerous place was allowed to remain there. PS My understanding is that Cevert first hit the outside barrier and then bounced to the inside, hitting the barrier head on, and photos show that the barrier didn't 'stand firm' resulting in his death.

@leemugleston6422

Жыл бұрын

@@ysgol3 if you look at photos taken with the wreck still smoking drivers had actually stopped and got out of their cars. It looks like the outside barrier but I could be wrong. Cevert looked quite tall next to Stewart and was very exposed in the cockpit. A very sad day for motor racing.

@ysgol3

Жыл бұрын

@@leemugleston6422 Yes - horrendous. And of course it remains unknown whether his ankle injuries from his crash with Scheckter a fortnight before in Canada were still a problem and somehow contributed to his loss of control. Rather than referring to out/ inside, hopefully we can agree that he hit the bump on the left of the track, this made him hit the barrier on the right (allegedly only slightly - inches to the left and he'd have missed the right barrier and presumably had no shunt at all), then the car spun into the barrier on the left where those horrific photos were taken after he'd overturned and been mutilated.

... have been there a few times in the past decade. LOVE to hear the PA System "crackle" alive @ 7:00 AM in time to hear ...... "GOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING, RACE FANS!".... and then the sound of engines firing up in the paddock.

This video is criminally under watched - fantastic footage.

@jstrahan2

2 ай бұрын

Not that great of a video. Criminally over watched, IMO.

@jeffreyharper2710

2 ай бұрын

Elaborate, please.

@jstrahan2

2 ай бұрын

@@jeffreyharper2710 : No, thank you. My comment was exactly like yours and you didn't elaborate.

@jeffreyharper2710

2 ай бұрын

Just as I figured….

@jstrahan2

2 ай бұрын

@@jeffreyharper2710 : As have I.

Sad seeing Peter Revson on the finishing list - a fine driver who never needed to earn a living (he was heir to the Revlon Cosmetics fortune), and tragically killed. Returning to François, I remember the shock of hearing that he'd left us.

Adieu à un de nos plus grand pilote

REST IN PEACE FRANCIS.

Francois Cevert,so sorry that the Other Side of Racing got you…😢

Just about everyone was running Cosworths. Glorious sounds

Thank you very much for the rare and great images ! If possible, I want more !

The guard rail installation is what killed Cevert. The rails are supposed to bend and throw the car back on the track. They were notorious for falling off the posts and exposing the car and driver to those posts and the rails became spears.

Great to hear "Rumble" by Link Wray in the music background.

October 6th 1973 not the 7th. The 7th was race day and no Tyrell's entered the race because Cevert got killed on the 6th. I was there.

After Cevert died in the way he died, it looks like everyone was genuinely not looking forward to racing on this track. Because that same way of dying lay in that same turn for all the remaining drivers. If Francios could die like that, anyone could. The faces of the people in this film, because it was shot on film, are all unsmiling and very intense looking, like they all just wanted to get this race over with and go to the next race. Good video.

I was there.

We were there!!! Yes, kind of hippie bum types. But we went many years in a row. Burning cars in the bog. One year all the stalls in the John's was used for firewood. When I was 17, during the summer, I drove my dad's 64 Dodge 2 door hardtop on the track at midnight!. Best experience i ever bragged about! Lol. We had a place on Keuka.

2:34 - is it the last footage of Francois behind the wheel? I’ve never seen that before.

@ddMcDd-yl4td

Жыл бұрын

I thought the same, it almost has to be, and I haven't seen it either and I've watched a bunch of Cevert videos.

Peterson / Hunt / Reutemann... What a podium! That was also the race that decided Jackie Stewart to quit Formula 1, after the accident that took away the life of Cevert.

José Carlos Pace!

At 2.05-2.17 you get a glance of Chris Amons abbortive 2 race tenure with the Tyrrel team as number three which was ended by the disappointing performace with Chris qualifying only 12th at both Mosport and the Glen and of course the tragic crash of Cevert. One of the problems was that Amons crew and contacts were built on his reputation as a firestone test driver and firestone were the people who really promoted and when he recklessly signed with goodyear teams he did not recieve the same support and also the trouble was the Tyrrel chassis was a pretty complex model in 73 taylored to Stewarts requirements and not easy to adapt to plus the fact that Stewart was the quickest driver and in some ways uniquely gifted. like Mike Hawthorn when Stewart was running at warp speed what would be 13/14/10th to any other driver- the car actually stabalises where with any other mortal the car would become progressively more unstable. This tendency very observable in Hawthorns drive at Le Mans at 55 and Aintree in the British GP 57 ( I suggest in that race you see the actual comparative ability level of the 5 Ferrari drivers Hawthorn, Collins, Musso, Von Trips and Trignant(you also have to note that Collins is a very brave, intelligent, reckless fated dare devil always drive way over his limit and not in remotely in the class of Moss and Hawthorn and Von Trips in many senses even after two years in top class driving can barely drive- and is running like Dana Patrick on ultra low weight less than 9 stone in a 5-11 frame and the courage and inspiration obtainable only by a German aristocrat who has failed in training as an SS officer in 1944 he had a breakdown and was also a diabetic two rather massive counts against you in 1944 their)

Yes the point with Stewart and Mike Hawthorn is they can run at warp speed and potentially they could go up to any speed consistent with Einstein physics. Watch Hawthorn running in practice at spa in 1958 and you see it exactly as he smashed the lap record the Dino 246 suddenly stabalises and looks to be running on rails. When Jackie starts to move say at Monza in 73 his last great drive it dosent look exciting at all and the style of Stewart and Hawthorn is in complete contrast to great stylist like Amon and Clark and peterson drives exactly the same way

Asiuba?

Stewart.and.the.tyrrell.team. no race.

Should have cancelled this race.