To Hannuff and whoever made this video: Thank you. It is a very nice documentary, truly appropriate for a prince. Some say that it is unfortunate that he didn't fully realize his potential, but it was so clearly there even those of us who weren't born in time to see him know about it, it's just a shame the record books won't show numbers to back this. It's people like him that makes racing a beautiful thing that captures peoples' imagination.
Francois was a great driver,a future F1 champion.But the best thing on him was his character.He was a genuine guy..And this more important because we don't see drivers like him today..
Wow, the racing and whole feel of the sport was just so much more epic back then. I still love today's F1, but I just feel there was more Love, and respect in it back then. These guys went out and did there thing knowing, that if they had an accident at speed they were pretty much dead. That takes a different type of person than I feel most of today's drivers are.
I was 13 when he died and i still remember where I was when I heard the sad news on TV that 6 Oct. For me it is if it was yesterday…..even 49 years later, RIP François 🙏🙏 Miguel Jérôme N
There is something quite special about his death. The morning before the crash, he told Jo Ramirez that he was going to drive the car number 6, chassis 006, Cosworth engine 066, in October the 6th. I red that few years ago, and seeing this video those words appeared again in my mind. He should have been the 1st French F1 world champion. Repose en paix.
Danke mein Freund... Thank you my friend for this beautiful tribute to François Cevert... I remember, in france, it was a thunderclap, I was young, but I still remember very well, it was also a loss of a gentleman... As if it was yesterday... Merci mon ami. Frédéric
i did some investigation on that one...Tyrrell had come to grips with the worst accident ever to affect his team. The wrecked car had been taken to a garage in the village of Watkins Glen. Someone would need to check it over. 'Ken asked Roger, Roland and me if we would go over and take a look,' said Ramirez. "We needed to know if anything had failed on the car and caused the accident. I have never seen anything like it. The mess...it was just awful. Parts of Francois were still there."
hey it was 36 years ago , my memory isnt what it used to be, but I still remember that accident and I was there, yes you are right it was during qualifying, but strange somehow my memory of the tragedy is it being at the end of the race,
At the Glen in '73 Cevert new that Scheckter had signed for Tyrrell.Tyrrell had not offered him a contract and he did not know Stewart was retiring.He had rejected a very lucrative offer from Ferrari to stay with Tyrrell for '74.Jackie should have told him he was retiring.
ho incominciato ad odiare la F1 quando ebbe l'incidente Williamson,auto incendiata ,nessun pilota si ferma alle richieste di aiuto di un loro collega amico che stava morendo nelle fiamme,FIORENZO
Lo recuerdo muy bien vino a la Argentina acortar con tyrrell los años 72 y 73 este último año fue donde mostró que podía ser un piloto aspirante a ganar carreras y el tuitulo antes solo había brillado en algunas ocasiones Stewart era sin discusión el piloto número 1 ganó en 1971 en Watkin Glenn era muy bueno pero una se pudo saber hasta donde pudo llegar en 1973 en la última carrera de la temporada perdido la vida ahí mismo donde consiguió su única victoria en f1
You recall incorrectly. He was killed in qualifying, and was not in the way as you (irrespectively) described, but he was killed instantly under unnecessary circumstances and as Jackie puts it 'was the final straw', thus beginning his serious request for safer circuits, now that he had retired.
"Uno debe elegir: Dirigir tu vida, disfrutando y haciendo algo que puede llegar a matarte, o hacer otra cosa que te aburra. Yo no estoy dispuesto a aburrirme" "Me tomaría más valor dejar de correr que el que me toma seguir haciéndolo" "Disfuto con todos los momentos de mi vida, es casi increíble. Hay muy pocas cosas de las que debo hacer que no me gusten. De momento, soy el hombre más feliz del mundo" "Conducía como si estuviese en el infierno y no pensaba lo suficiente. Jackie me enseñó cómo se debe analizar un auto, cómo se debe pensar cuando se maneja, la visión que se debe tener. Él hizo toda mi educación" "En las carreras no hay lugar para las lágrimas. Siguen a pesar de las tragedias" François Cevert "Llegué y me quedé paralizado por el horror, había humo y vapor por todas partes… y allí, todavía atrapado por el cinturón de seguridad, estaba mi compañero de equipo, mi protegido, mi amigo, mi hermano pequeño... Estaba muerto" "Poco a poco, François se estaba volviendo más y más fuerte en carrera. Era obvio que hubiese acabado siendo campeón del mundo. Era suficientemente bueno como para ganarme, tenía ambición, y habría acabado siendo el número 1 del equipo" "Algunas personas lo consideraban un playboy. Le gustaba vestir con estilo, y una vez llegó a mostrar una presencia espectacular cuando se presentó con un abrigo de piel hasta las rodillas y un collar de peces. Le expliqué todo lo que sabía. La relación funcionó porque él tenía poca experiencia y muchas ganas. Muchos pilotos se contentan con servirse del talento natural que Dios les dio; pocas veces tienen que esforzarse más allá de lo que les han dado. Pero, para los realmente buenos, eso es solo una base" Jackie Stewart "En un GP de Holanda, Stewart lideraba, con Cevert detrás y Jackie perdió una marcha. François no quiso adelantarle, porque quería ganar por habilidad, no porque tuviese un problema" "François era un hombre del que era difícil no sentirse cerca. Estaba lleno de vida, amado por las mujeres. parecía más una estrella de cine o un rico playboy que un piloto, pero era realmente un piloto muy bueno. Un hombre de muchos talentos" "Había un camión que iba a salir hacia la zona del accidente. Iba a subirme, pero Jody Scheckter, que acababa de volver al pit lane, me gritó: ‘¡No vayas! ¡Ni se te ocurra!’ Entonces, el corazón se hundió en mi pecho" "El accidente ocurrió el sábado 6, el número del auto era el 6, el chasis era el 006 y el motor era el 066. No soy supersticioso. Sin embargo cuando volvimos a Inglaterra y se mandó el motor a Cosworth para revisarlo. Los mecánicos lo desarmaron y pusieron el block sobre un banco de trabajo. Sorpresivamente, ellos vieron esta enorme y pesada masa de aluminio moverse del banco y golpear contra el piso (...) Por las caras de los dos mecánicos, había que creer que algo había pasado, casi como si François estuviera tratando de decir algo" Jo Ramírez "Cuando salió a pista por última vez, me dijo ‘Pondré el auto en la pole’. Era así de decidido. Los momentos posteriores a su accidente fuero durísimos. Estuve a punto de dejar la competición" Ken Tyrrell "El día que murio Cevert fue uno de los más tristes de mi carrera" Emerson Fittipaldi "Cuando fui a poner flores en la pista de Watkins Glen en el 40° aniversario de la muerte de Cevert se estaba disputando una carrera amateur. En el momento en que yo estaba investigando en qué lugar se había despistado, una rueda se salió de un auto y fue a pegar contra la malla de protección exactamente en ese lugar. Jackie Stewart ha dicho que, para aquellos que creen, el espíritu de Cevert estaba rondando y haciéndose notar" Connie Ann Kirk "François, hijo de un joyero tenía la pureza de un diamante. Si su trayectoria no se hubiera quebrado contra una barrera, en 1974 hubiese sido el primer francés campeón del mundo en la historia de la Fórmula 1" Xavier Chimits "Pilotos legendarios de la Fórmula 1" página 144. Edimat Libros, 2007. "Jackie, Ferrari me hizo una oferta. Algún día tengo que seguir mi camino, y tu relación con Ken es tan buena que quizás nunca pueda ganarte. Tengo que buscar otro equipo" François Cevert a Jackie Stewart días antes del Gran Premio de Canadá 1973 Saludos desde Venezuela.
maybe i,m wrong but i think its destiny written even before a person is born. so cevert destiny was that but i as i said maybe im wrong and..who knows he couda be like emerson or niki lauda in the 70. still remains a mystery
i saw the picture on google that fearbeforefearbefore mentioned thank god its in black and white because if ot wasnt we would be able to see all the blood in the ground because some of his waist were showing too
I was there at watkins glen to watch that race and I remember that accident as I recall it happened near the end of the race and I think his head was decaputated as he crashed into a guard rail this maybe the reason why jackie stewart faught so much for race track safety regulations.
Well the accident took place during the practice session, the man who got his head decapitated was Surtees GP's Helmuth Koinigg a year later at the exact same place Francois died.
Jackie Stewart looks like Bon Scott from AC/DC. I feel bad for Cever, he should of put that mentor attitude and respect aside he had for Jackie, and said screw it and tried his best to beat him. By stepping aside and letting Stewart win and saying next year will be my year, yes he was a gentleman but tomorrow never came. Senna when he came out in F1 right out of the gate wanted to win and needed no father figure /mentor.
To Hannuff and whoever made this video: Thank you. It is a very nice documentary, truly appropriate for a prince. Some say that it is unfortunate that he didn't fully realize his potential, but it was so clearly there even those of us who weren't born in time to see him know about it, it's just a shame the record books won't show numbers to back this.
It's people like him that makes racing a beautiful thing that captures peoples' imagination.
A true racing gentleman, rest in peace Francois.
Strange... strange how much I could feel myself close, close to this man who passed away before my birth... Cevert RIP
Francois was a great driver,a future F1 champion.But the best thing on him was his character.He was a genuine guy..And this more important because we don't see drivers like him today..
I still miss him so much, imo he would have been world champion 1974 and maybe several more. Such a tragic loss. We miss you Francois. RIP
Wow, the racing and whole feel of the sport was just so much more epic back then. I still love today's F1, but I just feel there was more Love, and respect in it back then. These guys went out and did there thing knowing, that if they had an accident at speed they were pretty much dead. That takes a different type of person than I feel most of today's drivers are.
François Cevert was THE idol N°1 for me. He died when I was 10 and it still remains one of the worst things I felt in my life.
I was 13 when he died and i still remember where I was when I heard the sad news on TV that 6 Oct.
For me it is if it was yesterday…..even 49 years later, RIP François 🙏🙏
Miguel Jérôme N
i get choked up every time i see it.he was a great and realistic racer.
There is something quite special about his death. The morning before the crash, he told Jo Ramirez that he was going to drive the car number 6, chassis 006, Cosworth engine 066, in October the 6th. I red that few years ago, and seeing this video those words appeared again in my mind.
He should have been the 1st French F1 world champion. Repose en paix.
Danke mein Freund...
Thank you my friend for this beautiful
tribute to François Cevert...
I remember, in france, it was a thunderclap,
I was young, but I still remember very well,
it was also a loss of a gentleman...
As if it was yesterday...
Merci mon ami.
Frédéric
i did some investigation on that one...Tyrrell had come to grips with the worst accident ever to affect his team. The wrecked car had been taken to a garage in the village of Watkins Glen. Someone would need to check it over. 'Ken asked Roger, Roland and me if we would go over and take a look,' said Ramirez. "We needed to know if anything had failed on the car and caused the accident. I have never seen anything like it. The mess...it was just awful. Parts of Francois were still there."
There's no doubt, he would of been the next Jackie Stewart. RIP Cevert.
wow what a beautiful team paring! only wish all teams behaved like these two!
Souvenir.souvenir
73..cevert..bruce Lee.. saarinen..Pasolini.. etc
Belle amitié 👍
A true man.. respectful of Jackie and Helen in the utmost respect
All too sad the parallels with the late Marco Simoncelli. My respect and admiration to all those risking life and limb for spectacle and competition.
hey it was 36 years ago , my memory isnt what it used to be, but I still remember that accident and I was there, yes you are right it was during qualifying, but strange somehow my memory of the tragedy is it being at the end of the race,
At the Glen in '73 Cevert new that Scheckter had signed for Tyrrell.Tyrrell had not offered him a contract and he did not know Stewart was retiring.He had rejected a very lucrative offer from Ferrari to stay with Tyrrell for '74.Jackie should have told him he was retiring.
You my fellow racing fan are correct o Mundo.
ho incominciato ad odiare la F1 quando ebbe l'incidente Williamson,auto incendiata ,nessun pilota si ferma alle richieste di aiuto di un loro collega amico che stava morendo nelle fiamme,FIORENZO
And he is impossible to forget"
Lo recuerdo muy bien vino a la Argentina acortar con tyrrell los años 72 y 73 este último año fue donde mostró que podía ser un piloto aspirante a ganar carreras y el tuitulo antes solo había brillado en algunas ocasiones Stewart era sin discusión el piloto número 1 ganó en 1971 en Watkin Glenn era muy bueno pero una se pudo saber hasta donde pudo llegar en 1973 en la última carrera de la temporada perdido la vida ahí mismo donde consiguió su única victoria en f1
I know exactly what you mean and feel the same.
'3 years to be good'. I agree, so are we entering an era of Hamilton domination?
You recall incorrectly. He was killed in qualifying, and was not in the way as you (irrespectively) described, but he was killed instantly under unnecessary circumstances and as Jackie puts it 'was the final straw', thus beginning his serious request for safer circuits, now that he had retired.
"Uno debe elegir: Dirigir tu vida, disfrutando y haciendo algo que puede llegar a matarte, o hacer otra cosa que te aburra. Yo no estoy dispuesto a aburrirme"
"Me tomaría más valor dejar de correr que el que me toma seguir haciéndolo"
"Disfuto con todos los momentos de mi vida, es casi increíble. Hay muy pocas cosas de las que debo hacer que no me gusten. De momento, soy el hombre más feliz del mundo"
"Conducía como si estuviese en el infierno y no pensaba lo suficiente. Jackie me enseñó cómo se debe analizar un auto, cómo se debe pensar cuando se maneja, la visión que se debe tener. Él hizo toda mi educación"
"En las carreras no hay lugar para las lágrimas. Siguen a pesar de las tragedias"
François Cevert
"Llegué y me quedé paralizado por el horror, había humo y vapor por todas partes… y allí, todavía atrapado por el cinturón de seguridad, estaba mi compañero de equipo, mi protegido, mi amigo, mi hermano pequeño... Estaba muerto"
"Poco a poco, François se estaba volviendo más y más fuerte en carrera. Era obvio que hubiese acabado siendo campeón del mundo. Era suficientemente bueno como para ganarme, tenía ambición, y habría acabado siendo el número 1 del equipo"
"Algunas personas lo consideraban un playboy. Le gustaba vestir con estilo, y una vez llegó a mostrar una presencia espectacular cuando se presentó con un abrigo de piel hasta las rodillas y un collar de peces. Le expliqué todo lo que sabía. La relación funcionó porque él tenía poca experiencia y muchas ganas. Muchos pilotos se contentan con servirse del talento natural que Dios les dio; pocas veces tienen que esforzarse más allá de lo que les han dado. Pero, para los realmente buenos, eso es solo una base"
Jackie Stewart
"En un GP de Holanda, Stewart lideraba, con Cevert detrás y Jackie perdió una marcha. François no quiso adelantarle, porque quería ganar por habilidad, no porque tuviese un problema"
"François era un hombre del que era difícil no sentirse cerca. Estaba lleno de vida, amado por las mujeres. parecía más una estrella de cine o un rico playboy que un piloto, pero era realmente un piloto muy bueno. Un hombre de muchos talentos"
"Había un camión que iba a salir hacia la zona del accidente. Iba a subirme, pero Jody Scheckter, que acababa de volver al pit lane, me gritó: ‘¡No vayas! ¡Ni se te ocurra!’ Entonces, el corazón se hundió en mi pecho"
"El accidente ocurrió el sábado 6, el número del auto era el 6, el chasis era el 006 y el motor era el 066. No soy supersticioso. Sin embargo cuando volvimos a Inglaterra y se mandó el motor a Cosworth para revisarlo. Los mecánicos lo desarmaron y pusieron el block sobre un banco de trabajo. Sorpresivamente, ellos vieron esta enorme y pesada masa de aluminio moverse del banco y golpear contra el piso (...) Por las caras de los dos mecánicos, había que creer que algo había pasado, casi como si François estuviera tratando de decir algo"
Jo Ramírez
"Cuando salió a pista por última vez, me dijo ‘Pondré el auto en la pole’. Era así de decidido. Los momentos posteriores a su accidente fuero durísimos. Estuve a punto de dejar la competición"
Ken Tyrrell
"El día que murio Cevert fue uno de los más tristes de mi carrera"
Emerson Fittipaldi
"Cuando fui a poner flores en la pista de Watkins Glen en el 40° aniversario de la muerte de Cevert se estaba disputando una carrera amateur. En el momento en que yo estaba investigando en qué lugar se había despistado, una rueda se salió de un auto y fue a pegar contra la malla de protección exactamente en ese lugar. Jackie Stewart ha dicho que, para aquellos que creen, el espíritu de Cevert estaba rondando y haciéndose notar"
Connie Ann Kirk
"François, hijo de un joyero tenía la pureza de un diamante. Si su trayectoria no se hubiera quebrado contra una barrera, en 1974 hubiese sido el primer francés campeón del mundo en la historia de la Fórmula 1"
Xavier Chimits
"Pilotos legendarios de la Fórmula 1" página 144. Edimat Libros, 2007.
"Jackie, Ferrari me hizo una oferta. Algún día tengo que seguir mi camino, y tu relación con Ken es tan buena que quizás nunca pueda ganarte. Tengo que buscar otro equipo"
François Cevert a Jackie Stewart días antes del Gran Premio de Canadá 1973
Saludos desde Venezuela.
maybe i,m wrong but i think its destiny written even before a person is born. so cevert destiny was that but i as i said maybe im wrong and..who knows he couda be like emerson or niki lauda in the 70. still remains a mystery
i saw the picture on google that fearbeforefearbefore mentioned
thank god its in black and white because if ot wasnt we would be able to see all the blood in the ground because some of his waist were showing too
I was there at watkins glen to watch that race and I remember that accident as I recall it happened near the end of the race and I think his head was decaputated as he crashed into a guard rail this maybe the reason why jackie stewart faught so much for race track safety regulations.
Well the accident took place during the practice session, the man who got his head decapitated was Surtees GP's Helmuth Koinigg a year later at the exact same place Francois died.
@FPVandotherprojects are you crazy put them on dvd if you have it, for the familly, for the fans, for history you cant destroy that
c'est vraiment dommage qu'il n'y ai pas de version française!!
@salvadorfazio I read taht françois was cut in half :s
Where’s parts one and two??
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Jackie Stewart looks like Bon Scott from AC/DC. I feel bad for Cever, he should of put that mentor attitude and respect aside he had for Jackie, and said screw it and tried his best to beat him. By stepping aside and letting Stewart win and saying next year will be my year, yes he was a gentleman but tomorrow never came. Senna when he came out in F1 right out of the gate wanted to win and needed no father figure /mentor.
@yipikayee pictures of the actual crash