Francois and Jackie

[@alphalonzo]

Been reading and watching a lot about Cevert lately and learning how he and Jackie had such amazing teammate dynamics makes what happened to him more tragic. Hell, his death preceded my birth by decades! (was born in the mid 90s), but learning the details of his story made an impact on me and made me realize a few things - that Francois Cevert was a true prodigy who never had the chance to be a master, that Sir Jackie Stewart is such an amazing driver AND human being, and that the F1 pilots of yesteryears were not just drivers, they were true warriors who put everything on the line for glory, for speed, and for passion for the sport of Formula 1.

[@richnewall8091]

Beautifully put. I couldn't agree more with your fine words. 👌 I myself was only 3 years old at the time of this tragic accident. You feel he had the world at his fingertips, only for it to be cruelly taken away. I've always had a massive respect for Jackie Stewart, as a racer and for the man. Sadly during his racing career, he lost some dear friends in racing. He never forget them and always helped their legacy to shine on. We thank and honour them, and may they all Rest in Peace.

[@daviddelaney6757]

A very nice comment, Alonzo

[@ysgol3]

Lovely - there was something special, something somehow very different about Francois wasn't there I remember his death so well, even all these years later - 50 next year! Jackie has always said that Francois was capable of winning the 1974 title, absolutely right I reckon. Those in and around the team all say Jackie kept nothing back from him, he taught him everything he knew, indeed jackie said that if Cevert had wanted to he could have passed him and won both the Dutch and German GPs. That says so much about Jackie doesn't it. You've been reading so you probably know this but I'll say it anyway (!) - the Constructors' title was still up for grabs in that final race at Watkins Glen - Tyrrell and Lotus. Ken Tyrrell brought in Chris Amon to drive in a third car to help in the battle - this was allowed then. (Why the brilliant Chris was apparently washed up by 1973 is a separate question!). Francois had badly hurt his ankles in a crash (unfilmed) with, and caused by, Scheckter in the previous race in Canada. He was furious with Jody - even went for him immediately afterwards! He had been in with a great chance of winning that race - he hadn't won that year despite six second places. it was miraculous his injuries were bad and not horrendous - he put his feet up through the ventilation hole in the upper bodywork thereby avoiding the full extent of a head on crash into the barrier. (This crash led to the first ever use of a safety car in F1.) Many wondered before his fatal crash, and have wondered since, whether his ankles were fully healed. He said they were, but did the very small error which killed him stem from a fractional delay in his reaction caused by them not in fact being 100% right? Nobody can ever know of course. There are colour photos elsewhere on KZbin of the aftermath - nothing too explicitly horrendous - in one you can see his head still in his helmet. He was definitely killed immediately. And of course Tyrrell withdrew from the race, and Lotus won the title.

[@simracer1256]

50 years this year. Francois' death was an absolute tragedy. No question in my mind he would have been champion.

[@murielle1703]

Oui, bien avant Alain Prost.

[@rodolforivero7282]

Amigo... Que Dios te tenga entre sus brazos... Aquí en argentina todos los mayores de 70 que te vimos correr en nuestro Autódromo Ciudad de Bs. As. no olvidaremos jamas ese podio con Emerson y Jackie. Por eso y todo lo que nos brindastes en esos años duros de la F1 todos te llevamos en nuestras mentes y corazones. Tu estrella jamás se apagara bravo niño bonito...💫✌️👍

[@lestercombs1871]

Francois was my idol as a child. He would have been a WDC.

[@tudisouto4837]

FRANÇOIS CEVERT, AMOR ETERNO!❤❤❤❤❤😢😢😢😢

[@robharding4028]

Jackie Stewart ! such a humble man, considering all he has done in the motor racing world, He really is a true champion ,not only of motor racing, but of the human race.

[@gorangoran6335]

Completely agree.

[@rouviere62]

Stewart is for me the best F1 driver since1950. And also a true gentleman. Full respect and admiration for this man.

[@BanjoLuke1]

An extraordinary life. As a young child he lived in Paris using his mother's maiden name, to stay out of sight of the occupying forces. He would have stood out, unhealthily, had he used the family name. The family survived. People like to predict what the dead would have done had they lived.... We will never know. But Cevert was certainly a rare talent.

[@jimestep560]

I was there that fateful day. We had camped on the furthest side of the track from the accident, the hillside above the boot. It was as if the silence came across the track to us. Still haunting to this day.

[@probablygraham]

@Jim - as a young lad I was at the race at Brands Hatch in 1971 where Seppi Siffert was killed. The same as you it haunts me today. As the drivers came around the track and reached the scene of the accident, they stopped and switched off their engines and there was total silence. The ironic thing about that race was that it was a non-championship race to celebrate Jackie Stewart's championship win ☹

[@keithashley6298]

He was so handsome and had tremendous talent, what a terrible loss.

[@Secretarian]

"...Cevert's death wasn't in vain." I don't think F1 learned a thing from it. They came back to Watkins Glen the next year and Helmut Koinigg was decapitated by the same Armco barrier at a different spot on the course.

[@russells9687]

And Grosjean would have been decapitated yesterday at Bahrain except that his "halo" broke through the wall before he did.

[@sgtmiklin]

@@russells9687 la F1 n'a toujours rien appris de tout celle, presque 50 ans après.... triste, mais c'est la vie...🤷🏻‍♂️

[@andrewcorbett5729]

Jackie for me is the greatest driver of f1 history

[@stuartbritton4811]

Certainly one of the ten greatest in history in terms of driving, but I believe noone has given a more accurate and honest account of the world of grand prix, it's drivers and the changes from an objective angle than Jackie Stewart. Theeee ambassador of motor racing. Listen to him while he's still alive.

[@master-kq3nw]

He drive in dangerous era brave driver and three world time champion

[@Adrienne1368]

Opens Roads François, 🏁 Remembering you... 50 years gone today x 💙

[@ado4224]

Good thing Grosjean had that halo yesterday. Could be the same for him

[@BrunoDECOURCY]

1:43. “We couldn’t do a thing wrong. There were like 2 brothers in the team.” This says all!!! Huge loss indeed!!!

[@wreck.create.MAK0]

Cevert looks like a movie star

[@mick8473]

Both Francois and Jackie put today's drivers in the shade when it comes to coolness.

[@kazamshah4543]

Yeah, he was gorgeous. Jackie was such a generous guy, he even shared his wife with his best friend!!! But I guess it was the norm in those days, which is pretty cool.

[@ericathewwfwcwdivastraight8906]

​@@mick8473dude not only coolness they are groovy hot and handsome

[@hoopsheavenpa]

Don’t blame Jackie for not wanting to go back. He won multiple championships. More importantly, he wanted to make sure his family didn’t lose him prematurely. Plus he was thriving working for ABC. What a first class and genuine man.

[@kylieminou7775]

That Cevert guy will be forever beautiful, he didn't make it to 30, he would be 77 now, had he lived. I used to hear all these names from my dad, who was a car race fanatic, and even remember an interview in which they asked Jackie Stewart about women and he said he "didn't like women with fat legs", ah, the 70's!

[@johnspensieri4332]

I was there at the Glen when that crash happened. It was so sad. So sad.

[@jehormaeche]

We need a movie about this frienship, this master/discipule story.

[@zoltanlaszlo2222]

Good team : Tyrrell. Good colleges: Jackie and Francois.

[@danieldravot341]

Colleagues

[@stevefowler2112]

Jackie was such a skilled race car driver and such a good human being...and I see he did not do too bad with the ladies either judging by the tall supermodel at his side...she is gorgeous.

[@probablygraham]

He married his wife Helen in 1962. Hardly a case of "did not do too bad with the ladies".

[@LazyDaisyDay88]

I really wish I'd been alive when these guys were racing so I could have watched them - a different more interesting era.

[@thethirdman225]

Yes and no. It was hard to watch people die. The first I really remember was Jim Clark. Everyone at the time knew he was the best in the world. I remember when Peter Revson died, then Tom Pryce. We were all transfixed by Niki Lauda’s terrible accident and recovery. Ronnie Peterson’s death still affects me. I swore off the sport at the end of 1982, following the deaths of Gilles Villeneuve (my favourite driver at the time, like he was for so many others) and young Ricardo Paletti (like millions of others, I saw that live on TV) and the maiming of Didier Pironi. Grand Prix fans of today should be grateful this doesn’t happen anymore, certainly nothing like the extent it used to. More interesting? I suppose that depends on what motivates you. It was certainly easier to tell the cars and the drivers apart. Teams were a lot more identifiable and individual than today.

[@SupBro-ww9go]

When he said Francois cevert was very much half in the car, he means cevert was cut in half from neck to hip. An accident that was truly tragic, that was proof of just how dangerous the f1 seasons used to be It was a tragedy

[@AmericasChoice]

Scheckter was the first on the scene. He said he was sliced in half.

[@noobednatherium4082]

Yeah

[@noobednatherium4082]

Sup bro lol

[@noobednatherium4082]

@Ughra Yuvakov what? I don't hate francois, I saw this guy somewhere else and was giving a greeting, sorry if I hurt ya.

[@SupBro-ww9go]

@Ughra Yuvakov he's finding the name of my Channel funny, don't get so worked up

[@darrelljourdan3687]

Jackie.... the last of the greats..

[@devongreen7724]

Francois would gone on to great things im sure it was such a shame to lose Cevert 🙏❤️

[@Bohonk212]

Jackie was already on top when I first became an F1 fan and I tended to favor the underdogs. Jochen Rindt was one. Lost that one. Then Cevert... So many favorites lost back then. Was at the Glen for that race weekend.

[@95bochamp]

It's ironic that Scheckter took Cevert's place at Tyrell. In the penultimate race of the season at Mosport, the two had a large coming together on one of the faster corners, and Cevert damaged both of his feet. I was in the paddock area when Cevert returned there, and I still have a photo of him being helped by two of his mechanics. Cevert and Scheckter were not happy with one another, and the U.S. race was only one week later. In a sad twist, Scheckter was among the first to arrive at the scene of Cevert's fatal accident. However, there was nothing that he or anyone else could do.

[@pontigonerracing2207]

John Johansen Scheckter said, that the view of Cevert’s body changed his mindset completely. And it truly showed as he went on to be a way more mature driver afterwards.

[@jameshoran8]

Ironic that Stewart and Andretti both won their hampionships on the same day their friends were killed. Andretti lost Peterson in 1978.

[@donmcgee2081]

@@jameshoran8 That's not true. Jackie Stewart won the championship at Monza on 9th Sep 1973. François Cevert died at Watkins Glen on 6th Oct 1973, 27 days later.

[@johnmcguigan7218]

My wife and I were camped in the infield, and we were wondering why the cars had all stopped, until we heard the anouncement in French over the loudspeakers, "Cevert et mort. Cevert et mort." Later, we joined the crowds at the crash site, where I was appalled by spectators picking up and pocketing pieces of blue fiberglass from Cevert's car.

[@johnspensieri4332]

Many of the campers at that time were pretty intoxicated.

[@SupBro-ww9go]

Honestly, a man has died and they pic up prices of his wreck? Do people have no shame?

[@clio2rsminicup]

François Cevert, dice his 1st season in F1, he win his first Grand Prix (in USA) and finished 3rd of F1 World Championship! Dice his 1st "24H Du Mans" , he finish second in the final but just because the Matra team to preserve its 2 cars in 1 and 2 ranks forbade him to overtake the other Matra of Henri Pescarolo in front of him. Applied and studious student of the great Jackie Steward, he was the future great F1 driver for the years that would follow 1973 ... But on the land where he had won his first Grand Prix the USA, he lost his life. So talented, so charismatic, so cool man. Very sad... :-(

[@oliverhalvarsson3686]

Not hes first season

[@JimmyRJump]

I'm 61 and been watching Formula 1 since I was a kid in the late sixties, when Jacky Ickx came to the fore and F1 was broadcast on Belgian TV. So many deaths, so many tragedies in such a beautiful sport. So much misery that could have been prevented, too, had racing organisers, the governing body, racecar builders and circuit owners had had more eye for the safety of what in the end was their livelyhood, the drivers. With more safety of course came less exitement, but I'd give a lot to see the likes of Jochen Rindt, Didier Pironi, Gilles Villeneuve and many others to have been able to stay alive and race on til they felt like going into retirement of their own volition instead of being snuffed-out by a forced fate.

[@TC-eo5eb]

I have often mentioned how lucky Mario Andretti was, to have driven in all those unsafe race cars and unsafe race tracks and not only lived, but retired in good health. Nothing short of a miracle and I'm sure he knows it.

[@danieldravot341]

In the shot from Monaco, Jackie, Helen and Francois are walking down the hill toward Ste. Devote in the opposite direction of race traffic. As they head toward the pits, Jackie looks up and waves to the fans in and atop the apartment buildings lining the front straight. It was 1973, it was my first championship F1 race, and I was in one of those apartments lining the front straight. As Jackie was looking up, I was looking down. 13 years later I was working with him in the F1 media.

[@vittoriobollo3408]

Fantastic! How fortunate you were. Thank you for sharing that with us on this thread. 🙂

[@ionildorodrigues]

Daniel, in your opinion, why did Jackie go to Senna's funeral? I mean, he clearly knows that they weren't friends.

[@PaulMclauchlin]

@@ionildorodrigues Senna actually contacted Jackie not long before the tragedy at Imola. He apparently apologised to him and wanted to talk about safety in the sport.

[@liamfriel8749]

He was trying to get pole from Peterson. In Canada he had a coming-together with Scheckter as a result of which he sustained bruised ankles. There was also a comment that the Tyrell did not perform as well in the lower gears which may have affected the cornering. Very sad. RIP. 🤔

[@abcdecghijklmn]

Cevert and Saarinen😍😍😍💘💘💘😢😢😢😭😭😭

[@purplereign84]

Francois would have no doubt been an F1 champion.

[@xiaofengxiaofengxiaofengxi4651]

Unlikely, Tyrell never had as strong of a car again. Very strong but always 2-3nd fastest on average

[@mjbachman3027]

Jackie took that infamous corner at Watkins Glen in a higher gear pulling less revs than Francois did, withch made the short wheelbase Tyrrell more stable and less twitchy through the corner. If Francois had taken the corner during the Tyrrell in the same gear as Jackie did, or if he was driving a longer wheelbase car like the McLaren M23 that Dennis Hulme and Jody Scheckter where driving, or a Lotus 72 like Emerson Fittipaldi and Ronnie Petterson were driving, he would have made it through the corner easily even in a lower gear pulling more revs, with a less twitchy car.

[@lukewilliams8205]

Not enough is made of the bravery of Jackie Stewart to go out and do a lap, in the manner of Francois, to bring closure to the team after the accident. The team needed assurance that it wasn’t mechanical as to why the accident occurred and he went out and found the reason. Outstanding.

[@chaccogonzalez3151]

Debe ser duro como un Maestro pierde a su alumno más querido

[@maelysetranvoez4312]

Cevert..siper pilote et gdegentillesse.

[@Lunat1K_Fr]

What’s the name of the movie

[@PaulMclauchlin]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5nRlYCnq5KemLc Racing Legends. There are several episodes, the presenter is always a celebrity who is a motor racing fan and can usually drive a bit too. This one was presented by James Martin and he had a Formula 1 licence.

[@Lunat1K_Fr]

@@PaulMclauchlin Thanks a lot !

[@SupBro-ww9go]

Which documentary is this?

[@probablygraham]

Jackie Stewart and other drivers such as Niki Lauda spent years fighting to get better safety standards in motor sport. When I hear Hamilton telling us that he won't remove his jewellery and see Vettel walking around with his fireproof undies outide of his racing suit as a joke because drivers have been told to wear fireproof underwear, I think they should be forced to sit down and listen to drivers like Jackie Stewart talking about all the friends he lost and how it became almost a regular thing for his wife to go and collect their belongings from the hotel rooms that they would never be going back to. At the end of the newer version of "Weekend of a Champion" from 2013, Jackie Stewart talks openly about it to Roman Polanski. It is heartbreaking. Jochen Rindt's and Fracois Cevert's deaths hit him particularly hard.

[@mick8473]

A week after your comment, Lewis Hamilton went on to say....Jackie Stewart should remove his involvement from F1 for being too old. One of the most disrespectful comments I've heard in motorsport. Stewart was significantly more respected than Lewis can ever dream of being, not to mention way cooler in his day.

[@bassopatrick8057]

Bonjour à tous et toutes. Fan de F.Cevert depuis toujours, est il possible d'avoir cette vidéo en français svp ? J'ai fait peindre mon casque à ses couleurs que je conserve religieusement depuis 40 ans.

[@TakumiFujiwara80]

3:20 any chance that anyone know what music is played at 3:20?

[@imnotftw]

I think myself lucky to be born at a timne where f1 and motor racing are comparably safe compared to the 50s and 60s etc. Back then there was probably a 50/50 chance your favourite driver was going to die.

[@RossBayCult]

What’s the name of this documentary?

[@suzculp]

The Flying Scott I believe.

[@PaulMclauchlin]

It's Racing Legends, several were made on different drivers. I think it's a BBC show.

[@antood78]

What’s this from??

[@abcdecghijklmn]

Cool guys

[@luisrosmaninho1948]

J etait à Paris quand il est mort .

[@marquesdeportago1596]

Francois and Max Cady

[@pinoypride9202]

If the halo was used at that time.😔

[@audreyperrin320]

I think he looks like Charles

[@adrianooliveira3210]

Era um filho pro jack

[@PeterMayer]

Sad

[@manuelmontiel5418]

If Jacky would of obliged to Ken Tyrrells request to let Francois take the win perhaps this catastrophic outcome would of been prevented.

[@danieldravot341]

Gerhard Berger was humiliated when Antron Senna slowed, giving teammate Berger a win. Drivers don’t particularly like gifted victories.

[@ryukenhondaraiden]

Thats because senna waited tillbthe last corner of the last lap.

[@e28forever30]

“Would have”