This is not an official site!Albert Francois Cévert, was born in Paris, France on February 25, 1944. Became France’s best Grand Prix driver. He would have become world champion, long before Alain Prost had been able of thinking of it.
When he was in his teens, his elder sister Jacqueline became involved with a racing driver called Jean-Pierre Beltoise (whom she later married) and the young Francois was drawn into the racing world. At 16 he was racing scooters with his friends on the streets of Paris and then tried karting. At the end of 1964 he went to the racing school at Montlhery. He then spent two years doing his national service and at the end of 1966 he entered the Volant Shell competition and beat Patrick Depailler to the prize: a fully-sponsored season in French F3 with an Alpine-Renault. After winning the French Formula 3 Championship in 1968, Cévert joined the Tecno Formula 2 team and finished third overall in 1969, driving in the F2 class of the German Grand Prix. When Jackie Stewart had a hard time getting around Cévert in an F2 race at Crystal Palace the same year, Stewart told his team manager Ken Tyrrell to keep an eye on the young Frenchman. In 1970 he stayed with Tecno and raced Matra sports cars as well until Johnny Servoz-Gavin retired from F1 in the mid-season and Ken Tyrrell took on Cevert to be Jackie Stewart's team mate. He started at the Dutch GP and was soon scoring points. The 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 38th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on June 13 and 14, 1970. Jack Brabham and François Cevert led the prototypes in the Matra roadster, but the V12s were using too much oil, and all the Matras broke piston rings at quarter distance. At the French GP the following year Stewart and Cevert finished 1-2. At the end of the year Francois won the United States GP. As Stewart's pupil, he raced successfully in F1 and F2 in 1971 and showed his versatility by winning in touring cars and CanAm. The 1972 season was rather disappointing but he did finish second at Le Mans that year in a Matra.
The Tyrrell team was dominating into the 1970s – Jackie had won the championship in 1969, 1971 and 1973 – but the
steamroller team success stopped abruptly in the last race of that 1973 season. Cevert crashed during qualifying
in that last race of the 73 season, the U.S. GP at
Watkins Glen in upstate New York. Francois was
killed instantly.
The Frenchman earned his first and only Grand Prix win. Cévert became only the second Frenchman to win a Grand Prix. He was brilliant, getting better all the time.
Winner United States Grand Prix 1971
French Formula 3 Champion 1968
2nd place Le Mans 24 hours 1972
3rd place Formula One Drivers Championship 1971
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