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In 1973, the Tyrrell team was back on top in Formula One and Cevert showed he was capable of running with Stewart at almost every race. He finished second six times, three times behind Stewart, who acknowledged that at times the Frenchman had been a very "obedient" teammate. As Cevert began to draw even with Stewart's driving abilities, the Scot was secretly planning to retire after the last race of the season in the United States. For the 1974 season, Cevert would be Tyrrell's team leader.
At Watkins Glen, with Stewart having already clinched his third World Championship, Cevert was killed during Saturday morning qualifying, while battling for pole position with Ronnie Peterson. In the fast left-right uphill combination called "The Esses"[4] Cevert's car was a little too far over towards the left side of the track, getting a bump from the kerbs.[5] This made it swerve towards the right-hand side of the track, where it touched the track's signature powder blue safety barriers causing it to spin and crash into the barriers on the other side of the track at a near 90° angle, uprooting and lifting the barrier. Cevert died instantly of massive injuries inflicted by the barrier, which cut his body in half between his neck and hip.
Jackie Stewart was one of the first on the scene of Cevert's accident and said later "They had left him [in the car], because he was so clearly dead." Stewart immediately left the scene of the accident and returned to the pits. Because of Cevert's death, Tyrell withdrew its entry for this GP, and Stewart did not run his final race.
Cevert was 29 years and 224 days old. François Cevert is buried in the Cimetière de Vaudelnay in the village of Vaudelnay, Maine-et-Loire."
un pēc šitā viņi turpināja gonku nākamajā dienā..
[ Šo ziņu laboja Papakarlo, 14 Jan 2011, 04:24:17 ]
Kad aeronautikas inženieri, lidmašīnu detaļu ražotāji un jūrnieki satiekas vienā projektā, kura sākums datējams ar 1975.gadu. Pasaules rekords jahtām - 113km/h