1973 – Remembering Francois Cevert Jackie Stewart’s Tyrrell team-mate and close friend Francois Cevert was killed during qualifying for the 1973 US Grand Prix #OnThisDay when his car hit a barrier and careered across the track into another one, which uprooted and almost cut him in two. “I arrived and stared in disbelief,” Stewart wrote in his autobiography. “There was my team-mate, my protégé, my friend, my younger brother. He was dead.” Stewart and the Tyrrell team withdrew from the race, which would have been Stewart’s last. When he told his wife, Helen, she broke down in tears and said, “Now we can grow old together.” The supremely talented Cevert, 29, had won his only Grand Prix on the same circuit two years earlier and was widely regarded as a future world champion. #f1 #Formula1 #OTD