Fifty years ago, on October 6, 1973, the international motorsport world turned to Watkins Glen for the United States Grand Prix, the final race of the Formula 1 season. That morning, as the crowds descended on pit lane, driver Francois Cevert slipped on his helmet, which had the colors of the French flag in stripes and “F. Cevert” painted on the sides.
” Given the state of his car, which was crushed and flipped over a guardrail, Cevert had no chance at survival and his death was announced in headlines all over the world the following morning. “I was so distraught and disgusted by the severity and the destructiveness of the accident,” Stewart later recalled. “When you have someone of that stature pay the ultimate price, it rattles everyone,” recalls Andretti, who at the time had 19 starts in F1, ten of them with Ferrari.
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