🇫🇷 François Cevert

François Cevert was an elite professional racing driver who competed in Formula 1 between 1970 and 1973, driving for Tyrrell across 47 starts. He won one Grand Prix and took 13 podium finishes.[1]

Cevert's record came during four seasons in a grid that mixed amateurs, semi-professionals and established champions. He finished fourth in the 1973 championship standings, his best result across the campaign. His single win came at the 1971 United States Grand Prix. In head-to-head racing against his most frequent opponents, he usually finished behind Jackie Stewart, the three-time Formula 1 champion and his Tyrrell teammate, but ran closely matched with Denny Hulme, the 1967 champion. He beat both Stewart and Carlos Reutemann on multiple occasions; he finished ahead of Stewart in six races and Reutemann in seven.[2]

Tyrrell fielded 46 drivers across the index with a record of 23 wins, and its strongest driver was Stewart himself. Cevert sat among the front runners in a field of elite professionals and world champions, consistently challenging drivers who had won or would win world championships, though Stewart's dominance in the same car defined the upper limit of what Cevert achieved in the series.