Francois Cevert

This, I think is one of the older models that Minichamps produced. It has very minimal driver details but the detail of the car is really nice. I got this the time that the demand was low and the cars flooded ebay.

Thoughts from my friend Laurent:
"It’s surprising to see in France how François Cevert’s death is still hurting us. There seems to have a lot of resentment against fate that took away the life of who seems to have been at the time nothing less than a hero in the eyes of the public. It was considered back then that he could have been the first Frenchman to become World Champion. We finally had to wait until 1985. It is also surprising that many women between 50 and 60 (and that includes my own mother) still remember him fondly. With his fame and good looks, he was the secret love of many of them."



Francois Cevert coming out of the "Toe" of the "Boot" in one of his last, if not the last, lap he ever drove that tragic Saturday in October of 1973




The glamorous son of a Paris jeweller, this dazzling Frenchman made his name at the wheel of an F3 Matra before graduating into F2 in 1969 with a Tecno. Picked by Ken Tyrrell as successor to Johnny Servoz-Gavin after his abrupt mid-season retirement in 1970, Cevert spent the next three seasons as a loyal and devoted pupil of Jackie Stewart, maturing from strong number two to front-line contender.
He won the 1971 United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen thanks to a combination of good luck and flawless driving, but by 1973 his talent was close to its peak and Stewart acknowledged that Cevert was actually quicker than him in some of the mid-season races - notably the German GP at Nurburgring where Jackie scored the last win of his career.

Cevert was being groomed to take over the Tyrrell team leadership in 1974 on Stewart's retirement, but hopes for a seamless transition were dashed when Francois was killed in a very violent accident during practice for the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. The team withdrew from what should have been Jackie's final race, but the long-term consequences of Cevert's death denied Tyrrell's organisation the chance of sustaining its competitive momentum into the mid-1970s.