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Johnny Servoz-Gavin’s career in Formula One was meteoric: brilliant in F3 then in F2 with Matra, he was then recruited full-time by Ken Tyrrell for the 1970 season.

However, hampered by an eye injury sustained in an all-road rallye during the winter, he couldn’t anymore drive at his highest level, and decided to retire from racing after failing to qualify for the 1970 Monaco Grand Prix in the Tyrrell-entered March 701 (picture above), a car that François Cevert was going to inherit.

Before that, Servoz entered racing history by becoming the only driver to score a point in the World Championship at the wheel of a four-wheel-drive Formula One car, the Matra MS84 (picture MS84) that he drove to sixth position in the 1969 Canadian Grand Prix.