Cevert had a bad start to the season with a gearbox failure in the Argentine Grand Prix, The Frenchman finished 9th in the South African Grand Prix. An ignition failure in the Spanish Grand Prix and not classified in the Monaco Grand Prix put the Frenchman at a low. Tyrrell only entered Cevert for the Belgian Grand Prix as Jackie Stewart was suffering from a stomach ulcer, Cervert finished 2nd to Emerson Fittipaldi's Lotus. Cevert drove and crashed the new Tyrrell 006 in practice for his home race, The French Grand Prix. He was forced to drive the 002 and finished 4th. The Frenchman spun off at the British Grand Prix but Ronnie Peterson's March suffered an engine failure with less than two laps to go, and crashed into the parked cars of Cevert's Tyrrell and Graham Hill's Brabham. Cevert finished 10th in the German Grand Prix and 9th in the Austrian Grand Prix. The Italian Grand Prix saw Cevert's engine fail and it was the 002's final race as it was replaced by the Tyrrell 006 for the Canadian Grand Prix.