  We consider a class of weakly hyperbolic systems of first-order, nonlinear
PDEs. Weak hyperbolicity means here that the principal symbol of the system has
a crossing of eigenvalues, and is not uniformly diagonalizable. We prove the
well-posedness of the Cauchy problem in the Gevrey regularity for all Gevrey
indices greater than $1/2$. The proof is based on the construction of a
suitable approximate symmetrizer of the principal symbol and an energy estimate
in Gevrey spaces. We discuss both the generality of the assumption on the
structure of the principal symbol and the sharpness of the lower bound of the
Gevrey index.
