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By all accounts, Gilles Villeneuve was one of the most impressive Canadian drivers to ever compete in Formula One and promised a slew of championships, if only Ferrari could develop a consistent car.
Ferrari and Jacques Villeneuve to commemorate 30 years since Gilles Villeneuve's death. History has a way of aggrandizing the fallen, but few drivers have been as dearly missed as Gilles Villeneuve.
On 8 May 1982, Ferrari ace Gilles Villeneuve was killed in a qualifying crash at Zolder. Autosport’s then F1 reporter Nigel Roebuck knew the French-Canadian well and wrote this piece in the 20 ...
Perhaps no book captures that quite as well as Gerald Donaldson’s 1989 biography of a Canadian legend, Gilles Villeneuve: The Life of the Legendary Racing Driver.
Villeneuve was a celebrated figure in Formula One, racing in 67 Grands Prix and winning six before his tragic death in 1982. More than just a piece of art, the statue is culturally and ...
EXCLUSIVE: F1 icon Gilles Villeneuve's widow opens up about her life as a driver's wife, from coping with death to the makeup of a racing champion.
If the death of Gilles Villeneuve at the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder in 1982 left Formula One traumatised, it was infinitely harder on his wife Joann.
Gilles Villeneuve remembered in new family interview on 40th anniversary of F1 star's death. Exclusive interview footage with Villeneuve family captured as part of upcoming documentary 'Villeneuve ...
The Musée Gilles-Villeneuve was established in 1994 – 12 years after his death – and moved to its present site on Avenue Gilles-Villeneuve four years later.
Gilles Villeneuve became a Formula 1 legend for his exploits with Ferrari, for whom he drove from the late part of the 1977 season until his death in a crash at the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix.