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| That's how Ferrari tech guru Mauro Forghieri summed up Gilles Villeneuve. Nigel Roebuck reflects on a legend and a friend 25 years after his death |
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| BY MARK HUGHES |
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| Since his death, Gilles Villeneuve has developed a reputation in some circles as a driver who was constantly on the edge, and forever taking risks - sometimes recklessly. Mark Hughes spoke to some of Gilles's associates for MotorSport back in 2002, and found that the reality was rather different |
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| BY DAMIEN SMITH |
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| Damien Smith gains some insight from Damon Hill - and in the absence of anything new to write about Lewis Hamilton, a new British star emerges... |
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| A weekly selection of features and columns from the print edition of Autosport magazine is now available online to autosport.com subscribers only. |
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| BY NIGEL ROEBUCK |
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| "I never think I can hurt myself," |
| Gilles Villeneuve tells Nigel Roebuck at Zolder on May 20th 1978, four years before the Canadian would lose his life at that very same track. This is a rare opportunity to listen to Gilles talk about his love for speed, his entry into F1 with McLaren, his relationship with Ferrari - and his fearless approach to racing |
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| BY PETER WINDSOR |
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| In 1979, Peter Windsor was fortunate to spend a day behind the red curtain and travel to a Ferrari test - in the back of Jody Scheckter's Ferrari 400GT, with Gilles Villeneuve in the front seat, if you don't mind. His account of that remarkable day, as it first appeared in Autocar magazine, is probably one of the most famous - and most telling - tales of Villeneuve's character... |
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| BY JEFF HUTCHINSON |
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| Gilles Villeneuve's first Formula One win was the stuff of fairytales; his first taste of success coming before a deliriously happy home crowd in Canada. Here's the original race report as published in Autosport on October 12, 1978 |
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| BY NIGEL ROEBUCK |
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| No race encapsulated Gilles Villeneuve's approach to racing better than his famous duel for second with Rene Arnoux over the final laps of the 1979 French Grand Prix at Dijon. Here is the full race report as published in Autosport magazine after that famous race |
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| Autosport's obituary, written by Nigel Roebuck, as it appeared days after his fatal crash on May 8, 1982 |
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