2:36 The Villeneuve legend continues with Gilles's son Jacques Archives 31 years ago 6:28 Remembering Northern Dancer Archives 33 years ago 2:07 1982: Funeral for Gilles Villeneuve Archives. Originally captured and posted by TBK-
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(12 May 1982) Funeral of racing driver Gilles Villeneuve who was killed on the 2nd day practice for the Belgian Grand Prix. His body was on view at a recreation centre in his home town. Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve ( French pronunciation: [ʒil vil.nœv]) (January 18, 1950 - May 8, 1982) was a Canadian racing driver who spent six years in Formula One racing for Ferrari, winning six Grands Prix and earning widespread acclaim for his performances. 21 McLaren unfathomably decided not to sign Villeneuve for the following season with team boss Teddy Mayer deciding that "he was looking as though he might be a bit expensive", going instead for. Formula 1 Breaking news The inside story of Villeneuve's final F1 weekend Thirty nine years have passed since Gilles Villeneuve lost his life at Zolder. We tell the story of the final weekend.
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1982 Belgian Grand Prix flashback. Formula One lost one of its most beloved heroes on this day 30 years ago. Gilles Villeneuve was killed in a crash during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix in 1982. Villeneuve's death came in a turbulent and tragic year for the sport which led to wide-ranging safety changes. The life and death of Gilles Villeneuve is the stuff of Grand Opera. He was a nobody from the backwoods of Quebec who went on to become one of the most famous athletes in the world, a daredevil Formula One racing driver employed by the best-known and most romantic of all Grand Prix equipes, Scuderia Ferrari. Gilles Villeneuve died violently at the wheel of a Ferrari. It was the end of the final practice session, and he was going for it. He was on his last set of qualifying tyres, and came upon a. Gilles Villeneuve in the Ferrarri 312 T4, drifting. Villenevue was recognized as having an amazing capability to control the car as if it was an extension of his own body.
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The untold Gilles Villeneuve story from inside Ferrari. On the 40th anniversary of Gilles Villeneuve's death, Formula 1 remembers a legend of its history. In a freshly uncovered interview from. VDOMDHTMLtml> Classic F-1 : Fantastic moments / crashes / death of Gilles Villeneuve - YouTube Fantastic footage of Niki Lauda, Nelson Piquet and Gilles Villeneuve times F-1, 1982.
Gilles Villeneuve Birth 18 Jan 1950 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Monteregie Region, Quebec, Canada Death 8 May 1982 (aged 32) Leuven, Arrondissement Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium Burial Berthierville Catholic Cemetery Berthierville, Lanaudiere Region, Quebec, Canada Show Map Memorial ID 7668026 · View Source Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Thirty years ago in 1982, on an awful May 8, Gilles Villeneuve was killed at the Belgian Grand Prix. A nation mourned. Never before (with the possible exception of Montreal Canadiens hockey star.
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It was four days after Gilles was killed in a Formula 1 qualifying session crash on the Zolder circuit in Belgium, and tens of thousands had come to the village to witness the body of Canada's. Gilles Villeneuve: The Canadian with his wife Joann, daughter Melanie and son Jacques (Image: Villeneuve Family) But on May 8, 1982, Joann lived through the worst nightmare that any F1 driver's.
