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Team Talk: Gilles Villeneuve, 40 years since that day at Zolder
On Sunday 8 May 1982, Gilles Villeneuve was killed while driving his Ferrari during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder – that was 40 years ago – our team looks back on the great Canadian driver. In 67 Grand Prix starts, Villeneuve won only six Grands Prix, Imola two weeks before he died, was his last podium of 13 podiums in Formula 1, yet he remains a racing icon revered by F1 fans, boomers today, who hail him among the best drivers of all time. How can that be? We tap into our GrandPrix247 Team to figure it out. David Terrien: Car control and very generous driving style I am not from the same generation as Gilles Villeneuve, I was 6 when he died and barely started...
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