UNUSED 19 05 82 FUNERAL OF FORMULA ONE DRIVER GILLES VILLENEUVE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- (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 Berthierville. Friends, fans, racing drivers and the Prime Minister of Canada Pierre trudeau attended the service.
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I was born on the same January 18th as Gilles Villeneuve I didn't see him running but I know that despite being short he was a giant on the tracks, I didn't see him running but I imagine the size of the loss of an idol just as we also lost our great Ayrton here in Brazil Senna, rest my heroes....
"He will remain as a member of the family of the truly great drivers in auto racing history. He did not race to finish. He did not race for points. He raced to win. He was small in stature, but he was a giant." Juan Manuel Fangio
A great driver, 40 years since his fatal accident yesterday. Canadian GP next month will probably feature some stuff about him, possibly even a tribute.
Da pra a dor da perda.
How many of you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing the moment you heard that Gilles had been killed?
Despedida a un muy grande😢
Seems tons of tourists visited the funeral for fun.
Gilles would've won the 1982 title if he hadn't let his anger control him...
Not sure.
He more than had the talent, but Marco Piccinini and John Hogan were pushing for Didier Pironi to be made the champion.
Gilles was my hero and I'm still sad about this 41 years later but see how and why he got so agitated and ended up having a fatal accident.
He joined f1 aged 27 thinking he was already too old to be an F1 rookie, he lied and knocked 2 years off his age.
In 1979 he let his more senior, "older" team mate become champion, thinking his time would be the next year or the year after that.
Except Scheckter was actually slightly YOUNGER than Gilles...
By 82 Didier Pironi was turning the Ferrari team against Gilles with politics, his argument being that Giles was too destructive and erratic.
Gilles took Didier stealing Imola very badly, he was having an affair and on the cusp of divorcing his wife, there is even a rumour that after he publicly went around bitching about the team letting Pironi steal the win that Ferrari told him between Imola and his fatal crash two weeks later that his services would no longer be required for 1983, I.E: he was effectively sacked.
I'm not sure the last bit is true.
Anyway, Zolder was Pironis best track, so things weren't looking rosy for Gilles, even if he hadn't crashed he would likely have been beaten by Pironi making him even angrier.
He would probably have won at Monaco, had he not run out of Petrol like Pironi did.
He was excellent there.
There is evidence to suggest that with Ferrari's assistance Didier might have beaten Gilles over the season.
If Gilles was seen as taking points off their main charge, Pironi they could have fired him mid season.
Pironi seemed to be some serious bringer of devastation though.
He arguably caused Gilles death, palettis death, his own smashed up legs and inability to race again then finally he killed himself and the rest of his speedboat team.
I heard there was a huge wake from a much larger vessel near where he was racing and whilst others avoided it Didier attempted to plow through it head on, killing everyone instantly...
"If Gilles was seen as taking points off their main charge, Pironi they could have fired him mid season."@@PaulGBass
That's a very interesting take and quite possible; namely, Gilles already confirmed to his friend Tulio Abatte, a boatmaker, that he was basically fired from the team. Now, what he would do? Most probably, Williams would fire underachieving Derek Daly and put Gilles in their second car. Just imagine, things working out well, and Gilles winning the 1982 driving for two teams, Ferrari and Williams.
@@outhdare
Pironi was business partners with the Abbate brothers.
Please show proof Villeneuve and Tullio Abbate had the relationship you write.
And proof that 'he was basically fired from the team' (of Ferrari).
@@PaulGBass
The problem with the saga surrounding these 2 outstanding athletes is the media biasing heavily in the French Canadian's favour. It is likely that the media bias was from the British media, and a small amount of journalists, possibly with Francophobic sentiments. (It would be interesting to discover how the French motor sporting media treated Imola).
And understand something important: The majority of drivers for decades previous to the 13 days surrounding the Villeneuve/Pironi saga seldom talked with journalists because the journos omitted crucial words, wrote lies, or made up stories from scratch, in general, wrote yellow journalism. Journalists live by an ethic of 'never let the truth get in the way of a good story', and wow, what a mountain was made out of Imola.
Imola, 1982: Lap 46 Gilles has a momentary off at Rivazza. The few seconds lost has Didier take the lead without doing anything different from his previous many laps, being one second behind Gilles, close enough to cause concern for the French Canadian, but not close enough to destroy his own crucial tyres.
On seeing this mistake by Gilles the team in the pits put together a sign which is displayed with the following:
1 Didi +0•3 SLOW
2 Gilles -0•3
Villeneuve admitted that those instructions meant 'no passing, no racing to cause damage'.
And yet, 3 laps later Gilles disregards his own reckoning of that sign interpretation and passes the Frenchman.
Had Pironi been a subservient number 2, subservient to Gilles, then Gilles may have had a case to argue with. But Pironi had negotiated with Enzo face to face about not being a 'number 2', due to the inexplicable occurrence during the 1980 season with Guy Ligier, and Enzo understood, and readily agreed, the elder knowing he was signing the man who would be the first French Formula One World Driving Champion.
People throw the word 'betrayal' around, and I'm sure you understand what I am meaning. Is it possible that Gilles betrayed Scuderia Ferrari by disobeying those set-in-stone rules about what the word 'slow' means in the context of Imola?
@@PaulGBass Pironi has nothing to do with Gilles death. Nothing. Gilles had anyway escaped some serious accidents before so it was still a matter of time when some major accident will come.
Salut Gilles r.i.p campione😥❤