Gilles Villeneuve
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| First start: | Great Britain Grand Prix 1977 | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1982 Belgian Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| 1977 McLaren • 1977–1982 Ferrari | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | Vice World Champion ( 1979 ) | ||||||||
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| World Cup points : | 107 | ||||||||
| Podiums : | 13 | ||||||||
| Leadership laps : | 529 over 2224 km | ||||||||
Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve ([ ʒil vilnœv ], ) (born January 18, 1950 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu , † May 8, 1982 in Leuven , Belgium ), was a Canadian racing driver . From 1977 to 1982 Villeneuve competed in 67 Formula 1 Grands Prix, 66 of them for Scuderia Ferrari . In the 1979 Formula 1 season he was second in the world championship. During the final training of the Belgian Grand Prix in 1982, Villeneuve collided with the slow-moving Jochen Mass , with Villeneuve suffering life-threatening injuries and dying a few hours later.
Gilles Villeneuve's son Jacques became Formula 1 World Champion in 1997 ; also Gilles' younger brother Jacques Villeneuve sr. was a racing car driver.
Family and personal life
Gilles Villeneuve was the elder of two sons of the Canadian piano tuner Seville Villeneuve and his wife Georgette (⚭ 1947), née Coupal.
The father was often out and about for professional reasons, so that the children were alone with the mother for a long time. In 1955, Gilles Villeneuve started primary school. In 1958 the family moved to Berthierville . When Gilles Villeneuve was fifteen years old, his father gave him an MGA that he drove without a license. He also used his parents' car illegally, causing an accident. At the age of sixteen, Villeneuve received his driving license. After that, he occasionally took part in prohibited street races.
The high school closed Villeneuve with the twelfth class. Regular face-to-face study at a university was out of the question for him as it would have been too expensive for his parents. Villeneuve then began a distance learning course in mechanical engineering , which he did not complete. In between he worked in the company of the parents of his future wife Joann Barthe, whom he married in 1970. From this marriage his son Jacques Villeneuve (* 1971) and a daughter (* 1973) emerged. From 1979 Villeneuve lived with his family in Monte Carlo .
Career
Beginnings in motorsport (1967–1973)
Villeneuve's motorsport career began in 1967 with local drag races . He later worked in a snowmobile factory. He took part in snowmobile races until 1974, first becoming Quebec champion and then world champion in the winter of 1974/1975. During the summer months Villeneuve attended the Jim Russell Racing School , a professional racing school. His teacher was the former Canadian racing driver Jacques Couture . After successfully completing the racing driver's school and receiving his racing license, Villeneuve bought a two-year-old Formula B car with which he entered formula racing in 1971 and competed in Molson Quebec Formula B races. In 1973 Villeneuve won seven of ten championship races in the Formula Ford Provincial Series Quebec and won the overall standings.
Atlantic Championship
1974: years of apprenticeship
In 1974 Villeneuve received a cockpit at Écurie Canada in the newly founded Atlantic Championship , which was a North American counterpart to Formula 2 established in Europe and Japan . In a March 74B he finished third at the season opener in Westwood . After two retirements, he broke his left leg in an accident in Mosport , so that he was injured for two races. Six weeks after the accident, Villeneuve returned to the championship. In Halifax he fell out in seventh place after a spin. He was ranked ninth. Villeneuve finished his debut season in 16th place overall. At the non-championship race in Trois-Rivières , he retired after a collision.
1975: initial successes
In 1975 Villeneuve moved to GV Racing . Before that, he had used his last financial means to buy a current March 75B and a Cosworth BDA engine. At the first race of the season in Edmonton there were problems with the engine setting and Villeneuve finished fifteenth. After the engine was overhauled, he finished fifth at Westwood. At the third race of the season in Gimli , where Villeneuve started from 19th place, he achieved his first victory. In the following race in Mont-Tremblant he finished second. He didn't make it into the top ten in the last two races. In the driver standings, he improved to fifth place.
1976: Without competition
Before the start of the 1976 season, Villeneuve contested a race in the IMSA GT Championship in January , in which he drove a Chevrolet Camaro with Maurice Carter . They failed with engine problems. In 1976 Villeneuve went back to the Écurie Canada in a March 76B . He drove without serious competition throughout the season. He won both the Canadian (CASC) and the US ( IMSA ) championship of the Atlantic Championship. Across all series, he decided only one of the races he competed in, not for himself. In Canada he prevailed against Bertil Roos with 120 to 72 points and in the USA with 80 to 45 points against Price Cobb . He also won the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres, which was held with Formula Atlantic vehicles . James Hunt , Formula 1 World Champion of the 1976 season , was his teammate at this one-off event .
In addition, Villeneuve took part in a formula race for the first time in Europe this year and competed for Ron Dennis ' Project Four Racing in a March 762 - Hart in the 1976 Formula 2 European Championship in Pau, France . He qualified for tenth place and retired in the race with engine problems.
1977: Third title
In 1977 Villeneuve started four races in the South African Formula Atlantic. Here he started for the Valvoline team on a Chevron B39 Ford. He finished eleventh in the drivers' championship. In the Atlantic Championship, Villeneuve played his fourth season and appeared for the Écurie Canada in a March 77B -Ford. The season was marked by duels with Keke Rosberg . Villeneuve won in Edmonton, St. Félicien and Québec and won the championship with 114 to 92 points against Bobby Rahal .
Outside of formula racing , he contested four sports car races in the Canadian-American Challenge Cup for Walter Wolf Racing . He took over the cockpit from Chris Amon . At the races in Watkins Glen, Mosport and Trois-Riveres, Villeneuve failed. In Road America alone, he finished third. In the final table he reached twelfth place overall with 16 points. Villeneuve also competed with Eddie Cheever in the Mosport 6-hour race , which was part of the World Sports Car Championship , in a BMW 320i . Villeneuve and Cheever together achieved third place in the overall classification and class victory in Group 5 .
formula 1
1977: McLaren chance and switch to Ferrari
In addition to winning the title in the Atlantic Championship, Villeneuve made his Formula 1 debut in 1977. For the British Grand Prix , he received the third works cockpit at McLaren . Villeneuve was recommended to McLaren team boss Teddy Mayer by the driver Hunt after both were teammates at the 1976 Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres. Chris Amon, whose cockpit Villeneuve had taken over in the Canadian-American Challenge Cup, recommended that McLaren sign Villeneuve. Villeneuve started in the older McLaren M23 -8, his teammates Hunt and Jochen Mass in the newer McLaren M26 .
A total of 36 drivers were registered, so that a pre-qualification was required, which Villeneuve passed. While Hunt achieved pole position , Villeneuve prevailed in ninth place against Mass, who reached eleventh place. In the race, he went to the pits in seventh place with a presumably overheated engine in which only a defect in the thermometer was found. Villeneuve lost positions as a result and finally crossed the finish line two laps behind in eleventh. After the repair stop, he achieved the fifth fastest race lap. Villeneuve described his approach to his first Formula 1 race as follows:
“This is the fastest car I've ever driven, and the fastest track I've ever seen. I had to learn both in a short time and the simplest way to find the limit is to go quicker and quicker until you go over it. Then you come back from that a bit, and think about the next corner. "
“This is the fastest car I've ever driven and the fastest track I've ever seen. I had to learn both in a short amount of time and the easiest way to find the limit is to go faster and faster until you exceed it. Then you go back a little and think about the next bend. "
It was Villeneuve's only outing for McLaren, although he was originally signed for five races in the 1977 World Championship. Since Mass left the team at the end of the 1977 season, there was a free McLaren cockpit in 1978. However, team boss Mayer decided against Villeneuve and instead hired Patrick Tambay , who was a close friend of Villeneuve.
After he had not completed any more races for McLaren, Villeneuve was signed by Scuderia Ferrari for the last two races of the 1977 season for a third vehicle and the 1978 World Cup . Enzo Ferrari was impressed by Villeneuve, who reminded him of Tazio Nuvolari . After Niki Lauda , who was already world champion, left the team after differences with Enzo Ferrari, Villeneuve received his cockpit and became a teammate of Carlos Reutemann . Villeneuve qualified for 17th place. In the closing stages of the race, he spun on Mario Andretti's oil trail in Moss Corner . When the car accelerated, the drive shaft of his Ferrari broke off and he retired, but was classified as twelfth. At the last race of the season, the Japanese Grand Prix , Villeneuve started from 20th place. On the sixth lap, he started an attempt to overtake Tyrrell driver Ronnie Peterson on the start-finish straight . Villeneuve braked himself and collided with Peterson's Tyrrell P34 . As a result of the collision, Villeneuves Ferrari was dug up and broke into two parts behind the guardrail. While Villeneuve survived the accident unharmed, a photographer and a sports attendant were killed and seven spectators who were illegally standing in this area were seriously injured. Villeneuve stated that the cause of the accident was that the brakes on his Ferrari had failed.
1978: first victory
In 1978 Villeneuve formed the Ferrari driver duo together with Reutemann. After finishing eighth at the season opener in Argentina , Villeneuve was eliminated in Brazil and South Africa . In the fourth race, the Grand Prix of the USA West , he was in the lead for the first time. When lapping Clay Regazzoni, however, he collided with him and had to park the Ferrari. After another technical defect in Monaco , Villeneuve scored his first world championship points in fourth place in Belgium . In the meantime he had occupied second position, but had fallen behind as a result of a blown tire. After five races without points, Villeneuve achieved the first podium finish of his Formula 1 career with third place in the twelfth race of the season, the Austrian Grand Prix . Two races later in Italy Villeneuve crossed the finish line in second place behind Andretti ( Lotus ). Due to a faulty restart, however, he was given a one-minute time penalty and dropped back to seventh position. At the last race of the season in Canada , which took place for the first time on the Circuit Île-Notre-Dame , Villeneuve secured third place on the grid. After profiting from the problems of his opponents in the race, he achieved his first Formula 1 victory. He finished the season with 17 points in ninth place in the drivers' world championship, while his teammate Reutemann was third with 48 points.
1979: Second in the world championship
In the run-up to the 1979 Formula 1 season, it was unclear for a long time whether Villeneuve would stay with Ferrari at all. It was only when Reutemann switched to Lotus that Ferrari decided on Villeneuve. His new teammate became Jody Scheckter .
After a pointless start to the season in Argentina and a fifth place in Brazil , Villeneuve won in South Africa and in the USA West ahead of his team-mate. In the USA West he also achieved pole position. After three races without points, Villeneuve fought a spectacular wheel-to-wheel duel for second place with René Arnoux ( Renault ) in the final laps of the French Grand Prix in Dijon-Prenois . Arnoux initially overtook Villeneuve on the third last lap, but Villeneuve countered and regained position on the penultimate lap. Although Villeneuve's Ferrari tires were worn out, Villeneuve managed to keep the racing car, which kept breaking out, on the track. He defended second place with a margin of 0.24 seconds. Arnoux then stated that such a close duel on the track could only be played against a driver whom you completely trust. After two more races without points, Villeneuve came second again in the Austrian Grand Prix . Two weeks later at the Dutch Grand Prix , Villeneuve turned while in the lead. Four laps later, he suffered a tire damage on the left rear wheel that caused him to spin again. Villeneuve returned to the pits on three tires. However, since the suspension was too badly damaged on the way back to the pits, he was unable to restart the race. In the next two races in Italy and Canada , Villeneuve finished second again. In Italy, Ferrari achieved a double victory with Scheckter as the winner. The subsequent, final Grand Prix in the USA East was won by Villeneuve. At this race in Watkins Glen Villeneuve surprised all colleagues with his performance in practice. On a wet track, Villeneuve was nine to eleven seconds faster than the competition. At the end of the season Villeneuve lost to his team-mate Scheckter with 47 to 51 points and was runner-up in the world championship.
In 1979 Villeneuve had the highest number of kilometers in the lead with 1262.5 km, while Jones came to 1142.2 km and Scheckter had just reached half with 701.5 km.
1980: Turbo apprenticeship year
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1980 Villeneuve and Scheckter formed the Ferrari driver duo again.
At the season opener races in Argentina , Brazil and South Africa , Ferrari suffered double retirements. It was not until the Grand Prix of the USA West that Scheckter took his first world championship points with fifth place, while Villeneuve was again eliminated with technical problems. In Belgium and Monaco , Villeneuve took the first three points with sixth and fifth. Halfway through the season, which ended with the French Grand Prix and eighth place in Villeneuves, Ferrari had only scored five points.
After technical problems in Great Britain and sixth place in Germany , the world championship races in Austria and the Netherlands did not result in any point gains for Ferrari. At the Italian Grand Prix , Villeneuve tested the 1.5-liter turbo Ferrari engine for the first time next season. With the car named 126 C / 049, he qualified for eighth place. However, the vehicle has not yet been used in the race. Here Villeneuve retired due to a serious accident on the sixth lap when braking into the Tosa curve. After the tire failure, the Ferrari shot straight ahead and hit the wall at high speed, tearing it apart at the height of the clutch. While the gearbox and wheel suspensions rose vertically on a gangway, the rest of the car with Villeneuve on board just missed the following cars when it was thrown back onto the track. Villeneuve managed to free himself from the wreck under his own steam and to get to safety, with vehicles still behind him passing the scene of the accident at high speed. At the following race in Canada Villeneuve got the last world championship points of the season with a fifth place, as he had to spin at the end of the season in the USA East .
At the end of the season Villeneuve had scored six and Scheckter two points. Villeneuve was 14th overall.
1981: on the rise
After Scheckter resigned at the end of the 1980 season, Didier Pironi was Villeneuves' new teammate in the 1981 Formula 1 World Championship . Villeneuve complained repeatedly over the course of the season about what he thought was a poor Ferrari chassis 126CK . In the first three races of the season in the USA West , Brazil and Argentina , neither Villeneuve nor Pironi saw the checkered flag. At the Grand Prix of San Marino , which was held for the first time , Villeneuve achieved his last pole position. In the race he also drove the fastest lap. However, it was not enough to win because he had bet on the wrong tires in changing weather conditions. He finished seventh. After finishing fourth in Belgium , Villeneuve won two races in a row in Monaco and Spain . It was also the first victories for a Ferrari with a turbo engine. In Spain he started the race from seventh place and took the lead on lap 14. Several drivers were right behind him until the end of the race. Villeneuve had set up his car so that he was the fastest on the straights, while he defended himself in the corners against his opponents with better-lying vehicles. When crossing the finish line, the first five drivers were within 1.24 seconds. This victory was also Villeneuve's last Formula 1 victory. In the following six races Villeneuve remained without points. It was not until the penultimate race of the season in Canada that he achieved another podium finish with a third place. At the last race in Las Vegas he fell out in third place with a technical defect. At this point in time, the ignorant Villeneuve had already been disqualified by the race management for crossing his start marker. With 25 points he finished the world championship in seventh place, while Pironi was thirteenth with nine points.
1982: the last races
In 1982 the driver pairing Villeneuve and Pironi remained unchanged at Ferrari. At the season opener in South Africa , Villeneuve qualified for third starting position with his Ferrari 126C2 . In the race he stayed in third place until his technical failure on the seventh lap. In Brazil , Villeneuve took pole position. In the race he retired while in the lead after a collision with Nelson Piquet ( Brabham ). Villeneuve finished in third place after the failures in the first two races at the Grand Prix of the USA West , but was disqualified for a double rear wing that was classified as non-compliant.
The fourth race, the Grand Prix of San Marino , was boycotted by several teams due to disputes between the FOCA and FISA , so that only seven predominantly continental European racing teams took part in the Grand Prix. After both Renaults retired, Ferrari had no rivals for victory. Villeneuve led the race in the final stages and, after the Ferrari command post had instructed the two drivers by means of the SLOW pit sign to drive more slowly and to save fuel, he felt safe from his teammate Pironi. Villeneuve assumed that this instruction implied a no-overtaking rule. However, Pironi overtook Villeneuve on the last lap and won the race. Villeneuve, stunned by Pironi's behavior, gave up the lap of honor and left the race track immediately after the award ceremony. He vowed never to speak to Pironi again.
The question of whether or not there was a stable order was discussed controversially. After the race, those involved said:
“Pironi did not comply with the SLOW pit order, so Villeneuve has reason to complain. But I was once a racing driver myself and I know the pilots' thirst for victory. "
“Ferrari never has stall orders! Only when it comes directly to the world championship title do we give our drivers recommendations - only suggestions, information beforehand. I rely on my drivers, but I'm not in the car. "
Pironi himself denied any stall orders. Villeneuve, on the other hand, traveled to Canada after the race, where he met Walter Wolf . They secretly agreed to start their own team under the name Team Wolf-Villeneuve in the 1983 season . For this purpose, Peter Warr should act as race director, Gérard Ducarouge as designer and a tobacco brand as sponsor.
1982: Accidental death in Zolder
Figure A: Mass (white vehicle) in the run-out lap, Villeneuve (red vehicle) catches up quickly.
Figure B: Mass leaves the ideal line, and Villeneuve at the same time avoids in the same direction.
Figure C: Villeneuve's tires touch the Mass tires, Villeneuve's vehicle mounts.
Figure D: The Villeneuve vehicle overturns several times.
Figure E: Villeneuve detaches himself from the chassis with the driver's seat, flies over the lane through the first safety fence and remains in the second.
Two weeks later, on May 8th, Villeneuve had a fatal accident in qualifying for the fifth round of the season, the Belgian Grand Prix at Circuit Zolder .
After the race in Imola, there was a falling out between Villeneuve and Pironi. A reconciliation talk previously proposed by team boss Mauro Forghieri was ignored by both pilots. Pironi had undercut Villeneuve's best time of 1: 16.616 minutes in Zolder with 1: 16.501 minutes. Villeneuve, who did not want to accept this defeat, therefore decided to go out again with used qualifying tires in the last fifteen minutes of qualifying to improve his time. He ignored his crew's request to come back to the pits after the outlap.
13:52 Villeneuve was running in the high speed corner Butte on the RAM on -Fahrer Mass, who was on his cool-down lap. The speed difference between the two cars was about 100 km / h. When Villeneuve started to overtake on the right, Mass also switched to the right to clear the ideal line on the left. Villeneuve had no chance to react. At about 270 km / h the left front tire of the Ferrari touched the right rear tire of the March. As a result of the catapult effect, Villeneuve's car rose into the air, overturned and hit an earth wall, front first. In the event of an impact, the largely aluminum fuselage of the Ferrari broke into two parts, with the wheel suspension being torn away and Villeneuve, still strapped to the back of the seat, thrown from the cockpit across the lane into a safety fence. Villeneuve was exposed to such great centrifugal forces that he lost his helmet, fire hood, shoes and stockings during his fall.
A route safety vehicle with a doctor was at the scene of the accident within seconds; Villeneuve was given first aid with chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation . The outwardly unharmed, but unconscious Villeneuve was taken away on the back of a car used by the road safety device, a Ford Granada tournament, under the supervision of the neurosurgeon and senior doctor of Formula 1, Sid Watkins . Eleven minutes after the accident, a helicopter brought Villeneuve to the University Hospital in Leuven . Here a fracture of the second and third cervical vertebrae and the severing of the spinal cord were diagnosed. After the life support systems were shut down, Villeneuve's death was announced by the hospital. He died at 9:12 p.m. local time.
Mass described the accident as follows:
“After I had completed my qualifying lap, I rolled slowly towards the pit lane. Right on the hilltop just behind a bridge, I saw a Ferrari speeding up in the rearview mirror. Since I was driving pretty much in the middle of the route, I immediately turned right. Villeneuve arrived so quickly - he didn't know whether I was going to the left or staying right - and wanted to pass on the right, although the left would have been the faster lane. I felt two soft blows, one on the rear wheel, one on the front wheel. At the first impact I saw the helmet fly away and then it hurled it with the seat and aluminum back plate out of his Ferrari. "
Villeneuve was after Ronnie Peterson, who died in an accident in 1978, which by then 28 driver as part of a Formula 1 race - even when training or racing - was killed . In the same year Riccardo Paletti also had a fatal accident at the Canadian Grand Prix .
Ferrari then withdrew Pironi from the race. After three races with just one vehicle for Pironi, Tambay took over Villeneuves' cockpit from the ninth race. Pironi had a serious accident later in the season and ended his Formula 1 career due to the injuries. He died five years later in a racing boat accident.
Villeneuve's body was transferred to Canada by military aircraft, where it was laid out in an open coffin with gloves and helmet in his hometown of Berthierville. His former teammate Pironi was undesirable at the funeral services. Villeneuve's urn was buried on May 12, 1982 on the Cimetière de Berthierville. In addition to Jacques Laffite as the only driver colleague, over 1000 people took part in the funeral services . Among the guests were Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and other public figures such as former Formula 1 racing driver Jody Scheckter .
Weeks after the accident, FISA placed sole blame for the accident on Villeneuve; Mass was acquitted of suspicion of carelessness. Not all pilots, including Lauda and Pironi, took this view. After another serious accident a few races later, Mass ended his Formula 1 career after the French Grand Prix . Enzo Ferrari's attempt to have the number 27 banned permanently as a tribute to Villeneuve was prevented by FISA.
reception
The Circuit Île-Notre-Dame in Montreal was named after Gilles Villeneuve on June 12, 1982 during the Canadian Grand Prix .
His hometown of Berthierville named a main street after Villeneuve and built a life-size bronze statue. The local city museum recalls the life and work of Villeneuve in a permanent exhibition. In 1983 Villeneuve was inducted into the Hall of Fame for Canadian Sports .
In Fiorano, Italy, the access road to the Ferrari test track Pista di Fiorano was named after Villeneuve; A bronze bust of the racing driver stands in front of the entrance.
On the race course in Zolder today, a stone maple leaf reminds of Gilles Villeneuve. At the accident site in Zolder, a new chicane was added after the accident to reduce speed; this section was named Gille Villeneuvechicane . Likewise, in Imola on the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari racetrack, the Villeneuve variant curve combination was named after Gilles Villeneuve.
In 2009 the Austrian Post issued a four-part block of stamps entitled “Formula 1 Legends”. In addition to Bernie Ecclestone , James Hunt and Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips , a brand is dedicated to Gilles Villeneuve.
Thirty years after his death, on May 8th, 2012, his son Jacques Villeneuve drove a Ferrari 312T4 on the Pista di Fiorano demonstration laps in honor of his father.
The reception was examined in publications. For the US sociologist Andrei S. Markovits , the victories of the French-speaking Canadians Gilles and Jacques Villeneuve at the Canadian Grand Prix contributed to the popularization of racing by allowing a differentiation from the sports that are popular in English-speaking Canada. The Montreal-born filmmaker Kevin Tierney , who has repeatedly addressed the Anglo-French tensions in his works, is planning a film adaptation of the early career years under the title Gilles et Joann . Desirée Citro has portrayed the role of the sports press in creating myths.
statistics
Career stations
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Individual results in the Atlantic Championship
| year | team | chassis | engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | Points | rank |
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| 1974 | Écurie Canada | March 74B | ford |
WES
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EDM
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GIM
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MOS
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SAN
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STJ
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HAL
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TRO
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27 | 16. |
| 3 | 22nd | 18th | 15th | INJ | INJ | 9 | 32 | ||||||
| 1975 | GV Racing | March 75B | ford |
EDM
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WES
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GIM
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MTR
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MOS
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HAL
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TRO
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69 | 5. | |
| 15th | 5 | 1 | 2 | 17th | 14th | 15th | |||||||
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1976 (CASC) |
Écurie Canada | March 76B | ford |
EDM
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WES
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GIM
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MTR
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HAL
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MOS
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TRO
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120 | 1. | |
| 1 | 18th | 1 | 1 | 1 | DNA | 1 | |||||||
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1976 (IMSA) |
Écurie Canada | March 76B | ford |
 RO1
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LA1
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ONT
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MDO
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RO2
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LA2
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80 | 1. | ||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 1977 | Écurie Canada | March 77B | ford |
MOS
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GIM
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EDM
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WES
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HAL
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STF
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TRO
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QUE
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114 | 1. |
| 2 | 19th | 1 | 21st | 1 | 4th | 1 |
Remarks
- ↑ The Grand Prix Labatt de Trois-Rivières 1974 was not part of the championship, so no points were awarded.
- ↑ The Grand Prix Labatt de Trois-Rivières 1975 was not part of the championship, so no points were awarded.
- ↑ The Grand Prix Labatt de Trois-Rivières 1976 was not part of the championship, so no points were awarded.
- ↑ The Grand Prix Labatt de Trois-Rivières 1977 was not part of the championship, so no points were awarded.
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| colour | abbreviation | meaning |
| gold | - | victory |
| silver | - | 2nd place |
| bronze | - | 3rd place |
| green | - | Placement in the points |
| blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
| violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
| NC | not classified | |
| red | DNQ | did not qualify |
| DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
| black | DSQ | disqualified |
| White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
| WD | withdrawn | |
| Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
| TD | Friday test driver | |
| without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
| INJ | injured or sick | |
| EX | excluded | |
| DNA | did not arrive | |
| C. | Race canceled | |
| no participation in the World Cup | ||
| other | P / bold | Pole position |
| SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
| * | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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| () | Streak results | |
| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
Individual results in the Formula 2 European Championship
| year | team | chassis | engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Points | rank |
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| 1976 | Project Four Racing | March 762 | Hard |
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| colour | abbreviation | meaning |
| gold | - | victory |
| silver | - | 2nd place |
| bronze | - | 3rd place |
| green | - | Placement in the points |
| blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
| violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
| NC | not classified | |
| red | DNQ | did not qualify |
| DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
| black | DSQ | disqualified |
| White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
| WD | withdrawn | |
| Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
| TD | Friday test driver | |
| without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
| INJ | injured or sick | |
| EX | excluded | |
| DNA | did not arrive | |
| C. | Race canceled | |
| no participation in the World Cup | ||
| other | P / bold | Pole position |
| SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
| * | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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| () | Streak results | |
| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
Statistics in the automobile / Formula 1 world championship
These statistics include all participations of the driver in the Formula 1 World Championship , which until 1980 was known as the Automobile World Championship.
Grand Prix victories
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general overview
| season | team | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Race laps |
Points | WM-Pos. |
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| 1977 | Marlboro Team McLaren | McLaren M23 | Cosworth V8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC | Ferrari 312T2 | Ferrari Flat-12 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1978 | Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC | Ferrari 312T2 / 312T3 | Ferrari Flat-12 | 16 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 17th | 9. |
| 1979 | Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC | Ferrari 312T3 / 312T4 | Ferrari Flat-12 | 15th | 3 | 4th | - | 1 | 6th | 47 (53) | 2. |
| 1980 | Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC | Ferrari 312T5 | Ferrari Flat-12 | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | 6th | 14th |
| 1981 | Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC | Ferrari 126CK | Ferrari V6 | 15th | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 25th | 7th |
| 1982 | Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC | Ferrari 126C2 | Ferrari V6 | 4th | - | 1 | - | - | - | 6th | 15th |
| total | 67 | 6th | 5 | 2 | 2 | 8th | 107 | ||||
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| gold | - | victory |
| silver | - | 2nd place |
| bronze | - | 3rd place |
| green | - | Placement in the points |
| blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
| violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
| NC | not classified | |
| red | DNQ | did not qualify |
| DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
| black | DSQ | disqualified |
| White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
| WD | withdrawn | |
| Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
| TD | Friday test driver | |
| without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
| INJ | injured or sick | |
| EX | excluded | |
| DNA | did not arrive | |
| C. | Race canceled | |
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| other | P / bold | Pole position |
| SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
| * | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
See also
literature
- Michael Behrendt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch: racing driver death . 50 tragic heroes in portrait. 1st edition. Heel Verlag GmbH , Königswinter 2012, ISBN 978-3-86852-494-9 .
- Gerald Donaldson: Gilles Villeneuve. The Life of the Legendary Racing Driver . New ed. 2003. Random House, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7535-0747-6 .
- Heinz Prüller : Grand Prix Story 79th French – Arabs – Ferrari . 1st edition. Motorbuch Verlag , Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-85368-853-5 .
- Heinz Prüller : Grand Prix Story 81st Piquet World Champion. Betrayed Reutemann. Why Lauda is driving again. 1st edition. Motorbuch Verlag , Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-85368-886-1 .
- Heinz Prüller : Grand Prix Story 82. The bold Rosberg . 1st edition. Motorbuch Verlag , Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-85368-909-4 .
- Achim Schlang: The Formula 1 aces of our time . 2nd Edition. Motorbuch Verlag , Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-613-01035-6 .
- Ulrich Schwab: Grand Prix. The races for the 1977 automobile world championship . 1st edition. Motorbuch Verlag , Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-87943-526-X .
- Ulrich Schwab: Grand Prix. The races for the 1978 World Automobile Championship . 1st edition. Motorbuch Verlag , Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-87943-589-8 .
- Ulrich Schwab: Grand Prix. The races for the 1980 World Automobile Championship . 1st edition. Motorbuch Verlag , Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-87943-751-3 .
- Ulrich Schwab: Grand Prix. The races for the 1981 World Automobile Championship . 1st edition. Motorbuch Verlag , Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-87943-821-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gilles Villeneuve in the catalog of the German National Library
- Family tree of the Villeneuve family ( Memento from December 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Career statistics of Gilles Villeneuve (English)
- "Gilles Villeneuve Drives Unsighted" : Gilles Villeneuve during the 1981 Canadian Grand Prix on YouTube , accessed on January 26, 2020 (en)
- "Gilles Villeneuve, Racing Icon" career review on YouTube , accessed on April 28, 2020 (en)
Individual evidence
- ^ Donaldson (2012). P. 11
- ^ Donaldson (2012). P. 12
- ^ Donaldson (2012). P. 13
- ^ Donaldson (2012). P. 16
- ^ Donaldson (2012). Pp. 17-18
- ^ Donaldson (2012). Pp. 24-25
- ↑ Prüller (1979). P.56
- ^ Donaldson (2012). Pp. 19-21
- ^ Donaldson (2012). P. 27
- ^ Donaldson (2012). Pp. 26-28
- ↑ Prüller (1982). P. 7
- ^ Donaldson (2012). Pp. 28-30
- ^ Donaldson (2012). Pp. 34-39
- ^ Donaldson (2012). Pp. 40-43
- ^ Donaldson (2012). Pp. 46-47
- ↑ Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres 1976 standings. driverdb.com, accessed January 26, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Rob Burnett: Gilles Villeneuve: "The last great driver" remembered 31 years after his tragic death. mirror.co.uk, June 5, 2013, accessed January 26, 2015 .
- ^ Donaldson (2012). P. 54
- ^ Donaldson (2012). Pp. 70, 88, 92
- ↑ a b c d e f A flash of Silverstone brilliance from Gilles Villeneuve. mclaren.com, July 1, 2011, accessed January 26, 2015 .
- ^ Donaldson (2012). P. 312
- ^ Donaldson (2012). P. 95
- ↑ Schwab (1977). Pp. 105-106
- ↑ Schwab (1977). P. 107
- ↑ Patrick Tambay. espnf1.com, accessed January 26, 2015 .
- ↑ a b 1977 Canadian Grand Prix. (No longer available online.) Zoompics.com, archived from the original on July 13, 2013 ; accessed on January 26, 2015 (English).
- ↑ a b Chris Medland: Fuji's failed finale. espnf1.com, October 4, 2011, accessed January 26, 2015 .
- ↑ Schwab (1977). P. 166
- ↑ GRAND PRIX RESULTS: JAPANESE GP, 1977. grandprix.com, accessed on January 28, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Schwab (1977). Pp. 175-176
- ↑ Schwab (1978). Pp. 121-125
- ^ All lead laps by Gilles Villeneuve (driver). Motorsport-Total.com, accessed January 26, 2015 .
- ↑ GRAND PRIX RESULTS: UNITED STATES GP, 1978. grandprix.com, accessed on January 26, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Schwab (1978). P. 127
- ↑ Schwab (1978). Pp. 127-131
- ↑ GRAND PRIX RESULTS: BELGIAN GP, 1978. grandprix.com, accessed on January 26, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Schwab (1978). P. 143
- ↑ GRAND PRIX RESULTS: ITALIAN GP, 1978. grandprix.com, accessed January 26, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Schwab (1978). P. 147
- ↑ Schwab (1978). P. 151
- ^ Heinz Prüller: Grand Prix Story 79. French – Arabs – Ferrari . 1st edition. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-85368-853-5 , p. 20 .
- ↑ GRAND PRIX RESULTS: DUTCH GP, 1979. grandprix.com, accessed on January 26, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Schwab (1980). Pp. 125-127, 129
- ↑ Schwab (1980). P. 131
- ↑ Schwab (1980). Pp. 125, 133, 135
- ↑ Schwab (1980). P. 137
- ↑ Schwab (1980). P. 139
- ↑ Schwab (1980). P. 141
- ↑ Schwab (1980). Pp. 143-145
- ↑ Schwab (1980). P. 93
- ↑ Schwab (1980). P. 94
- ↑ Schwab (1980). P. 149
- ↑ Schwab (1980). P. 151
- ↑ Prüller (1981). P. 83
- ↑ Schwab (1981). Pp. 107-135
- ↑ Prüller (1982). Pp. 29-41
- ↑ Prüller (1982). Pp. 41-49
- ↑ Prüller (1982). P. 63
- ↑ GRAND PRIX RESULTS: UNITED STATES GP, 1982. grandprix.com, accessed on January 27, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Prüller (1982). P. 81
- ↑ Michael Zeitler: Annual review: 1982 (Formula 1 World Championship). inside-racing.de, accessed on January 27, 2015 .
- ^ A b Matthias Brzezinski, Simon Pausch: Formula 1 and the eternal dispute over right of way. welt.de, April 1, 2013, accessed January 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Prüller (1982). P. 82
- ↑ a b c Prüller (1982). P. 81
- ↑ Prüller (1982). P. 83
- ↑ Schlang (1985). P. 92
- ↑ Prüller (1982). P. 89
- ^ Donaldson (2012). P. 297
- ^ Donaldson (2012). Pp. 296-298
- ↑ Behrendt u. Födisch (2012). P. 138
- ↑ Pironi crashes - Tambay wins. auto-motor-und-sport.de, accessed on January 27, 2015 .
- ^ Donaldson (2012). P. 303
- ↑ Prüller (1982). P. 93
- ↑ Prüller (1982). P. 94
- ^ Donaldson (2012). P. 306
- ↑ Gronau: Only 48 hours after the death was honored, the next one raced towards its doom. In: Neues Deutschland from June 15, 1982, p. 7.
- ^ Berthierville museum honors Gilles Villeneuve. montrealgazette.com, accessed January 30, 2015 .
- ^ Donaldson (2012). P. 305
- ^ Andrei S. Markovits, Steven L. Hellerman: Offside. Soccer and American exceptionalism. Princeton NJ, 2001, p. 50, online
- ↑ Cédric Bélanger: Gilles Villeneuve sur les écrans en 2014. fr.canoe.ca , September 28, 2011, online
- ↑ Desirée Citro: La creazione del mito di Gilles Villeneuve attraverso la stampa sportiva , Diss. Università Cattolica des Sacro Cuore, Facoltà di Lettere, 2002/2003, online ( Memento from May 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 1974 CASC Player's Challenge Series. champcarstats.com, accessed January 29, 2015 .
- ↑ 1975 CASC Player's Challenge Series. champcarstats.com, accessed January 29, 2015 .
- ↑ 1976 CASC Labatt Challenge Series. champcarstats.com, accessed January 29, 2015 .
- ↑ 1976 IMSA Formula Atlantic Championship. champcarstats.com, accessed January 29, 2015 .
- ↑ 1977 CASC Labatt Challenge Series. champcarstats.com, accessed January 29, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Villeneuve, Gilles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Villeneuve, Joseph Gilles Henri |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian racing car driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu , Québec, Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1982 |
| Place of death | Leuven , Belgium |