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Жиль Вильнёв (Gilles Villeneuve)
Владимир Коваленко:
Очень интересная статья: Shine on you crazy diamond (Autosport - 2012.05.03).pdf
Владимир Коваленко:
Уолтер Вольф:
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is always a fine line between being a real racer
and being stupid, and Gilles didn"t know where
that line was. After Pironi ignored Ferrari team
orders at Imola and won the race, even though
they were really just making a demonstration,
Gilles was really angry, he felt cheated. He
couldn“t take it. A few days later Gilles, Jochen
Mass and I had dinner at my house and we
talked about it. Gilles and Jochen were good
friends. Then the next weekend at Zolder, in the
final moments of qualifying, Gilles was going
for pole position, and he crossed that line.
Ironically it happened to be Jochen who was in
the car he hit, which was very sad for Jochen.
You can’t cross that line. It was like Ricardo
Rodriguez in practice for the Mexican Grand
Prix in 1962 — he was going for pole and he
crossed that line.
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Алексей Грушко:
Только вот Вильнёв не боролся за поул, он хотел перекрыть время Пирони, который показал шестой (или что-то вроде) результат.
Владимир Коваленко:
Gilles Villeneuve remembered (F1 Racing - 2011.01).pdf
Жак Вильнёв об отце:
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My dad won races in cars that people say weren’t the best on the grid at the time, which says something about how great he was. There’s no doubt he could do magic with his driving — everyone could tailor their driving styles to the cars a lot more back then. Getting the car to where he wanted it was something he was good at, and if there were problems then he’d drive around them. The perception of him was a driver who would always want to go for the win rather than bank the points for third — and perhaps that aspect of his personality stopped him getting the title in 1979 when Jody Scheckter won it — but I think people understood the respect he had for his team-mate. At the same time, he drove some amazing defensive races. At Spain in 1981, he held about six drivers behind him for 60 laps without making a single mistake, while preserving his tyres. He wasn’t all—out the whole time — he used his head a lot. People talk about what happened in Dijon being dangerous, but it didn’t mean he wasn’t using his head while he was doing it. He constantly calculated everything that was going on.
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Владимир Коваленко:
Gilles & Bobby at Gimli 1975
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