It was his final win. If you've ever looked into who Gilles Villeneuve was, you've surely seen this one before. Towards the end of the 1979 French Grand Prix, Villeneuve was in second and being ...

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Gilles Villeneuve’s time in Formula 1 was tragically ... In fact, that was only the case once, in the 1979 campaign, and boy did he make the most of it. He was heading into the season on a ...

Gilles Villeneuve was never one to worry about championships ... But this was a man who set a time, in a torrential session at Watkins Glen in 1979, almost 11 seconds faster than the next, ...

Gilles Villeneuve won only six grands prix in a career ... That view is based on races such as the 1979 Dutch Grand Prix when, following a puncture, the diminutive Canadian wrestled a three ...

Unfortunately, thanks to Gilles, nobody was watching. Villeneuve might have won the championship in 1979 had he chosen to ignore team orders at Monza and pass his team mate Jody Scheckter for the ...

Formula 1 and Indy Series champion Jacques Villeneuve will drive his father Gilles’s 1979 Ferrari 312 T4 Formula 1 car at the Fiorano test track on May 8 in tribute to the 30th anniversary of ...

The 312 T4 Jacques Villeneuve drove at Fiorano was the same car his father piloted during the 1979 F1 season. A nearly identical car was driven by Jody Sheckter (Gilles' teammate that year ...

History has a way of aggrandizing the fallen, but few drivers have been as dearly missed as Gilles Villeneuve ... of the 312 T4 driven by his father in 1979, the season that he and Jody Scheckter ...