Gilles Villenueve was a Canadian rider who ran Formula 1 between 1977 and 1982. In 1977 Gilles received an invitation to compete for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone with a third McLaren team car.
But it was at the wheel of the red cars of the Italian Ferrari team that Gilles gave Formula 1 spectators moments of bravery and skill that made him compared to the legendary Tazio Nuvolari and a series of impressive accidents --- that earned him the nickname "pilot" flying".
In 1979 Gilles was runner-up, and in the following years with the difficulties of the Ferrari car, Gilles could not fight for titles, but still managed to win 2 GPs in 1981.
At the San Marino GP of 1982, during the final parts of the race Pironi overtook Villeneuve, disregarding the agreement between the two and the team, and won the race. The incident opened an internal crisis, already visible to the Canadian driver on the podium after the race. It ended up being the last great prize disputed by Villeneuve.
But the rivalry brought a fatality. In the race to get past Pironi's best time in qualifying practice, Villeneuve was on his last quick lap when he found Jochen Mass's March in a high-speed corner returning to the pits at a slower pace. A miscalculation caused the wheels of the cars to touch and the Ferrari was launched into the air, followed by a sequence of rollovers that broke the cockpit in the middle and threw Villeneuve's body up in the left direction, just stopping on the extreme side of the runway, when it crashes violently against the protection fence. The pilot was no longer breathing when the rescue team arrived, but was only officially declared dead later in a hospital near Leuven.
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