René 40 years after the Canadian’s death: “People loved him because he never gave up. I would have raced in Ferrari with him. He didn’t have many friends among the drivers because he was like that, you either loved him or hated him. The people I most like. they liked “
“Gilles wasn’t a pilot, he was an acrobat. Maybe we were all on the edge, but his was a little more subtle.” In these words of René Arnoux, friend, rival and co-star of the duel par excellence of Formula 1, in Dijon in 1979, there is all Villeneuve, one of the most loved drivers by those who have passed from Maranello. Not only by the enthusiasts but (which is quite rare) also by Enzo Ferrari who forgave him every prank on and off the track to the sound of crashed or heavily damaged cars and GTs. “The friendship between the two of us – attacks the Frenchman who raced for Ferrari from 1983 to early 1985 – resulted in a natural way. At the grand prix we had got into the habit of having lunch together, on Italian Fridays at Ferrari French Saturday to my Renault “.