Gilles Villeneuve - A Racing Legend

Gilles Villeneuve - Ferrari Formula One Driver

Gilles Villeneuve died in 1982... I was only 1 year old. In 1996 I was 16 years old and Jacques, Gilles' son, started to drive a Williams-Renault in the Formula 1 championship.

Many things happened after that... but I am still linked to this family. I was Jacques fan and I wanted to understand better his family. During my university years I attended a sport journalism course and I had to chose a topic for a short thesis, I had no dubts... Gilles Villeneuve. I desired to "study" the facts and the articles that created his legend.

Today I can affirm that I know a lot of things about him, after a big research on the net, in the library among thousand of articles about him... and years ago I had the chance to see the Gilles Villeneuve street in Maranello, I walked on the circuit entitled to him in Montréal and I could visit the museum in Berthierville.

I wanted to collect all the Villeneuve material in a website, on 2003 I launched the old version of this site.

Some months ago my boyfriend asked me to "refresh" the website and here I am. This is just a small tribute to a man, a driver, a legend...