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#251 Bruno

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Posted 08 May 2012 - 18:34



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#252 jj2728

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Posted 08 May 2012 - 18:53

Great photo E1!
Salut Gilles.

#253 Victor

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Posted 08 May 2012 - 20:26

My best F1 memories all include Gilles. My worse F1 memory also includes Gilles.
30 years have gone and I still feel the same pain when I remember his tragic death.
There was never a driver like him and I doubt there will be another.

#254 WGD706

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 00:04

Jacques Villeneuve drove his father's 1979 Formula 1 Ferrari at Fiorano on Tuesday to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the elder Villeneuve's death.
http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

Edited by WGD706, 09 May 2012 - 00:06.


#255 cheesy poofs

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 00:30

Very lucky - must have been very emotional.


You can tell from my body language I was very emotional sitting there. It was an incredible feeling to sit in the same race car that Gilles had once driven in anger.

:)

#256 Aviator

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 06:18

My best F1 memories all include Gilles. My worse F1 memory also includes Gilles.
30 years have gone and I still feel the same pain when I remember his tragic death.
There was never a driver like him and I doubt there will be another.


I agree with you and I doubt also, because Gilles was an extremely rare synthesis of excellent characteristics. Simply unique.-


#257 Aviator

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 06:26

You can tell from my body language I was very emotional sitting there. It was an incredible feeling to sit in the same race car that Gilles had once driven in anger.

:)

Who wouldn't be amazed?!! [I visited the Galleria Ferrari so many times but never persuaded them to not to look at me for a moment...]. You are very lucky!


#258 E1pix

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 07:21

Thanks, JJ.

Montreal 1978... the greatest racing memory of my life. Nothing can ever replace it.

Thanks :) Gilles :cry: RIP

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#259 JacnGille

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 12:56

:up: :up:

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#260 cheesy poofs

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 15:11

Who wouldn't be amazed?!! [I visited the Galleria Ferrari so many times but never persuaded them to not to look at me for a moment...]. You are very lucky!

I still can't believe I got to sit in the car. All I did was ask and was told: "sure"
Here's another shot of me sitting in the car.

http://instagr.am/p/KaQqXRp5V0/

#261 cheesy poofs

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 15:13

Thanks, JJ.

Montreal 1978... the greatest racing memory of my life. Nothing can ever replace it.

Thanks :) Gilles :cry: RIP

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Wow, those are great shots E1pix!!!

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#262 E1pix

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Posted 10 May 2012 - 00:33

Thanks all, glad you enjoyed the photos. Tough to work on them, I was 18 then and losing Gilles is something I've never quite "put behind..."

Cheesy, what a moment that had to be for you! Congrats on your "ride." Awesome.

Thanks Again. :)

Edited by E1pix, 10 May 2012 - 00:36.


#263 D.M.N.

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Posted 06 June 2012 - 13:31

For anyone with access to Sky Sports F1 this weekend: http://www1.skysport...d-Prix-Schedule

Staying on the Villeneuve theme, this weekend's coverage will also include recordings of interviews with Gilles, never broadcast before on television, made by the journalist Nigel Roebuck in which the Ferrari legend discusses his career. We're reliably informed that they make for riveting listening.



#264 Henri Greuter

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Posted 08 May 2013 - 08:23

8 mei 2013

And again it is that date May 8th, be it in another year yet again.
Another year since 1982, and it still feels as if it happened yesterday.
Addio Gilles, you won't be forgotten.
Thanks for the memories

Henri

#265 Tim Murray

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Posted 08 May 2013 - 09:04

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn."


#266 charles r

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Posted 08 May 2013 - 09:59

RIP Gilles. Always remembered.

#267 Manfred Cubenoggin

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Posted 08 May 2013 - 10:36

Je me souviens. :cry:

#268 John Saunders

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Posted 08 May 2013 - 10:55

RIP Gilles. You will always be remembered.

#269 E1pix

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Posted 08 May 2013 - 17:19

Enjoy kicking 'em around in Heaven, Hero.


#270 arttidesco

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Posted 08 May 2013 - 18:39

Enjoy kicking 'em around in Heaven, Hero.


x 2 :up:

#271 Hamish Robson

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Posted 08 May 2013 - 21:17

Salut Gilles, it seems like just yesterday...

#272 jj2728

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Posted 08 May 2013 - 22:26

Salut Gilles

#273 Skeggysteve

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Posted 08 May 2013 - 23:28

Whilst looking around for a few quotes to post on another forum I found this:

http://www.thescuder...VE-The-Greatest

The best one, and the one that all motorsport fans should repeat is this from Keke:

"Gilles was the hardest bastard I ever raced against, but completely fair."

RIP Gilles.

#274 JacnGille

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Posted 09 May 2013 - 00:48

:cry:

#275 E1pix

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Posted 09 May 2013 - 01:40

Whilst looking around for a few quotes to post on another forum I found this:

http://www.thescuder...VE-The-Greatest

RIP Gilles.

Thank You, Skeggy. :up:

#276 Marc Sproule

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Posted 09 May 2013 - 02:31

Another year. Amazing how time flies.

Thanks Gilles.

Probably nothing new in here since I last posted this. Hopefully there's someone here who hasn't seen it yet or someone who wants to revisit my Gilles set.....

http://www.flickr.co...57624008130538/

#277 Frank S

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Posted 09 May 2013 - 03:16

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Pauses to chat with amateur photographers, at Long Beach, 1982.

#278 Tomecek

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Posted 08 May 2014 - 08:26

32 years today

 

R.I.P.



#279 Manfred Cubenoggin

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Posted 08 May 2014 - 08:53

I hadn't realized that this day marked another year of the loss of Gilles til I joined the forum today.  Sigh...  Time does heal wounds.  But it doesn't erase the fond memories.  They come flooding back.

 

Merci, Gilles.



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#280 arttidesco

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Posted 08 May 2014 - 09:06

Unforgettable, Salute Gilles !



#281 Henri Greuter

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Posted 08 May 2014 - 09:44

Salut Gilles,
 
Thanks for the memories.
 
 
Henri

Edited by Henri Greuter, 08 May 2014 - 09:44.


#282 B Squared

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Posted 08 May 2014 - 11:43

I was in California when I heard the news; you are remembered well.

 

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#283 Coral

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Posted 08 May 2014 - 11:47

RIP Gilles, still so sadly missed. :cry:



#284 JacnGille

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Posted 08 May 2014 - 13:51

:cry:



#285 charles r

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Posted 08 May 2014 - 16:33

Never forgotten. RIP Gilles.



#286 eldougo

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Posted 09 May 2014 - 00:06


 I was very saddened to hear of his death in1982. Having meet him at the same track in 1979.

 

 


#287 Les

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Posted 09 May 2014 - 00:09

Oh course mine and a lot of others favourite driver of all time. Also thoughts with his brother and hope he gets well soon. 



#288 D-Type

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Posted 09 May 2014 - 06:51

Oh course mine and a lot of others favourite driver of all time. Also thoughts with his brother and hope he gets well soon. 

Please clarify.  I haven't seen any news relating to Jacques (Snr)



#289 Henri Greuter

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Posted 09 May 2014 - 08:07

Please clarify.  I haven't seen any news relating to Jacques (Snr)

 

 

http://www.trackforu...ning-Villeneuve



#290 D-Type

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Posted 18 May 2014 - 21:15

Thank you - I had missed that item.



#291 Henri Greuter

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Posted 18 May 2014 - 21:17

Thank you - I had missed that item.

 

 

You're welcome D

 

 

Henri



#292 Henri Greuter

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Posted 08 May 2015 - 06:19

A candle will be burned again today by me, as always on May 8th if humanly possible.

Despite the fact that I found out what had happened that day in 1982 one day later.

 

Salut Gilles, after all these 33 years I still haven't seen a driver who posessed all of your talents in the blend you had them en showed them to the world.

No matter that there are drivers with much better statistics, I'll always appreciate your stats over whatever multichamp we have seen since your demise.

 

Salut and thanks for the memories, rest in peace,

 

 

Henri



#293 Marc Sproule

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Posted 08 May 2015 - 07:01

i was fortunate in the extreme to have been there to take the images linked below.

 

i was even more fortunate to have shared a friendship with him.

 

https://www.flickr.c...57624008130538/



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Posted 08 May 2015 - 07:18

Gilles, my heart knows it and no words can express it. Privilleged to be close to you. Race in peace, we will meet again.



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Posted 08 May 2015 - 12:36

A candle will be burned again today by me, as always on May 8th if humanly possible.
Despite the fact that I found out what had happened that day in 1982 one day later.
 
Salut Gilles, after all these 33 years I still haven't seen a driver who posessed all of your talents in the blend you had them en showed them to the world.
No matter that there are drivers with much better statistics, I'll always appreciate your stats over whatever multichamp we have seen since your demise.
 
Salut and thanks for the memories, rest in peace,
 
 
Henri


There's no improving on this, Thanks Henri.

RIP, Gilles.

#296 Tarvoke

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Posted 08 May 2015 - 12:55

33 years since that dreadful day.

Gone, but never forgotten. RIP Gilles.



#297 jj2728

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Posted 08 May 2015 - 12:56

Another year gone by...

Salut Gilles



#298 JacnGille

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Posted 08 May 2015 - 12:58

A candle will be burned again today by me, as always on May 8th if humanly possible.

Despite the fact that I found out what had happened that day in 1982 one day later.

 

Salut Gilles, after all these 33 years I still haven't seen a driver who posessed all of your talents in the blend you had them en showed them to the world.

No matter that there are drivers with much better statistics, I'll always appreciate your stats over whatever multichamp we have seen since your demise.

 

Salut and thanks for the memories, rest in peace,

 

 

Henri

:up:



#299 Duc-Man

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Posted 09 May 2015 - 15:46

I took this photo when I was in Zolder for the1992  DTM seasons opening.

 

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Rest in peace.



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#300 D28

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Posted 09 May 2015 - 20:19

Saw a tribute clip on French language RDS Quebec today with  Joanne, Melanie and Jacques. Some nice footage of snowmobiles and racing cars. One place he will never ever be forgotten. 

 

RIP Gilles.


Edited by D28, 10 May 2015 - 15:30.