Of his six victories, I attended two, Montreal and Long Beach. On year at Long Beach I was standing at the wall next to Gordon Murray when Villenueve came through the hairpin in an over-steer drift that had every person around grinning from ear to ear. We knew we were in the presence of a very rare talent.
The only driver from North America to win in Monaco up until 2022 when it was won by Sergio Perez from Mexico, but Gilles is forever the first to do it, and the best
Salut Gilles! My idol and the driver who sparked my lifelong love of F1. Side-note: I like how all the DNFs are just left littered on the trackside of the armco. The days when drivers were men and the circuits weren't bubble-wrapped.
@@thethirdman225Non venirlo a dire a me...per me Gilles era pura essenza della velocita', della umanita'...il passare del tempo lo conto ..prima e dopo Gilles. E non sono persona romantica.Gilles...la febbre non passa, salut leggenda.
Although Jones had technical problems, Gilles drove a magnificant race with a car which was very poor in control while he could not use his Turbo advantage. And he lapped his team mate Didier.....quite embarrasing. Amazing driver and legend. My hero up to today. Salut Gilles❤
Os talentosos geniais jovens Piquet, Villeneuve, Prost e Mansel juntos, fazendo história nessas máquinas ferozes e tão frágeis. Que tempos áureos amigos. Sensacional.
Avec Gilles, c'était toute ou pantoute... -1 Gilles Villeneuve -2 Ayrton Senna -3 Michael Schumacher Michael "sentait" la voiture et la menait à la limite. Ayrton sentait bien aussi la voiture et la menait au delà des limites. Gilles... la sentait tellement bien qu'il prédisait son comportement lorsque les limites étaient franchies. Ce qui fait que c'était le meilleur pilote sur un tour comme on dit. RIP !
The worlds' commentarors/petrolheads must have loved commentary on Villeneuve back then. You can hear it in their voice whether it's Italian/French/German. Grande Gil! EDIT: I'm loving the comments section as it's littered with F1 savants/experts. It's either to watch Jones being lightning quick or they are secretly huge Villeneuve fans. And yes, I remember reading about Jones having issues as a kid before Gilles passed him but watching his reflexs like a cat around Monaco are why I come back every few yrs to watch the li'l French/Canadian zip and juggle that red but beautiful 'shitbox' 'round this iconic circuit in '79, '80 & '81 😅!
4:55 At this point I was saying, 'Don't bin it now! This is your best chance.' Villeneuve had a penchant for crashing but he held on well this time. And at the next race at Jarama too.
How can you know that for sure? In 1979 Villeneuve had the best Car and he was beaten by his team mate who won the title. Didier Pironi may have beaten him in 1982 for the title as well. Villeneuve was fast but too inconsistent to be a champion. He threw many points away by crashing and spinning.
@@petripuumalainen8789Get your facts right…..he was number 2 as stipulated in his contract and honoured it. He won the first two races that year and then stayed behind. You can see it clearly in Monza.
Watching this today (December 2024) make me feel emotional. A statue of Gilles was made of bronze and exposed in his hometown, Berthierville in Quebec, Canada and a scumbag (we don’t know who did it) stole the statue in last October probably to sell the bronze. They never found a trace of it whatsoever. 😢
Samedi soir 21 décembre 2024 pour moi! Je suis de Trois-Rivières tout près de Berthier. Grand fan de notre GP depuis la fin des années ‘80. Je pense à lui plusieurs fois par semaine. D’ailleurs je pensais à sa statue aujourd’hui. Une légende tu touches pas à ça non?? Cet été au GP de Trois-Rivières j’ai eu l’incommensurable privilège de serrer la main de Joann (🙀) et d’échanger quelques mots avec…. C’est même mon garçon de 18 ans qui l’a aperçue avant moi! Siempre Gilles❤
I feel your pain. I went especially to Berthierville in 2001 to see the museum and the statue and hometown of my hero. I fail to understand why people do such respectless things.
The incident is shown in the video. Piquet tries to overtake backmarker Patrick Tambay but Tambay turns into corner and Piquet goes straight on into the barrier to avoid Tambay.
@@Rypsolisti And yet Jones was the one who pressured him into that mistake. If you (or anyone else for that matter) has doubts about that then research it. Jones even stated that before his hiccup issues happened with the fuel feed, that he (Jones) deliberately backed off Piquet, to surprise him again and unrattle his cage - just like he did to get Pironi out of the way in 1979 - causing Pironi to commit himself into a pressured error.
I mean he had a lot of luck on his side in this race. Piquet crashing out because of the back marker and then he only caught/pass Jones because Alan had a fuel pickup problem.
@@thethirdman225 F1 cars run a lot of wing at slower tracks because downforce aids how deep a driver can brake into a corner. Funny you mention Austria- that was the one race- maybe more so than Jarama of how much a menace the ‘81 Ferrari was to race against. There are times during that race where Pironi had no less than 7 cars right behind him, and none of them could pass because although the other cars had a lot more downforce and were quicker through Austria’s long, fast curves, the Ferrari V6 turbo was the most powerful engine that year and those cars were lightning down the straights. It’s crazy how many cars those Ferraris held up at Austria ‘81.
@@hmdwgf Sorry for the long post that follows. The 1981 Ferrari chassis was the last non-monocoque chassis Ferrari built. It was descended from the cars of the mid-1970s. The difference was that the older cars had large side-mounted fuel tanks which made up for the general lack of stiffness of a space frame design. However, Ferrari's first ground effect car, the 312T4, used the same basic design but with the side tanks sawn off and a centreline tank behind the driver. The effect on stiffness was worse than it was for say, the Lotus 79. Added to that was the fact that the T3 cars onward used Michelin radials which absorbed heat less well than the Goodyear cross plies. That is to say, they were harder to get heat into. The combinations makes it amazing to me that the T4 worked at all. But then it all came undone in 1980 with the T5. Much was made of the lack of venturi space, given the boxer engine but that is only part of the story. Ferrari knew the flat 12 was doomed, even though its legendary combination of power and reliability had been their ace card for years. Villeneuve demonstrated the new V6 turbo 126C car at Imola in 1980, sacrificing qualifying time for a bit of positive publicity. The 126C was about as quick as the T5, which would have made no difference to his qualifying time. The team didn't race the car because it was not considered reliable enough. What wasn't mentioned was that this was still the same basic chassis. Bigger tunnels and externally quite familiar but like a cross between the T5 and the 126C. And this was the key to their problems and goes part of the way to explaining Villeneuve's win at Monaco and the trains the two Ferraris created. The fact was that the 126 had three problems: 1) a lack of chassis rigidity, 2) poor aerodynamics and 3) a poor choice of tyre manufacturer. It was said that the Ferrari had about a quarter of the downforce of the Williams. The problem was worse in fast corners but there weren't many of those at Monaco. On high speed circuits all three problems were present but at Monaco those effects were less pronounced. Mechanical grip was more important and the Ferrari didn't have much of that. The problem was exacerbated by the fact that Villeneuve was the kind of driver who could drive around problems, rather than analysing and solving them but he did almost all the test driving in the 126C. Scheckter did hardly any. The result was that the car was poorly sorted. But given Villeneuve's ability to drive around problems, Monaco presented fewer problems. The biggest problem he had was countering turbo lag. What made life difficult for him in the race was that his skirts started to break up and on any other circuit that would have spelt disaster. That's why he fell back from Piquet and was passed by Jones and Patrese, leaving him in fourth. But Patrese retired with a broken gearbox - always a problem at Monaco - Piquet crashed and Jones suffered fuel starvation. So while Villeneuve drove extremely well and never gave up, he inherited a couple of places along the way anyhow. On fast tracks like Austria, the cars ran a lot less wing but simply could not generate enough heat in their tyres in the bends, where Renault, on the same tyres, were suffering chunking problems the year before. The Ferrari's lack of performance was due to a combination of all three problems: lack of downforce due to poor aerodynamic performance, lack of sufficient chassis rigidity meaning the tyres could not be used to their maximum performance and poor tyre matching. They were, as you say, lightning quick on the straight but very ponderous in the bends. Remember that the bends were extremely fast in Austria - generally around 240-260 km/h and the better cars were generating up to 3G on occasions. These problems were solved in 1982 with the first true Ferrari monocoque, excellent aerodynamic performance and a switch to well-matched Goodyears. Despite the structural problems in both Villeneuve's fatal crash and Pironi's crash at Hockenheim, it was no less safe than any other monocoque, barring the McLaren. The mid-season update to the Ferrari front suspension dispensed with the rocker arm suspension and replaced it with a Brabham-style pull rod front end. This turned the car into an absolute weapon and it was easily the best car of 1982.
Jones got the fastest lap after starting 7th on the grid, a place you're not supposed to win from at Monaco and even passing eventual winner Villeneuve...
2:55 'Jones overtook Gilles, but it is not shown' It is not remembered either. Jones was superb in this race but his drive is not remembered by anyone because of Villeneuve's remarkable win. And before anyone says it, I was barracking for Villeneuve.
@ The Williams was still a top car but the best car of 1981 was almost certainly the Brabham. What’s the most difficult thing about Monaco? Passing. Jones had a down-on-power engine in qualifying, hence his lowly grid position. He passed De Angelis and Patrese on the first lap and then Mansell and Reutemann tangled, which put him in third. He disposed of Villeneuve on lap 18 and started pressing Piquet, who crashed on lap 53, handing Jones the lead (the two men hated each other). His car started to misfire about ten laps from the end and, with a handy lead over Villeneuve, he ducked into the pits. When he came out, the misfire was worse and he could offer no serious resistance when Villeneuve passed him on the front straight. But for that misfire, Jones would probably have won by half a lap.
@@thethirdman225 Villeneuve fece un miracolo in qualifica con la Ferrari, che era una macchina nettamente inferiore a Renault, Williams, Brabham e Ligier. Considera che il primo dei motori turbo era Prost che prese 1 secondo e due decimi da Piquet. Villeneuve fece un tempo di solo 78 millesimi da Piquet invece. In gara fu fortunato ma la fortuna sorride a chi sa sfruttare certe occasioni. Anche Senna nel 93 vinse Grazie al ritiro di Prost e Schumacher, ma queste sono le corse.
You know, when the cars were the coolest, the racing was not good. Today, with the “spec” cars, the racing is tight! You can have ten rows within a second of each other in qually. But is still miss the cool cars….
@@TheUlysse2000 Monaco 1981 was an exception. But on that occasion, Mansell spent the entire time in the Lotus 87, while De Angelis had to swap between the 87 and the early 81 after the new car developed a fault in its hydro pneumatic suspension. It was also pretty clear, even by then, that Mansell was getting preferential treatment. A British driver in the most British of teams... But if you look at the results you can see that De Angelis was the quicker driver probably at least 75% of the time.
Mansell World champion 1992 31 victories and about the same about pole position Runner up champion 1986/1987/1991 Indy car champion as a rookie First race in Indy, victory Only man to be simultaneously F1 world champion and Indy champion No money at all to race at his debuts (De Angelis family was very very wealthy) which makes a lot of difference !!! De angelis driver number one because of that when racing with Lotus I liked de Angelis and was shocked by his death at the Castellet circuit ( I am French by the way) Dominated by Senna when Mansell was fired by the stupid Peter Warr who said: as long as I have a hole in my ass, Mansell will never win a GP (hahaha) He was a great driver but Mansell is a legend
@@TheUlysse2000 I'm not denying any of that. In fact, I knew it would come up. But what does it tell you about De Angelis? There are lots of stories about drivers who didn't have the same opportunities, despite their potential. I think of people like Johnny Servoz-Gavin, Tom Pryce, Peter Revson (who was a bit old but still very good), François Cevert, Stefan Bellof, Tommy Byrne and Elio De Angelis. I even think both Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi could have achieved a lot more in the right circumstances. Personally, I thought De Angelis was a serious talent. He came in very young and was considered as a replacement for Niki Lauda at Ferrari but they signed Villeneuve - who was six or seven years older. He started with Shadow in 1979 and won his first Grand Prix three years later for the declining Lotus team. There are some drivers whose deaths still affect me somewhat: Peter Revson, Tom Pryce, Ronnie Peterson and Elio De Angelis. It seems to me that not only were their deaths tragic and completely unnecessary but they were all potential champions.
Gilles i miss you. Tu étais la vitesse pure. ❤
Fantastic driver, hate when present F1 driver complaints about overtaking at Monaco ,yes it's true but Giles made so many at Monaco, he was a genius
Gilles e Ayrton i più grandi piloti di sempre !!!! Montecarlo era la loro pista e loro ci hanno sempre emozionato in ogni circuito!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Si, Gilles e Ayrton, nessuno come loro ❤️❤️
同感。
富士のジルの走りと、鈴鹿のセナの走りを、リアルタイムで見れたから、しあわせ。
The best driver ever....Gilles Villeneuve! Miss you....leggend, miss you 💔💔❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Of his six victories, I attended two, Montreal and Long Beach.
On year at Long Beach I was standing at the wall next to Gordon Murray when Villenueve came through the hairpin in an over-steer drift that had every person around grinning from ear to ear.
We knew we were in the presence of a very rare talent.
Years later that full speed past in the inside at Monaco with that Ferrari sounding engine , still makes me smile and shake my head, in disbelief
Gilles! Gilles! Gilles! SALUT GILLES!
The only driver from North America to win in Monaco up until 2022 when it was won by Sergio Perez from Mexico, but Gilles is forever the first to do it, and the best
Gilles vellenueve was the best f1 driver ever..
Gilles Villeneuve, gone but never forgotten. Love you, Gilles, miss you to this day.
Salut Gilles! My idol and the driver who sparked my lifelong love of F1.
Side-note: I like how all the DNFs are just left littered on the trackside of the armco. The days when drivers were men and the circuits weren't bubble-wrapped.
Fantastic editing!! So great!! and supperb Gilles!!
Classics never die, they just find new people.
Real F1
''Une victoire à Monaco, ça vaut n'importe quel championnat du monde.'' Gilles Villeneuve
G.o.a.t.❤
🏆🏁💨
@@maxmulsanne7054 hi N!!!!🇮🇹🚗❄️
@@ORMA1
Hola Amigo!!! 🇮🇹🌐🇺🇸🌿🏆🏁
@@ORMA1 No. Most exciting maybe and furiously fast. Not the greatest of all time though.
@@thethirdman225Non venirlo a dire a me...per me Gilles era pura essenza della velocita', della umanita'...il passare del tempo lo conto ..prima e dopo Gilles. E non sono persona romantica.Gilles...la febbre non passa, salut leggenda.
Although Jones had technical problems, Gilles drove a magnificant race with a car which was very poor in control while he could not use his Turbo advantage.
And he lapped his team mate Didier.....quite embarrasing.
Amazing driver and legend.
My hero up to today.
Salut Gilles❤
❤❤❤❤❤gilles villeneuve fantastc
Os talentosos geniais jovens Piquet, Villeneuve, Prost e Mansel juntos, fazendo história nessas máquinas ferozes e tão frágeis. Que tempos áureos amigos. Sensacional.
Passes Jones on lap 72/76 and finshed the race 40s ahead.. that's ten seconds a lap!
Le meilleur de tous les temps. Suivi de Senna, Fangio, Nuvolari et Clark.
Avec Gilles, c'était toute ou pantoute...
-1 Gilles Villeneuve
-2 Ayrton Senna
-3 Michael Schumacher
Michael "sentait" la voiture et la menait à la limite.
Ayrton sentait bien aussi la voiture et la menait au delà des limites.
Gilles... la sentait tellement bien qu'il prédisait son comportement lorsque les limites étaient franchies. Ce qui fait que c'était le meilleur pilote sur un tour comme on dit.
RIP !
The guy waving the checked flag, instant dismissal !
Divino . Él quería una vuelta más .
The worlds' commentarors/petrolheads must have loved commentary on Villeneuve back then. You can hear it in their voice whether it's Italian/French/German. Grande Gil!
EDIT: I'm loving the comments section as it's littered with F1 savants/experts. It's either to watch Jones being lightning quick or they are secretly huge Villeneuve fans. And yes, I remember reading about Jones having issues as a kid before Gilles passed him but watching his reflexs like a cat around Monaco are why I come back every few yrs to watch the li'l French/Canadian zip and juggle that red but beautiful 'shitbox' 'round this iconic circuit in '79, '80 & '81 😅!
What issues did Jones have as a kid?
4:55 At this point I was saying, 'Don't bin it now! This is your best chance.' Villeneuve had a penchant for crashing but he held on well this time. And at the next race at Jarama too.
He would have become a champion, but death stopped him. What a pity.😢
How can you know that for sure? In 1979 Villeneuve had the best Car and he was beaten by his team mate who won the title. Didier Pironi may have beaten him in 1982 for the title as well. Villeneuve was fast but too inconsistent to be a champion. He threw many points away by crashing and spinning.
Nel 1979 era già più veloce di Jody che ha vinto per la grande correttezza di Villeneuve @@petripuumalainen8789
@@petripuumalainen8789Get your facts right…..he was number 2 as stipulated in his contract and honoured it. He won the first two races that year and then stayed behind. You can see it clearly in Monza.
Always loved the shape of the Brabhams that year.
1983 BT-52 was more appealing for my eyes. Though the 1979-80 FW07 will always be my favorite, even over the McLaren MP4.
Lotus 80 Martini racing?@@maxmulsanne7054
La sua vittoria più bella
Watching this today (December 2024) make me feel emotional. A statue of Gilles was made of bronze and exposed in his hometown, Berthierville in Quebec, Canada and a scumbag (we don’t know who did it) stole the statue in last October probably to sell the bronze.
They never found a trace of it whatsoever. 😢
Really?? I didn't know that, what is wrong with people??!
@ I know, this is disgusting and very sad.
You can Google Gilles Villeneuve Statue and you’ll know the story.
Samedi soir 21 décembre 2024 pour moi!
Je suis de Trois-Rivières tout près de Berthier.
Grand fan de notre GP depuis la fin des années ‘80.
Je pense à lui plusieurs fois par semaine.
D’ailleurs je pensais à sa statue aujourd’hui. Une légende tu touches pas à ça non??
Cet été au GP de Trois-Rivières j’ai eu l’incommensurable privilège de serrer la main de Joann (🙀) et d’échanger quelques mots avec….
C’est même mon garçon de 18 ans qui l’a aperçue avant moi!
Siempre Gilles❤
I feel your pain.
I went especially to Berthierville in 2001 to see the museum and the statue and hometown of my hero.
I fail to understand why people do such respectless things.
...they’ll get their comeuppance, if they haven’t already.
What happened to Piquet?
Alan Jones pressured him so much, that Piquet lost control and went into the barriers.
@@maxmulsanne7054 No, Piquet was far from Jones when he hit the barrier. Probably, any failure in his car.
The incident is shown in the video. Piquet tries to overtake backmarker Patrick Tambay but Tambay turns into corner and Piquet goes straight on into the barrier to avoid Tambay.
@@Rypsolisti
And yet Jones was the one who pressured him into that mistake.
If you (or anyone else for that matter) has doubts about that then research it.
Jones even stated that before his hiccup issues happened with the fuel feed, that he (Jones) deliberately backed off Piquet, to surprise him again and unrattle his cage - just like he did to get Pironi out of the way in 1979 - causing Pironi to commit himself into a pressured error.
@@maxmulsanne7054 Might be but that is speculation. We know that Piquet was lapping Tambay and that caused the accident.
Amazing, how he could win that race with that downforce-less car. And then he won Jarama 3 weeks later, another slow circuit.
I mean he had a lot of luck on his side in this race. Piquet crashing out because of the back marker and then he only caught/pass Jones because Alan had a fuel pickup problem.
@@SLMdirtfan True, good points
Because this was a slow speed circuit where downforce was not as significant as it would have been at somewhere like Austria.
@@thethirdman225 F1 cars run a lot of wing at slower tracks because downforce aids how deep a driver can brake into a corner. Funny you mention Austria- that was the one race- maybe more so than Jarama of how much a menace the ‘81 Ferrari was to race against. There are times during that race where Pironi had no less than 7 cars right behind him, and none of them could pass because although the other cars had a lot more downforce and were quicker through Austria’s long, fast curves, the Ferrari V6 turbo was the most powerful engine that year and those cars were lightning down the straights. It’s crazy how many cars those Ferraris held up at Austria ‘81.
@@hmdwgf Sorry for the long post that follows.
The 1981 Ferrari chassis was the last non-monocoque chassis Ferrari built. It was descended from the cars of the mid-1970s. The difference was that the older cars had large side-mounted fuel tanks which made up for the general lack of stiffness of a space frame design. However, Ferrari's first ground effect car, the 312T4, used the same basic design but with the side tanks sawn off and a centreline tank behind the driver. The effect on stiffness was worse than it was for say, the Lotus 79.
Added to that was the fact that the T3 cars onward used Michelin radials which absorbed heat less well than the Goodyear cross plies. That is to say, they were harder to get heat into. The combinations makes it amazing to me that the T4 worked at all. But then it all came undone in 1980 with the T5. Much was made of the lack of venturi space, given the boxer engine but that is only part of the story.
Ferrari knew the flat 12 was doomed, even though its legendary combination of power and reliability had been their ace card for years. Villeneuve demonstrated the new V6 turbo 126C car at Imola in 1980, sacrificing qualifying time for a bit of positive publicity. The 126C was about as quick as the T5, which would have made no difference to his qualifying time. The team didn't race the car because it was not considered reliable enough.
What wasn't mentioned was that this was still the same basic chassis. Bigger tunnels and externally quite familiar but like a cross between the T5 and the 126C. And this was the key to their problems and goes part of the way to explaining Villeneuve's win at Monaco and the trains the two Ferraris created. The fact was that the 126 had three problems: 1) a lack of chassis rigidity, 2) poor aerodynamics and 3) a poor choice of tyre manufacturer. It was said that the Ferrari had about a quarter of the downforce of the Williams.
The problem was worse in fast corners but there weren't many of those at Monaco. On high speed circuits all three problems were present but at Monaco those effects were less pronounced. Mechanical grip was more important and the Ferrari didn't have much of that. The problem was exacerbated by the fact that Villeneuve was the kind of driver who could drive around problems, rather than analysing and solving them but he did almost all the test driving in the 126C. Scheckter did hardly any. The result was that the car was poorly sorted.
But given Villeneuve's ability to drive around problems, Monaco presented fewer problems. The biggest problem he had was countering turbo lag. What made life difficult for him in the race was that his skirts started to break up and on any other circuit that would have spelt disaster. That's why he fell back from Piquet and was passed by Jones and Patrese, leaving him in fourth. But Patrese retired with a broken gearbox - always a problem at Monaco - Piquet crashed and Jones suffered fuel starvation.
So while Villeneuve drove extremely well and never gave up, he inherited a couple of places along the way anyhow.
On fast tracks like Austria, the cars ran a lot less wing but simply could not generate enough heat in their tyres in the bends, where Renault, on the same tyres, were suffering chunking problems the year before. The Ferrari's lack of performance was due to a combination of all three problems: lack of downforce due to poor aerodynamic performance, lack of sufficient chassis rigidity meaning the tyres could not be used to their maximum performance and poor tyre matching.
They were, as you say, lightning quick on the straight but very ponderous in the bends. Remember that the bends were extremely fast in Austria - generally around 240-260 km/h and the better cars were generating up to 3G on occasions.
These problems were solved in 1982 with the first true Ferrari monocoque, excellent aerodynamic performance and a switch to well-matched Goodyears. Despite the structural problems in both Villeneuve's fatal crash and Pironi's crash at Hockenheim, it was no less safe than any other monocoque, barring the McLaren. The mid-season update to the Ferrari front suspension dispensed with the rocker arm suspension and replaced it with a Brabham-style pull rod front end. This turned the car into an absolute weapon and it was easily the best car of 1982.
Piquet...Vileneuve...Jones...Lauda...Arnoux...Andretti...🏁
Et Prost
LOL at the 4th place driver being one lap down.
Jones got the fastest lap after starting 7th on the grid, a place you're not supposed to win from at Monaco and even passing eventual winner Villeneuve...
You know, my friend, in that era was noto so important pole position, neither in F1 neither in motorbike. It was more important reliability
@@ORMA1 Monaco has never been an easy place to pass in any era.
je me souvien de se jour
2:55 'Jones overtook Gilles, but it is not shown'
It is not remembered either.
Jones was superb in this race but his drive is not remembered by anyone because of Villeneuve's remarkable win.
And before anyone says it, I was barracking for Villeneuve.
@@thethirdman225 Jones had the best car. It's normal was the fastest in 1981. Villeneuve was superb driver
@ The Williams was still a top car but the best car of 1981 was almost certainly the Brabham.
What’s the most difficult thing about Monaco? Passing.
Jones had a down-on-power engine in qualifying, hence his lowly grid position. He passed De Angelis and Patrese on the first lap and then Mansell and Reutemann tangled, which put him in third. He disposed of Villeneuve on lap 18 and started pressing Piquet, who crashed on lap 53, handing Jones the lead (the two men hated each other). His car started to misfire about ten laps from the end and, with a handy lead over Villeneuve, he ducked into the pits. When he came out, the misfire was worse and he could offer no serious resistance when Villeneuve passed him on the front straight.
But for that misfire, Jones would probably have won by half a lap.
@@thethirdman225 i know, I was.
Villeneuve did a miracle for the second place in qualyfing. The first turbo was Prost, nine at 1,200 second
@@angeloscozzafava3560 I don’t understand your post. Write it in Italian and I’ll put it through Google translate or Chat GPT.
@@thethirdman225 Villeneuve fece un miracolo in qualifica con la Ferrari, che era una macchina nettamente inferiore a Renault, Williams, Brabham e Ligier. Considera che il primo dei motori turbo era Prost che prese 1 secondo e due decimi da Piquet. Villeneuve fece un tempo di solo 78 millesimi da Piquet invece. In gara fu fortunato ma la fortuna sorride a chi sa sfruttare certe occasioni. Anche Senna nel 93 vinse Grazie al ritiro di Prost e Schumacher, ma queste sono le corse.
they had left the cars on the track.. !
You know, when the cars were the coolest, the racing was not good. Today, with the “spec” cars, the racing is tight! You can have ten rows within a second of each other in qually. But is still miss the cool cars….
Mansell was really great with a number 2 status and by far not the best car
Yet he was consistently outpaced by De Angelis in the same car.
@@thethirdman225no
@@TheUlysse2000 Monaco 1981 was an exception. But on that occasion, Mansell spent the entire time in the Lotus 87, while De Angelis had to swap between the 87 and the early 81 after the new car developed a fault in its hydro pneumatic suspension.
It was also pretty clear, even by then, that Mansell was getting preferential treatment. A British driver in the most British of teams... But if you look at the results you can see that De Angelis was the quicker driver probably at least 75% of the time.
Mansell
World champion 1992
31 victories and about the same about pole position
Runner up champion 1986/1987/1991
Indy car champion as a rookie
First race in Indy, victory
Only man to be simultaneously F1 world champion and Indy champion
No money at all to race at his debuts
(De Angelis family was very very wealthy) which makes a lot of difference !!!
De angelis driver number one because of that when racing with Lotus
I liked de Angelis and was shocked by his death at the Castellet circuit ( I am French by the way)
Dominated by Senna when Mansell was fired by the stupid Peter Warr who said: as long as I have a hole in my ass, Mansell will never win a GP (hahaha)
He was a great driver but Mansell is a legend
@@TheUlysse2000 I'm not denying any of that. In fact, I knew it would come up. But what does it tell you about De Angelis? There are lots of stories about drivers who didn't have the same opportunities, despite their potential. I think of people like Johnny Servoz-Gavin, Tom Pryce, Peter Revson (who was a bit old but still very good), François Cevert, Stefan Bellof, Tommy Byrne and Elio De Angelis. I even think both Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi could have achieved a lot more in the right circumstances.
Personally, I thought De Angelis was a serious talent. He came in very young and was considered as a replacement for Niki Lauda at Ferrari but they signed Villeneuve - who was six or seven years older. He started with Shadow in 1979 and won his first Grand Prix three years later for the declining Lotus team.
There are some drivers whose deaths still affect me somewhat: Peter Revson, Tom Pryce, Ronnie Peterson and Elio De Angelis. It seems to me that not only were their deaths tragic and completely unnecessary but they were all potential champions.
Terrible video
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