It's crazy how I've been watching a lot of Gilles documentaries and interviews and I've never seen a minute of those clips. Thanks for this marvellous video. Cheers to all from Montreal
First driver I cried for when he passed away, last Ferrari driver I ever cheered for. Had the joy of watching him race in person at Long Beach 3 times. He was special.
I wish I could’ve experienced watching him in person he was one of the greats especially Canadian, I’m 21 so never saw him but have fallen in love with old school racing. His death was truly heartbreaking to see along with the many many others.
I watch this channel for the quality and unbiased opinion on videos but this just a few minutes in is top class. We need more historical videos like this. Needs to be a series for 2025
Man was a legend to my papa. I was born in 82, and my papa used to tell me that Gilles would have 100% won that 82 title, and more. He is the one who instilled the love of Ferrari in me, and his stories of Gilles were what cemented it.
Thank you for sharing this heartwarming throwback. Here in Italy, the older Tifosi still worship him, and it's fair to say no other driver ever got into the Ferrari fans' hearts more than Villeneuve did. Couldn't avoid tearing up a bit while I was watching this interview, knowing he'd be dead in a year.
Merci! The Race. This brought up tears and fond memories. I was there when he won in Montreal, I remember when he drove half the race with his front wing obstructing his view!!! He made us proud fellow Canadians and Enzo Ferrari was right to take him under his wing. Salut Gilles! 🍁🇨🇦🍁
Great video thanks. Nice to see Nigel Roebuck. Fifth Column in Autosport was my weekly f1 'news feed' when I was growing up. I miss real f1 journalism when journos were free to call things how they saw them rather than having to tow the corporate line. I miss James Hunt for the same reason.
This is amazing! Don’t think (in the English language world at least) we have a Gilles interview on film like this. Enjoyed the interview with Nigel Roebuck as well and good to see his opinion never wavered, even during his lifetime he considered him amongst the greatest. A parent being like their child is not really shocking but his mannerisms when speaking as so like Jacques. Alan Henry doing the interviews.
This is such a great piece to show our hero in such a relaxed mood in his sing song Quebecois accent. Fantastic to get so much interview time. Heartbreaking to hear him say he hopes he doesn't get killed in racing. How could anyone know he'd have so little time left...
THE greatest imo. What he was able to achieve during the awful 78-82 ground effect era, which stifled much of his car control pyrotechnics, was incredible. Imagine what he could have done pre 78.
What a driver Gilles was, the fastest and most exciting there’s ever been. Such a likeable man too. I would love it if he could race today, no one would stand a chance.
Great footage I've never seen before! In my opinion Gilles is one of the most talented, smart and charismatic F1 driver of all time. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for this and the Senna interview. Im 22, I have seen F1 since 2012, and fell in love with the sport because of a diecast collection a newspaper did around 2013, it brought the car and a mini magazine about the car and driver. I really appreciate Netflix and Liberty Media, and F1TV has some amazing documentaries of the past BUT imo the best type of content are things like this, old Features, race highlights, and even if UA-cam is an amazing way of finding them, with the quality this and the Senna interview have is hard to find. So thanks for mixing up our feed with things like this, also during the offseason is amazing. My dad loves Gilles, that was transferred to me, and with the words from Alan Jones and James Hunt, as well as the TopGear Senna special in which Clarkson said he was a Gilles fan back then, I came to the conclusion we all love Gilles. The 80s imo is an often forgotten era of F1, beacause the Lauda-Hunt duel is well documented, the Mansell-Prost-Piquet-Senna era as well, but that 77-83 period is full of amazing stories, amazing drivers, and sadly as well, a lot of those drivers tragedies, that are always part of F1, they are interesting in a very morbid way, we investage a lot about crashes and stuff like that, but to land my point: Gilles, Peroni, Arnoux, even World Champs like Alan Jones and imo even Keke Rosberg, sometimes to find good content of drivers from that 77-83ish era is rare, so thx The Race :)
Gilles was one of those guys, as the old man in Modena saw Nuvolari in him. Couldn't win at all times but tried hard you could also remember another canadian kid from Maple Ridge who unfortunately passed away too soon and and never had an opportunity in F1, that one with raw speed and determination, named Greg Moore
This took me back to the racing of the time. We didn't get much in the way of "behind the scenes" stuff back then. Thank you for finding it and sharing it with us.
I remember a contemporary of Gilles' (maybe Schekter) telling an anecdote about when he crashed out at Monaco. Gilles went flying past Jody's car, on the absolute limit, behind the safety car. Absolute lunatic but what a racer.
🙌 the will power this guy demonstrated on track is hallucinating! You can feel it just watching him drive! Nice to watch this and get to know him better.. he was before my time, i grew up watching Jacques!
Drivers like Gilles Villeneuve and Lorenzo Bandini have always interest me. From what I've heard, bith of them are great people so my respect for them has always been a lot.
I have been following F1 since 1983... Not a day goes by that I am not on the net.. It just struck me that this is the very first time I have heard Gilles speak.. If one thinks of Nigel Ayrton Niki Nelson and any other name from the 80s we have all heard their voices many times.. Maybe I am alone but it's just makes me smile.. After hearing him the first time it strikes me his accent is neither French nor Canadian. In many ways he has Nelsons mannerisms and almost same voice.. Warm regards Mike
The sad part is that we have some extreme talent in Canada but unfortunately we can't convince a sponsor to get on board to help bring them through. It's sad when you have a Canadian that just placed 3rd overall in the French F4 Series from Canada in their first year on a scholarship and there's no one willing to sponsor them.
I vaguely remember a newspaper article on Gilles in Montréal. He had been pulled over for speeding. He was doing 225 km/h on the highway 40 in Montreal with his Ferrari. That part of the highway is called the "Métropolitaine", it's an elevated road always full of traffic. If I remember correctly, the cops still gave him a speeding ticket.
As a Canadian, Gilles made me aware of F1, and drew me into the sport, but his death came before I could follow the sport closely enough to really be a fan. That would come in the age of Senna, and, and later for Jacques. This film is beautiful for its presentation of a relatively simple era, when drivers could decide if they needed to exercise or not!
If I didn't know better, I would've guessed that in that first interview, Gilles was being interview by the IRS! The interviewer was *really* interested in how Gilles spent his money. Fortunately, Gilles was nothing but a perfect gentleman. However, I can imagine quite a few drivers from his era, as well as a couple of current drivers answering "Well, for a start, it's none of your business how I spend my money."
Geez i saw these fools in Montreal.. gilles was another sena. But crazier . Driving that ferrari with a broken front wing in the rain in Montreal was epic .james said it epic talent
"A good grid position is vital in today's Formula 1 racing as overtaking is desperately difficult, especially with today's cars" The more things change the more they stay the same.
one of the few who was able to say in the face of Enzo that his Ferrari was a "sh*t box"!! a other time in a interview he said to a journalist " who care about Bernie Ecclestone, the FIA boss and all the "big shot".... people are here to see us drive and race each others".
He had a Ford Mustang and would race it for money on the streets in Quebec. He never lost his love for his Mustang or snowmobiling. Gilles Villeneuve: The Life of the Legendary Racing Driver Gerald Donaldson. Is the best book from anyone about F1 drivers. It's not an autobiography. There is no over exaggeration like so many F1 books. Instead you really get to know the man. I was in tears at the end.
Looking good for the off season content, i always wonder when watching Peter Windsor how he sees what the drivers are doing and maybe what to actually look for myself when watching the races, it would be cool to to do something like that, a class on how to interpret what we see, I'll watch a race but then have to go to pw to actually explain how everyone was driving and all the stuff I didn't notice
@@toeknee5464 Windsor is way overrated and does talk nonsense at times. I stopped subscribing to him when he said any of the Turbo drivers of Gilles' era could have done what he did at Jarama in 81 and that his win was nothing special.
It's crazy how I've been watching a lot of Gilles documentaries and interviews and I've never seen a minute of those clips.
Thanks for this marvellous video.
Cheers to all from Montreal
First driver I cried for when he passed away, last Ferrari driver I ever cheered for. Had the joy of watching him race in person at Long Beach 3 times. He was special.
I remember it was the first time I cried as a child after someone died.
I wish I could’ve experienced watching him in person he was one of the greats especially Canadian, I’m 21 so never saw him but have fallen in love with old school racing. His death was truly heartbreaking to see along with the many many others.
I watch this channel for the quality and unbiased opinion on videos but this just a few minutes in is top class.
We need more historical videos like this. Needs to be a series for 2025
Few more on the way...
"unbiased opinion" sorry mate I think you picked the wrong channel...
@LorenzoCorrado19 name one channel you think has an unbiased opinion
this is the best english language video interview of Gilles i've ever seen!
Thank you for this. Me being Canadian, this fills me with pride
Same here!!
He's the man who made F1 popular in Canada, unfortunately he's not here to see what he built.
Man was a legend to my papa. I was born in 82, and my papa used to tell me that Gilles would have 100% won that 82 title, and more. He is the one who instilled the love of Ferrari in me, and his stories of Gilles were what cemented it.
Thank you for sharing this heartwarming throwback. Here in Italy, the older Tifosi still worship him, and it's fair to say no other driver ever got into the Ferrari fans' hearts more than Villeneuve did. Couldn't avoid tearing up a bit while I was watching this interview, knowing he'd be dead in a year.
Ciao, da una grande tifosa di Gilles...indimenticabile.💯🇨🇦
This is absolute gold! I don't think I've ever seen him speak English before!
Merci! The Race. This brought up tears and fond memories. I was there when he won in Montreal, I remember when he drove half the race with his front wing obstructing his view!!!
He made us proud fellow Canadians and Enzo Ferrari was right to take him under his wing.
Salut Gilles! 🍁🇨🇦🍁
Not seen or heard such an interview of Gilles. Mesmerising like Gilles. Salute!
I always remember Jeremy Clarkson saying "When I saw Gilles drive, I thought no one could be better"
…Until Senna came along. 🤭
I always think of Ayrton Senna as a ‘much better Gilles Villeneuve’, more well-rounded.
“Giles was spectacular some of the time, Ayrton was spectacular all of the time” GC
@@bam_henry There's always one. Nah forget that, there's millions of insufferable Senna fans.
@@PG-20amongst his peers and alike to name a few of those insufferable fans
Senna always the king the legend the icon the master the #1 GOAT ❤❤❤
Great video thanks. Nice to see Nigel Roebuck. Fifth Column in Autosport was my weekly f1 'news feed' when I was growing up. I miss real f1 journalism when journos were free to call things how they saw them rather than having to tow the corporate line. I miss James Hunt for the same reason.
I remember him when I was a kid. He gave me my actual love for racing. As a Canadian, he's part of my best childhood memories.
So excited to watch this ❤ Gilles Forever
This is amazing! Don’t think (in the English language world at least) we have a Gilles interview on film like this. Enjoyed the interview with Nigel Roebuck as well and good to see his opinion never wavered, even during his lifetime he considered him amongst the greatest.
A parent being like their child is not really shocking but his mannerisms when speaking as so like Jacques.
Alan Henry doing the interviews.
This is good footage.
Thanks a million for posting!
This is such a great piece to show our hero in such a relaxed mood in his sing song Quebecois accent. Fantastic to get so much interview time. Heartbreaking to hear him say he hopes he doesn't get killed in racing. How could anyone know he'd have so little time left...
THE greatest imo. What he was able to achieve during the awful 78-82 ground effect era, which stifled much of his car control pyrotechnics, was incredible. Imagine what he could have done pre 78.
... or post Zolder.
What's funny though is that Ferrari won the constructors in both '79 and '82.
Still the greatest in my opinion, thanks for putting it up !!
What a driver Gilles was, the fastest and most exciting there’s ever been. Such a likeable man too. I would love it if he could race today, no one would stand a chance.
Great footage I've never seen before! In my opinion Gilles is one of the most talented, smart and charismatic F1 driver of all time. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for this and the Senna interview. Im 22, I have seen F1 since 2012, and fell in love with the sport because of a diecast collection a newspaper did around 2013, it brought the car and a mini magazine about the car and driver.
I really appreciate Netflix and Liberty Media, and F1TV has some amazing documentaries of the past BUT imo the best type of content are things like this, old Features, race highlights, and even if UA-cam is an amazing way of finding them, with the quality this and the Senna interview have is hard to find.
So thanks for mixing up our feed with things like this, also during the offseason is amazing.
My dad loves Gilles, that was transferred to me, and with the words from Alan Jones and James Hunt, as well as the TopGear Senna special in which Clarkson said he was a Gilles fan back then, I came to the conclusion we all love Gilles.
The 80s imo is an often forgotten era of F1, beacause the Lauda-Hunt duel is well documented, the Mansell-Prost-Piquet-Senna era as well, but that 77-83 period is full of amazing stories, amazing drivers, and sadly as well, a lot of those drivers tragedies, that are always part of F1, they are interesting in a very morbid way, we investage a lot about crashes and stuff like that, but to land my point: Gilles, Peroni, Arnoux, even World Champs like Alan Jones and imo even Keke Rosberg, sometimes to find good content of drivers from that 77-83ish era is rare, so thx The Race :)
Salut Gilles 🍁🇨🇦🍁
Down to earth character, no wonder he was loved by millions across the globe. And not only Ferrari fans. R.I.P. Gilles.
This is so wonderful. My childhood hero, so fantastic to see this.
My teenage hero and still my adult hero at 63
Same here, the bravest ever
@ViN-kr3ri No driver has caught the imagination like he did
Wow being a French Canadian myself, this upload warms my heart
My condolences
Gilles Villeneuve and Georges Saint Pierre - the French Canadians have absolute GOATs in the two best sports on the planet.
Wow! That was awesome! Great insight and interview with Gilles. My favourite driver ever. The greatest in my opinion too
First F1 race I watched on tv was his maiden win in Canada. We Canucks went crazy.
Yess, Canada 1978...magic Gilles
My Childhood Hero ! This interview is a treasure .
Fangio always said: " you always need to try to be the best, but never think of yourself like the best"
Great to see this, please give us more like this over the winter
17:12 - This is the most real interview. Fear for her husband disguised with a giggle and beautiful smile. God bless her. ❤
Thank you, great video. Gilles the DRIVER, the best and onest F1 driver. 💯🇨🇦🌹
RIP Gilles! I was only a few months old when this interview happened, so you were before my time, but still have respect!
Thanks so much for posting this video. Gilles was mt childhood hero. Salut Gilles!
Gilles was one of those guys, as the old man in Modena saw Nuvolari in him. Couldn't win at all times but tried hard
you could also remember another canadian kid from Maple Ridge who unfortunately passed away too soon and and never had an opportunity in F1, that one with raw speed and determination, named Greg Moore
Gilles driving around Berthierville . True madman
This took me back to the racing of the time. We didn't get much in the way of "behind the scenes" stuff back then. Thank you for finding it and sharing it with us.
Thank You for sharing. Viva Gilles
Oh this is a gem
I remember a contemporary of Gilles' (maybe Schekter) telling an anecdote about when he crashed out at Monaco. Gilles went flying past Jody's car, on the absolute limit, behind the safety car. Absolute lunatic but what a racer.
🙌 the will power this guy demonstrated on track is hallucinating! You can feel it just watching him drive! Nice to watch this and get to know him better.. he was before my time, i grew up watching Jacques!
Drivers like Gilles Villeneuve and Lorenzo Bandini have always interest me. From what I've heard, bith of them are great people so my respect for them has always been a lot.
Before there was Senna, there was Villeneuve.
My favourite driver of all time, thank you
Thank you so much for sharing this! Gilles was my childhood hero.
this and other f1 channels are keeping up cozy until the 2025 season. thank you!!
A truely magical man
Thank you for this. What a terrible loss.
What a treasure. THANK YOU for posting this!
what a time capsule!
Thank you. Best interview I’ve seen in English. Still my F1 hero.
Great upload
When God Gilles Villeneuve... I don't even know what unbelievable talent was in-stored for him...
I have been following F1 since 1983... Not a day goes by that I am not on the net.. It just struck me that this is the very first time I have heard Gilles speak.. If one thinks of Nigel Ayrton Niki Nelson and any other name from the 80s we have all heard their voices many times.. Maybe I am alone but it's just makes me smile.. After hearing him the first time it strikes me his accent is neither French nor Canadian.
In many ways he has Nelsons mannerisms and almost same voice.. Warm regards Mike
That’s because he’s neither french, or anglo canadian. He’s from Quebec and that accent is unique to the province.
I spent the summer of 1981 in Europe, watched Giles hold off the pack in Jarama, and Watson finish first at Silverstone, brilliant.
The sad part is that we have some extreme talent in Canada but unfortunately we can't convince a sponsor to get on board to help bring them through. It's sad when you have a Canadian that just placed 3rd overall in the French F4 Series from Canada in their first year on a scholarship and there's no one willing to sponsor them.
If only there was a wealthy Canadian involved in F1 who could support grassroots Canadian motorsport...
@alexraghunath Aston... Cough... Martin... Cough
I vaguely remember a newspaper article on Gilles in Montréal. He had been pulled over for speeding. He was doing 225 km/h on the highway 40 in Montreal with his Ferrari. That part of the highway is called the "Métropolitaine", it's an elevated road always full of traffic. If I remember correctly, the cops still gave him a speeding ticket.
What an amazing upload. Thank you!
Where has this been?!!! Outstanding!! Great feedback from his fellow drivers.
The best. Gone too soon.
James Hunt. What a class act that guy was!
More please :) I wish it was 1981 still, although I wasn't born...
Absolutely loved this video!
Top class video
Thanks a lot for this amazing video of Sr Gilles Villeneuve
Happy new year for all
Fantastic video
More of this please!
I still miss him,Great driver.
This is a great interview! Never seen before! Really interesting thanks for sharing
Brilliant insight into the past
As a Canadian, Gilles made me aware of F1, and drew me into the sport, but his death came before I could follow the sport closely enough to really be a fan. That would come in the age of Senna, and, and later for Jacques. This film is beautiful for its presentation of a relatively simple era, when drivers could decide if they needed to exercise or not!
Hearing James Hunt give such high praise makes it feel extra special given how brutally honest he could be.
and expression at 5.14 ....chills me to the bone.... what was that, just year before..
This incessible stuff for Gilles ‘s fan! Thanks for posting.
If I didn't know better, I would've guessed that in that first interview, Gilles was being interview by the IRS!
The interviewer was *really* interested in how Gilles spent his money.
Fortunately, Gilles was nothing but a perfect gentleman. However, I can imagine quite a few drivers from his era, as well as a couple of current drivers answering "Well, for a start, it's none of your business how I spend my money."
I mean is it anyone's business? I wouldn't care if any driver refused to answer.
Thank you chaps
Amazing commentary from Hunt on Gilles.
still... ♥
Gilles Villeneuve is the best Canadian ever. :)
well.... look at Léo Major!!!😏
@jean-rochdion4898 great soilder. :)
The race that was very good to watch well done
appreciate this upload thanks
Geez i saw these fools in Montreal.. gilles was another sena. But crazier . Driving that ferrari with a broken front wing in the rain in Montreal was epic .james said it epic talent
A great driver that is seldomly mentioned
Fantastic video 👍
Love this stuff would definitely watch more like it's. Maybe more on Gilles or Jackie Stewart. Maybe one on the Hill's would be cool to.
Thank you
phenomenal stuff. Bravo to everyone who had their hands in the making of this
"A good grid position is vital in today's Formula 1 racing as overtaking is desperately difficult, especially with today's cars"
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Merci!
Beautiful
A Ferrari driver saying he wants to buy some Fords for his car collection lol legendary
one of the few who was able to say in the face of Enzo that his Ferrari was a "sh*t box"!!
a other time in a interview he said to a journalist " who care about Bernie Ecclestone, the FIA boss and all the "big shot".... people are here to see us drive and race each others".
@@jean-rochdion4898
And now, Gilles' "big red Cadillac" will truly come to life with the Ferrari-engined Cadillac F1 entry.
He had a Ford Mustang and would race it for money on the streets in Quebec.
He never lost his love for his Mustang or snowmobiling.
Gilles Villeneuve: The Life of the Legendary Racing Driver Gerald Donaldson.
Is the best book from anyone about F1 drivers. It's not an autobiography.
There is no over exaggeration like so many F1 books.
Instead you really get to know the man. I was in tears at the end.
Such a shame that a programme like this could never be made in this day and age
Team's PR managers would lose their minds at some of the things said!
You bet it could. There is an audience that wants it.
@@thethirdman225 there is that, but if they ever tried something like this they would cut it to make it look like it's full of drama the whole time
@@HootMaRoot Then go and make your own and make a fortune.
More like this please
This is so cool
Enzo said he was the best driver he had ever seen. He was the best! A canadian legend.❤ Love this video.
i never knew that he had Walter Wolf´s heli
Now that was F1 journalism
Gilles, the ultimate racer. Peerless. Nigel Roebuck, the most eloquent scribe. Both hero’s.
Merci
Looking good for the off season content, i always wonder when watching Peter Windsor how he sees what the drivers are doing and maybe what to actually look for myself when watching the races, it would be cool to to do something like that, a class on how to interpret what we see, I'll watch a race but then have to go to pw to actually explain how everyone was driving and all the stuff I didn't notice
@@toeknee5464 Windsor is way overrated and does talk nonsense at times. I stopped subscribing to him when he said any of the Turbo drivers of Gilles' era could have done what he did at Jarama in 81 and that his win was nothing special.