Ferrari Mailing List: Re: 25 years on

[francis newman (francis]

Hi Pat

As I wrote that I noticed I had 27 unread posts on ferrarilist. Maybe  
Gilles is smiling on me :-)

best

Francis

On 9 May 2007, at 00:14, francis newman wrote:

> Hi Pat
>
> Yes. I posted the same to some other lists today.
>
>  "Gilles was the last great driver," Prost said a year after the  
> French-Canadian's death. "The rest of us are just a bunch of good  
> professionals."
>
> Jacques Laffite, another contemporary, put it a different way.
>
> "No human being can do miracles, you know, but Gilles made you  
> wonder," he said.
>
>
>
> Niki Lauda said "I liked Gilles even more than I admired him. He  
> was the best - and fastest - racing driver in the world".
>
>
>
> Watkins Glen 1979: During an extremely wet practice session for  
> this race, Villeneuve set a time 11 seconds faster than any other  
> driver. His team-mate Jody Scheckter, who was second fastest,  
> recalled that "I scared myself rigid that day. I thought I had to  
> be quickest. Then I saw Gilles's time and - I still don't really  
> understand how it was possible. Eleven seconds!"
>
>
>
>
>
> Nigel Roebuck - Autosport magazine
>
> "Quite apart from his superlative ability in a racing car, he was a  
> charming man, who never changed with fame and fortune. Polite,  
> honest and straightforward, he had a tremendous sense of humour and  
> a simple love of life. His attitude to motor racing was  
> unfashionably romantic. In a bland, commercial, world, he loved it  
> for its own sake. The jet set made him cringe, and he had an  
> instinctive abhorrence of anything bogus. For me, and, I suspect,  
> many thousands of others, the light has gone out in motor racing."
>
>
>
> Gone - but never forgotten
>
>
>
> best
>
>
>
> Francis
>
>
>
>
> On 8 May 2007, at 23:18, Pat Scopelliti wrote:
>
> > We seem to have overlooked this.
> >
> >
> >
> > 25 years ago today Gilles Villeneuve was killed at Zolder in Belgium.
> >
> >
> >
> > I know where I was and what I was doing when I heard the news.
> >
> >
> >
> > See http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=39149
> > <http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=39149&PO=39149>  
> > &PO=39149
> >
> >
> >
> > "He was a poet of a driver"
> >
> >
> >
> > Pat
> >
> >
> >
> > Pat Scopelliti
> >
> > pscopell [at] stny.rr.com
> >
> > 607-731-8584
> >
> >
> >
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