Gilles Villeneuve: The Life of the Legendary Racing Driver - Hardcover

Donaldson, Gerald

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9780771028465: Gilles Villeneuve: The Life of the Legendary Racing Driver

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0771028466 ISBN 13: 9780771028465

Publisher: Motorbooks Intl, 1990

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A driver whose skill and daring personified the ideals of Grand Prix racing, The pinnicle of motor sport. With his flamboyanyly aggressive, press-on-regardless style in his scarlet Ferrari, he captured the imagination of a vast international audience as no other driver has in recent times. His popularity has grown since his terrible death during qualifying at Zolder in Belguim on May 8, 1982.Canada's Grand Prix circuit, in Montreal, is named after him and there are statues commemorating him in Europe where he is revered as one of the greatest racing heroes in the history of the sport.

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Review:

"Donaldson has delivered the ultimate tribute to a remakable sportsman." (Daily Telegraph)

"Meticulously researched, finely structured to a remarkable sportsman." (The Times)

"A quite brilliant book. This is, without doubt, the best motor racing book this reviewer has ever read." (Autosport)

"It is true to say that I had great difficulty in putting this book down. Don't miss it." (Murray Walker)

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Gilles Villeneuve became a legend in his own time, a driver whose skill and daring personified the ideals of Grand Prix racing, the pinnacle of motor sport.
With his flamboyantly aggressive, press-on-regardless style in his scarlet Ferrari, he captured the imagination of a vast international audience as no other driver has in recent times.
His tremendous fighting spirit and pure passion for driving produced so much high drama and deeply felt emotion that Villeneuve became one of the greatest sporting heroes. His enduring legend owes much to its classic elements of tragedy, for he was a charming young man of humble origins who achieved undreamed of fame and fortune by givign his all to the sport that ultimately took his life.

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