Gilles Villeneuve Vs Alan Jones - Dutch Grand Prix '79

[roccia965]

sad to think that everything that is beautiful in life is short

[LGMFerrari]

La Fórmula Uno, a veces, es muy injusta!!!

Cómo es que este "genio del volante"" no fue campeón del mundo?? Y algunos intrascendentes como Damon Hill o KK Rosberg sí lo fueron??

Imposible entenderlo!!!

[Audioquest56]

He was the best. Salut Gilles.

[Darkapprentice71]

R.I.P Zandvoort

[gaet450ltr]

Le meilleur pilote!

[poussyledzep]

give me more VILLENEUVE PLZ!!!

[SuedeSavage]

SALUT GILLES ! From Italy.

[pielindo]

Sorpassi da brivido sempre nella massima correttezza... non credo che nessun altro saprà fare qualcosa del genere :-(

[RedhotIta1]

@pielindo Eh Già Che si può fare :((( Villeneuve ha chiuso l'era dei piloti "Romantici". va beh era mai le macchine sono troppo evolute nemmeno Gilles potrà fare cose del genere con le F1 2010

[lfaltoni]

@RedhotIta1 E' vero:le F1 di trent'anni fa' sono antidiluviane rispetto a quelle di oggi,ma almeno in TV non ti annoiavi,oggi un sorpasso del genere si puo' solo sognare.....

[DeanoTheLegend87]

This overtake is made even better when you consider how superior the Williams was compaired to the Ferrari by that point of the season.

[lazerpod66]

@DeanoTheLegend87 Yep, the FW07 was the absolute best ground effect car of the period,but you can thank the flat12 for all that torque available at the exit of Tarzan.

[lazerpod66]

Villeneuve, a true legend, outook Jones on the outside of Tarzan, of all places.....He had balls of steel, really a supernatural driver along the lines of Senna, Jim Clark, these people show up on earth once every 20 years and even then....

[shabang71]

what an incredible overtaking!!

[DennisofLowestoft]

Wasn't this the race where he drove back to the pits with only half a car because of a puncture?

[scomyo3]

jones was good but gilles was easily the most crowd pleasing driver of his era ,crazy with amazing car control, you know what they say there are bold drivers and old drivers but no old bold drivers r.i.p. gilles

[saulocpp]

Jackie Stewart, Jack Brabham, Stirling Moss, Jacky Ickx are old bold drivers... to name a few.

[scomyo3]

i stand corrected but they are rare

[idak12]

The 81gp at vegas proves just how good Jones was as a driver, far out in front of Piquet, Reutaman.

[Tuscopa]

And If he hadn´t had so many car failures that year he could have won the world championship. He was very good indeed.

[11johnnydumfries]

jones the best!!!!

[suspendingdisbelief1]

FORZA GILLES.

[wiiagre]

Concordo, veramente un SIGNOR PILOTA.

[ostryer61]

"Gilles was the last great driver," Alain Prost said a year after the French-Canadian's death. "The rest of us are just a bunch of good professionals."

[ChraftShaft]

True! Stirling Moss, Ronnie Peterson and last Gilles Villeneuve.

Insane overtaking on the outside!!! What a driver...

[slimv29]

@ostryer61 yes, he couldve been the canadian phil hill, and have more wins than his son ever had.

[FlavioCapimba]

Quel merde est Allan Jones, "closing the door" ...

[5150UK]

Yes, Alan Jones was so shit that he won a world championship.

[FlavioCapimba]

Please, compare the behaviour of Villeneuve and Arnoux in a duel, Dijon-Prenois, 1979, two FAIR pilots ... Closing the door shows lack of fair play ... remember the duel Andretti X Hunt, Zandvoort 1977 and the crash.

[QOTSAPT]

@5150UK with an incredible car but he wwasnt a great driver

[indigoblue555]

Vill.does overtake on the outside!

Superb feeling with the car.Jones plays correctly =

[rosun82]

I think when Alan Jones saw GV is around him, he just let him by because the race is towards the end. If that is not Alan Jones, GV might be in the gravel

[pauliemafia27]

Immenso, un grande

[pauliemafia27]

Immenso, un grande

[CoenP]

Great overtaking, the Tarzan corner is a briljant corner, along with the incredible fast 'Scheivlak' (the only corner on the world with it's own website!)

[Ziltoid667]

How in the fuck can a driver who can overtake someone like Alan Jones around the OUTSIDE be overated? You don't know shit! Fancy that.

[BlueFox284]

In a car that was considered inferior too. . .

[AlexDeLarge90]

actually the Ferrari was a lot more powerful and faster on the straights,not to mention it was more reliable

the Williams was the best chassis

[Sebbio149]

Villeneuve was crazy,overated driver,following year Alan Jones was champion,fancy that.

[therrydicule]

@Sebbio149 Crazy yes, overated no. He was overdriving the car too often, but he was still able to keep the car together: you need a lot of talents to do that in F1. The compromise is the norm in F1; it's a points championship so crashing out don't pay ;) Gilles Villeneuve was there only to win. This is why you see so many DNF with him and that his reputation seem overated for his result.

Don't get me wrong, Jones was a truth champion, just that Villeneuve was just another species.

[SuperColossal33]

@therrydicule It's difficult for anyone now who was never alive to understand why Villeneuve was so great. But you need to look no further than his opponents. Never has any driver in any form of motorsport gathered the respect and compliments from his rivals as Gilles did.

Everything he did was so on the edge, but he never put another driver in danger, blocked, squeezed or anything like that. Every driver that was ever on the track with him will tell you he was the fastest driver ever in F1.

[therrydicule]

@SuperColossal33 Well, I say the opponent opinion are subjective a bit... I prefer to look the race. It is true that he was on the edge, might even call that reckless. Then what? This is racing...

However, it is visible that he was respecting other driver. Even here: "Gilles" did not need that much rooms at 0:13, but I bet Jones was more than happy with that - I know that in online games, many trolls try similar overtake crash both car so I really like when they take that extra space.

[mhy249]

g villeneuve was quite clearly the best most skillfull,most exiting and daring driver ever to grace F1..

[villeneuve2fast4you]

villeneuve the best ever

[wankel1984]

I know,but in 1979 there were team orders only when scheckter was clearly favourite for the world championship....and I don't want to remember how sad was 1982 season...

[wankel1984]

'79 ferrari was very competitive but gilles did too many mistakes and the championship was won by teammate scheckter...altought gilles was great!!

[rupertberr]

Villeneuve was under team orders not to pass Scheckter. No orders and he would have been Champion in 79. One of the reasons he was so upset at San Marino in 82. He played the game when he was number two and when he became Ferrari's team leader he expected the same. Pironi passed Villeneuve on the last lap when they both were told to hold station to guarantee a 1-2 finish. Villenueve died at the next race.

[F1jason123]

The agreement was, whoever won in monaco, would be favored for the championship.

[scomyo3]

how about 1980 when he was always faster then scheckter in a very uncompetitive car?

[basskoo]

Villeneuve never was a champ because he didn't have competitive car and died early. ;)

[ian7796]

Her was going to win 82, without a doubt. And I bet McLaren or Williams would have bagged him the second his contract with Ferrari ended, too. It would have been legendary seeing him, Senna and Mansell dancing around Monacco together.

[AlexDeLarge90]

He was apparently angry at Ferrari for favoring Pironi in 1982 and some evidence says Villeneuve was going to McLaren for 1983. Imagine him instead of Prost in the dominant McLaren-TAG of 1984-1985??

[Plan9Kart]

The real inside line was that Gilles would have been with Williams in '83. Ferrari always favored Gilles, and Enzo considered Gilles as a son. Pironi was just the prototype of what fills most professional fields today...an average driver with hefty corporate backing, and was brought on for his healthy infusion of sponsor money. Gilles made Pironi feel immediately at home at Ferrari, just to get backstabbed by Pironi at Imola.

[AlexDeLarge90]

I agree about Pironi. He was one of the most overrated drivers in the history of Formula 1. He was beaten by Jacques Laffite in his Ligier days.

A few years ago I read the top 100 list of all drivers of all time and they put Pironi ahead of Hakkinen. How could anybody place Pironi ahead of Hakkinen? Schumacher himself always said Hakkinen was the fastest of his rivals.

[McLarenMercedes]

Who Villeneuve or Jones? Jones was champion in 1980, Villeneuve never was champ.

[tobachiya]

the best driver ever!

[mazdaspeedrx7]

i love this driver

[Ruivb]

Very good