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If Steven Spielberg had storyboarded the 1982 Formula One World Championship, it still wouldn't have done justice to the tragedy and drama that unfolded. Politics threatened to rip the sport apart, ...

On the 25th anniversary of Villeneuve's passing, racing fans around the world still remember exactly where they were when they heard the news. On May 8th, 1982, the legendary Gilles Villeneuve died at ...

Motor racing has punished its heroes more than most, though it’s vastly safer now than it once was. Thirty years ago, things could still go savagely wrong, and on 8 May 1982, during the final minutes ...

It was on this day back in 1982 that Canadian race car driver tragically lost his life during the Saturday qualifying session of the Grand Prix of Belgium in Zolder. Near the end of the session, ...

This weekend's Miami Grand Prix takes place on May 8, which marks 40 years to the day since Canadian racing driver Gilles Villeneuve tragically lost his life. The Ferrari driver was killed in a crash ...

A former Formula 1 driver was commemorated on his death anniversary on Friday. Scuderia Ferrari, to give homage to their former Canadian racing driver, said on Twitter: "38 years on from that tragic ...

Gilles Villeneuve won only six Formula 1 races, but still he is considered one of the best drivers in history Auto123 tips its hat to Gilles Villeneuve, on the 38th anniversary of his death on the ...

It has been more than 30 years to the fateful day at Zolder, when Gilles Villeneuve died during the qualifying for the 1982 Belgium Grand Prix, but the legend still lives on. The Canadian driver raced ...

If Steven Spielberg had storyboarded the 1982 Formula One World Championship, it still wouldn't have done justice to the tragedy and drama that unfolded. Politics threatened to rip the sport apart, ...