Gilles Villeneuve: A Photographic Portrait

Gilles Villeneuve: A Photographic Portrait

by Nigel Roebuck (Author), Quentin Spurring (Photographer)

Synopsis

Gilles Villeneuve was the quintessential racing driver - brave, dashing and passionate. He had a raw, untamed talent for controlling a racing car at its limit, and is one of the few truly iconic drivers. His epic last-lap struggle with Rene Arnoux in the 1979 French GP and his lap on three wheels at Zandvoort the same year have passed into motor racing folklore. This superbly produced book brings Villeneuve's career vividly to life through stunning images sourced exclusively from the archives of LAT, the world's biggest library of motor racing photographs.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: J H Haynes & Co Ltd
Published: 21 Jun 2007

ISBN 10: 1844256308
ISBN 13: 9781844256303

Author Bio
Nigel Roebuck (born in 1946, in Manchester, Lancashire, England) is an English journalist. Since 1971 he has reported on Formula One, and is considered one of the sport's most influential writers. Roebuck continues to write for Autosport, plus Autoweek in the USA and a retrospective column in Motorsport magazine. His flowing, laconic and self effacing style is matched only by its insightfulness, honesty and humor, and occasional, heavy-handed reference to UK party politics. In 1982 Roebuck drove a Formula One Renault turbo at Circuit Paul Ricard in France.