Stunning Photo Of Piers Courage

here are some of my favourite facts about the most equivocally ferrari driver to ever exist, gilles villeneuve.

instead of karting, he made his start in snowmobile racing which is why he was so rapid in corners and ballsy in the wet.

he mortgaged his house to buy a helicopter that he flew to races. to announce his arrival to the paddock he would do a fly-by as low to the ground as possible.

when he wasn’t flying helicopters he used to park his road cars by doing a 180° skid into the parking spot which drove enzo ferrari MAD.

once he drag raced his 1981 car (big red cadillac my beloved) against a supersonic airfighter, won and did a bunch of high speed doughnuts at the end of the runway.

this one time he took a couple of his sponsors on a joyride around toronto in one of their shitbox sedans. he literally went on verges and shit to go past traffic.

he played the trumpet bc why not.

literally just the entire zandfoort saga. crazy little man.

also i cannot express this enough; EVERYONE loved him. literally the drivers, team bosses, mechanics, you name it. the og small chaotic pleasant guy of the grid. we miss you gilles and ferrari are still not over you!!

jimmy!!! :D lovelove how this turned out :p

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everybody quiet i'm thinking about how jackie stewart didn't want to get attached to other drivers but he couldn't resist becoming françois' friend and then he lost him and years later he met didier pironi and told him to always contact him before making career-altering decisions because he wanted to help him and eventually he lost didier too

tumblr is messing with me but i WILL post this seb study

Yknow if you think hard enough, The Bird Song by Noah Floersch can absolutely make reference to Villeroni, Prosenna and Brocedes just hear me out about this-

MASTEN GREGORY at the 1962 FRENCH GRAND PRIX

Classic F1 - Hot to go

Some of my recent unposted works

FRANÇOIS CEVERT, 1972

I really want to make more tumblr moots, so reblog with your faves please. Or reblog if we have the same faves!