If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

It landed on a group of spectators watching the race from a prohibited area killing one spectator and a race marshal and injuring ten people. He finiGilles Villeneuved second on the road at the Italian Grand Prix although he was penalised a minute for jumping the start and ran second at the United States Grand Prix before his engine failed. Second he was the most genuine man I have ever known.

At the time of his death Villeneuve was extremely popular with fans and has since become an iconic figure in the history of the sport. He moved into single seaters winning the US and Canadian Formula Atlantic championships in 1976 before being offered a drive in Formula One with the McLaren team at the 1977 British Grand Prix. Villeneuve died in a 140 mph (225 km/h) crash caused by a collision with the March of Jochen Mass during qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder.