It's just over a month until the 25th anniversary of Gilles Villeneuve's death. I was reading a magazine tonight and it had a nice piece on the great Canadian racer. It mentioned the classic late-race scrap for second between Villeneuve and Rene Arnoux in the '79 French GP at Dijon.
There are many YouTube videos of the race, ranging from a two-minute clip (set to music) to a 10-minute piece voiced by Murray Walker.
My favourite is this one (in German). It's almost 5 minutes long. You can hear the excitement and feel the cars and the French fans as they cheered for their countryman Arnoux.
This duel is considered by many to be possibly the best in the history of F1. I'm not enough of a historian to say if it is or isn't. But it sure is fun to watch.
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