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14 March 2021 • 11:47am
He wore it lightly, but there were moments when the vast sweep of Murray Walker’s life left even his admirers in awe. One evening at a restaurant in Wanne, a hilltop village near the Spa-Francorchamps circuit where he had watched countless Belgian Grands Prix, he described to assembled journalists how, in 1945, he had driven a tank along the local roads during the Battle of the Bulge. Most of those present knew this corner of the Ardennes forest solely through the noise of Formula One engines, but Walker remembered a time when it had been ablaze with shot and shell.
Had things panned out differently, January 18, 2021 would have marked the 71st birthday of Gilles Villeneuve. The French-Canadian driver only competed in six seasons of Formula 1, and won just six times – and yet his extrovert driving style and never-surrender attitude mean he is still sorely missed by F1 fans today.
Lap 4 of the 1981 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, and Villeneuve has just clouted the fiddly chicane at Woodcote. Carnage ensues, as Villeneuve spins into the catch fencing and eventual retirement, taking Williams’ Alan Jones and Alfa Romeo’s Andrea de Cesaris – who’d both been unable to avoid the French-Canadian’s rotating Ferrari 126CK – with him. The crash was, to all intents and purposes, Villeneuve’s fault.