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Jody Scheckter: “Gilles Villeneuve has won people’s hearts”

Teammate of Gilles Villeneuve at Ferrari during the 1979 and 1980 campaigns, the South African remembers a man who lived at 100 miles an hour, both on and off the track.

Published 08/05/2025 à 16:30

Julien BILLIOTTE

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Jody Scheckter: “Gilles Villeneuve has won people’s hearts”

Gilles Villeneuve and Jody Scheckter teammates at Ferrari in 1980 © DPPI

This interview with Jody Scheckter can be found in our Collector Gilles Villeneuve. 104 pages that retrace the Canadian's career! It is available in our online store in version paper.

Under what circumstances did you meet Gilles Villeneuve?

When I joined Ferrari In 1979, there was a chance I would end up alongside Carlos Reutemann. I spoke to him about it to tell him that we should work together, but in the end he left the team. Gilles was already

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Yves-Henri RANDIER

08/05/2025 at 07:35 a.m.

The only South African F1 World Champion, a spectacular driver in his early days, a nice man who has a very clear-eyed view of his career and perhaps regrets that his sons and nephews were not able to take up the torch in F1!

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