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11 Oct 2017, 17:47 (Ref:3773730) | #51 | |||
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I stand by my Villeneuve view - and that puts me in a minority I know. He made far too many mistakes and lived in the moment even if on his day he was sublime. The Jimi Hendrix of drivers . But let's remember this is all just idle opinion expressed by one anorak to another , and not an assertion of fact. So lets play nicely eh ? |
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There was hardly anything nasty in there, merely a shock of rating one driver over another, when the tide is heavily not on your favour.
Gilles I think in the right car would have been perfectly boring and monotonous at winning!! But he never really had that privilege, not until 82, even in 79 he had to work like hell and those cars were evil anyway! I think my views of Ickx have been tainted by his opinions I have seen in interviews, wasn't he very critical of Jackie on his safety crusade? Something I personally think is rather ill judged at best. When he probably benefitted from it in later years |
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Ickx admitted he didn't really think about racing away from the track and so that's probably why he never quite reached the highs he did early in his F1 career later on. Probably his best race was the 1974 Race of Champions, proving his wet weather skills again
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I think that there are drivers who would certainly not have been unworthy champions if the luck had run their way - off the top of my head, Ickx, Peterson, Reutemann, Pironi, Barrichello. Maybe Alboreto. But I will go in to bat for Tony Brooks, a genuinely world-class driver with talent to spare.
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I found these b/w highlights, with French commentary; prendre plaisir! https://youtu.be/AVCM8lu5eow |
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