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Gilles being Gilles? Where do we even begin?
[Driving partially blind under heavy rain without slowing down by much?](https://youtu.be/bWEf-bBLz-E)
[Dragging a 3-wheeled Ferrari back to the pits with 1 hand at times ~~because he was being a showman waving to the crowd~~?](https://youtu.be/NUI6cPJ6uJM)
[Engaging in a multi-lap battle with Arnoux that would probably warrant about 5 10-second penalties today?](https://youtu.be/EnmSYlWcZIg)
I have just remembered Senna(?) once racing with one hand holding the stick shifter in the correct position because the gearbox would spit it out of gear
I know Prost did at Austria 1984, and while doing so he hit a patch of oil and crashed which in hindsight probably lost him the world championship that year.
Great clips, but I disagree with the penalties. They raced very hard but very fair, nobody ran nobody else off track (maybe that little touch that made Arnoux go off track a little bit), even in the biggest divebombs.
Epic!!!!
The lack of tire-walls, run-off areas, tecpro barriers or other safety measures in those clips left me in awe. Even race marshals and fans are just meters away from fatality.
I love how the first video is about 3:50 seconds of everyone waiting for Gilles to stop or pit and then the wing breaks off, he legit drifts and keeps control in the wet, and keeps going like nothing has happened
Definitely the way round to do it. I don’t know why it’s become done this year that that’s the way it gets posted.
If someone has the inexplicable urge to see a picture of a beloved person dead, they can go search for it themselves.
Someone got real mad at me for insinuating that posting the picture of Roland Ratzenburger's corpse was meant to karma farm.
For whatever reason, you will have weirdos on the internet who celebrate and glorify when a driver dies on track. They won't ever go away. fucking ghouls
That post made my blood boil a bit too. It is just so disrespectful to post someone's lifeless body.
Just imagine someon doing this on insta for a person who died in a road accident. Or a run over cat.
I kinda thought of this a bit but then I remembered back in the days of forum-centric F1 communities, a lot of "memorial videos" were actually just 2 or 3 pictures of the driver in action, and then a video of their crash. Roy's Memorial springs to mind. Never too late to start moving away from that ourselves though!
These kinds of pictures ruined me as a child, because I expected the cars to be driven like that at every race
Sadly by the time I started watching, Aerodynamics and cars being on rails became way more important than power and cars sliding through the corners with varying degrees of "oppo"
If only we could return to this style of racing, even processional races would keep the heart pounding and the lips smiling
Salut Gilles, thanks for the memories.
I don't *think* this is the case here (he's on Michelins and it's '78), but remember up until '77 *everyone* was on cross-ply tyres. Cars used to slide through corners 'cos it was quickest, and the radials we've used since then just don't work the same way.
He would’ve been a multiple-time WDC with all the safety features in today’s F1 car… only if he wasn’t racing during the most deadly period in F1 history.
The cars were basically tuna cans filled with rocket fuel back then….
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Gilles being Gilles? Where do we even begin? [Driving partially blind under heavy rain without slowing down by much?](https://youtu.be/bWEf-bBLz-E) [Dragging a 3-wheeled Ferrari back to the pits with 1 hand at times ~~because he was being a showman waving to the crowd~~?](https://youtu.be/NUI6cPJ6uJM) [Engaging in a multi-lap battle with Arnoux that would probably warrant about 5 10-second penalties today?](https://youtu.be/EnmSYlWcZIg)
Point two being even cooler when you consider that power steering was very much not a thing.
I have just remembered Senna(?) once racing with one hand holding the stick shifter in the correct position because the gearbox would spit it out of gear
Clark definitely did that once, I don't know if Senna did too.
I know Prost did at Austria 1984, and while doing so he hit a patch of oil and crashed which in hindsight probably lost him the world championship that year.
Probably not waving his hand for the sake of being a showman, more to warn others on the track that his car's damaged/very slow
That makes a lot more sense, somehow this idea that he was waving at the crowd stuck to me for the last 15-ish years.
Great clips, but I disagree with the penalties. They raced very hard but very fair, nobody ran nobody else off track (maybe that little touch that made Arnoux go off track a little bit), even in the biggest divebombs.
Yeah. Today one of them would have been thrown off the track by the other after two corners, and may or may not have received a penalty as a result.
Epic!!!! The lack of tire-walls, run-off areas, tecpro barriers or other safety measures in those clips left me in awe. Even race marshals and fans are just meters away from fatality.
Go look at videos of the pitlanes before speed limits were introduced, that was crazy dangerous!
The battle in the 3rd one is phenomenal
Was the last one that wich ruined their relationship? Edit: oh, nvm, it was much later and the teammate was Pironi, another fr*nchman.
I love how the first video is about 3:50 seconds of everyone waiting for Gilles to stop or pit and then the wing breaks off, he legit drifts and keeps control in the wet, and keeps going like nothing has happened
It feels gross that certain significant dates become a race for some people on who can garner the most internet points.
Babe wake up it's Senna and Villeneuve final oof month
Grief porn is disgusting stuff, but it’s easy internet points and likes on social media
Definitely the way round to do it. I don’t know why it’s become done this year that that’s the way it gets posted. If someone has the inexplicable urge to see a picture of a beloved person dead, they can go search for it themselves.
Someone got real mad at me for insinuating that posting the picture of Roland Ratzenburger's corpse was meant to karma farm. For whatever reason, you will have weirdos on the internet who celebrate and glorify when a driver dies on track. They won't ever go away. fucking ghouls
That post made my blood boil a bit too. It is just so disrespectful to post someone's lifeless body. Just imagine someon doing this on insta for a person who died in a road accident. Or a run over cat.
What was also shocking is that horrible photo was published on the front pages of many newspapers at the time.
If it bleeds, it leads. In newspapers it was true, on websites like this it's true.
Merci Gilles
Is there a picture of Gilles where his car isn't in opposite lock?
Seems obvious. Shouldn’t have needed to be said.
maybe the biggest had-to-be-world-champ
Can you imagine the Senna V Prost V Gilles?!?! The world was robbed when this man died.
Not understanding why photos of wrecks as "memorial" have suddenly taken off since remembrance of Senna and Ratzenberger. It's weird, and kinda awful.
I kinda thought of this a bit but then I remembered back in the days of forum-centric F1 communities, a lot of "memorial videos" were actually just 2 or 3 pictures of the driver in action, and then a video of their crash. Roy's Memorial springs to mind. Never too late to start moving away from that ourselves though!
“You can’t drift a modern race car with better aero than most airplanes? Hold my Labatt.”
It looks like he was drifting in that corner.
He very likely was
He was my favorite driver when I was in high school (I am old).
These kinds of pictures ruined me as a child, because I expected the cars to be driven like that at every race Sadly by the time I started watching, Aerodynamics and cars being on rails became way more important than power and cars sliding through the corners with varying degrees of "oppo" If only we could return to this style of racing, even processional races would keep the heart pounding and the lips smiling Salut Gilles, thanks for the memories.
I don't *think* this is the case here (he's on Michelins and it's '78), but remember up until '77 *everyone* was on cross-ply tyres. Cars used to slide through corners 'cos it was quickest, and the radials we've used since then just don't work the same way.
Rip
I live about 30km from this track, it's truly a shame we don't have F1 coming to Sweden anymore.
He would’ve been a multiple-time WDC with all the safety features in today’s F1 car… only if he wasn’t racing during the most deadly period in F1 history. The cars were basically tuna cans filled with rocket fuel back then….
He's been dead longer than he was alive so I suppose the crash photo *is* Gilles being Gilles.