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I hesitated so
much to do this.

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I don't want it to be hurtful
to anyone.

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But this story
is about a very deep betrayal.

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It is hurtful...

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...to a lot of people.

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The story of Gilles Didier...

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It's complicated.

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So many people don't know the truth.

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Two friends
trying to be the greatest.

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But destiny decides something else.

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Young Quebec driver
Gilles Villeneuve

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was fastest qualifier,
breaking the track record

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by over a second.

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I met him when I was sixteen.

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Being so young I didn't have
much references to go by.

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You met on a blind date, right?

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Well that's a long story,
blind date and all of that...

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we'll have to go on for hours
on that.

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Gilles was the kind of person
that you fell in love with

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for his mind and his passion.

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She decided to buy the package.

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Well she had to,
she didn't have the choice.

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He was a natural born racer.

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We were just two kids from Quebec.

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We had no money.

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I got pregnant...

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...and then we got married.

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He came home one day
and said, "We're moving".

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Well, I sold the house.

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He said, "I've bought myself
a ride in Formula Atlantic".

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The winner...
Gilles Villeneuve!

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The only thing that I wanted
was that I would be there

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with him all the time.

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And he got to be with the kids.

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A lot of the memories I have
of my dad are very short moments.

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Gilles Villeneuve wins
the Player's Maritime.

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Did you imagine them?
It's all smiles...

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Is it what people have told you?

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Is it pictures you've seen?

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It all gets mixed up.

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But I remember that it was fun.

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The racetrack was a playground.

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You're just bathing
in this environment,

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and that's all you know,
and you love it.

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I would like to thank each
and every one of you

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for coming here today
and supporting...

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It was great being with him.

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When you're a kid you don't really
understand what speed is.

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All you know is that it's fun,
so you just want him

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to go faster all the time.

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There was a Formula Atlantic
race in Three Rivers.

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European Formula One drivers
would come in to the race.

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I went over there and raced
against him and got thrashed.

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You didn't have to be much of a
brain surgeon to spot his talent.

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That was a life changing moment.

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We get a phone call, there was
someone on the line saying

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"Who is this kid that drives
snowmobiles?

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I would like to see him".

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It was Enzo Ferrari.

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At that time in '77...

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...I was the only
woman in the racing department.

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And I was the only English person.

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I had 199 men and me
and I had a whale of a time.

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Enzo Ferrari...
The Old Man, we called him.

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He was a fearsome character.

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Ferrari doesn't normally
take a chance on a driver at all.

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Enzo just saw something in Gilles.

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The pressure from the start
was immense.

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Considering his astonishing lack
of experience,

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Gilles embraced
being a Ferrari driver.

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He was immensely spectacular.

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Gilles Villeneuve... Triumph!

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His first win was his home
Grand Prix.

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His mum and dad were in the crowd...

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...It was like a dream world.

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Canada hadn't had a Grand Prix
winner before.

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Phwoar.

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It was terrific! It surely must be
the biggest day of your life?

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Yeah, it's the biggest day.

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Gilles would drive as hard for
fifth place as he would for a win.

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He had this daredevil persona.

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Across the world
the spectators loved him.

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My name is Alan Jones, I just won...

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...and I'm sitting
next to Gilles Villeneuve!

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At the end of the season in 1980...

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...we met with a driver

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who was going to be next year's
teammate for Gilles.

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This feeling overcame me...

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woman's intuition, I guess.

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I said to Gilles,
"You should be very wary of him".

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"What you see is not what
you're going to get".

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I met Didier, I was 18,
Didier was 21.

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He was a charming racer
with beautiful eyes.

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Wonderful smile, blonde hair.
A real gentleman.

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But with the women... Pfft!

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He has had a reputation
to be with lots of girls.

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Lots of seduction, lots of charisma.

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When I met him there was a spark.

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But nothing happened.
We just stayed friends.

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Didier grew up outside of Paris.

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It was a wealthy family.

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He had had a very good education.

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Didier was sophisticated, intelligent.

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He was a hugely ambitious competitor.

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He went through
the Renault system...

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...and then Formula Three,
Formula Two...

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Wherever he was in the world,
Didier called his mother every day.

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She was always very strong.

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She said to Didier "I let you race".

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"But you have to come first".

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Didier think that destiny
doesn't exist.

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Everyone can make his own destiny.

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If you were talking to him,
his manner was almost timid.

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But beneath the surface...

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...there was steel.

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At Ligier he had often been
fearsomely quick.

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Didier was the logical driver
for Ferrari to go for.

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Gilles represented passion
and flare and emotion.

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He had a huge natural ability.
And now a massive global following.

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Didier was a courageous racing
driver. More analytical.

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His focus was laser-like
on his aspirations

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to win a World Championship.

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Eleonora Vallone!

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They are strong in their head,
they are strong in their body,

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and they are very charismatic.

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Being with them, on the edge
all the time.

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It's amazing adrenaline.

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Do you have any special friends
in racing?

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Gilles and Didier... My boys.

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Together they were terrible.

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I was friends with Didier
and Gilles.

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They were unbelievably competitive
about the speed.

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You could think that Gilles
would be the craziest.

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He was not,
Didier was much, much worse.

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They all had licences to fly
and they should never have been

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allowed to be in the cockpit.

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Didier went to Ferrari genuinely believing

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he was the fastest driver
in the world.

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He was aware though that Ferrari
had become very much

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Gilles Villeneuve's team.

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Through 1981, Ferrari
had this terrible, terrible car.

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Gilles was routinely quicker
than Didier.

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With a difficult car,
Gilles was always amazing.

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He was like a magician.

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At Monaco, Gilles was on
the front row...

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...and won the race.

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Didier was two rows from the back.

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Didier realised through that year...

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"I've not had a teammate
like this before."

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Ready when you are.
Right, OK, I'm going.

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Gilles, how can you be so cheerful
at the end of a race like that?

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Gilles had a lovely sense of humour.

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There wasn't a malicious bone
in his body.

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Gilles was somebody that I really
appreciate on the human side.

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He was humble, honest.

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And in a car he was very fast,
but very fair.

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He was able to do unbelievable things.

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That was Gilles.

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Gilles was one of the most
charismatic drivers...

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...in the history of motorsport.

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Italy fell in love with him instantly.

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Gilles was their driver.

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He was just a normal guy.

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He took his family around with him.

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My dad had moved his motorhome
to Europe.

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He wanted us all to be together.

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So we basically lived out
of that motorhome,

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driving to every
European Grand Prix.

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We were the gypsies of Formula One.

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The family life for him
was grounding.

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And that was endearing
to the people.

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They could see themselves in him.

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Enzo Ferrari's son, Dino, died in
his twenties of muscular dystrophy.

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The effect on Enzo was devastating.

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He never got over that.

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He used to go every morning
to the cemetery to salute his son.

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It's very difficult to say with
The Old Man

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exactly what his feelings were
with people.

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He was more interested
in the machine than the drivers.

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But if he took somebody under his
wing, he would be super loyal.

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Compared with his fellow drivers,
Gilles stood out.

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Enzo adored him.

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They had a beautiful friendship. For
Gilles, Enzo was this father figure.

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And Enzo saw Gilles
as a spiritual son.

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My dad was my hero when I was a kid.

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But once we got to Europe
and then Ferrari...

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...life really changed.

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Jacques was a boy and so for my dad,
a boy doesn't cry

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or a boy has to be
a little bit tougher.

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He wasn't involving me.

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So my mother often would force him
to bring me along.

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The memory I have
of going to Ferrari

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is just sitting atop of a tree.

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I would sit all day
just watching him drive.

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He was very hard on Jacques.

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Melanie was Daddy's girl.

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She could do no wrong.

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But Jacques had to be the perfect boy.

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Gilles thought that if he pushed hard,

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he was going to perform better.

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I had migraines continuously.

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I was really worried also,
I was stressed with him racing.

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I was just needing a father.

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His life was 24/7 what he was
in a Formula One car.

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He was a very selfish man.

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But for him, that sole focus...

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...that's what he needed
to push the limit.

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How do you know when you push
a little more

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that you're just not going to fall
off the edge?

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Well sometimes you fall off
the edge.

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You always know it's dangerous.

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But you can't live in fear 24/7.

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You're drawn into the whirlwind.

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In Formula One...
death was more acceptable...

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...because it was happening so often.

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Nobody was super shocked
if somebody got killed.

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They were there to do a job,
to win races.

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Gilles had this philosophy.

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Every time you see an accident,
you think "Can it happen to me..?

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No. Because I'm not going
to be in this situation".

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You force yourself to believe
that that cannot happen to you.

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Maybe I will have a big accident.

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But I'm not going to get killed
in a car if you want.

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Why, I can't say,
but that's the feeling I have.

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Didier was the president of the
Grand Prix Drivers' Association.

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At that time, nobody wanted the
GPDA, other than the drivers.

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This was the era of ground effects.

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Cars had essentially no suspension.

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At the same time the cornering
forces were hugely dangerous.

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Didier could have been a politician.

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He was very forthright
and straight to the point.

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Didier understand the danger.

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But at every moment he tried
to be in control.

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You have to control the machine
because at one moment...

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the machine is going to control you.

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In 1982 Ferrari had made a much more
sophisticated car.

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The gains in technology
seemed to enable Pironi

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to come up to Villeneuve's level.

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That was the first time
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seemed equally matched.

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The principal sponsor of Ferrari at
that time met with Didier in Paris.

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There was a plan being laid out
to see how the support

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in Ferrari could be shaped
more towards Didier.

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In the mind of Didier... You've had
Gilles now here now for four years,

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driving the wheels off the car,
and in some cases literally.

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He's won races, but he's not won
a World Championship.

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I'm the person that you should now
put your support behind to win

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00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,080
the next World Championship
for Ferrari.

251
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,680
Didier was driven to be
World Champion in his own mind.

252
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,800
It's not an easy trip.

253
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:20,240
To get there you've got to have
a lot of people on board with you.

254
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,160
The Old Man had a lot of faith
in Marco.

255
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,680
Marco was a very intelligent person.

256
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,920
In the meetings they had... it was
always Marco who had the last word.

257
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:18,120
Didier asked Marco Piccinini
to be his best man.

258
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,320
May not have been his best friend,
but he was going to be

259
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,480
his best man at his wedding.

260
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,560
Would that be a political move?

261
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,680
We found out that Didier
had gotten married

262
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,960
when we arrived at the racetrack
at Imola the week after.

263
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:59,120
We had not been told,
not been invited, nothing.

264
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,120
It was a disappointment to Gilles.

265
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,520
He considered Didier
as a very, very close friend.

266
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,080
Gilles was completely without guile.

267
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,160
He was so absolute in everything.

268
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,720
Including in his trust of people.

269
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,720
Old Man Ferrari liked to put
people against each other

270
00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:50,720
in the team.

271
00:35:50,720 --> 00:35:52,640
He felt that motivated them more.

272
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,440
But I had a great relationship
with Gilles.

273
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,040
Everything was to make
the team better.

274
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,520
We trusted each other.

275
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,560
Going into the race at Monza in '79,
if Jody won,

276
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,880
he was going to be World Champion.

277
00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:45,320
Ferrari had a rule...

278
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:49,000
if the Ferrari's were running first
and second,

279
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,800
the order in which they were running
when they became first and second,

280
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,520
that's the order
they go over the line.

281
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:58,080
You don't pass your teammate.

282
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:05,440
There were periods in that time he
could have tried to overtake me.

283
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,440
But I knew Gilles as a person.

284
00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:14,800
Gilles obediently sat behind Jody
for the rest of the race.

285
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,080
Knowing that in so doing,
he was ending his own chances

286
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,760
of winning the World Championship.

287
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,200
He was a good person,
he was very honest.

288
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,000
Maybe to the extent of being naive.

289
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:51,840
1982 My dad was seeing '82
as his season.

290
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,840
The same way '79 was Scheckter's.

291
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:59,320
He had given so much to Ferrari
that he deserved something back.

292
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,360
He knew he had a winning car.

293
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,960
He was going for the Championship
that season for the first time

294
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:07,680
in his F1 career.

295
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:09,760
So in his mind, '82 was his.

296
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,560
He didn't need to worry
about his teammate.

297
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,800
In 1982, politically
there was a battle

298
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:49,680
over who controls Formula One.

299
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,360
Most teams boycotted Imola.

300
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,280
It was going to be a race
between Ferrari and Renault

301
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,560
with Rene Arnoux and Alain Prost.

302
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:15,640
Before the race, Didier, Gilles,
Rene and myself had a discussion.

303
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:24,280
Because we had very little number
of cars, we decided to make a show

304
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,320
for all the fans...

305
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:31,080
trying to overtake each other
at the beginning.

306
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,120
Middle of the race we fight.

307
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:38,200
And then before the end of the race,
we don't overtake anymore.

308
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,440
The one leading the race should win.

309
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:47,200
That was the deal.

310
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,600
Mauro Forghieri was not
at the racetrack at Imola

311
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,600
for family reasons.

312
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,680
I blew up the engine.

313
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,960
I was out of the race very quickly.

314
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,080
Ferrari are running one-two
and Gilles is leading.

315
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:19,960
We go back to the Ferrari rule.

316
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:25,560
This should be the order
in which they cross the line.

317
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,560
The Ferrari drivers were given
the slow sign.

318
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,240
Which was a reminder of the team orders.

319
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:50,960
The signal was going out...

320
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:52,960
Hold position!

321
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:01,680
That weekend, Gilles had been
super quick compared with Didier.

322
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,240
So he backed right off,
couple of seconds a lap.

323
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:10,920
Gilles was cruising.

324
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,440
But then he made a mistake.

325
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:30,240
Didier was now in front.

326
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:33,920
He picked up the pace.

327
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,280
Gilles got back in front.

328
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:50,160
And slowed it up again.

329
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:54,720
This pattern was repeated
several times.

330
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,400
The pair of them were in a battle.

331
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,080
Gilles took the lead again.

332
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:37,560
OK.
We've put on a show for the crowd.

333
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,480
Now we just cruise to the finish.

334
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:08,160
The last overtaking spot
on the last lap.

335
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,000
That was it.

336
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,080
I'll never forget how angry he was.

337
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:10,760
He was raging!

338
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:18,400
Gilles didn't even
want to go up on the podium.

339
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:27,280
If you beat me fairly, I'm good.

340
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:31,680
But if you cheat...

341
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:33,720
that's not racing.

342
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:40,280
Gilles felt this enormous betrayal

343
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,440
from someone he thought
was a friend.

344
00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:35,040
The week after I was on my phone for
hours trying to calm down Gilles.

345
00:46:36,720 --> 00:46:38,200
He could not calm down.

346
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:44,280
For Gilles it was all about friendship.

347
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:49,360
He could not get over how his trust
had been betrayed.

348
00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:53,480
Gilles said "I'm not going to speak
to him again ever".

349
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:55,840
"I've declared war".

350
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,640
Gilles never saw it coming.

351
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:08,040
Where to me it was like
"Yeah sure... I told you..."

352
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:58,800
Having understood that Marco was
Didier's best man at his wedding,

353
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,880
Didier knew that he wouldn't
be reprimanded.

354
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:12,800
It was an illustration
of his single mindedness.

355
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:15,200
"Gilles Villeneuve,
I don't give a damn about you".

356
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,240
"I'm racing for myself".

357
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,120
Understandably,
Gilles was deeply upset.

358
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,840
Enzo initially stood behind Didier.

359
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:56,920
Then the next day retracted and said
what had happened was wrong.

360
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:02,840
But by then Gilles felt betrayed
by the whole situation.

361
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,200
It's not only the agreement.

362
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:10,640
But it's the way that Ferrari react.

363
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,840
That means that justice
does not mean anything.

364
00:49:55,080 --> 00:50:00,400
It was one of the few races
I didn't go to.

365
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,800
Melanie was doing
her first communion.

366
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,960
I thought, you know, first
communions come once in a lifetime.

367
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:11,520
There are going to be
many more races.

368
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:19,680
It was the qualifying session.

369
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,640
Didier was fractionally quicker
than Gilles.

370
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:13,520
In motor racing,
emotion is dangerous.

371
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:21,280
Gilles used two sets
of qualifying tyres.

372
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,400
The best had been taken out of them.

373
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,480
But he wanted a third
qualifying run.

374
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:33,960
He was only focused
on Didier's time.

375
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:42,280
When you start to have this
motivation that is the maximum risk.

376
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:31,760
I was in Monaco.

377
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,560
I received a call
from Jody Scheckter.

378
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:41,040
He explained to me that Gilles
just had a big accident.

379
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:44,640
It was very serious and I had to fly
to Belgium immediately.

380
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:51,520
I couldn't comprehend
what he was telling me.

381
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:58,440
I kept thinking, "Well he's going
to be OK, so it's OK."

382
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:06,920
Gilles was closing very quickly
on Jochen Mass.

383
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:09,280
He tried to take the long way round.

384
00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:13,320
Jochen did nothing wrong, he was
trying to get out of the way.

385
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:19,640
In a split second Gilles
took the wrong action.

386
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:09,200
When I got to the hospital,
I could not bring myself to...

387
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:15,040
...understand it.

388
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:26,040
He was already hooked up
to all the machines.

389
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:33,800
They explained to me
that the spinal cord had been cut.

390
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:39,680
They can't fix that.

391
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:48,840
There's nothing you can do or say.

392
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,400
You just sit there by his side.

393
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:58,600
And wait for the end to come.

394
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:17,280
When someone gets very sick
and it's a slow process,

395
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:22,880
you have the time to say goodbye.

396
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:28,920
This kind of thing you don't.

397
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:38,240
Also it's not going to be private.
It's going to be public.

398
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:27,160
It was very uncomfortable.

399
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:29,160
I didn't like to see him there.

400
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:33,080
It lasted for days it feels like.

401
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:53,400
The whole of Canada
had just stopped.

402
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:04,800
As a kid it didn't make sense.

403
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:14,600
We knew our dad was special.

404
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:19,800
But seeing that kind of reaction...

405
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:23,440
he wasn't ours anymore.

406
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:34,560
For me firstly, Gilles was the most
genuine person I ever knew.

407
00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:50,120
He was the fastest racing driver
history has ever known.

408
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:04,760
After Gilles' death, The Old Man
made this statement.

409
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:12,960
"His death has deprived us
of a great champion.

410
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:17,600
"One that I loved very much.

411
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:25,560
"My life is full of sad memories.

412
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:30,160
"Parents...

413
01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:31,440
"brother...

414
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:32,480
"son.

415
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:41,200
"I look back, I see the faces
of my loved ones...

416
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:46,200
"and among them...

417
01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:49,200
"I see him".

418
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:26,560
Didier got pole position
in Montreal.

419
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:33,920
He stalled at the start.

420
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:44,840
Young Riccardo Paletti who was
starting from the back of the grid,

421
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:48,480
and was unsighted by all the cars
in front of him.

422
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:51,560
He hit the parked Ferrari.

423
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:11,520
The impact had killed him, he died.

424
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:46,920
No.

425
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:31,160
By the time we got to mid summer,
Ferrari had the quickest car

426
01:03:31,160 --> 01:03:36,520
at that time, and Didier had won the
Dutch Grand Prix as well as Imola.

427
01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:43,080
He was emerging as the principle
World Championship title contender,

428
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:48,360
with the potential of being the
first ever French World Champion.

429
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:49,600
It was a practice session
at a very high-speed circuit.

430
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:54,040
In conditions
which were very, very bad.

431
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:02,440
In Hockenheim when you had
the spray, because of the trees

432
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:05,560
it stays in the air for a long time.

433
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:16,400
You could not see anything.

434
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:19,960
Not many cars went out.

435
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:22,960
Except for Didier.

436
01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:31,040
He was running, running, running,

437
01:05:31,040 --> 01:05:33,800
and he was really trying
to show to everybody

438
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:36,200
that he was the best,
he was at the top.

439
01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:45,000
Didier was normally able
to rationalise the situation.

440
01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:48,600
But he didn't need to be doing what
he was doing.

441
01:05:55,360 --> 01:05:57,600
I was on my first lap.

442
01:05:57,600 --> 01:05:59,280
Derek Daly was behind me...

443
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:01,920
and then Didier.

444
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:13,480
Didier was closing very quickly
on Daly.

445
01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:16,520
Maximum commitment.

446
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:24,800
He drove into a ball of spray.

447
01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:27,720
And was blinded.

448
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:11,880
The car went like this beside me.

449
01:07:17,040 --> 01:07:19,360
I went and looked at Didier's car.

450
01:07:23,960 --> 01:07:26,800
The shock was really, really awful.

451
01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:52,800
When Didier had his accident I might
have thought "Oh, well done".

452
01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:56,280
You know, or... you know,
that little vengeful part of you

453
01:10:56,280 --> 01:10:59,240
that says that.

454
01:10:59,240 --> 01:11:01,640
But then when you sit down
with yourself and you say,

455
01:11:01,640 --> 01:11:04,360
"Do you really think that?"

456
01:11:04,360 --> 01:11:05,400
No.

457
01:11:07,640 --> 01:11:10,600
You can't want bad on someone.

458
01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:48,640
At the time I was also at hospital.

459
01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:52,840
I was suffering from an illness.

460
01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:58,080
Didier called me
because I was also in pain.

461
01:12:01,160 --> 01:12:03,440
He thought that maybe I will
understand more

462
01:12:03,440 --> 01:12:06,080
than the others, what he is feeling.

463
01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:10,960
He had more than 30 surgeries.

464
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:18,000
His leg broke and broke again.

465
01:12:20,800 --> 01:12:22,800
He was amazingly courageous.

466
01:12:26,240 --> 01:12:29,440
He said to me, "I want you
to come to live with me".

467
01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:34,440
And then it starts...

468
01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:47,080
We were both broken.

469
01:12:49,120 --> 01:12:54,440
And we tried to reconstruct each
other in the silence of the forest.

470
01:13:04,360 --> 01:13:06,000
Didier loved astronomy.

471
01:13:09,120 --> 01:13:10,920
We had a big telescope at home.

472
01:13:15,280 --> 01:13:17,160
We were looking at the stars.

473
01:13:22,640 --> 01:13:24,800
He was fascinated by the galaxy.

474
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:32,360
He changed a lot after his accident.

475
01:13:37,520 --> 01:13:40,400
Like a star, he become a shadow.

476
01:13:45,040 --> 01:13:48,800
I see his eyes
when he speak about Gilles.

477
01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:56,080
To know that he's never going to see
him again...

478
01:13:59,720 --> 01:14:02,400
...and to talk about
what happened at Imola.

479
01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:07,880
He has a big, big regret.

480
01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:13,280
Gilles' death...

481
01:14:15,440 --> 01:14:17,920
It's what he has to carry
all his life.

482
01:14:50,200 --> 01:14:55,760
Gilles was my teenage sweetheart.
He was the other half of me.

483
01:15:00,120 --> 01:15:02,920
After Gilles' accident I had

484
01:15:02,920 --> 01:15:06,600
to learn to do everything on my own.

485
01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:20,760
It took many years to process.

486
01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:26,040
I was very angry.

487
01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:32,280
The anger left to some extent
and it's just pain.

488
01:15:32,280 --> 01:15:34,000
But it's not the pain
of a 48 year old,

489
01:15:35,080 --> 01:15:38,520
it's the pain of an eight year old
that is being recycled.

490
01:15:54,520 --> 01:15:56,520
You have to find a focus.

491
01:15:57,480 --> 01:16:01,800
I had two children that were left
without a father that needed me.

492
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:05,520
If your son comes to you
one day and says,

493
01:16:05,520 --> 01:16:08,040
"Papa, I want to do what you do".

494
01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:11,080
Sure son, that's what I want him
to do in fact.

495
01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:13,200
I have already bought him a little motorcycle.

496
01:16:14,680 --> 01:16:17,960
- How old is he?
- He's eight now.
He was... Are you nuts?

497
01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:20,080
Oh it's no problem with him.

498
01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:22,200
I would like him to be in racing.

499
01:16:24,480 --> 01:16:27,840
I knew at five years old
I would be a race car driver.

500
01:16:30,640 --> 01:16:35,240
How can I tell my son not to do
what his father did?

501
01:16:36,240 --> 01:16:41,560
I couldn't bring myself
to not let him do what he loved.

502
01:16:44,360 --> 01:16:48,360
In the first few years of racing,
my mother really helped me.

503
01:16:58,440 --> 01:17:01,680
For me there was this weight
and pressure while he was alive.

504
01:17:01,680 --> 01:17:02,880
And this was gone.

505
01:17:04,200 --> 01:17:07,320
It really had a huge impact
on who I then became.

506
01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:17,720
Jacques...
...Villeneuve.

507
01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:20,680
He's in the most glamorous
racing world, Formula One.

508
01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:24,680
Jacques' father Gilles,
a swashbuckling racer.

509
01:17:24,680 --> 01:17:28,320
That legacy, son of Gilles,
has dogged him ever since.

510
01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:30,520
Hey!

511
01:17:30,520 --> 01:17:34,000
I'm not trying to walk into
his shadow or to do better than him.

512
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:36,800
I don't want to know if I drive
like him. I don't really care.

513
01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:42,840
I was racing
because I was wanting to race.

514
01:17:42,840 --> 01:17:45,960
Not because I wanted to carry on
what my dad had started.

515
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:48,520
Which is what a lot of people
were wanting to see.

516
01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:10,720
Whilst Didier was trying
to get back to Formula One,

517
01:18:11,840 --> 01:18:14,240
he has to put his energy somewhere.

518
01:18:43,400 --> 01:18:46,600
When Didier arrived in the sport
of offshore,

519
01:18:46,600 --> 01:18:48,760
he was totally committed to it.

520
01:18:50,080 --> 01:18:52,360
Here was a guy who arrived
on the dockside and said,

521
01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:54,000
"I'm going to win a championship".

522
01:18:58,800 --> 01:19:00,800
Didier built a race boat
called Colibri.

523
01:19:02,680 --> 01:19:04,680
As a design it was beautiful.

524
01:19:06,840 --> 01:19:09,960
It was 20% lighter
than any other boat,

525
01:19:09,960 --> 01:19:14,040
with more powerful engines
and basically nothing

526
01:19:14,040 --> 01:19:16,280
to give it any directional stability
at all.

527
01:19:27,640 --> 01:19:33,640
In the summer of '87, Didier and I
decide to have a baby.

528
01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:38,920
He loved children and he really
wanted to have a family.

529
01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:49,320
Because of my illness, the only way
for us, it's to have IVF.

530
01:19:55,440 --> 01:19:57,440
It was my fifth attempt.

531
01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:05,000
Out of the blue the hospital say,
"Your result is positive".

532
01:20:06,640 --> 01:20:10,360
Then I just start to cry.

533
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:15,840
We found that we have twins.

534
01:20:18,240 --> 01:20:21,400
Didier said, "I have done two
instead of one".

535
01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:23,320
This is again competitivity.

536
01:20:26,400 --> 01:20:27,400
He was so happy.

537
01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:34,360
And then he went to England
for his next race.

538
01:20:52,240 --> 01:20:55,840
When the flag dropped,
two boats were leading the race.

539
01:21:01,280 --> 01:21:03,000
One was Didier in Colibri.

540
01:21:05,040 --> 01:21:07,920
The other one was Pinot di Pinot.

541
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:11,080
They swapped the lead
about four or five times.

542
01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:25,760
On lap two, in front of them...

543
01:21:28,400 --> 01:21:30,920
...was this slow moving tanker.

544
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:39,080
The rules of the sea say
that if you are the overtaking boat,

545
01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:42,440
you need to take proper precautions.

546
01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:51,120
The Pinot di Pinot boat
altered course

547
01:21:52,200 --> 01:21:55,320
to cross the wash of the tanker
at a right angle.

548
01:21:58,720 --> 01:22:01,200
Didier did not make that adjustment.

549
01:22:38,360 --> 01:22:40,720
He wasn't prepared to alter course.

550
01:22:43,720 --> 01:22:46,040
He wasn't prepared to alter speed.

551
01:23:55,240 --> 01:24:00,320
They met the wash travelling
at 94 miles an hour

552
01:24:00,320 --> 01:24:03,440
at an angle of 45 degrees.

553
01:24:03,440 --> 01:24:07,160
The boat rolled over in a barrel
and went in upside down.

554
01:24:11,160 --> 01:24:12,800
None of them had a chance.

555
01:24:23,240 --> 01:24:25,240
I received a phone call.

556
01:24:28,960 --> 01:24:30,040
Didier was dead.

557
01:24:50,680 --> 01:24:51,800
I can't scream.

558
01:24:53,400 --> 01:24:54,880
I can't do anything.

559
01:24:57,040 --> 01:24:59,040
I have two babies in me.

560
01:25:03,560 --> 01:25:07,200
I was moved to the hospital
for the rest of my pregnancy...

561
01:25:09,480 --> 01:25:10,480
six month.

562
01:25:19,360 --> 01:25:21,400
I enter in summer...

563
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:26,800
...I see the autumn...

564
01:25:30,680 --> 01:25:32,680
...I see the winter.

565
01:25:35,400 --> 01:25:38,520
There were a lot of complication
with the pregnancy.

566
01:25:43,760 --> 01:25:47,680
But then 6th of January 1988...

567
01:25:49,880 --> 01:25:51,560
I gave birth to the twins.

568
01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:02,120
They say, "You tell the name".

569
01:26:04,040 --> 01:26:05,680
And then I say, "Didier...

570
01:26:09,040 --> 01:26:10,840
"and the second who will come...

571
01:26:15,200 --> 01:26:17,120
"..it will be Gilles".

572
01:26:25,320 --> 01:26:27,960
This idea came from a photo.

573
01:26:31,920 --> 01:26:35,600
Enzo Ferrari with Gilles
and Didier on each side of him.

574
01:26:41,720 --> 01:26:44,520
Catherine called me to see
if I would mind.

575
01:26:47,040 --> 01:26:52,640
It was sort of strange for me,
but then again I thought

576
01:26:52,640 --> 01:26:55,920
it would be just petty of me
to say no.

577
01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:00,920
You know, it was OK.

578
01:27:03,920 --> 01:27:06,560
That's your father
with his first car.

579
01:27:11,400 --> 01:27:13,240
Some of them I don't know, actually.

580
01:27:18,920 --> 01:27:20,920
That's an important one.

581
01:27:20,920 --> 01:27:25,880
This nurse was the one I have every
day in my room. He was...

582
01:27:25,880 --> 01:27:31,240
In our childhood we were surrounded
by pictures of our father.

583
01:27:32,800 --> 01:27:37,400
That was like a very heavy legacy.

584
01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:44,000
You see all those images
and you think...

585
01:27:44,000 --> 01:27:46,400
who really was your father?

586
01:27:47,400 --> 01:27:49,400
What was the real story?

587
01:27:51,880 --> 01:27:55,640
When you have a twin, it's like
having a teammate but for life.

588
01:27:55,640 --> 01:28:00,800
You always try to be a bit better
or slightly in front.

589
01:28:00,800 --> 01:28:05,680
Competitivity,
that's what's in the blood.

590
01:28:10,200 --> 01:28:13,480
I joined Mercedes in 2014
as an engineer.

591
01:28:18,960 --> 01:28:23,720
I wanted to be appreciated for who I
was and the value that I was adding.

592
01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:25,680
As opposed to who my father was.

593
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:32,840
It was a party in Saint-Tropez...

594
01:28:32,840 --> 01:28:37,480
Every single year for our birthday,
our mum tells us the story again

595
01:28:37,480 --> 01:28:39,200
about our father.

596
01:28:39,200 --> 01:28:42,000
This one is great.
Great photo. Oui.

597
01:28:42,000 --> 01:28:44,520
Great photo.
He had to face adversity.

598
01:28:45,440 --> 01:28:46,680
His legs got destroyed.

599
01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:52,600
To come back from that,
I have a huge respect

600
01:28:52,600 --> 01:28:55,280
for this part of his career.

601
01:28:58,600 --> 01:29:01,920
Given what our mother went
through, the fact that our father

602
01:29:01,920 --> 01:29:05,800
wasn't there, our relationship
is quite unique.

603
01:29:09,560 --> 01:29:12,440
And I'm sure he would be proud
of that, yeah.

604
01:29:22,840 --> 01:29:25,960
Do you enjoy racing yourself?

605
01:29:25,960 --> 01:29:29,320
Not really.
- Not really?
- No.

606
01:29:35,600 --> 01:29:38,320
I don't think I would be
a good spectator.

607
01:29:46,200 --> 01:29:49,480
Gilles transmitted his passion
for racing to me.

608
01:29:49,480 --> 01:29:53,120
So I was stuck with it, wasn't I?

609
01:29:53,120 --> 01:29:54,760
It wouldn't let go of me.

610
01:30:06,760 --> 01:30:11,280
In F1, I was given this platform
to actually really be me.

611
01:30:25,080 --> 01:30:28,040
I won the World Championship
with my team.

612
01:30:29,560 --> 01:30:30,680
It's just euphoria.

613
01:30:36,560 --> 01:30:39,520
Gilles was hard on Jacques
as a father.

614
01:30:40,720 --> 01:30:45,440
But he also was extremely proud
of everything he did.

615
01:30:50,920 --> 01:30:52,720
He would have been so happy.

616
01:31:05,400 --> 01:31:08,000
Coming back to the track here...

617
01:31:08,000 --> 01:31:10,040
which is Gilles' last race...

618
01:31:11,600 --> 01:31:13,840
there still are a lot of emotions.

619
01:31:25,120 --> 01:31:29,600
After Gilles' death, a lot of
blame was put on Didier.

620
01:31:31,280 --> 01:31:33,920
But nobody ever forces you to put
your belt on, your helmet on

621
01:31:33,920 --> 01:31:35,960
and go out.

622
01:31:38,320 --> 01:31:41,000
Pironi never told my dad
to go back on the track.

623
01:31:43,400 --> 01:31:47,000
You can blame Pironi
for dishonesty, for disloyalty.

624
01:31:51,200 --> 01:31:53,200
It was such a betrayal.

625
01:31:56,000 --> 01:31:59,560
And that anger that came from it,

626
01:31:59,560 --> 01:32:02,760
it's something that stays with you.

627
01:32:10,520 --> 01:32:12,080
But Gilles' accident...

628
01:32:15,360 --> 01:32:17,400
...it can't be on him.

629
01:32:26,080 --> 01:32:32,040
Even today I have young kids coming
to me with tears in their eyes,

630
01:32:32,040 --> 01:32:35,480
saying, "He's an inspiration to me
today".

631
01:32:39,200 --> 01:32:44,280
That tells you that your life,
even that short,

632
01:32:44,280 --> 01:32:46,320
gave something to people.

633
01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:59,560
After all these years,
people only talk about Gilles.

634
01:33:03,120 --> 01:33:05,000
Nobody speaks about Didier.

635
01:33:07,080 --> 01:33:09,080
Which is sad.

636
01:33:34,640 --> 01:33:37,000
After you have to get used
to normal,

637
01:33:38,520 --> 01:33:42,000
because the crazy was your normal.

638
01:33:42,960 --> 01:33:45,800
So many times I thought
"This is going to be the last day

639
01:33:45,800 --> 01:33:48,600
of my life".

640
01:33:48,600 --> 01:33:50,640
But I love it.

641
01:33:53,960 --> 01:33:58,640
All this sensation, life,
it's very empty without all that.

642
01:34:10,040 --> 01:34:13,840
They wanted to have children,
we were really wanted.

643
01:34:13,840 --> 01:34:15,240
It's a true act of love.

644
01:34:18,520 --> 01:34:20,040
My name is Didier Pironi.

645
01:34:20,840 --> 01:34:23,240
I'm so proud to have this name today.

646
01:34:27,840 --> 01:34:31,360
For many years I couldn't even
see his face in my mind.

647
01:34:33,720 --> 01:34:36,560
He's more of a positive presence
for me now.

648
01:34:39,920 --> 01:34:41,760
He's there to watch over me.

649
01:35:07,120 --> 01:35:08,880
He had promised that he would die
with me

650
01:35:08,880 --> 01:35:10,920
when we were in our eighties.

651
01:35:16,320 --> 01:35:18,800
Every minute you spend with someone...

652
01:35:22,000 --> 01:35:23,560
...spend it to the fullest.

653
01:35:27,160 --> 01:35:31,160
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