F1 1981 🇲🇨 Monaco (Race) - Gilles Villeneuve's 5th win

[@elisabethmontsalvy]

The best driver ever....Gilles Villeneuve! Miss you....leggend, miss you 💔💔❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@emmanuelcoletta1241]

Gilles i miss you. Tu étais la vitesse pure. ❤

[@redd605]

Fantastic driver, hate when present F1 driver complaints about overtaking at Monaco ,yes it's true but Giles made so many at Monaco, he was a genius

[@TheLaughingMagpie]

The only driver from North America to win in Monaco up until 2022 when it was won by Sergio Perez from Mexico, but Gilles is forever the first to do it, and the best

[@salvosciascia3830]

Gilles e Ayrton i più grandi piloti di sempre !!!! Montecarlo era la loro pista e loro ci hanno sempre emozionato in ogni circuito!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@elisabethmontsalvy]

Si, Gilles e Ayrton, nessuno come loro ❤️❤️

[@ジルヴィルヌーブ]

同感。 富士のジルの走りと、鈴鹿のセナの走りを、リアルタイムで見れたから、しあわせ。

[@ashell2040]

Gilles Villeneuve, gone but never forgotten. Love you, Gilles, miss you to this day.

[@moniquelee3623]

Classics never die, they just find new people.

[@digitalman7534]

Gilles! Gilles! Gilles! SALUT GILLES!

[@maikcolinnait4641]

Fantastic editing!! So great!! and supperb Gilles!!

[@stev6free146]

Real F1

[@ORMA1]

G.o.a.t.❤

[@maxmulsanne7054]

🏆🏁💨

[@ORMA1]

@@maxmulsanne7054 hi N!!!!🇮🇹🚗❄️

[@maxmulsanne7054]

@@ORMA1 Hola Amigo!!! 🇮🇹🌐🇺🇸🌿🏆🏁

[@thethirdman225]

@@ORMA1 No. Most exciting maybe and furiously fast. Not the greatest of all time though.

[@elisabethmontsalvy]

​@@thethirdman225Non venirlo a dire a me...per me Gilles era pura essenza della velocita', della umanita'...il passare del tempo lo conto ..prima e dopo Gilles. E non sono persona romantica.Gilles...la febbre non passa, salut leggenda.

[@fabrizioraimondi9632]

❤❤❤❤❤gilles villeneuve fantastc

[@DavidLecuona-y6v]

The guy waving the checked flag, instant dismissal !

[@gustavobortolotto-bf3sk]

Divino . Él quería una vuelta más .

[@gv-can4718]

The worlds' commentarors/petrolheads must have loved commentary on Villeneuve back then. You can hear it in their voice whether it's Italian/French/German. Grande Gil! EDIT: I'm loving the comments section as it's littered with F1 savants/experts. It's either to watch Jones being lightning quick or they are secretly huge Villeneuve fans. And yes, I remember reading about Jones having issues as a kid before Gilles passed him but watching his reflexs like a cat around Monaco are why I come back every few yrs to watch the li'l French/Canadian zip and juggle that red but beautiful 'shitbox' 'round this iconic circuit in '79, '80 & '81 😅!

[@ЛебедевАнатолий-ч7с]

He would have become a champion, but death stopped him. What a pity.😢

[@petripuumalainen8789]

How can you know that for sure? In 1979 Villeneuve had the best Car and he was beaten by his team mate who won the title. Didier Pironi may have beaten him in 1982 for the title as well. Villeneuve was fast but too inconsistent to be a champion. He threw many points away by crashing and spinning.

[@moniquelee3623]

''Une victoire à Monaco, ça vaut n'importe quel championnat du monde.'' Gilles Villeneuve

[@EnzoFerrari63193]

La sua vittoria più bella

[@hmdwgf]

Amazing, how he could win that race with that downforce-less car. And then he won Jarama 3 weeks later, another slow circuit.

[@SLMdirtfan]

I mean he had a lot of luck on his side in this race. Piquet crashing out because of the back marker and then he only caught/pass Jones because Alan had a fuel pickup problem.

[@hmdwgf]

@@SLMdirtfan True, good points

[@thethirdman225]

Because this was a slow speed circuit where downforce was not as significant as it would have been at somewhere like Austria.

[@hmdwgf]

@@thethirdman225 F1 cars run a lot of wing at slower tracks because downforce aids how deep a driver can brake into a corner. Funny you mention Austria- that was the one race- maybe more so than Jarama of how much a menace the ‘81 Ferrari was to race against. There are times during that race where Pironi had no less than 7 cars right behind him, and none of them could pass because although the other cars had a lot more downforce and were quicker through Austria’s long, fast curves, the Ferrari V6 turbo was the most powerful engine that year and those cars were lightning down the straights. It’s crazy how many cars those Ferraris held up at Austria ‘81.

[@thethirdman225]

@@hmdwgf Sorry for the long post that follows. The 1981 Ferrari chassis was the last non-monocoque chassis Ferrari built. It was descended from the cars of the mid-1970s. The difference was that the older cars had large side-mounted fuel tanks which made up for the general lack of stiffness of a space frame design. However, Ferrari's first ground effect car, the 312T4, used the same basic design but with the side tanks sawn off and a centreline tank behind the driver. The effect on stiffness was worse than it was for say, the Lotus 79. Added to that was the fact that the T3 cars onward used Michelin radials which absorbed heat less well than the Goodyear cross plies. That is to say, they were harder to get heat into. The combinations makes it amazing to me that the T4 worked at all. But then it all came undone in 1980 with the T5. Much was made of the lack of venturi space, given the boxer engine but that is only part of the story. Ferrari knew the flat 12 was doomed, even though its legendary combination of power and reliability had been their ace card for years. Villeneuve demonstrated the new V6 turbo 126C car at Imola in 1980, sacrificing qualifying time for a bit of positive publicity. The 126C was about as quick as the T5, which would have made no difference to his qualifying time. The team didn't race the car because it was not considered reliable enough. What wasn't mentioned was that this was still the same basic chassis. Bigger tunnels and externally quite familiar but like a cross between the T5 and the 126C. And this was the key to their problems and goes part of the way to explaining Villeneuve's win at Monaco and the trains the two Ferraris created. The fact was that the 126 had three problems: 1) a lack of chassis rigidity, 2) poor aerodynamics and 3) a poor choice of tyre manufacturer. It was said that the Ferrari had about a quarter of the downforce of the Williams. The problem was worse in fast corners but there weren't many of those at Monaco. On high speed circuits all three problems were present but at Monaco those effects were less pronounced. Mechanical grip was more important and the Ferrari didn't have much of that. The problem was exacerbated by the fact that Villeneuve was the kind of driver who could drive around problems, rather than analysing and solving them but he did almost all the test driving in the 126C. Scheckter did hardly any. The result was that the car was poorly sorted. But given Villeneuve's ability to drive around problems, Monaco presented fewer problems. The biggest problem he had was countering turbo lag. What made life difficult for him in the race was that his skirts started to break up and on any other circuit that would have spelt disaster. That's why he fell back from Piquet and was passed by Jones and Patrese, leaving him in fourth. But Patrese retired with a broken gearbox - always a problem at Monaco - Piquet crashed and Jones suffered fuel starvation. So while Villeneuve drove extremely well and never gave up, he inherited a couple of places along the way anyhow. On fast tracks like Austria, the cars ran a lot less wing but simply could not generate enough heat in their tyres in the bends, where Renault, on the same tyres, were suffering chunking problems the year before. The Ferrari's lack of performance was due to a combination of all three problems: lack of downforce due to poor aerodynamic performance, lack of sufficient chassis rigidity meaning the tyres could not be used to their maximum performance and poor tyre matching. They were, as you say, lightning quick on the straight but very ponderous in the bends. Remember that the bends were extremely fast in Austria - generally around 240-260 km/h and the better cars were generating up to 3G on occasions. These problems were solved in 1982 with the first true Ferrari monocoque, excellent aerodynamic performance and a switch to well-matched Goodyears. Despite the structural problems in both Villeneuve's fatal crash and Pironi's crash at Hockenheim, it was no less safe than any other monocoque, barring the McLaren. The mid-season update to the Ferrari front suspension dispensed with the rocker arm suspension and replaced it with a Brabham-style pull rod front end. This turned the car into an absolute weapon and it was easily the best car of 1982.

[@thethirdman225]

4:55 At this point I was saying, 'Don't bin it now! This is your best chance.' Villeneuve had a penchant for crashing but he held on well this time. And at the next race at Jarama too.

[@cassiosilva1340]

Piquet...Vileneuve...Jones...Lauda...Arnoux...Andretti...🏁

[@mazdaman0075]

Always loved the shape of the Brabhams that year.

[@maxmulsanne7054]

1983 BT-52 was more appealing for my eyes. Though the 1979-80 FW07 will always be my favorite, even over the McLaren MP4.

[@ORMA1]

Lotus 80 Martini racing?​@@maxmulsanne7054

[@thethirdman225]

Jones got the fastest lap after starting 7th on the grid, a place you're not supposed to win from at Monaco and even passing eventual winner Villeneuve...

[@ORMA1]

You know, my friend, in that era was noto so important pole position, neither in F1 neither in motorbike. It was more important reliability

[@thethirdman225]

@@ORMA1 Monaco has never been an easy place to pass in any era.

[@thethirdman225]

2:55 'Jones overtook Gilles, but it is not shown' It is not remembered either. Jones was superb in this race but his drive is not remembered by anyone because of Villeneuve's remarkable win. And before anyone says it, I was barracking for Villeneuve.

[@stuartbritton4811]

What happened to Piquet?

[@maxmulsanne7054]

Alan Jones pressured him so much, that Piquet lost control and went into the barriers.

[@sergioalbuquerque4134]

@@maxmulsanne7054 No, Piquet was far from Jones when he hit the barrier. Probably, any failure in his car.

[@Rypsolisti]

The incident is shown in the video. Piquet tries to overtake backmarker Patrick Tambay but Tambay turns into corner and Piquet goes straight on into the barrier to avoid Tambay.

[@maxmulsanne7054]

​@@Rypsolisti And yet Jones was the one who pressured him into that mistake. If you (or anyone else for that matter) has doubts about that then research it. Jones even stated that before his hiccup issues happened with the fuel feed, that he (Jones) deliberately backed off Piquet, to surprise him again and unrattle his cage - just like he did to get Pironi out of the way in 1979 - causing Pironi to commit himself into a pressured error.

[@Rypsolisti]

@@maxmulsanne7054 Might be but that is speculation. We know that Piquet was lapping Tambay and that caused the accident.

[@TheUlysse2000]

Mansell was really great with a number 2 status and by far not the best car

[@mehmetylmaz5004]

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