![]() Everyone else, including Scheckter, had been lapped. The pace and quality of their battle was underlined by the fact that third-placed Clay Regazzoni’s Williams was more than a minute behind – in a dry race. PLUS: Gilles Villeneuve’s greatest F1 drivers It’s the sort of race we often hope for and rarely get, but that was the story of the 1979 Canadian GP.Īlthough Ferrari’s Jody Scheckter wrapped up the drivers’ crown at the Italian GP, the final two rounds of the season were all about two other names: Alan Jones in the Williams FW07 and Canadian hero Gilles Villeneuve. Two drivers at the top of their games, in strikingly different cars, rarely more than a second apart. Jones and Villeneuve put on a stunning victory fight at the 1979 Canadian GP Here, Autosport's team of writers pick out their favourites. The former Île Notre-Dame Circuit has produced several first-time winners, unforgettable moments of drama such as Nigel Mansell's infamous final-lap retirement that gave Nelson Piquet victory in 1991, and controversies aplenty - not least during F1's previous visit in 2019 when on-the-road winner Sebastian Vettel was demoted to second by a post-race penalty. ![]() ![]() But since 1978, it's the Montreal circuit later renamed after its favourite son Gilles Villeneuve with which the race is most closely associated, having only dropped off the calendar in 1987, 2009 and the last two seasons due to COVID-induced travel restrictions.
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