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1978 Canadian GP - Stunning home victory for Gilles Villeneuve

On a freezing day of October 1978, Canadian Gilles Villeneuve scored his maiden Formula 1 Grand Prix victory in front of his home crowd in Montréal. The Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix found a new home in 1978, on a brand new race track built on the Ile Notre-Dame on the St. Laurence River in front of Montréal. With Ontario’s Mosport Park unable to meet the safety requirements of the FIA, a new track designed by Roger Peart was quickly built in just a few months on the site of Expo 67 and the rowing basin of the 1976 Olympic Games. Constructed on a hand-made island, which included some small lakes, the circuit was basically constituted of fast straightways split by slow chicanes. After...
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