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Villeneuve v Pironi: Remembering F1's most underrated rivalry
As the 40th anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve approaches, it is easy to understand why the Ferrari icon’s feud with team-mate Didier Pironi is something of an afterthought in the debate surrounding Formula 1’s greatest rivalries. For starters, Villeneuve and Pironi have yet to receive the Hollywood treatment afforded to Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost and, likewise, Niki Lauda and James Hunt, bringing their story to the attention of a broader audience (that, happily, is set to change later this year when a new documentary is scheduled for release). The other reason, regrettably, is rather more blunt: it didn’t last very long at all. Unlike Senna-Prost, which raged from the...
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