Why Villeneuve failed to repeat his father’s Monaco F1 success

There’s no doubt that his famous victory in the 1981 Monaco GP plays a big part in the Gilles Villeneuve legend.
The Canadian managed to qualify on the front row and then win the most prestigious race of the year in a cumbersome Ferrari equipped with a brutal turbo engine that was still in the early stages of its development. It was hardly the ideal tool with which to thread the needle around …Keep reading