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May 8, 2024 · Goux was pregnant with twins at the time of Pironi’s death, and would give birth while stricken with grief: she named them Gilles and Didier, having sought permission from Joann Villeneuve to do so.
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Mar 23, 2023 · Joann Villeneuve appears in Sky’s new documentary Villeneuve Pironi: Racing’s Untold Tragedy (Sky Documentaries) “If you cheat, that’s not racing,” Joann says. “Gilles felt this ...
- Kieran Jackson
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Jul 7, 2014 · Joann Villeneuve on life with Gilles. Motorsport Images. “I met Gilles when I was 16, so I didn’t have any other life to compare it to. For him it was important to have me and the children close all the time, so we travelled with him. When the children started school I stayed home a bit more, but he really wanted me at all the races.
Mar 22, 2023 · She would later name them, with Joann’s permission, Gilles and Didier. Gilles now works for the Mercedes F1 team. Today, Joann does have sympathy for Pironi in that she believes he bore a burden ...
- Giles Richards
Gilles Villeneuve’s death at Zolder in 1982 has been linked to a racing incident with Didier Pironi: ‘He was conscious of the dangers’ Giles Richards If the death of Gilles Villeneuve at the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder in 1982 left Formula One traumatised, it was infinitely harder on his wife Joann.
Feb 23, 2023 · Sky Original documentary VILLENEUVE PIRONI: RACING’S UNTOLD TRAGEDY tells the astonishing true story of two supremely gifted Ferrari F1® drivers: Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi, forever torn apart by a historic and hugely controversial moment in time. Through captivating archive footage, interviews with Formula One World Champions ...
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Nov 5, 2021 · Dominic Tobin. The families of Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi are working together on a new documentary into the Ferrari team-mates’ controversial, tragic 1982 season. Due for release next year, forty years after Villeneuve was killed at Zolder, the Villeneuve & Pironi production is billed as being the first to tell the story with the ...
