Gilles Villeneuve

By Gerald Donaldson

Book Overview

Gilles Villeneuve became a legend in his own time, a driver whose skill and daring personified the ideals of Grand Prix racing, the pinnacle of motor sport.With his flamboyantly aggressive,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771028466
• ISBN13: 9780771028465
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Let me be clear...

Let me be clear: this is simply the best racing driver biography ever written. It's complete, well written, touching and objective at the same time, respectful to the dead. It's an amazing book. No doubt the writer is a big Villeneuve fan, but he managed to avoid being totally partial.It's full oof data, anecdotes, funny parts, tragic parts, competition, brief technical analysys of the cars, a lot of famous drivers in diverse categories... Well, this is the book.

This book is definitive Gilles Villeneuve!!

This is a truly impressive book. For racing fans, Donaldson delivers step by step action through a lap of the Monaco race - capturing the reader and having them feel as though they were in that car with Gilles. Glimpses of Gilles' personal life bring color to his character without being tabloid cheap!! In short, I feel sad that Gilles is no longer with us, what an awesome personality and a warm, friendly person. This book left me wishing I could meet him and wondering what Gilles would've been doing today in his fifties! Stunning book!

An exceptional sports biography

It is rare to come across a biography of a famous sports personality that will keep you reading on and on and on compulsively, but Gerald Donaldson has written one. The book combines all the passion and excitement of Gilles' short career in a thorough and superbly readable biography that takes you right behind the public image of Gilles Villeneuve. In short, buy this fantastic book! It more than lives up to its reputation as the racing classic.

The Definitive Racing Biography

This book is still today a classic, and an absolute must for any motor racing fan-- independently of their favourite category. Beautifully written, it narrates in detail the life, times, and racing of one of Formula One's most intriguing drivers. It is full of interesting anectodes and important facts about Gilles Villeneuve's racing and his all too brief presence on the international scene. It is full of interesting notes on his character, personality, and private life-- never crossing the line, however, in morbid curiosity or tabloid cheapness. You will read it over and over again.

A real motor-racing classic! Fantastic!!

This book will make you feel a shiver up your spine! It's all there: the racings, Villeneuve's determination, the real facts, his family, all put together in a reasonable way that makes you read the book non-stopping. There's no need for another Villeneuve reference book, you must be sure!!!