There's some irony to the fact that Gilles Villeneuve, the swashbuckling, snowmobiling, sometime three-wheeling French-Canadian, took probably his greatest F1 race win in what was the antithesis of his usual style.
At a parched Jarama, the Ferrari driver headed off a 150mph train of Jacques Laffite's Ligier, McLaren's John Watson, Carlos Reutemann in the Williams and Lotus's Elio de Angelis, doing just enough to hold the gaggle at bay and eke out the win; 1.24 seconds covering the first five. Whilst it might not have been done in the usual all-guns-blazing style with which Villeneuve endeared himself to millions, many still feel it to be the greatest display of his god-given driving talent and nerveless will to win.
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