The late Patrick Tambay was born on this day in 1949. In today's Great Read, he recalls trying to fill the void left by Gilles Villeneuve at Ferrari
In a few months' time comes the 25th anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve. Tragedies of this kind are mercifully rare these days, but during my first year of working in Formula 1, 1971, I attended two memorial services (for Pedro Rodriguez and Jo Siffert), and through the 1970s such events were not uncommon.
Nor, for that matter, were genuine friendships between drivers and journalists. In my early days in the business, Eoin Young warned me of the pitfalls: chances were, he said, that I'd make a friend of a driver, that he would then get killed, that I'd never feel quite the same about racing again...
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