Yet another tragic day in racing when, in 1982, Gilles Villeneuve died aged 32 following a high-speed accident in qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder. In other Grands Prix on this day, Mario Andretti’s Lotus-Cosworth won in Spain in 1977 Spanish Grand Prix from Carlos Reutemann’s Ferrari and Jody Scheckter in a Wolf Cosworth, a race Kimi Raikkonen also won in a McLaren-Mercedes MP4-20 on this day in 2005 from Fernando Alonso’s Renault and Italy Jarno Trulli in a Toyota. Sebastian Vettel won the 2011 Turkish Grand Prix from Red Bull Renault teammate Mark Webber and Nico Rosberg’s Mercedes. Looking back to the end of the nineteenth century, Ettore Bugatti powered his...
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