Description
Villeneuve Pit Stop
A fine art print from an original painting by Alan Fearnley
Image Size: 70cm x 52cm (27.5in x 20.5in)
Limited Edition 850
Gilles Villeneuve making a pit stop during practice for the 1981 Monaco Grand Prix when he qualified in the front row. He won the race driving a Ferrari 126CK.
Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve (18 January 1950 – 8 May 1982) was a Canadian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1977 to 1982. Villeneuve was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship in 1979 with Ferrari, and won six Grands Prix across six seasons. On May 8, 1982, Villeneuve died after an accident during the final qualifying session for the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder. The racetrack on Notre Dame Island in Montreal, host to the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix, is named Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in his honour
