Salut Gilles

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Gray
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Salut Gilles

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30 years ago I arrived at a miserable Zolder circuit for the Belgium GP for it to only get more miserable with the passing of Gilles Villeneuve that day.
I was fortunate enough to of witnessed him racing before that fatefull day.
Here as a way of remembering are a couple of pics I took of him.

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Nice photos Gray, amazing how close to the cars you could get in those days........
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Nice pictures, thanks for posting .
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I still watch clips on you tube of him today. Almost drove like a rally driver with the tail hanging out on a lot of corners!
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Cheers for the comments, it was a lot easier to copy a pit pass in those days ;)
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