When I was a kid growing up in Canada, I first got into Formula One racing when Gilles Villeneuve took the Grand Prix world by storm. After dominating Formula Atlantic for a couple of years ...

Despite watching the likes of Hamilton, Verstappen, Schumacher, Fernando Alonso and Ayrton Senna, Clarkson's favourite driver ...

The crash came just three months after Gilles Villeneuve had died, in strikingly similar circumstances, as the French-Canadian was thrown from his car after making contact with Jochen Maas ...

Gilles Villeneuve participated in 67 Formula One races from 1977 to 1982, winning six before he died in a crash at the age of ...