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Gilles Villeneuve - An F1 Legend Still Revered

Gilles Villeneuve’s was a unique talent was obvious from his very first Formula one test with McLaren. Gilles Villeneuve was still loved by many F1 fans. He excited the fans like other driver have done. For many people Villeneuve classic fight against Rene Arnoux in 1979 will be remembered as the greatest battle in F1 when he when he banged wheels and traded places with Rene Arnoux for second place.

Gilles Villeneuve was by today's standards of latercomer to F1, entering in the middle of the twenties. It was actually known that he raced a single GP for the McLaren before coming to Ferrari where he would see the remaining years. In 1979 he suffered a puncture in his left rear tyre that forces him out of the circuit.

Most of the driver would have seen this unrecoverable and abandonded, Villeneuve was stuck in the reverse making his way back to pits with the punctured tyre a huge shower of sparks created at the time he reached the pits.

Arnoux's quote after the race says: "The fight with Gilles Villeneuve is something that I will never forget. He says you can only race likes that, when you know, with someone you trust completely, and you do not meet many like him. I knew I had been beaten by the best driver in the world."

Villeneuve was probably a Quebec’s greatest athlete that hailing from a small town in Quebec, Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve became a valued star the glamorous world of Formula One racing.

Gilles Villeneuve was killed in 1982 during practice for the Belgian GP at Zolder. But After many years later in the future his son Jacques, would take F1 world championship, that something Gilles Villeneuve himself had never managed to win.

 

Lewis Hamilton - Formula One Driver

Lewis Hamilton the youngest formula one champion has a stormed in the first few years in the championship was considered a stunning talent both now and for the years to come.

Lewis Carl Hamilton was born on January 1, 1985 he came from a modest family who lived in the Stevenage who was not good with the financial comfort but despite of this the young Lewis the world of karting at the age of eight to choose it as a future hobby. When he was ten Hamilton first met Ron Dennis, who was the principal of McLaren team. Form the early age Hamilton was confident about his own talent within three years Ron Dennis signed lewis as a young driver, from this point Hamilton was affiliated with McLaren Mercedes with whom he was for long time. He becomes the youngest formula one driver with the victory in 2008.

Before coming to formula one he has a good career in go-kart championships after taking many championship titles he won the formula Renault championship and hence also promoted to F3 and he won the championship. In 2005 he won 15 victories and 13 pole positions. In 2006 he did not have to learn to win the title.

The year 2008 was more peaceful for Hamilton. He won the pour struggle and Alonso left the team. With the weaker second driver Heikki Kovalainen Hamilton was free for the races. This showed the results as he has claimed the first driver and did it at a younger age than any other driver.

For all his amazing victories and advances he proved that he can handle the pressure as well on the big stage. During 2008 Hamilton relieved that the title did not slip through his fingers as it was in 2007.

2009 really sets the standard for lewis Hamilton.  Critics and Admirers wait to see whether they have another Michael Schumacher. At the early stages Hamilton proved the necessary strength and his driving was beyond question. In 2008 he proved that becoming the youngest ever world champion and winning the titles also need to cuts the errors that interrupted in the last season. Now he can proved he can develop a car with a good drivers.