Many would pick from the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna when choosing their favourite ever F1 drivers, but Jeremy Clarkson isn't one to follow the crowd
He never won a Formula 1 title, but Gilles Villeneuve certainly cemented his place in the heart of one famous fan.
The Canadian racer started 67 F1 races in an all-too short career which saw him become a Ferrari icon. Villeneuve won six races and finished second in the 1979 championship but didn't manage to summit the sport before his untimely death at the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix. He said: "I think there were two events that cemented him in my adulation really. The first was - I know it was the British Grand Prix because I was there... At Woodcote, there was the most enormous crash. I can't remember who caused it. These were the days when they used catch-fencing. And it was complete carnage, cars everywhere, people, marshals.
"He was sort of like the knight in Monty Python with no arms and legs. He's still going to carry on racing, even though he didn't really have a car anymore. And then of course, there was the '79 French Grand Prix in Dijon.
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