{"id":460730,"date":"2006-02-01T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=76216"},"modified":"2024-12-27T01:24:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T01:24:53","slug":"gilles-villeneuve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/gilles-villeneuve\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilles Villeneuve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"bodyText\"><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Antonio Ascari&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}\">Gilles Villeneuve Biography<\/span><\/span><b><\/b><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s different from the rest of us, on a separate level &#8230;&#8221; Jacques Laffite describing Gilles<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gilles Villeneuve was born in Quebec on 18 January, 1950. 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