{"id":497520,"date":"2018-05-01T00:59:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T07:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=57669"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:01:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T22:01:05","slug":"product-reviews-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/product-reviews-61\/","title":{"rendered":"[Book Review] Wow Gilles! Villeneuve, The Undying Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Wow Gilles!\u2014Villeneuve, The Undying Legend<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">By Ercole Columbo<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thirty-six years after his untimely death at Zolder, the legend of Gilles Villeneuve remains intact, alive and well, even celebrated, as fans around the world refuse to forget him. The diminutive French Canadian possessed a spirit that did not understand either giving up or going slow, and when he applied it in a racing car\u2014generally a Ferrari\u2014his performances drew legions of fans to his cause.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This book of primarily Columbo\u2019s photographs is complemented with occasional quotes from some of those who knew him and worked with him, as well as brief introductory text by Giorgio Terruzzi, all very relevant, but subservient to the photography. The five years of Gilles\u2019 F1 career are chronicled visually, both on and off the track, and in some cases with images never seen before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PR201805-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-600326 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PR201805-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PR201805-p1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PR201805-p1-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PR201805-p1-100x77.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PR201805-p1-770x590.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PR201805-p1-293x224.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the nearly 200 color photographs surely tell the story, quotes from the likes of Enzo Ferrari, \u201cI loved him like a son,\u201d Keke Rosberg, \u201cHe was the hardest bastard I ever knew, but absolutely fair\u201d or Niki Lauda, \u201cHe was the craziest devil I ever came across in Formula One,\u201d bolster impressions formed by fans around the world from watching Gilles or reading about his exploits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This landscape format coffee-table book is well worthy of addition to any true enthusiast\u2019s library.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Available for <strong>US$50.00\/CDN$67.50\/\u00a340.00<\/strong> from enthusiast bookstores or direct from publisher Fouchard Filippi Communications at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fouchardfilippi.com\">www.fouchardfilippi.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PR201805-fea.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-600324 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PR201805-fea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PR201805-fea.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PR201805-fea-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PR201805-fea-1024x457.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PR201805-fea-100x45.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PR201805-fea-770x344.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PR201805-fea-293x131.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow Gilles!\u2014Villeneuve, The Undying Legend By Ercole Columbo Thirty-six years after his untimely death at Zolder, the legend of Gilles Villeneuve remains intact, alive and well, even celebrated, as fans around the world refuse to forget him. The diminutive French Canadian possessed a spirit that did not understand either giving up or going slow, and when he applied it in a racing car\u2014generally a Ferrari\u2014his performances drew legions of fans to his cause. This book of primarily Columbo\u2019s photographs is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":600326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,11339],"tags":[2942,17152,17940,3297],"class_list":["post-497520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-product","tag-car-books","tag-car-culture","tag-product-reviews","tag-products"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>[Book Review] Wow Gilles! 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