Scheckter and Villeneuve
Jody Scheckter had a wild popularity in his early F1 days, not helped by triggering an unlimited pile-up on the 1973 British Grand Prix, however he labored on these tough edges to turn out to be a race winner with Tyrrell and a championship runner-up with Walter Wolf Racing.
Ferrari preferred what they noticed from the South African as his profession developed and, for ‘79, put him alongside proficient teen Gilles Villeneuve, who had solely lately arrived on the F1 scene and scored his first victory with the Scuderia on the finish of the ‘78 season.
F1 ICONS: Melanie Villeneuve on her father Gilles, the legendary Ferrari racer
Scheckter, Villeneuve and Mauro Forghieri’s 312T4 made for a potent mixture – the skilled hand doing simply sufficient to beat his bold workforce mate to the drivers’ crown because the duo completed first and second within the standings and secured the constructors’ title.
After a a lot much less profitable ‘80 season with an up to date T5 machine that didn’t hit the mark, Scheckter referred to as time on his F1 profession and turned to punditry, whereas Villeneuve continued to characterize Ferrari till a tragic, deadly accident on the ’82 Belgian Grand Prix.
