Gilles villeneuve enzo ferrari biography

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Enzo Ferrari

Italian racing driver, engineer and entrepreneur (1898–1988)

This article is about the founder of Ferrari. For the automobile named after Enzo Ferrari, see Ferrari Enzo. For the Italian footballer and manager, see Enzo Ferrari (Italian footballer). For other uses, see Enzo Ferrari (disambiguation).

"Il Commendatore" redirects here. For other uses, see Commendatore.

Enzo Ferrari Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI
Ferrari in 1967
Born	Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari (1898-02-18)18 February 1898 Modena, Italy
Died	14 August 1988(1988-08-14) (aged 90) Maranello, Italy
Occupations	Racecar driver professional motor racing team entrepreneur automotive industry executive and industrialist
Known for	Founding Ferrari and Scuderia Ferrari
Spouse	Laura Dominica Garello (m. 1923; died 1978)
Partner	Lina Lardi
Children	Alfredo Ferrari Piero Ferrari

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Gilles Villeneuve

JosephGilles Henri Villeneuve was born January 18, 1950 at 6 o'clock in the morning at the Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu hospital, close to Chambly, the same city in which his parents, Seville and Georgette, had married in 1947 and where they had been living since. His brother Jacques was born three years later and the Villeneuves were now a complete family.
Gilles had been fascinated by any mechanic tools since his early childhood; his favorite toys were little bulldozers and trucks, provided that they looked real, otherwise he refused to play with them. He was a lonely and quiet boy, whose character was brave enough to make him claim to ride his bike with no trainer wheels, and after many falls he learnt the technique and managed to do it. He started primary schools in 1955 and he was a serious pupil, he felt he had to be the best; although he was not a precocious child he was a smart boy; he was stimulated by his older friends and always did his best to compet
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Gilles was born Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve on 18th January 1950 in Bertierville, Quebec in Canada. His father was a piano tuner who loved to do hair raising stunts in cars. Gilles built himself a small 'car' from a lawnmower when he was 5 years old, and although he made a mess of the garden, his father encouraged him to keep going in that direction.
His father taught him to drive when he was 9, letting him drive the van on fields and counrty lanes, and at 15 as a birthday present he was given an MG 'A' which he immediately tweaked and entered in races with friends. He had a vast knowledge of mechanics and was always playing with his car trying to get more out of it. He bought a Ford Mustang and put an 8 litre engine in it, and then tried drag racing and some oval racing, but found both pretty boring, and he decided he needed a more challenging type of motorsport.
Gilles first started racing snowmobiles in his early 20s after trying drag racing and dirttrack midgets. He beca