Il y a 38 ans déjà, le Canada perdait alors son plus grand ambassadeur sur la planète.Où étiez-vous le 8 mai 1982? With eight minutes of the session left, Villeneuve's Ferrari came over the rise after the first chicane and found Jochen Mass's March 821 (Cosworth) travelling much more slowly. Wickens had started in 15th.Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s comment community. The St-Hippolyte, Que. The priority in those days was clear: Stay alive. "Although Mass sometimes wonders whether things could have turned out differently, Villeneuve's son Jacques has no doubt about what went wrong.Villeneuve understands the dangers of racing firsthand after a successful career of his own, which included the 1995 Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) title, a win at the 1995 Indianapolis 500 and the 1997 F1 world championship title. Jochen Mass est un pilote automobile allemand, né le 30 Septembre 1946 à Dorfen.
Pour le laisser passer, l’Allemand se range à droite, la même trajectoire qu’avait malheureusement choisie Villeneuve.»Le pilote, sans casque et encore attaché à son siège, est éjecté de son bolide. The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures.Jochen Mass was essentially an innocent bystander in the devastating crash that killed Villeneuve.This article was published more than 8 years ago. TVA Sports est devenue la chaîne incontournable pour les amateurs de sports avec une offre de nombreuses propriétés de prestige. While I flew through the air, it was like it was in slow-motion and it was beautiful – it sounds perverse, but it was beautiful emotion, at that moment: I was being knocked about and I didn't feel any of that, I just had a slow dream of my life and my kids. It was tragic," Mass said.
Au Québec, si les réseaux spécialisés en information continue n’existaient pas à l’époque, Télé-Métropole (ex-TVA) avait interrompu sa programmation régulière pour consacrer une émission spéciale sur le départ soudain de Villeneuve.«Je vous dirai, en toute honnêteté, que 38 ans plus tard, ce malheureux souvenir est toujours là dans ma mémoire et le restera toute ma vie, a raconté Tortora en entrevue au «Journal de Montréal». On May 8, 1982, with only 10 minutes left until the end of the qualifying session for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder, Villeneuve collided with Mass while attempting to overtake him. Elle était plutôt retenue à Monaco pour la première communion de sa fille Mélanie.«Les Forces armées canadiennes avaient mis à la disposition de la famille un avion pour rapatrier le corps de Gilles. Non-subscribers can read and sort comments but will not be able to engage with them in any way. Mass is perhaps best known for his blameless part in the death of Gilles Villeneuve. Vous n’avez pas à être un passionné de F1 pour vous souvenir de cette date fatidique. Il faut se souvenir que Joann, l’épouse de Gilles, n’était pas présente à Zolder, lorsque l’accident fatal est survenu. Former World Champion Nigel Mansell says the harrowing sight of Gilles Villeneuve’s fatal crash at Zolder still troubles him to this day. The accident happened at Paul Ricard, where Mass and During his F1 career, Jochen Mass also competed with various cars in endurance races and After an unsuccessful attempt in 1988 with Mercedes-powered Sauber C9, the second attempt was victorious. This is a space where subscribers can engage with each other and Globe staff.We aim to create a safe and valuable space for discussion and debate. At the time, Wood was the second fastest in the Lister, while Mass was 22nd. His best season was 1977, when he finished sixth overall in the world championship, driving for McLaren. Avant qu’ils n’apprennent le décès de leur fils quelques heures plus tard.»À l’époque, faut-il le rappeler, les qualifications n’étaient pas présentées en direct au Québec.Tortora, le journaliste, s’était porté volontaire pour soutenir la famille et pour l’aider dans ses démarches après l’annonce de la mort de Villeneuve.«J’ai fait quelque chose, dit-il, que je serais incapable de faire à froid aujourd’hui. "You often wonder what would have been if certain things would have been fractions of a second different," he said. You can't blame someone else for someone's mistake. Read our Il tremblait.«Mon premier réflexe a été d’appeler les parents de Gilles à Berthierville, Séville et Georgette, pour les informer de la situation. This is a space where subscribers can engage with each other and Globe staff. The race continued for another four laps, during which Mass passed Ickx for the lead. TVA Sports est le diffuseur francophone exclusif de la Ligue nationale de hockey (LNH) au Canada jusqu’en 2026 et le diffuseur francophone exclusif de l’Impact de Montréal et diffuseur officiel de la MLS jusqu’en 2022. If you would like to write a letter to the editor, please forward it to Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s comment community. "Gilles' car was a joke," Mass explained succinctly.In Villeneuve's accident, the seatbelts ripped from their mounts, which is why he was thrown across the track and into a catch fence. The accident that took the life of Canadian racing legend Gilles Villeneuve 30 years ago Tuesday ultimately ended the Formula One career of Jochen Mass – …
It's not as if they had been in a race and one driver had purposely done something nasty. After leaving F1, Mass went on to have a successful career in sports car racing, winning the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1989.As most motorsport fans around the world stop on Tuesday to remember Villeneuve on the 30th anniversary of his death, Mass will think about his old friend and the crash. They were both racers, and that's it. Il était en fait l’un des deux seuls représentants de médias québécois, avec Guy Robillard de la Presse canadienne, à avoir fait le déplacement en Belgique.