Death of Gilles Villeneuve

Gilles Villeneuve entered the 1982 season of Formula One very confident, some years before in 1979, he was the runner up champion. However, he died during the Belgium Grand Prix. Jochen Mass was in front and knew he would be overtaken
by him. Mass moved over, and Villeneuve moved into his path. He made contact with Mass and his car flipped violently, disintegrating across the grass, he was thrown out of his car into some fences, he died on the scene. This happened after Didier Pironi’s career ending accident.