Some suggest that he was specifically aiming to beat Pironi due to bitterness at being passed by him two weeks earlier in the closing stages of the San Marino Grand Prix, when Villeneuve believed Pironi had been ordered to remain behind him.
Algúns suxiren que especificamente para vencer a Pironi debido ao seu cabreo por ser adiantado por el dúas semanas antes nas voltas finais de San Marino, cando Villeneuve cría que Pironi recibira a orde de permanecer detrás de el.