雅克·维伦纽夫谈从父亲吉尔身上真正学到的东西
1997年世界冠军雅克·维伦纽夫表示，他从未把自己视为父亲吉尔·维伦纽夫赛车遗产的传承者，但如今承认自己从父亲身上吸收了更深层的东西——“我能做到，你做不到”。
雅克·维伦纽夫真正从吉尔身上学到的东西：“我能做到，你做不到”
这位1997年的世界冠军从未把自己视为父亲赛车遗产的继承者，但他现在表示，他意识到自己从吉尔身上吸收了某种更深层次的东西。
当明星英年早逝时，他们不可避免地会以永恒年轻的形象被困在大众的意识中，成为英勇高贵与牺牲精神这种浪漫化概念的化身。
对于赛车迷来说，吉尔·维伦纽夫那辉煌而激进的驾驶风格代表了车手应有的终极典范。他32岁时在佐尔德赛道1982年比利时大奖赛排位赛中丧生，使这位悲剧陨落英雄的神话更加根深蒂固。事故背后与队友迪迪埃·皮罗尼之间积怨的背景，至今仍是一个充满争议的话题。
当然，传奇背后这个人的真实面貌要复杂得多，这也解释了为什么他的儿子雅克在1996年进入一级方程式（Formula 1）时如此抗拒人们把他和父亲相提并论。
一部讲述他父亲不为人知的故事的传记电影《维伦纽夫：传奇的崛起》将于9月19日在多伦多国际电影节举行全球首映，随后将于11月在魁北克院线上映。全球上映定于明年，届时正好是吉尔勒于1977年英国大奖赛驾驶迈凯伦完成一级方程式首秀50周年。
影片将聚焦于吉尔勒成为法拉利偶像之前的岁月，那是一段充满个人和职业挫折的曲折旅程。雅克的妹妹梅拉妮是执行制片人。
1978年意大利大奖赛上，吉尔勒·维伦纽夫与妻子乔安娜以及子女梅拉妮和雅克的合影
"谈论我爸爸从来都不是问题," 雅克告诉Motorsport.com。"问题在于那些人（记者）对我的回答不感兴趣，也不关心我的想法。"
"他们根本不在乎。他们只想听到的是，'我是在延续我爸爸未竟的事业，这就是我参赛的原因'。不，我赛车是因为我热爱赛车。就这么简单。"
"我爱我的爸爸。我为他感到骄傲——他很了不起，他取得的成就令人敬佩。但我在走自己的路。我赛车不是为了成为吉尔·维伦纽夫的延续。这没什么问题。"
"而他们因此生气了。所以那时我说，'好吧，我再也不想谈论他了，因为这毫无意义。这根本不是一场有建设性的讨论。你们其实根本不在乎。'"
本周，一级方程式（Formula 1）自1981年以来首次造访马德里。当年在哈拉马（Jarama）举办的最后一届西班牙大奖赛上，吉尔·维伦纽夫（Gilles Villeneuve）赢得了他职业生涯的最后一场胜利——驾驶一辆操控极差的法拉利，上演了一堂教科书式的防守驾驶课。
吉尔·维伦纽夫（Gilles Villeneuve）最令人难忘的特质之一就是永不放弃——就像1979年在赞德沃特（Zandvoort）那样，他尝试骑着三个轮子把赛车开回维修区。
父亲去世时，雅克（Jacques）刚满11岁，之后他的许多成长岁月都在寄宿学校度过。由于吉尔（Gilles）痴迷地专注于自己的赛车生涯，他父母的婚姻一直承受着压力。
雅克（Jacques）说：“他去世的时候，我真的已经一两年没见过他了。他其实并没有和我们住在一起，那真的是一种很奇怪的状况。”
"所以我从来不知道那是一段真实的记忆，还是我成长过程中被灌输的记忆，主要是我母亲当年讲的。这让人非常困惑。"
"所以现在，能够在成长历程上填补一些空白的感觉很好。我认为这部影片对那些成长岁月的刻画是相当准确的。"
维伦纽夫是仅有的三位身为辉煌F1车手之子的世界冠军之一。实际上，这三位进入赛车运动的原因各不相同，并且与父亲留下的遗产有着复杂的关系。
雅克现在为F1电视频道（F1 TV）和Canal+电视台担任解说嘉宾。
例如，雅克的前队友达蒙·希尔就曾做过一段摩托车快递员，因为他父亲格雷厄姆在空难中丧生后的诉讼使家庭陷入了财务困境。尼科·罗斯伯格的父亲科科是1982年的世界冠军，他在尼科的卡丁车生涯中只保持一定距离的参与，之后一直保持低调。尼科本可以从事工程行业，但他拒绝了伦敦帝国理工学院的录取，选择专注赛车。
父母曾是成功车手的人，在尝试追求类似职业生涯时，往往会为期望的重负所困扰。
维伦纽夫说：“如果你是出于错误的原因从事这项运动，你永远无法成功。你必须发自内心地、真正地热爱它。要愿意承受打击，因为你会遭受很多打击。
“在计时成绩上你很容易被打回原形，就是这么简单。你会如何应对呢？”
"主要是在你的成长期，当你开始跑三级方程式的时候。那是你挨打最狠的阶段。所以你需要在自己周围建立起一层保护壳。
"事情之所以是那样，就是这个原因。但那之后反而给了我自由，让我可以只做自己，而不必背负什么。
"我觉得这一点我在不知不觉中从父亲身上学到了很多。不是因为他作为车手是什么样的人，而是因为他在不在赛车里的时候是什么样的人——而这完全是同一个人。他在家里和在赛道的赛车里一模一样。
"无论他在做什么，他总在想做的东西上非常自我。他确实爱他的家人等等，但他非常自我，因为他是唯一一个想在自己想开皮卡的时候开皮卡、想爬山的时候去爬山的人。而那才是唯一重要的事。
“而且只要我们陪他一起玩他那些玩意儿，他就可以和我们玩。就是这样。小时候能和他一起坐上他的皮卡，那时候我就好像置身天堂一样酷。
“但后来我能看到他对风险的态度，挑战极限，但带着尊重。尊重对手。而且总是渴望战胜下一个挑战。
“而且他经常这么做只是为了向其他人证明：‘我能做到，你做不到’。因为这基本上就是他的人生故事：‘我能做到，你做不到’。
“甚至他买了自己的直升机之后，还试图做翻筋斗飞行，就因为有人告诉他做不到。类似这种事情。
“在那个方面，我从他身上学到了很多。但教育方式不同。所以我觉得这让我在计算风险时能做得稍微好一点。
“但对于他作为父亲的样子，我没有太多记忆。我不知道是因为那些记忆本来就不存在，还是因为在他去世后我把它们封存了起来。那是我活下去的方式。
“令人惊叹的是，在过去几年里，人们纷纷敞开心扉，讲述他们和我父亲共事的时光。
“就连普罗斯特（Alain Prost），或者其他曾经和他同场竞技的人，我猜他们以前从未敢开口过。而我现在了解到的他，与我从母亲那里得到的形象是如此不同。”
多伦多国际电影节将于9月19日举办《维伦纽夫：传奇的崛起》的全球首映，该片将于11月在魁北克院线上映，随后于明年全球发行。
这是吉尔在1982年比利时大奖赛排位赛中遭遇致命事故前不久的最后几张影像之一。
英文原文
What Jacques Villeneuve really learned from Gilles: "I can do this, you can’t"
The 1997 world champion has never seen himself as carrying on his father’s legacy in motor racing, but he now says he recognises he absorbed something deeper from Gilles
When stars die young, they inevitably become trapped in the popular consciousness in a state of eternal youth, embodying romanticised notions of heroic nobility and sacrifice.
For motor racing fans, Gilles Villeneuve’s spectacular and aggressive style came to represent the epitome of what a racing driver should be. His death at the age of 32, during qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder, crystallised the myth of the tragically fallen hero. The background to the accident of rancour behind the scenes with team-mate Didier Pironi remains a controversial topic to this day.
The truth of the man behind the legend is rather more nuanced, of course, which accounts for why his son Jacques was so resistant to comparisons when he arrived in Formula 1 in 1996.
A new biopic telling the untold story of his father, Villeneuve: Rise of a Legend, will receive its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 19 September, ahead of a theatrical release in Quebec in November. Global release is scheduled for next year, 50 years after Gilles made his F1 debut in a McLaren at the 1977 British Grand Prix.
It will focus on the years before Gilles became a Ferrari icon, an eventful journey full of personal and professional setbacks. Jacques' sister Melanie is the executive producer.
Gilles Villeneuve with his wife, Joanna, and children Melanie and Jacques, at the 1978 Italian Grand Prix
"Talking about my dad was never an issue," Jacques told Motorsport.com. "The issue was those people [journalists] were not interested in my answer. Or my way of thinking.
"They could not care less. All they were wanting to hear is, ‘I'm carrying on the flame because of what my dad did not finish, and that's why I'm doing it’. No, I'm racing because I love racing. Simple.
"I loved my dad. I’m proud of him – he was amazing, what he achieved. But I'm doing my own thing. I’m not racing because I want to be the continuation of Gilles Villeneuve. That's okay.
"And they were getting angry. So that's when I said, ‘OK, I'm not even wanting to talk about him anymore because it's pointless. There's not a constructive discussion. You don't actually care.’"
This week Formula 1 visits Madrid for the first time since 1981, when the last Spanish Grand Prix to be held at Jarama was the scene of Gilles Villeneuve's final victory, a masterclass of defensive driving in an ill-handling Ferrari.
One of Gilles Villeneuve's abiding characteristics was his refusal to give up – as at Zandvoort in 1979, when he tried to drive back to the pits on three wheels
Jacques had just turned 11 when his father died and spent many of his formative years at a boarding school. His parents’ marriage was under strain as Gilles focused obsessively on his racing career.
"When he passed, I hadn't seen him for a year or two, really," said Jacques. "He wasn't really living with us. It was really an odd situation.
"So I never know if it's a real memory, or a memory I was told growing up, mainly by my mother at the time. So that's very confusing.
"So right now, it's nice to be able to put some dots on the thing. And I think that the movie is quite accurate on those formative years."
Villeneuve is one of just three world champions who were sons of glorious F1 drivers. All of them actually had different reasons for going into motor racing and conflicted relationships with their fathers’ legacies.
Jacques now works as a pundit for F1 TV and Canal+
Jacques' former team-mate Damon Hill, for instance, spent time working as a motorcycle courier because litigation after his father Graham’s death in a plane crash brought financial ruin on the family. Nico Rosberg’s father Keke, the 1982 world champion, had arm’s-length input in Nico’s karting career and maintained a low profile thereafter. Nico could have gone into engineering, but declined an offer from Imperial College London to focus on racing.
People whose parents were successful racers often struggle with the burden of expectations when they try to pursue a similar career.
"If you're doing this sport for the wrong reason, you'll never achieve it," said Villeneuve. "You have to really, personally, yourself, deep down, love it. Willing to take the punches because you get a lot of punches.
"You get put back in place very easily on the clock. It's very simple. How will you react to that?
"Mostly in your formative years, when you start in Formula 3. That's when you take the biggest beatings. So you need to build some kind of carapace around you.
"That's why it happened like that. But then that gave me the freedom to just be me and not really carry it.
"I think that's something I took a lot from my dad without knowing. Not because of who he was as a racer, but who he was when he was not in the race car – which was exactly the same guy. He was at home exactly the same way as he was at the racetrack in the race car.
"Whatever he was doing was always very selfish in what he was wanting to do. He did love his family and so on, but he was very selfish in the fact that he's the only one who wants to play on his pickup truck when he wants to climb a mountain. And that's all that mattered.
"And we could play with him if we did his things with him. That was it. As a boy that was super cool when I could go on his pickup truck with him at the same time, I was in paradise.
"But then I could see his attitude towards risk, pushing the limit, but with respect. With respect to the opposition. And just always wanting to beat the next challenge.
"And often doing it just showed the other guys, 'I can do it, you can't'. Because that was his life story basically: 'I can do this, you can't'.
"And even when he bought his chopper he was trying to do loop-the-loops because he’d been told it couldn’t do it. Stuff like that.
"I took a lot from him on that aspect. But with a different education. So I think it allowed me to calculate the risk just a little bit better.
"But I don't have a lot of memory of him as a father. I don't know if it's because they don't exist or because I've just put them away when he died. And that was my way of surviving.
"What's amazing is how over the last few years, people have opened up about their time with my dad.
"Even [Alain] Prost, or other people that used to race with him, that never dared before, I guess. And the picture I'm getting is so different than the one I got from my mother."
The Toronto International Film Festival will host the global premiere of Villeneuve: Rise of a Legend on 19 September, with a theatrical release in Quebec in November, ahead of a global release next year.
One of the last images of Gilles, shortly before his fatal accident in qualifying for the 1982 Belgian GP
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