The man-made Notre Dame Island in the middle of the St Lawrence River was created for the 1967 Expo 67 World’s Fair. Once the expo and the ensuing 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics had left town, some clever people decided to make a race track out of the island’s roads. And lo, the Circuit Ile Notre-Dame, as it then was, came to be.
With the Canadian Grand Prix having been in search of a permanent home for a number of years in the 1960s and 1970s, the Circuit Ile Notre-Dame first hosted the race in 1978. Fittingly, Gilles Villeneuve claimed his maiden win, at the track that would end up bearing his name.
Join us on ScuderiaFans.com later in the afternoon to get up-to-the-minutes for the latest results, timings, news and updates from the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, as the first practice session for the 2022 Canadian Grand Prix is about to start. Scuderia Ferrari drivers Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc will hit the track behind the wheel of the F1-75 car, with the target of evaluating tyre management and identifying the ideal set-up ahead of the qualifying session on Saturday and the main event on Sunday.
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