Villeneuve expressed relief that the failure of the front-right disc on the Vanwall-Gibson Vandervell 680 with just over an hour of the race to go happened at Turn 10.
“Having that happen at Turn 10 was certainly better than at Turn 1,” Villeneuve told Autosport. “It’s never nice to lose the brakes, but it was probably a good place to have a failure like that.
