Home of San Marino GP remembers legendary Ferrari driver (ANSA) - Imola, April 4 - A square in this race track town outside Bologna will soon be named after legendary Ferrari driver Gilles Villeneuve .

The new square is inside the former Buon Pastore (Good Shepherd) convent in the town center. A dedication ceremony will be held on April 20, just before the start of the San Marino Grand Prix race weekend .

This was the last race that the Canadian, also known as the 'Montreal Bomber' for his all-or-nothing approach to driving, completed before he was killed while qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix in 1982 .



On hand for the dedication ceremony will certainly be his son Jacques Villeneuve, the 1997 Formula 1 world champion and current Sauber-BMW driver, and his widow Johanna is also expected to attend .

Gilles Villeneuve was one of the most popular drivers in Formula 1 history, especially among Ferrari fans, even though he never won a title in his six years with the Italian team .

In his Formula 1 career he took part in 67 Grand Prix, all but one with Ferrari, winning six races and clinching two pole positions .

An art exhibition has been organised in the deconsecrated Buon Pastore church with 27 paintings, 27 being the number on his Ferrari car. The ex-church will be open during the San Marino race weekend .

Also on show will be Villeneuve's helmet and gloves as well as one of the cars he drove for Ferrari .

Villeneuve came in second in the 1982 San Marino Grand Prix after he was unexpectedly and some say deceitfully passed in the last lap by his teammate Didier Pironi .

He died two weeks later at the Zolder track in Belgium at the age of 32 .

Enzo Ferrari treated Villeneuve as a son and the Canadian repaid him by once saying: "If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari..." .