Canadian Gilles Villeneuve started his racing career driving snowmobiles. After attending Jim Russell Driver’s School he hired one of the school’s Formula Fords and proceeded to win four of the six races he entered and a Canadian National title.

In 1974 Villeneuve won the international snowmobile championship and then signed for the Ecurie Canada Formula Atlantic team. During the winter he became snowmobile World Champion and the following season scored his first Formula Atlantic win, at Gimli, Manitoba.

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MARCH was formed in 1969. The name being an anagram of the founding partners, Max Mosley, Alan Rees, Graham Coaker and Robin Herd. The team, based in Bicester near Oxford., built a Formula 3 car (model number 693) that was raced by Ronnie Peterson.   The naming convention adopted by MARCH identified the year of the car with the first two digits and the third identifying the racing class.  The 1969 Formula 3 car was 693.

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