Sidepodcast (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
It is Jacques Villeneuve Sr's birthday today - brother to Gilles and uncle of the baggy-overalled Jacques we know and love. Eh-hem. He was also a race driver too, and took part in a couple of years worth of F1. What a family!
Car News (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
This Subaru Impreza vs Corvette video is not your usual track competition. You could call it a real battle. At some point, a Corvette chasing the Subaru Impreza touches it and they both go off course. The Subaru Impreza manages to get back on the track but crashes again into a Corvette. The event took place during the Jacques Villeneuve Grand Prix of Mirabel at ICAR and the Subaru Impreza involved...
Jacques Villeneuve Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Jacques Villeneuve Fan shares an interview he had while he was participating in the TopRace Argentina
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Filed under: Motorsports , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Toyota Up until a few years ago, seeing a driver switch from one motorsport discipline to another was practically unheard of. A Formula One driver might compete at Le Mans, sure, but with few exceptions, that was about the extent of it. Now we've got drivers interested in switching between F1, rallying and even motorbikes in a big game of musical...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
• Back-to-back champions would be great for Britain • We want Button to win as quickly as possible, says Hill Jenson Button should ignore all strategic advice on how to clinch the Formula One world championship and concentrate on doing it his own way. That was the advice given today by Damon Hill, the British world champion who has first-hand experience of exactly what Button is going through....
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Filed under: Motorsports , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Rumormill Crashing in Formula One is taken pretty seriously. Especially if you did it on purpose. Which goes a long way towards explaining why the motorsport community is calling for the blood of Nelson Piquet Jr. The disgraced Renault driver was, in the end, the perpetrator of the so-called Crashgate affair. But while his boss and manager Flavio...
Autocar (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Formula One and corporate are words often found in same sentence together. You see all the stickers on the sides of the car and enviously wonder whether the VIP guests are drinking the ten-year old red or white back in the hospitality suite. Yesterday, I crossed over to the ‘dark side’ and took my first tentative steps in the corporate side of Formula One. It was a situation I never really...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Jacques Villeneuve has told Jenson Button to be a gentleman racer if he wants to lose the Formula One title.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
• 'It wouldn't mean so much to me if I deliberately collided' • 'I haven't come [to Japan] thinking I am going to seal the title' Jenson Button said he intends to win clean if he is to be the 2009 world champion in a sport that has had more than its fair share of controversy. As well as the Renault Crashgate affair, Button was referring to the history of drivers taking each other off the...
autosport.com (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Q and A with Jacques Villeneuve
autosport.com (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Former world champion Jacques Villeneuve thinks the only thing wrong with modern Formula 1 is that the current drivers are too boring
autoshowplanet.com (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Filed under: Motorsports, Performance, Canada, Specialty Jacques Villeneuve Academy at ICAR - Click above for high-res image gallery There’s nothing like a Montreal summer. Once the sun starts to shine on the island metropolis after a long winter, the city transforms into a burgeoning oasis of festivals, street cafes and exotic sports automobiles. [...]
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Review: 2010 Audi S4 brings back the boost, gives "S" a reason for being Audi's finally brought back the boost for the 2010 S4, and in the process created an all-wheel drive sports sedan with the power and poise of BMW's 335i and the physics defying grip and electrowizardry of Mitsubishi's Evolution. Apparently you can have it both ways. Autoblog gets schooled at the Jacques Villeneuve Academy...
WorldCarFans.com (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Jacques Villeneuve this weekend is making yet another visit to a formula one paddock, and he told the French daily Le Parisien that he is "reasonably optimistic" of securing a return to the grid in 2010.
Motorsport Zone (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Their voices stop television commentators in their tracks as they take over the air waves and issue instructions to a driver, but a race engineer’s job entails much more than being a pit-to-car messenger. From strategist to diplomat, from decision maker to motivational guru, it’s a complex and demanding role. One of the most experienced in the business is Brawn GP’s Jock Clear, race...
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