Jacques Villeneuve - son of a famous Canadian driver Gilles Villeneuve, started his career in Formula 1 among the best drivers in the sport, and ended it as a driver of small teams. Falavio Briatore once said that Jacques Villeneuve could become a big star of Formula 1 like Ayrton Senna was.
He was created on April 9th, 1971, in Canada's French-speaking chaussure de foot mercurial province of Quebec. His father, Gilles Villeneuve was among the favorite drivers of Enzo Ferrari, founder of the famous racing team. Because his father was a racing driver, a young Jacques's childhood was full of moving in one place to another. He practically was raised around the pit wall of F1. In 1982 his father was killed during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix on the Zolder track.
More than 10 years later, Jacques continued his father's footsteps. After driving a few minor championships in Europe and Asia, in 1995 Jacques found the U.S. Indycar championship. That year he became the youngest Indycar champion and also the youngest winner from the famous Indy 500 race. The coming year he finally arrived to Formula One.
In the debut race nike hypervenom pas cher he's won pole position and second place in the race. That year he fought for the championship title with his team mate Damon Hill, and he lost the chances to win the title in the final race. Yet he was a champion the year after, 1997, and the main rival for the reason that year was Michael Schumacher from Ferrari. In those days, he was the biggest hero in Formula One. Son of the driver known for his great courage had become the champion after he showed that he has his father's spirit. In addition he were able to win the title in his second season in Formula One.
After winning the title, Jacques Villeneuve became the driver of the small team called BAR that he drove until 2003. He explained the reason of his transfer wasn't money. After leaving that team in 2003, he drove a few races for Renault, as well as in 2005 he signed a two years contract for they named Sauber. In 2006 he was substituted with a young driver named Robert Kubica. Which was no more his career in F1.
Jacques Villeneuve was a great hypervenom pas cher champion, but could he done more? We will never know whether Flavio Briatore was right, could Jacques Villeneuve be a big star of Formula 1 like Ayrton Senna was.