Talk:Jacques Villeneuve/Archive 1

Archive 1

newtown

unless I'm mistaken, I believe Newtown is now owned by the Naco's family —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.196.167.177 (talk) 00:27, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

three feats

"winner of Formula One and Champ Car championships and the Indianapolis 500, the only driver to accomplish all three feats."

This is not true. Emerson Fittipaldi has also won all three.--Gorak 00:54, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Now it says "making him only the third driver after Mario Andretti and Emerson Fittipaldi to achieve such a feat", as though it's some kind of a big deal, when any F1 champion could win CART and the Indianapolis 500, because they're not that big a deal in the world of racing. The Indianapolis 500 is on a big oval with banked corners for goodness sake, and no one outside America takes it seriously, or considers it to be on par with F1, let alone winning the F1 Driver's Championship, so why is this being made out to be something spectacular? Can we change it please? FillsHerTease (talk)

150th race start

Jacques Villeneuve is to make is his 150th race start in the 2005 Japan race if he takes the race start, but now according to wikipedia Villeneuve did start the 2005 USA race so that makes Villeneuve has already started his 150th race in the last grand prix at the Brazilian Grand Prix which is incorrect. As Villeneuve did not take part in the race start for the 2005 USA race. [[User:Andreasu|Andreasu 04 October 2005, 13:40.

Negativity?

Is it just me, or is there a quite negative tone to a lot of this article, particularly concerning his post-BAR career?

His Sauber debut at the Australian Grand Prix was remarkable only for his (weather assisted) P4 starting position. For the opening three races he was the slowest driver on Michelin tyres and rumours began to spread that he would soon be replaced.

In terms of speed, the two team-mates were fairly evenly matched by the end of the year, but it is Massa who dons the red overalls of Ferrari in 2006, not Villeneuve.

BMW opted to honour Villeneuve's contract; the cost of ditching him perhaps being too high.

Villeneuve will need to perform well to have a future in F1 beyond 2006

It just seems as if a lot of the tone of the article doesn't come anywhere near WP's NPOV policy, and appears to have been written by somebody not particularly keen on JV... I mean, I'm not his biggest fan, but it still reads as a little harsh in places. Seb Patrick 14:36, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

National Order of Quebec

The text, under the "Personal" section, claims that "in 1998, [Villeneuve] was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec". Yet, if you go look at the article of the NOQ, he isn't listed - either this article, either Jacques's, is mistaken. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.130.104.220 (talk • contribs) 02:20, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

The National Order of Quebec article just lists some of its notable members. A search of the NOQ website found Villeneuve's page here. Feel free to add his name to the NOQ article. Majin Izlude ^talk 03:48, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I added him to the list of Officers on NOQ's Wikipedia page on 28 Oct 07. -- Dommar (talk) 21:26, 16 November 2007 (UTC)