 Jacques Villeneuve. Biography of the racing star
Jacques Villeneuve was born to the legendary Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve on April 9, 1971 at Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec.
This Canadian racing driver’s full name was Jacques Joseph Charles Villeneuve.
In 1984, after the death of his father he wanted to take racing as his career, but his mother put a condition before him to excel in his academics before he takes up racing. He was quickly allowed to perform at the Grand Prix circuit with a Formula Four car.
Soon his uncle, Jacques sr. got him enrolled him at the Jim Russell Racing Drivers School in Mont Tremblant, Quebec.
In summer, 1987, Jacques enrolled in the racing school of Richard Spenard, in return of his services at the garage. As he was too young to get a racing license in his native country, he arranged for a license from Andorra with help from Canadian Automotive Federation.
In the year 1988, he entered the Alfa cup against Johny Cecotto and Mauro Baldi and finished tenth. In 1989, he also competed in the Italian Formula Three series.
Villeneuve raced the Formula Three from 1989 to 1991, where he stood sixth and in 1992, he raced in the Japanese Formula Three and finished a runner up. He won the North American Toyota Atlantic series five times. Later he moved to Indy car racing and was selected the Rookie of the year, 1994. In the same year, he finished second at the Indianapolis and won the Road America for the Forsyth team.
That year he ranked sixth for the season. In the year 1995, however, Jacques won both the Indy title and the Indianapolis 500.
Jacques made his Formula One debut in the year 1996, qualified in pole and almost winning the first race. Nevertheless, his first victory came at the European Grand Prix and his winning spree followed at the competitions in Britain, Hungary and Portugal.
In the year 1997, he won three races and the next four wins put him just behind the star of racing Michael Schumacher. 1999, however, got him as the numero uno driver for the Tyrrell team, British American Racing. However, the year 2000 did not proved too good for his career and even though the power of Honda Engines was there to empower him, his strength was failed by the powers of Ferrari and Mclaren, but was rewarded the most improved outfit on the grid. However, for certain internal reasons his tenure with the BAR ended finally.
In 2004, he raced under the Renault, but it also proved little for his career as he there also failed to gather enough points and the team finished third in the constructor’s championship. At the Sauber, Villeneuve started a shaky start but Jacques picked up the pace with the progression of the season and snatched the fourth position at the San Marino Grand Prix. However, he took up a new challenge and scored a final sixth position at the Belgian Grand Prix.
Peter Sauber sold his team to BMW secretly and although Jacques Villeneuve was determined that the season finale in China is not his life’s final match in Formula One and that he would be able to race with the new squad in 2006 also, his days at the race track came to an unexpected halt. It is still believed that even if his days at the racetrack are over, he still has the talents to make it big at the racing championships.
It is thus under close speculations of his supporters that he might rise back from the ashes of time and win races at the track again.  | 
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