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Jacques Villeneuve: Bill Davis Racing
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Despite having failed to qualify for the famed Daytona 500 and having been pushed aside the Bill Davis Racing team, Jacques Villeneuve wants to race stock cars. Villeneuve just split from his long-time manager and mentor Craig Pollock to take the full control of his career.
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Villeneuve tests COT at Kentucky: Jacques Villeneuve continued his preparation for his NASCAR debut by testing Wednesday at Kentucky Speedway. He turned laps for Bill Davis Racing in the new Car of Tomorrow [#27 Toyota]. “Feels great! I’m just getting up to speed and getting used to driving the car,” said Villeneuve during a lunch break. “It is very different than anything I have driven before so I just want it to become natural and its fun.” Villeneuve will use the final seven races of the 2007 Craftsman Truck Series season to prep for Sprint Cup Series competition in 2008. Even though the race trucks and the COT have similar aerodynamics, both are very different from what he has driven in the past.
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This week’s race will see the NASCAR debut of former Formula One world champion and Indianapolis 500 winner Jacques Villeneuve of Canada. Villeneuve will compete in the season’s final seven races in a Toyota fielded by Bill Davis Racing. Villeneuve is the third Formula One driver to compete in the series. The first was Eliseo Salazar of Chile, who finished 17th at Watkins Glen International in 1997. Olivier Beretta of Monaco was the most recent. He finished 17th at Heartland Park Topeka (Kan.) in 1999.
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On the back of a strong performance in pre-season testing at Daytona, Florida, Canadian motor racing legend Jacques Villeneuve followed up on Saturday with the 5th quickest time in morning practice. Focussed on locking Villeneuve's Toyota Camry, no.27 into the top 43 for the upcoming 50th anniversary Daytona 500, his Bill Davis Racing Toyota team were suitably confident that it could put both of its drivers on the front row of the grid that neither Villeneuve nor Dave Blaney (his team- mate) took to the track for the second practise session on Saturday. With all eyes on Sunday's qualifying, expectations were high, but on Sunday morning, the drivers awoke to strong gusting winds that would go on to transform qualifying for the 50th anniversary `Daytona 500' into something of a lottery.
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