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Former F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve is set to get back to his motor racing ways after announcing he will make his NASCAR debut testing a Toyota Tundra truck on Monday at the Chicagoland Speedway in Illinois. read more
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Villeneuve to attempt Talladega: Jacques Villeneuve will make his Nextel Cup race debut next weekend, five weeks earlier than originally planned, in the ‘UAW-Ford 500’, at the famous Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. Villeneuve, who sat in a ‘Cup’ car for the first time just 24 days ago, was initially scheduled to race the ARCA and Craftsman Truck races at Talladega – steps one and two on the NASCAR ladder – whilst watching the main ‘Cup’ event on Sunday, along with over 143,000 trackside spectators. Villeneuve’s fast-track to ‘Cup’, the top step of the NASCAR ladder, has been made possible only with the approval of NASCAR. His recent performance in his debut ‘Car of Tomorrow’ test... at Talladega, where he ran more laps than any other driver, and successfully ‘bump-drafted’ his way through the pack, without making enemies of the more experienced drivers, is seen to have eased that same process of approval. Having made his NASCAR race debut in the Craftsman Truck event at Las Vegas just last weekend, Villeneuve now faces a new challenge, where he will again be focused initially on qualifying his #27 car (43 cars will start the race, of which 36 are guaranteed a place based on pre-earned team points – Villeneuve does not have the benefit of such team points, either earned or inherited). In addition to Sunday’s 500-miler, Villeneuve will contest Saturday afternoon’s Craftsman Truck event, the 94-lap ‘Mountain Dew 250’, which is exactly half the length of Sunday’s flagship ‘Cup’ race.
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C.Former Formula One champion and Indy 500 winner Jacques Villeneuve was caught up in a three-car crash Saturday in the NASCAR Craftsman ricochet skid plate Series race at Talladega Superspeedway won by Todd Bodine.J. Villeneuve, who was making his second truck start and TRENTON, N. The program by Naral Pro-Choice America lets people . (AP) - Verizon Wireless on Wednesday said it had denied a request by a Washington, D., abortion rights group to use the company's mobile network for a sign-up text messaging program
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Villeneuve could be headed to Cup in 2008: Bill Davis Racing plans to field a full-time Sprint Cup entry for former Formula One world champion Jacques Villeneuve in 2008, team owner Bill Davis said Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway. Davis said the plan right now is to run Villeneuve in the #22 Craftsman Truck Series entry later this season, as well as test the Car of Tomorrow. BDR will ... field a car for Villeneuve in the ARCA race at Talladega in October in preparation for the Daytona 500 in 2008, Davis said. Then? "And then we'll go Cup racing next year," Davis said. Davis said that Villeneuve's jump to Cup doesn't necessarily mean he'll be in the #36 Toyota and that a three-car team "is a possibility."
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Jacques Joseph Charles Villeneuve is a Canadian automobile racing driver, born April 9, 1971 in St-Jean sur Richelieu, Quebec, Canada. Jacques Villeneuve is notable for winning the 1995 CART Championship, the 1995 Indianapolis 500 and the 1997 Formula One Championship. Villeneuve has taken on two new careers: in sportscar racing, racing for Peugeot in the 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans and jumping to NASCAR in August 2007.
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Lucky Strike B*A*R Honda collected three crucial championship points in Monza today after Jacques Villeneuve finished the Italian Grand Prix in sixth place. He drove a hard-fought and fault-free race from start to finish, helping the team to maintain fifth place in the Constructors' Championship, doubling his own Drivers' Championship points tally in the process.
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