Quotes by Jacques Villeneuve

About Jacques Villeneuve:

Jacques Joseph Charles Villeneuve is a Canadian automobile racing driver and amateur musician. He is the son of Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve, and is the namesake of his uncle, who was also a racer. Villeneuve won the 1995 CART Championship, the 1995 Indianapolis 500 and the 1997 Formula One World Championship, making him only the third driver after Mario Andretti and Emerson Fittipaldi to achieve such a feat. To date, no other Canadian has won the Indianapolis 500 or the F1 Drivers' title.
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I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's...

Jacques Villeneuve

Ultimately, the best driver will always do something special, whatever the rules and whatever the regulations. Same thing with the teams.

Jacques Villeneuve

The feeling I got from rallycross was a little bit more of the NASCAR aspect of it; it's a family of races where racing is a passion, and it's not the politics that come with it.

Jacques Villeneuve

I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking over what's happening and just trusting the feel of the driver, the data becomes almost more important.

Jacques Villeneuve

I'm a racer at heart more than anything else, and that will always be my priority: competing. But ultimately, if you can't drive, you can still have the competitive spirit outside of a car.

Jacques Villeneuve

Both Indy Car and Formula 1 work in the same way, although there is a greater emphasis on development and technology in Formula 1.

Jacques Villeneuve

Conserving fuel is fine, and it was great in the past. The problem is that the drivers don't have to do it. It's all done electronically. You sit there, and it saves fuel for you, and that defeats the purpose.

Jacques Villeneuve

I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening to each and every one, putting notes on every song to know which tracks are good so that when I do my little MP3 collection, I know which so...

Jacques Villeneuve

Ask me about the challenge of becoming as good at music as I am at motorsport, and I have to say: my career has been racing, and I don't plan on music becoming my next career.

Jacques Villeneuve

You need to let the drivers go for it, and if they bang wheels, too bad. It's fun, it's a good show, the fans are up in the grandstands, and they can scream and shout about it... that's good; that's what you want.

Jacques Villeneuve

With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure that had a huge influence on me. However, my father had more influence on me just by the way he lived, because the way he was at the racetrack was the way ...

Jacques Villeneuve

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

Jacques Villeneuve

F1 is giving penalties for people making mistakes instead of for people driving dirty. And that is wrong. Mistakes happen. You run into each other: that's life, that's racing, and too bad.

Jacques Villeneuve

I love a lot of high speed turns, turns where you have to push yourself, force yourself to go fast. Then there's something telling your foot to lift off, because it's so fast, and it's impressive when you get that feeling and just drive on.

Jacques Villeneuve

I'm a purist, and I love the sport. I loved the '60s and '70s, when the fans even enjoyed the races where only four cars finished, and they were two laps apart.

Jacques Villeneuve

If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States.

Jacques Villeneuve

All these corporations don't want their drivers to ruin their image, so you can't say what you think. You're basically not allowed to have a personality. How can you have any heroes if you don't allow personalities?

Jacques Villeneuve

I was happy to ski and play a lot of ice hockey. But I've come back because I was - and am - a racing driver. This is what I do.

Jacques Villeneuve

I'm competitive, but that doesn't stop me from being realistic.

Jacques Villeneuve

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

Jacques Villeneuve

Author Bio

  • NameJacques Villeneuve
  • DescriptionCanadian racecar driver born in 1971
  • AliasesJacques Joseph Charles Villeneuve
  • BornApril 9, 1971
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionFormula One Driver