Jacques Villeneuve wants to stay in NASCAR

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.

During a press conference held today at the Newtown in Montreal, Villeneuve confirmed that Australian Barry Green, the man who master brained his victory at the Indy 500 and took him to the 1995 CART title, now guides him.

"Before today, I was fully concentrated on driving race cars, without really knowing what was going on around me," Jacques declared. Craig was taking care of all these other things. But one month ago, I decided to retake control of my career. I contacted Barry Green to know if he was interested in managing my career. He gladly accepted. We decided to work from what had been done before in the Sprint Cup. I am now fully aware of what's going on."

Villeneuve mentioned he wanted to stay in the Sprint Cup. "It is an extremely competitive series," he explained. "If you lose one tenth of a second on one lap, you find yourself running at the back of the pack. It is very exciting! I am motivated as if I was 20 again. But I want to do things correctly because I have a lot to learn, very quickly. We are putting together a marketing team and everyone will work towards the same objective."

The former Formula 1 Champion confirmed that he is still in contacts with Bill Davis. "We are still talking to each other. I fully understand that he couldn't run me without any money. Bill has a very good team. The chemistry was excellent. I'd be glad to return there. At this point however, it's absolutely out of the question to buy an existing team or to build our own team. We need to go where everything is in place. A solid, experienced team. The plan is to race in the Sprint Cup this year, or next year. We're working on the long term."

Barry Green is happy to be back in motorsport. "I was enjoying myself playing golf! No, seriously. I saw Jacques run in Las Vegas and I must say that he hasn't lost a bit of his talent. He can win a Sprint Cup race. We now look at all the possibilities we have, in the Sprint Cup as well as in the Nationwide Series. There are a lot of people here in Canada who want to help Jacques."

Will Villeneuve compete in the NASCAR race in Montreal this next summer? "It is one of our objectives," Jacques revealed. "Last year, I was not aware at all of what was going on. It was a last-minute deal. This time, I am extremely interested."

During the press conference, Villeneuve never blamed Craig Pollock for his actions. "I always took all my decisions very quickly and I always faced the consequences," Villeneuve admitted.

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Jacques Villeneuve in his prime at NASCAR racing

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Canvas Paintings of F1 cars through history; Part 3

And here is the last third part of canvas paintings like pictures!

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pic 1: "The Great little Man"
pic 2: "Rosemayer"

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pic 1: "The flying Mantuan"
pic 2: "Tartan Toyota" Allan McNish Toyota

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pic 1: "Iceman" Kimi Räikkönnen McLaren Mercedes
pic 2: Juan Pablo Montoya Williams

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pic 1: "italian dream" Michael Schumacher Ferrari
pic 2: "Team mates" Rubens Barrichello and Michael Schumacher Ferrari

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pic 1: "silver star" Kimi Räikkönnen McLaren Mercedes
pic 2: Ralf Schumacher Williams

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Canvas Paintings of F1 cars through history; Part 2

As I promised more canvas pictures..


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pic 1: "Last Victory" Ayrton Senna McLaren
pic 2: "Ringmaster" Michael Schumacher Ferrari
pic 3: "Tunnel Vision" Gilles Villeneuve Ferrari

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pic 1: "Seeing Red" Michael Schumacher Ferrari
pic 2: "shark attack"

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pic 1: Sir Jackie Stewart Tyrrell Ford
pic 2: "Italian Job II"

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pic 1: "On The Limit" Gilles Villeneuve
pic 2: "Return of the cat" Jaguar

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pic 1: "Remembering James" James Hunt Ferrari
pic 2: "Two of a kind" Nigel Mansel and Ayrton Senna

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Choc F1 car goes on show

A life-size chocolate model of a Ferrari Formula 1 car has been unveiled in Italy.

Confectioners spent more than a year making the car out of 4,405lbs of Belgian chocolate.

It has now been delivered to Sorrento, near Naples, where it will be the centrepiece of a Ferrari owners club party.

Luigi Liberti, president of the Scuderia Ferrari Club Napoli, said: "It will go on display until the weekend and then will be smashed up with hammers and handed out to party guests - they will be given bits of the car to take home in a special bag."

The £12,000 chocolate Ferrari is based on an F2008, and has a red, edible coating.

Liberti added: "The project started one year ago, just for fun, but then the Club Pasticceri Italiani started to get really enthusiastic and eventually it became a life-sized model.


"They started melting the chocolate in 2007, at first copying a small-scale model of the Ferrari F2008, then getting the full scale model done using chocolate imported especially from Belgium."

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Canvas Paintings of F1 cars through history; Part 1

Yesterday I was surfing on the internet when I came across these pictures, and I am very glad I did! They are soo cool, take a look, more comming!! (there are a lot of pictures so I will publish them in two more posts)


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pic 1: Mister Monaco Lotus Ford
pic 2: Jochen Rindt Lotus Ford

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pic 1: Niki Lauda Ferrari
pic 2: Gilles Villeneuve Ferrari

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pic 1: Michael Schumacher Ferrari
pic 2: Gentleman Jim team Lotus

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pic 1: "AJ"
pic 2: Ayrton Senna

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pic 1: "J Lightning"
pic 2: "Genius at Work"

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pic 1: "fairwell" Jordan
pic 2: David Coultard McLaren Mercedes

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pic 1: "Early Days"
pic 2: "Japanese Hero" Takuma Satto?

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Wild rumours, rubbish talk, Michael Schumacher MotoGP

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Wild rumours are doing the rounds that Michael Schumacher could be set to make a racing return -- on the saddle of a MotoGP bike.

The French sports newspaper L'Equipe seemingly began the speculation by publishing an article raising the possibility of the 39-year-old German, who retired as a seven time world champion in 2006, making a wild-card entry for the Mugello event this year.

Schumacher has twice tested for the Italian motorcycle marque Ducati, impressing with his pace. It is also reported that the former Ferrari racer may have tested again at France's Circuit de Bresse.

L'Equipe also claimed that someone from Schumacher's entourage recently visited the headquarters of MotoGP's governing body to arrange the documentation for a one-off race entry.

In the Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport on Monday, however, MotoGP boss Carmelo Ezpeleta, and Ducati chief Livio Suppo, dismissed the stories.

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Im sure Schumi just laughs at these rumours :D
..and since I am on these MotoGP subject I can post some pictures of Schumi in Mugello and testing in Valencia - Spain. And I must note that he was just 5 seconds shy of the times set by top riders in MotoGP!!


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