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Not much news coming from the JV camp, last was Barry Green (his old indycar boss) signed up with him to fins sponsors for next season but that news is months old now.
JV was doing well in the Montreal Nationwide race, that is until the rain.
He did a few races for SPEEDCAR this season but not much since then.
eh ok, so no news then ... who knows what will happen with JV ... speedcars and montreal, thats all on road courses right, it depends on sponzors, would be cool if he improves his oval skills as well hehe
JV signs up for another season of SPEEDCAR.
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Villeneuve signs on for Speedcar duties
TSN.ca Staff
12/1/2008 3:52:34 PM
Jacques Villeneuve has signed on to compete in the Speedcar Series with the Italian-based Durango team.
The GP2 stalward has hired the former F1 World Champion to be one of its two drivers as it embarks on its inaugural season in the Dubai-based stock car series.
"2009 for Durango will be the 25th anniversary," said team manager Ivone Pinton. "It is an important achievement which we will start to celebrate having, for the first time, a Formula 1 world champion as official driver."
Durango will also field a second car for 22 year old Austrian driver Christopher Zoechling.
Villeneuve, who is attempting to break into the NASCAR Sprint Cup series full time, set the fastest lap during a recent test session last week at the Dubai Autodrome, edging out his eventual teammate by just 2-10ths of a second.
Villeneuve was among several former F1 stars who raced in the inaugural season of the series last year, which was won by Johnny Herbert. Jean Alesi, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Pedro Lamy, Alex Yoong and Ukyo Katayama are some of the other F1 drivers who have competed in the series.
The Speedcar Series features drivers competing in identical V8 stock cars producing 620 horsepower, primarily racing in the Middle East and Asia. Season two is set to get underway December 5th and 6th in Dubai.
I think Jacques has dropped NASCAR as an option. Sad..no Canadian companies ever seem to step up and support Canadian drivers for any meaningful rides....
Early in the 09' season but Dinger and JPM in less than top equipment are doing great ... and no road courses yeat..
I agree on both. JPM is doing better in a Chevy this year and Dinger has just been outstanding when you consider the old Dodge motor has a slight disadvantage over the competition.Quote:
Originally Posted by wbcobrar
Glad to see that at least some Indy-Car type drivers have the talent to make it in the big leagues.Quote:
Originally Posted by wbcobrar
Of course, JPM has made it at the highest level of auto-racing - formula one.
It's still early, but I figured Speed would be running away with the ROTY. Logano looks lost out there.
It's strange that, because I expected Joey to be much better, sadly.
Scotty Speed is doing well mind you.
About a year ago, I made a post referring to this situation with OW drivers, and I just read it back and it sounded awful lol, arrogant, scathing and ignorant.
Any more prospective recruits from open wheel series'?
I'm wondering why this thread has a stickey? There have been no posts for almost four months.