Au Revoir Jacques
Jacques Villeneuve's Formula One career appeared to be over at the end of the 2003 season, when he left the BAR team on a bitter note. And although the Canadian made a return to the sport a year later, it now seems that all the king's horses and all the king's men cannot put his career together again. Will Gray bids adieu to one of the most dominant F1 characters in the past decade
As Jenson Button secured a thrilling triumph for Honda last Sunday, finally putting the team that started life as British American Racing on the top step of the podium, Jacques Villeneuve, the man who with manager Craig Pollock created and developed that team, was miles from the action, contemplating life after Formula One.
Villeneuve was absent from Budapest after, according to the official line from his BMW-Sauber team, he chose to recuperate from his crash the preceding week. But it was soon evident that he would not be returning and, after the cancellation of his contract with the German marque, his time in Formula One appears to be over.
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