Villeneuve: the Facts & Stats
Sean Kelly brings the facts and stats that sum up Villeneuve's F1 decade
For most world champions, their careers follow a broadly similar path - enter F1 with one of the less fancied teams, catch the attention of the right people, get into one of the top cars and win the title, before maybe a couple more wins and a last hurrah ushers in retirement, legacy secured.
Befitting his reputation as a maverick, Jacques Villeneuve's F1 career went in exactly the opposite direction, making his ten-year stint in F1 appear less successful than it has been, despite posting better numbers than a lot of other champions (163 starts, 11 wins, 13 poles, 9 fastest laps).
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