More than he bargained for: interview with Jacques Villeneuve
When Jacques Villeneuve joined Sauber on a two-year contract, he was hopeful the team will give him a formidable opportunity to prove his detractors wrong. The 2005 season did not quite pan out that way, but following the BMW buyout of the team, Villeneuve now finds himself in a better position than he had hoped to begin with. The question is, will the coming season be his last, or can he finally make it back to the winning circle?
One of the more fascinating aspects of 2006 will undoubtedly be how Jacques Villeneuve fares at BMW Sauber. There's no escaping the fact that the new management has inherited a driver that the company would not have put very high on its wish list, and that was made pretty clear by the tardy announcement that the Canadian was actually staying.
Jacques always had a contract that lasted into 2006, but there were times when it seemed that he wouldn't even see out '05 with the Swiss team, so messy did the situation become.
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