Talk:Jacques Villeneuve

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Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: General reference for IndyCar results and in-line citations for sentences with {{fact}} tags. May need to split Early career and IndyCar sections if I can find more info on Villeneuve's Pre-CART days. Cleanup: Williams, BAR, Renault, Sauber, Le Mans, and Music Career sections Expand: BAR section NPOV: Sauber section needs NPOVing Other: Image of Villeneuve's helmet

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"winner of Formula One and Champ Car championships and the Indianapolis 500, the only driver to accomplish all three feats."

This is not true. Emerson Fittipaldi has also won all three.--Gorak 00:54, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 150th race start 2 Negativity? 3 National Order of Quebec 4 Discography 5 Wikilinks 6 2000 BAR Honda 7 profile picture and records

[edit] 150th race start

Jacques Villeneuve is to make is his 150th race start in the 2005 Japan race if he takes the race start, but now according to wikipedia Villeneuve did start the 2005 USA race so that makes Villeneuve has already started his 150th race in the last grand prix at the Brazilian Grand Prix which is incorrect. As Villeneuve did not take part in the race start for the 2005 USA race. [[User:Andreasu|Andreasu 04 October 2005, 13:40.

[edit] Negativity?

Is it just me, or is there a quite negative tone to a lot of this article, particularly concerning his post-BAR career?

His Sauber debut at the Australian Grand Prix was remarkable only for his (weather assisted) P4 starting position. For the opening three races he was the slowest driver on Michelin tyres and rumours began to spread that he would soon be replaced.

In terms of speed, the two team-mates were fairly evenly matched by the end of the year, but it is Massa who dons the red overalls of Ferrari in 2006, not Villeneuve.

BMW opted to honour Villeneuve's contract; the cost of ditching him perhaps being too high.

Villeneuve will need to perform well to have a future in F1 beyond 2006

It just seems as if a lot of the tone of the article doesn't come anywhere near WP's NPOV policy, and appears to have been written by somebody not particularly keen on JV... I mean, I'm not his biggest fan, but it still reads as a little harsh in places. Seb Patrick 14:36, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] National Order of Quebec

The text, under the "Personal" section, claims that "in 1998, [Villeneuve] was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec". Yet, if you go look at the article of the NOQ, he isn't listed - either this article, either Jacques's, is mistaken. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.130.104.220 (talk • contribs) 02:20, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

The National Order of Quebec article just lists some of its notable members. A search of the NOQ website found Villeneuve's page here. Feel free to add his name to the NOQ article. Majin Izlude ^talk 03:48, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I added him to the list of Officers on NOQ's Wikipedia page on 28 Oct 07. -- Dommar (talk) 21:26, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Discography

I've added this section even thought sales of his album are very weak.--JForget 16:23, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikilinks

Quick question, is there any reason why in the line "Villeneuve appeared briefly in the 2001 Sylvester Stallone action movie Driven as a race car driver.", "Sylvester Stallone" and "action movie" are wikilinked but the actual film title isn't? It would make more sense to me for Stallone and driven to be Wikilinked. AlexJ 11:07, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Agreed - I've wikilinked the film and moved the comment to the section about TV. It was previously in the middle of a paragraph about his girlfriends / wife, which seemed odd. Bretonbanquet 16:11, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2000 BAR Honda

personally there are some things i would change in 2000 BAR section;

Despite the lack of a competitive car in 1999, the Canadian remained loyal to Pollock's team as did Zonta. The Supertec engines of the previous season were replace by Honda engines and the new BAR–Honda package proved to be competitive. Villeneuve bought home the first points for BAR in Australia with 4th. Villeneuve would go on to have another six points finishes and almost secured a podium finish at the United States Grand Prix. Reliablilty was still a major problem for the team with retirements in Spain,Brazil,Uk whilst being well into the points, whilst a certain podium in Monza was lost due to a gearbox problem. Villeneuve was voted the quickest driver of 2000 by Autosport and the best starter by F1 magazine. The signs were promising for the Honda BAR relationship. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lyonsajh (talk • contribs) 13:58, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] profile picture and records

I believe the profile picture should be change to either a BMW Sauber photo or 1997 one.

Also believe there should be a trivia or records section eg pole in first GP, number of poles in a row, number of poles etc

give people a better idea of where he fits into history

Pictures are limited to what we have available under suitable licensing. Trivia sections are discouraged on Wikipedia - which is an encyclopedia, after all (See WP:TRIVIA). Number of poles is in the F1 infobox, poles in a row is pretty trivial (he doesn't hold a record for it). Pole in first GP is mentioned in the text. 4u1e 11:26, 8 October 2007 (UTC)