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He may now be the wrong side of 35, the WAY wrong side, and a much mellower character than in his world championship challenging days - which were numbered at best - but it seems the allure of Formula 1 is still flickering away for Jacques Villeneuve

Fear not Jacques Villeneuve fans, after an aborted NASCAR ownership attempt, an aborted NASCAR driving stint, a short but successful stop as a Le Mans chauffeur, an uneventful stop in the Speedcar Series, Le BeBe’s job search has finally ended.

Speedcar Series will hold its second round in Bahrain this Friday and Saturday, January 23-24, 2009. There will be 15 drivers on the grid representing 8 teams over the 2 races this weekend.

Jacques Villeneuve - Canada’s only Formula One/Indianapolis 500 champion - is still dreaming of becoming a real life Jean Girard and resurrecting his aborted NASCAR career.

Reports from Australia suggest that former Formula 1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve is being targeted to join Super Cheap Racing.

Ex-Formula 1 racer Vitantonio Liuzzi won the opening round of the second Speedcar season after a dramatic encounter at the Dubai Autodrome.

Speedcar Series’ second season begins this weekend at the Dubai Autodrome with 14 cars on the grid. The Speedcars will be run by 7 teams from six countries across Europe, the Middle East and United States.

Jacques Villeneuve sets fastest lap at Speedcar Series test session.

Jacques Villeneuve, former CART champion (WAY former), former World Champion slightly less former), former driver for the British American Racing F1 entry (*Retch*), recipient of a BMW unceremonious boot out of F1 (Robert Kubica goes on to fame and fortune in the ride), Speedcar Series lifeline grabber for a couple 2007 events, Jacques-fan teaser by [...]

Former Formula One and CART champion Jacques Villeneuve will make his debut in NASCAR’s second-tier series Nationwide on Saturday on a very familiar track.

It appears Jacques Villeneuve is returning to the Montreal racetrack named after his father.
The star driver from Iberville, Que., will meet with the media at his trendy downtown restaurant today to unveil the details of his participation in the Nationwide Series NASCAR event Aug. 2-3 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
The announcement comes five months after Villeneuve [...]

Jacques Villeneuve is determined that his future remains in NASCAR, despite losing his ride this season, and is pushing for a full-time drive in the Sprint Cup next year.
The 1997 world champion, who will race for the second time at Le Mans with Peugeot next weekend, is working to raise the necessary budget for 2009.
Haven’t [...]

Johnny Herbert scored a long overdue win in the first race of the Speedcar Series finale at Dubai Autodrome on Friday.
The three-time Formula 1 grand prix winner, who was dominating the last race in Bahrain until he was forced out with a gear selection issue, came out on top of the 40-minute event after a [...]

As previously noted Jacques Villeneuve is in Bahrain this weekend competing in the Speedcar Series.
Nothing entirely unusual in that, he is a racer and racers want to race.
Racing has been on Jacques’ the back burner since being ushered out of the Bill Davis Racing garage door in February for lack of sponsorship he was said [...]