A biography for Jacques Villeneuvehasn’t been written yet.
“Both Indy Car and Formula 1 work in the same way, although there is a greater emphasis on development and technology in Formula 1.”
“I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening to each and every one, putting notes on every song to know which tracks are good so that when I do my little MP3 collection, I know which songs to include.”
“All these corporations don't want their drivers to ruin their image, so you can't say what you think. You're basically not allowed to have a personality. How can you have any heroes if you don't allow personalities?”
“I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.”
“F1 is giving penalties for people making mistakes instead of for people driving dirty. And that is wrong. Mistakes happen. You run into each other: that's life, that's racing, and too bad.”
“Ask me about the challenge of becoming as good at music as I am at motorsport, and I have to say: my career has been racing, and I don't plan on music becoming my next career.”
“Conserving fuel is fine, and it was great in the past. The problem is that the drivers don't have to do it. It's all done electronically. You sit there, and it saves fuel for you, and that defeats the purpose.”
“You need to let the drivers go for it, and if they bang wheels, too bad. It's fun, it's a good show, the fans are up in the grandstands, and they can scream and shout about it... that's good; that's what you want.”
“Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.”
“Everything bad about France was transferred to Quebec.”
“Winning the Indy 500 in 1995 and the Formula 1 championship in 1997 are very special moments for me, and the people in NASCAR show me respect for what I've achieved so far in my career.”
“With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure that had a huge influence on me. However, my father had more influence on me just by the way he lived, because the way he was at the racetrack was the way he was in everyday life.”
“A lot of people say when you have kids, you slow down. I want my kids to see me race.”
“Some younger drivers didn't grow up seeing racing as being dangerous. They break their little finger, and they are surprised. It's like, 'Be happy it's only that.'”
“I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.”
“Everybody has fallen asleep on the fact that F1 is dangerous. They all think it's a video game, and it's not. It is very, very dangerous, and it's tough.”
“Everybody just uses the one-move rule without realising when it is too late to actually move and cross over and when it is actually being dangerous.”
“I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's where they want to go.”
“I'm competitive, but that doesn't stop me from being realistic.”
“I don't understand the concept of always trying to make F1 go slower and slower and slower and have less and less power.”