Poor JV. He’s spent 10 years in Formula 1 and doesn’t feel he should have to be compared to some fast young lion, so he took his ball and went home.

“After having been in F1 for 10 years and having won the championship and so on, I wasn’t ready to stay home some weekends just to see how the other guy would go and to then be compared to him,” Villeneuve tells the publication in an exclusive interview.

“Not because I was worried that he would go faster or slower, it could happen both ways and that would be life. It’s just not something that anybody that’s been there and won races would accept basically, that’s all.

“I knew that after that I wouldn’t be able to give everything I had. It just doesn’t feel fair, so I wouldn’t be able to train like a maniac and take all the risks that I took racing, basically.”

Not that Jacques wants to quit racing mind you, he’s just looking for a new challenge. NASCAR is looking good to him, maybe even better since JP Montoya is headed that way. But wait, Jacques has a view on the taxi racing challenge:

“If I was going to drive again, it would have to be NASCAR, that’s all… Basically it’s something you have to learn from scratch, and I think that’s what would make it interesting and exciting. When you start at the bottom of the ladder and have to learn, you really have to outdo yourself, it makes it exciting.”

Does this mean we’ll be seeing JV running late models at the local 1/4 mile oval? Don’t be absurd. Will we see him in the BUSCH series? Somehow I doubt it. I suspect we’ll see JV alongside Montoya at Daytona next spring, just waiting for Tony to kick his ass. Oh wait….those French Canadian guys don’t go toe to toe with the tough guys. They talk a good game and then leave their helmet on.

Maybe he should join Uncle Jacques at the local snowmobile races!

Source TSN