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Get ready for some great racing at the 2008 VARAC Festival with Can-Am

February 23, 2008

While we’ve lost the Toronto Grand Prix for 2008, it doesn’t mean that there isn’t some great racing to be had in Ontario this year. Just up the road from downtown Toronto, at Canada’s home of motorsport, is the annual VARAC Vintage Racing Festival. The focus for 2008 is on the thundering Can Am cars [...]

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New age therapy for JV

November 15, 2007

Thanks to the Axis of Oversteer, we finally know where Jacques Villeneuve the younger got his golden locks!
It seems that JV accidentally partook of some new age urine therapy when he drank Filipe Massa’s wee!
Didn’t they teach young Jacques never to leave his drink alone?

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Villeneuve grows up

October 8, 2007

In a pre race interview, Monsieur Villeneuve said he would fall back right from the start and stay out of everyone’s way. “I’m not here to win a race, or to ruin anyone’s chase hopes, I’m here to get experience.” He did just that. Started at the back, drove around the middle of the pack [...]

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Looking back: A year ago in The Garage

August 21, 2007

Another summer has come and almost gone, so I thought it might be fun to have a look back and see what we were talking about last summer.
Just like this summer, there were car shows. The big one of course was our visit to Autofest at GM Canada headquarters in Oshawa.
Paul Tracy was doing his [...]

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Freddie Hunt, Son of James Taking On Formula Ford

March 22, 2007

Andretti. Villeneuve. Rosberg.
These are just some of the families where the Formula 1 bug bites more than one generation. Perhaps we are about to see the scion of yet another famous name move up the ranks. Freddie Hunt, son of the late James Hunt has decided, like so many others to begin his racing [...]

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Peugot Testing 908 HDi Later This Week: Where is JV?

March 19, 2007

Peugeot announced this morning that it would be taking one of the new Peugeot 908 HDi cars to Paul Ricard for the official Le Mans test on March 25,26. It’s interesting to note that 1 car and six of seven drivers will be coming along for the session. The entire team, save one driver are [...]

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Jacques Villeneuve: “It just doesn’t feel fair”

September 7, 2006

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.

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Villeneuve spouts off at Schumacher again

August 17, 2006

Never one to hold his tounge, Jacques Villeneuve has revealed his opinion on Michael Schumacher. In an interview for the upcoming issue of F1 Racing, Villeneuve has essentially said that Schumi is a deceptive, no personality dirtbag that the world will forget about when he’s gone. JV actually goes so far as to compare Mikey [...]

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Cleaning out The Garage part deux

August 7, 2006

So a few more things and then The Garage feed reader will be reset.
Jensen Button won his first Formula 1 race, an eventful affair in Hungary. It’s been a long time coming. Meanwhile, Villeneuve’s F1 career seems to be nearing it’s end.
Norris Macdonald at The Star has some interesting comments about Jacques options.
Sarah Fisher is [...]

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100 Greatest Formula 1 videos

June 22, 2006

Keith over at Formula 1 Fanatic has posted a multi part series of the top 100 Formula 1 videos. I just lit up my office with the sounds of a 1979 Renault, driven at Montreal by Rene Arnoux. That was back when the F1 jockey’s were real drivers. The car sounds angry and the shifts [...]

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