At Jerez he finally crossed the line first, although after teammate Coulthard had been asked to move over for him and title contender Jacques Villeneuve, nursing a damaged car, was asked by his team to consider letting him through.

Villeneuve was among the first group inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.

On February 19, 2007, Villeneuve released his first album entitled Private Paradise.

Villeneuve passed Hill, who finished second and achieved the team's first podium since the 1995 Australian Grand Prix.

Villeneuve later remarked that: " If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari ..."

The acronym was originally for Villeneuve d ' Ascq à Lille ( Villeneuve d ' Ascq to Lille ), the route of the first line to be projected ( and inaugurated ).

At noon, Villeneuve sent the signal " engage the enemy ", and Fougueux fired her first trial shot at Royal Sovereign.

Michael Servetus, using the name " Michel de Villeneuve ", who already had his first death sentence from the University of Paris, anonymously published a Dioscorides-De Materia Medica in 1543, printed by Jean & Francois Frellon in Lyon.

The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740.

The first winner in Montreal was Quebec native Gilles Villeneuve who died in 1982 on the final qualifying lap for the Belgian Grand Prix.

Gilles Villeneuve was one of the first inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame, and the only Canadian winner at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

On 14 April 1918, Tennessee Guardsman Reed Chambers flew with Eddie Rickenbacker and David Peterson of the 94th Pursuit Squadron from Villeneuve, France on the first combat mission ever ordered by an American commander of a U. S. squadron of American pilots.

He was involved in a number of hairy incidents during that season, including crashing out at the start of the first lap at Interlagos, and at Imola, he forced off Alessandro Nannini during practice at Curva Villeneuve and the Italian shunted his Benetton, and was lucky to escape unhurt.

He was the first racing driver to die at a Grand Prix weekend since the 1982 season, when Riccardo Paletti was killed at the Canadian Grand Prix, coincidentally at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

* 28 May-Jacques Villeneuve becomes first Canadian to win the Indianapolis 500 ; Canadian Scott Goodyear is third.

* October 26-Formula One: Jacques Villeneuve becomes the first Canadian to become World Drivers Champion.

The first mayor was Jean Sylvain Bailly ; he was succeeded on November 1791 by Pétion de Villeneuve after Bailly's unpopular use of the National Guard to disperse a riotous assembly in the Champ de Mars ( 17 July 1791 ).

Villeneuve d ' Ascq is the first academic pole of the metropolitan area.

Their relationship did not improve after the first Grand Prix in Australia: Villeneuve was due to pit, but stayed out an extra lap and pitted when Button was due in, leaving Button waiting in the pit lane while Villeneuve's car was serviced.

Button performed well in the first six races, scoring eight points ( the points system had changed that year to award points to the top eight finishers ), including fourth place at the Austrian Grand Prix ; Villeneuve had scored only three.

* Francine Villeneuve ( Horse Racing ), first female Canadian thoroughbred jockey to win 1, 000 races / winningest Canadian female of all time

As it was, the Luxembourg Grand Prix provided a moment in history, as Renault powered cars took the first four places at the finish with Jacques Villeneuve ( Williams-Renault ) taking first place.

No driver to date has won any combination of the three major events, with only two drivers, ( Juan Pablo Montoya and Jacques Villeneuve ), having competed in all three.

Outside Formula One, Villeneuve has taken on several new careers: in sportscar racing, racing for Peugeot in the 2007 and 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans, jumping to NASCAR in August 2007 and racing as an invited driver in the Argentinian Top Race V6 series and the Australian based International V8 Supercars Championship.

The series is composed of road courses and stockcars similar to NASCAR and Villeneuve said " On a personal level, Speedcar will give me more road racing experience with this kind of cars which will be useful in future NASCAR road course events and it's also a great excuse to meet race fans.

After racing both NASCAR Sprint Cup and Speedcar Series, Villeneuve was invited by the Top Race V6 chairman Alejandro Urtubey to join the series in its major event of the 2008 season, called La Carrera del Año ( The Race of the Year ), held at the Buenos Aires circuit.

He also collaborated with Maurice Benayoun on the computer graphics series Quarxs, and worked as a production designer for a few movies: Gwendoline by Just Jaeckin, Mr. Nobody and Toto le héros by Jaco Van Dormael, Taxandria by Raoul Servais, The Golden Compass by Chris Weitz and Mars et Avril by Martin Villeneuve.

Brisebois qualified in 15th for the 2009 NASCAR Canada Canadian Tire series NAPA AutoPro 100 on Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, a support race for the NASCAR Nationwide NAPA Auto Parts 200.

Gilles Villeneuve and Jacky Ickx are portrayed as good friends of Michel's as is Didier Pironi, and are the most recurring drivers of the series.

As the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve serves as host to different racing series, it is possible to directly compare different race series ' lap times.

As quickly as the race at Martinsville was added to the schedule, it was removed in favor of a race in Canada at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, adding a third road course to the series schedule.

At the same time Häkkinen lost his advantage on Irvine when the safety car was deployed ; Villeneuve had lost his rear wing on the back straight and he was lucky to touch the wall only slowly after a series of high-speed spins.

It was 1997 Formula One Champion Jacques Villeneuve who suggested that he should go for a series such as Formula Ford, as he was too big and too old to race karts.

Boris Said later won a Nation Wide series race in Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal

Villeneuve was partnered with fellow ex – Formula One driver Marc Gené, joining them was Frenchman Nicolas Minassian.

Just before the final race in Japan, Villeneuve lost his seat at BAR, so Button was partnered with Takuma Sato ; he took his second fourth place for the season, and finished ninth in the Drivers ' Championship with 17 points.

In Austria, Villeneuve managed to get his seventh pole position of the 1997 season ; the Canadian was partnered on the front row by Finnish driver, Mika Häkkinen.

However the dismasted Tonnant, Commodore Du Petit Thouars now dead from his wounds and thrown overboard at his own request, was unable to make the required speed and was driven ashore by its crew, while Timoléon was too far south to escape with Villeneuve and in attempting to join the survivors had also grounded on the shoal.

" Michel De Villeneuve " had contracts with Jean Frellon for that work, and the Servetus scholar-researcher Francisco Javier González Echeverría presented research that became an accepted communication in the International Society for the History of Medicine which concluded that Michael De Villeneuve ( Michael Servetus ) is the author of the commentaries of this edition of Frellon, in Lyon.

He said, after swearing before the holy gospel, that " he was Michel De Villeneuve Doctor in Medicine about 42 years old, native of Tudela of the kingdom of Navarre, a city under the obedience to the Emperor ". The following day he said: ".. although he was not Servetus he assumed the person of Servet for debating with Calvin ".

His career has not been without controversy, including being twice involved in collisions in the final race of a season that determined the outcome of the world championship, with Damon Hill in 1994 in Adelaide, and with Jacques Villeneuve in 1997 in Jerez.

In 1825 the East Indian Company provided him with two assistants: apothecary and mineralogist Heinrich Bürger ( his later successor ) and the painter Carl Hubert de Villeneuve.

Its principal city is Lille, which with nearby Roubaix, Tourcoing and Villeneuve d ' Ascq constitutes the center of a cluster of industrial and former mining towns totalling slightly over a million inhabitants.

The commander of the joint French and Spanish forces, Admiral Villeneuve, was captured along with his ship Bucentaure.

While Nelson was searching the Mediterranean for him, erroneously supposing that Villeneuve intended to make for Egypt, Villeneuve passed through the Strait of Gibraltar, rendezvoused with the Spanish fleet, and sailed as planned to the Caribbean.

A former major mechanical, food industry and textile manufacturing centre as well as a retail and finance center, Lille forms the heart of a larger conurbation, regrouping Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing and Villeneuve d ' Ascq, which is France's 4th-largest urban conglomeration with a 1999 population of over 1. 1 million.

Following two successful years in CART, Villeneuve moved into Formula One with the front running Williams team, alongside Damon Hill.

In the race, the two collided, resulting in Schumacher's retirement and subsequent disqualification from the 1997 World Championship, with Villeneuve going on to take third place in the race, and the overall title.

After a short run with Renault at the end of 2004, Villeneuve moved to the Sauber team for the 2005 season where he was outscored by his less experienced teammate Felipe Massa.

When Villeneuve was eleven years old, his father was killed during the qualifying session for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder following a collision with Jochen Mass.

Villeneuve was close to signing with Stefan GP for the 2010 Formula One season, and undertook a seat fitting, but the FIA did not certify Stefan GP for competition in 2010.

In the middle of July 2010, reports from the German media emerged revealing that Villeneuve was putting together an entry bid to join the 2011 Formula One grid with his own team under the name " Villeneuve Racing ".

Villeneuve subsequently released a statement confirming the existence of the entry, and that it is a collaboration with the Italian Durango team.

For the race, Villeneuve shared the No. 7 car with Marc Gené and Nicolas Minassian.

Villeneuve racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in early 2008. In a subsequent interview with Autosport magazine, Villeneuve's manager Craig Pollock confirmed that Villeneuve's Formula One career was over It was announced on August 24, 2007 that Villeneuve would run the remaining seven races in the Craftsman Truck Series driving a Toyota Tundra for Bill Davis Racing and undertake a full-time Sprint Cup schedule in 2008.

Villeneuve also had two starts in the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, both for Braun Racing, with his best performance starting 6th and finishing 4th at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, again under wet conditions and the second time rain tires were used in a NASCAR event.