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

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.

Mass saw Villeneuve approaching at high speed and moved to the right to let him through on the racing line.

At the same instant Villeneuve also moved right to pass the slower car.

In that time the pits and facilities of the Gilles Villeneuve circuit had been upgraded and moved further up the track and some modifications to the new pit straight as well.

Just as the pair rounded a super-fast left turn, ( Mass ahead, Villeneuve behind ) Jochen moved to the right hand side of the track to let Villeneuve through.

After leaving school Villeneuve pursued a career as a racing driver, following in his father's footsteps, and eventually moved to Japan.

It later moved to Villeneuve d ' Ascq in 1967.

By the second lap, Alonso had extended his lead to nearly 3 seconds, while Räikkönen moved up another position to 10th by passing Jacques Villeneuve.

In the 1949 election, his home was drawn into the newly created Villeneuve, and he was defeated as a Union des électeurs candidate.

Calder decided to protect his newly won prizes, while the French Admiral Villeneuve declined to force another engagement.

* 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle of Cape Finisterre – an inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.

Twenty-seven British ships of the line led by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard defeated thirty-three French and Spanish ships of the line under French Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve off the south-west coast of Spain, just west of Cape Trafalgar.

A complex plan to distract the British by threatening their possessions in the West Indies failed when a Franco-Spanish fleet under Admiral Villeneuve turned back after an indecisive action off Cape Finisterre on 22 July 1805.

The Royal Navy blockaded Villeneuve in Cádiz until he left for Naples on 19 October ; the British squadron subsequently caught and overwhelmingly defeated his fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October ( the British commander, Lord Nelson, died in the battle ).

Villeneuve made his debut at the 1977 British Grand Prix, where he qualified 9th in McLaren's old M23, splitting the regular drivers Hunt and Jochen Mass who were driving newer M26s.

Despite this, shortly after the British race McLaren's experienced team manager Teddy Mayer decided not to continue with Villeneuve for the following year.

* 16 July-Gilles Villeneuve makes his Formula One debut, with Team McLaren, at the British Grand Prix.

Grigore II Ghica's diplomatic skills proved even more remarkable during the Russo-Austrian-Turkish War, when the Prince of Moldavia, at the request of the Porte, acted as the intermediary and mediator between the Ottomans and Russians through correspondence and exchange of envoys with the Russian Field Marshal Burkhard Christoph von Münnich, with John Bell, the secretary of the British embassy in St. Petersburg, with the French ambassador to Constantinople, Louis Sauveur Villeneuve, as well as with the great Ottoman dignitaries.

* Justin de Villeneuve, 1960s British celebrity, boyfriend and manager of the model Twiggy

In July, Button signed a two-year contract with a two-year option for British American Racing, partnering 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve.

In 1804, Napoleon ordered Villeneuve, now a Vice Admiral stationed at Toulon, to escape from the British blockade, overcome the British fleet in the English Channel, and allow the planned invasion of Britain to take place.

To draw off the British defences, Villeneuve was to sail to the West Indies, where it was planned that he would combine with the Spanish fleet and the French fleet from Brest, attack British possessions in the Caribbean, before returning across the Atlantic to destroy the British Channel squadrons and escort the Armée d ' Angleterre from their camp at Boulogne to victory in England.

Eventually Villeneuve was pressured by French army officers into beginning the planned attack on the British, but he succeeded only in recapturing the island fort of Diamond Rock off Martinique.

For two days Villeneuve shadowed the retreating British, but did not seek a battle.

In September, Villeneuve was ordered to sail for Naples and attack British shipping in the Mediterranean, but he was initially unwilling to move and continued in blatant disregard of Superior Admiralty Orders.

On 21 October 1805 Villeneuve learned of the size of the British fleet, and turned back to Cádiz, but the combined fleets were intercepted by Nelson off Cape Trafalgar.

The British sent Villeneuve to England but released him on parole ; during this time he lived in Bishops Waltham in the English county of Hampshire.

C. S. Forester's unfinished novel, Hornblower and the Crisis, had Horatio Hornblower planting false orders from Napoleon to Villeneuve sending Villeneuve out to fight the British fleet.

Villeneuve was also engaged to Australian singer Dannii Minogue in the late 1990s and was once engaged to American ballerina Ellen Green.

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.

La Belle et la Bête was, itself, based on an earlier fairy tale by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Gallon de Villeneuve, included in her collection Les Contes Marins ou La Jeune Américaine (" Sea Stories or The Young American Girl "; 1740 ).

Several Canadians have starred in American Championship Car Racing, most notably Jacques Villeneuve, who won the 1995 CART championship and Indianapolis 500 before moving to Formula One, and Paul Tracy, who captured the 2003 CART title and collected 31 race wins.

Craig Pollock ( born February 20, 1956 in Falkirk, Scotland ), is a businessman who was the manager of the Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve throughout his top-level career, and team principal of the British American Racing team from to.

In 1993 Villeneuve raced in American Formula Atlantic before breaking into IndyCars in 1994.

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 ".

The report went on to suggest that Villeneuve Racing had satisifed the entry criteria set by the FIA and had joined two other outfits on a shortlist of teams under consideration for the grid entry.

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.

For 2011 Villeneuve agreed to take over for Brad Keselowski in the number 22 car for Penske Racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series for two races which Keselowski could not attend.

Villeneuve raced the # 27 car ( Volkswagen Passat silhouette ) of the Oro Racing team and finishing the race in the 16th place.

Villeneuve driving for Kelly Racing at the Coates Hire Ipswich 300 in 2012

Villeneuve first competed in the V8 Supercar series as an endurance co-driver partnered with Paul Dumbrell for Rod Nash Racing in the 2010 Gold Coast 600.

In 2012, Villeneuve participated in the Sucrogen Townsville 400, Coates Hire Ipswich 300 and Sydney Motorsport Park 360 rounds, driving the # 51 Pepsi-sponsored Kelly Racing Holden VE Commodore filling in for an injured Greg Murphy.

Villeneuve was left with no solid options for 1978, although Canadian Walter Wolf, for whom Villeneuve had driven in Can-Am racing, considered giving him a drive at Wolf Racing and also recommended him to the Ferrari team's founder, Enzo Ferrari.

* Racing ( Gilles Villeneuve, Jacques Villeneuve, Alex Tagliani ), ( Patrick Carpentier )

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

He would finish second to Jacques Villeneuve in CART championship points in 1995, but after finishing fourth in 1996, 13th in 1997, 11th in 1998 and 21st in 1999, ( not helped by the fact that he had to sit out two races after breaking his leg in the season-opener at Miami in a first-lap accident with Japanese driver Naoki Hattori ) Unser would eventually leave CART to join the budding Indy Racing League for the 2000 campaign.

In 2008, after a the deal for Jacques Villeneuve to drive the Bill Davis Racing # 27 Toyota Camry fell through, it was announced that Benson and Mike Skinner would share driving duties for the # 27.

On June 7, Carpentier announced to the Toronto Sun that he would officially retire from racing after the NAPA Auto Parts 200 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, where he's scheduled to drive for Pastrana-Waltrip Racing.