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#9 Jacques Villeneuve
Following the footsteps of his father Gilles Villeneuve, Jacques also pursued a career in motorsport.
He began his senior career with the CART Championship in the USA in 1994. The following year, he succeeded in winning the Championship and also in addition to that took victory at the Indianapolis 500 even after suffering a two lap penalty.
These results proved enough for Williams F1 team to sign him up for the 1996 F1 season. The car proved class of the field and Villeneuve took several victories, he even took the Championship battle to the last round, but suffering a retirement it was his teammate Damon Hill who won the Championship. The following year, after a tough fight with Michael Schumacher, in which the two collided at the last round of the season, with Schumacher retiring from the race, Villeneuve took the world title.
But after this success, his career spiraled downwards, as the next year he only finished 5th in the Championship. A move to BAR for 1999 didnt bear much fruit as his woes continued. Although he finished inside top 4 in several races, but the unreliability and uncompetitiveness of the car didnt allow him to challenge for the title. Then finally, after several seasons spent fighting in the midfield, he left F1 midway through 2006.
Since then he has been frequently participating in several other Championships and individual race events.
One of the highlights during this while was his second place overall finish at the 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans. Besides this, he has participated in several rounds of NASCAR Series, V8 Supercar Series, Stock Car Brasil, etc but has attained little success in these attempts.
Villeneuve did succeed in achieving some of the greatest milestones a driver seeks to attain in his career and would have achieved even more had it not been for a lackluster second half of his career.
