Jacques Villeneuve has been visiting the Grand Prix races a lot these days, and he’s here in Budapest this weekend - looking for work racing. He said he sure wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t to talk to people about returning to racing (that there were a lot of better places to spend a sunny afternoon - hmmm, well, maybe he hasn’t changed THAT much!). He is looking at a new team, of course, and when asked about USF1 he said it would be nice to use the (North) American card he has as a Canadian.
In fact, I sensed a different Jacques to the one that left a couple of years ago. He said he’s now had a nice two-year holiday and he finds himself with only one desire: To get back racing. He said his passion for racing is back again, fully. (Which is clearly different to his lack of passion for paddock life without the benefit of having a racing car to drive.) And he also said that he had another motivation. His son has only seen him in the car in photos, and he wants his son to see him really racing. Now isn’t that interesting, given that Jacques grew up watching his dad race? There must be something deep to that somehow.
I asked him about his music, and he said, “That’s my other big passion.” Racing and music. But he said that he had stopped trying to do his music professionally, in part because he needed the racing to facilitate the business of the music. But he plays at home all the time. In the end, he said the music was not as pressing as the racing because, “I can do the music even at 60 years old….”
Comente