Villeneuve has been out of Formula One since leaving BAR at the end of last season.
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Schumacher bumped him and ran onto the gravel without hurting Villeneuve's car or his title bid.
Canadian Jacques Villeneuve and Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya proved competitive on both sides of the Atlantic.
The fast, long straights, the hairpins and the chicanes of the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve positively encourage passing.
Three years later, Schumacher tried a similar stunt, ambushing Jacques Villeneuve around a corner in the final race.
Cerraron el marcador Giancarlo Fisichella (Renault), Ralf Schumacher (Toyota) y Jacques Villeneuve (Sauber).
The highlight for the Briton was a stunning move on the outside of Sauber's Jacques Villeneuve on lap 24.
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Vettel concurred with both Hamilton and Button on how enjoyable it was to race at the Gilles Villeneuve circuit.
But there is no sentiment in F1, and Villeneuve - a hard-nosed individual - knows that as well as anyone.
The team said they hoped to have their driver line-up settled by August but denied Villeneuve was about to sign up.
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And Kristensen overtook Villeneuve in the 15th hour on lap 234 when the Peugeot No.7 was again refuelling in the pits.
And things were not much better for former world champion Jacques Villeneuve as he made a mistake at the first corner.
Schumacher famously took Damon Hill out to win the title in 1994, and tried unsuccessfully to do the same to Jacques Villeneuve in 1997.
The Englishman joined Canada's 1997 winner Jacques Villeneuve as the only other driver to claim the championship in just their second season.
The end result is that this could be Villeneuve's swansong in F1.
But the same things were said 30 years ago to Gilles Villeneuve and 25 years ago to another Formula One star, Ayrton Senna.
His decision was doubtless influenced by the massive salary negotiated with then team boss Criag Pollock, who also happened to be Villeneuve's manager.
Kubica, who suffered a high-speed crash at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve last year, came closest to toppling Hamilton as he clocked 1:18.498 with just seconds left.
And to add to that, he was beaten by team-mate Jenson Button this season - not as comprehensively as Villeneuve's critics would suggest, but beaten nonetheless.
Villeneuve, the Formula One champion in 1997, has been at the Paul Ricard circuit this week, and reports said that he was there to test for Williams.
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Davidson, who tested for BAR last season, was promoted to third driver after Sato succeeded former world champion Jacques Villeneuve as Button's team-mate for the 2004 campaign.
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"At this rate, F1 is going to become a pit-stop contest with a few race laps thrown in, " Jacques Villeneuve, the 1997 F1 champion, said during television commentary.
Worse has been threatened: Raymond Villeneuve, the leader of the wildest anti-partitionists (and one who has been convicted of killing in his cause) has talked of a Molotov-cocktail campaign against zealous federalists.
Former world champion Jacques Villeneuve has joined forces with Italian race team Durango to submit an entry for the 13th slot on the grid next season, according to Durango team owner Ivone Pinton.
Britain's Hamilton was claiming the eighth pole position of his remarkable career and again showed his liking for the Gilles Villeneuve Circuit where he put on a peerless performance to win last year's race.
By the morning, the Audi's advantage in the wet had left Kristensen, Capello and McNish with a three-minute lead, which Villeneuve, Gene and Minassian tried to chip away for the rest of the race.
But that, too, has backfired on him, for Villeneuve found himself in 2003 in the awkward position of being the second best-paid driver in F1, but not having won a race in six years.
In neighbouring Villeneuve-sur-Lot, politics and the economy collide.
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