Villeneuve in NASCAR

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 24 Aug 2007, 14:33

Villeneuve spent few hour to mold his seat in a Toyota of Craftsman Truck series of Bill Davis Racing team's. He will make some official road testing on monday at Chicagoland Speedway in Illinois.

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 25 Aug 2007, 20:33

Villeneuve will drive 7 race in nastruck this year, in NEXTEL series for the 2 last race in NASCAR with a Camry and a full 2008 season in NEXTEL.

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 28 Aug 2007, 17:49

Villeneuve just did great on his 1st days of Nascar. His team was able to get the hand on the number 27 for him, the number that Gilles Villeneuve had when he raced.

Villeneuve was impress by the speed of those monster. The team put him on track with a basic setup, hes was able to see were the car was having trouble, and was able to ask some correct change to the team, and telemetry said same as reported. The thing is that in race, they use the feeling of the driver to adjust the car. The driver gets what he ask for.

After 28 laps, he was -0.4 second behind Mike Skinner.

Hopefully, we Canadian may see a battle on track between Villeneuve and Carpentier, both from Quebec in an american series would just be fun. Villeneuve still didnt yet sign any contract, they were waiting the test day before any signature.

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 23 Sep 2007, 01:58

Villeneuve will burn some rubber tonight, actualy, in 5 minutes when i type this. At 9PM, he will drive a nastruck at LasVegas. He qualif 7th, lets see what will hapend.

http://www.nascar.com/

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 08 Oct 2007, 00:28

Villeneuve race is 1st Nascar Nextel race (car:Toyota). He qualif in 6th position, and since it was his race, and 5-10 drivers (not shure) are fighting for the Championship 1st place. So he decide on his own initiative to start from back on grid, and he finished in 21th position. At one time in race, he was even in 4th position. Seem that he was able to close the mouth of Jeff Gordon that said that it was a terrible idea to let Villeneuve race with them, at end of season, a tight championship, and that Villeneuve never raced a Nextel car untill that race. Villeneuve did great as i can read. I think there is around +/- 43 on grid at start.

aawil · Post by **aawil** » 08 Oct 2007, 03:36

I watched the race. He raced extremely conservative. He didn't really gain much actual experience IMO cause he never really diced around with anyone. But then again at least he didn't take out half the field either.

It will be interesting to see how he does compared to montoya. They asked franchitti if he thought he was ready to start the cup race and he said no way.

Now if we can only get Shumi in a cup car.

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 10 Oct 2007, 23:41

Another Quebec driver will race in Nascar Nextel next year (2008), Patrick Carpentier will race for the Nascar Team that is also the owner of our Montreal Hockey team 'Les Canadiens'. Patrick Carpentier is only waiting for the Nascar official to authorize him to race on oval track.

Dropkick · Post by **Dropkick** » 11 Oct 2007, 13:09

has carpentier given up on single seaters now? he along with tag was one of my favourite old champ car drivers