Jacques Villeneuve join BMW Sauber F1
December 3rd, 2005 at 02:04am tiger Category : Auto News, Malaysia
Jacques Villeneuve will line up alongside Nick Heidfeld for the BMW Sauber F1 Team in 2006.
As BMW Motorsport Director Mario Theissen explained: “We took a close look at Jacques’ performance level at the end of last season. After an extremely tough first half of the year - which showed that even a former World Champion cannot come back after a period away and be competitive from day one - he got closer and closer to his team-mate over the second half of the season. We are in no doubt that Jacques will make the BMW Sauber F1 Team stronger.”
Here some Villeneuve Record in Grandprix. ( From Wikipedia)
* 1996 — Williams-Renault — 4 wins, 78 points (finished 2nd)
* 1997 — Williams-Renault — 7 wins, 81 points (World Champion)
* 1998 — Williams-Mecachrome — 0 wins, 21 points (finished 5th)
* 1999 — BAR-Supertec — 0 wins, 0 points (finished: unclassified)
* 2000 — BAR-Honda — 0 wins, 17 points (finished 7th)
* 2001 — BAR-Honda — 0 wins, 12 points (finished 8th)
* 2002 — BAR-Honda — 0 wins, 4 points (finished 12th)
* 2003 — BAR-Honda — 0 wins, 6 points (finished 16th)
* 2004 — Renault — 0 wins, 0 points (finished unclassified)
* 2005 — Sauber-Petronas — 0 wins 9 points (finished 14th)
The partnership between BMW with PETRONAS was then finalised and announced on 24th November. Testing with the Sauber C24B interim chassis (modified for the BMW P86 V8 engine) got underway on 28th November in Barcelona. At the same time, the development of the V8 engine and 2006 chassis has continued apace in Munich and Hinwil respectively.
News Source:Sauber Petronas