Villeneuve rumour denied

Barry Green quickly denied the report from the French-Canadian newspaper "La Presse" about a new team forming between himself, Jacques Villeneuve and Canadian Grand Prix promoter Normand Legault in NASCAR. Green says his only invovlement with Villeneuve is to him find sponsorship to get a NASCAR ride.

"We're trying to find a primary sponsor for Jacques," said Green, who has been working with Villeneuve on the business side of his NASCAR career. "The Sprint Cup series is very competitive and to launch a new team doesn't make much sense."

Green also says that Legault is also working with Villeneuve in the same capcity and trying to get him a ride for the Nationside race in Montreal in August.

Green denies Villeneuve team ownership reports (tsn.ca)

Jacques is back?

Former F1 and Indy 500 champ Jacques Villeneuve may be back in a stock car soon. Reports from the French-Canadian paper "La Presse", which translates into "decent toilet paper" in English, say that Villeneuve has teamed with his old Indycar owner Barry Green and the promoter of the Canadian Grand Prix, Normand Legault, to get him back into NASCAR racing for the first time since he failed to qualify for the Daytona 500. Supposedly, all the team needs is sponsorship and maybe help from another Cup team, Chip Ganassi Racing is rumored to be aligning themselves with this new team.

I think this is a good thing since poor Jacques hasn't had much to do lately since he failed to qualify for the Daytona 500. I mean yeah he did that one Speedcar Race over in Asia and he has a ride for the 24 hours of Le Mans with Peugeot coming up in little over a week from now. But anything, anything that keeps him from singing will be much be appreciated:

Article about Villeneuve, it's in French and proably smells funny (cyberpresse.ca)