#jacques villeneuve

[goblinfreaks]

this is the best post to wake up to on instagram

#jenson button #jacques villeneuve #nigel mansell #alain prost #classic f1 #f1 #formula 1 #thank you instagram user a.prost!!!!

[eliorosb3rg]

i love shots of the helmets like this like yes let me a) appriaciate the cool helmets and b) look at your pretty eyes

#formula 1 #im a sucker for cool helmets #and pretty men #classic f1 #in order: #ayrton senna #niki lauda #fernando alonso #jacques villeneuve #gilles villeneuve #mika hakkinen

[velvetsainz]

2023 F1 TEAMS ⟶ 7/10 ⟶ WILLIAMS RACING

“The first thing to remember is that all the really great drivers are bastards. They might come across as nice guys, and quite often they are—until the other nice guy beats them! I don’t hold that against them—it’s the way they’re made, and what makes them great: they must win." — Sir Frank Williams, founder of Williams Racing + longest-serving team principal in F1 history

#williams #williams racing #williams f1 #alex albon #logan sargeant #aa23 #ls2 #james vowles #nigel mansell #frank williams #claire williams #jacques villeneuve #nico rosberg #ayrton senna #valtteri bottas #vb77 #george russell #gr63 #f1 edit #f1edit #vscpedit #velvetsainz.works #formula one edit #formula 1 edit #formula 1 #f1 #formula one #drive to survive #dts

[eliotheeangelis]

classic f1 but make it ✨barbie✨

#happy barbie week y'all #f1 #formula 1 #classic f1 #oof let's try to tag this #alain prost #ayrton senna #damon hill #elio de angelis #jacques laffite #gilles villeneuve #james hunt #jacques villeneuve #keke rosberg #nigel mansell #niki lauda #rene arnoux #michael schumacher #riccardo patrese

[positivexcellence]

jacques_villeneuve_official: Found Olivia the best babysitter. Now I know she is in safe hands!

#jared padalecki #jacques villeneuve

[feraltwinkseb]

Drivers looking awkward with models (someone please save them)

#only pain behind their eyes #modern f1 could never #jacques villeneuve #1996 #michael schumacher #rubens barrichello #2000 #2001 #jarno trulli #ralf schumacher #jos verstappen #damon hill #1998 #Toranosuke Takagi #sebastian vettel #2007 #nico rosberg #2006 #fernando alonso #giancarlo fisichella #2005 #ogferal #mark webber #Christian Klein #2004 #2003 #Ralph Firman #jenson button #felipe massa #bruno senna

[vetteldixon]

most f1 media: 😧 it's so cold 🥶 this is insane

the canadians: no it isn't 😌 💞

#jacques villeneuve #james hinchcliffe #f1 #will buxton #las vegas gp 2023 #this is the shitposting i'm doing instead of barking at married jacques tbh

[deltadarlingf1]

It's late and I can't sleep, so we're taking a break from my usual Classic F1 driver simping to post:

Drivers I Think Could Have Been in a Boy Band

I'm sure someone HAD to have done this before, but let's do it again:

1. Jenson Button

Jenson would have been the JC Chasez of the group: a little older, incredibly talented, but overshadowed by the bigger star in the group.

2. Nico Rosberg

I mean... look at him. He looks like someone the girlies would have had posted up on their bedroom walls. Could he sing? No. Could he dance? No. But he would have been cute and there for the vibes.

3. Kimi Raikkonen

Ok HEAR ME OUT: He would have been the quiet "bad boy" that barely spoke but had his small (feral) fanbase going HAYWIRE.

4. Lewis Hamilton

The standout star that eventually grew tired of everyone else's lack of effort/talent and went on to have a much more successful solo career. He'd leave the group in a shock-move and be in the media cycles for months before popping up with a hit single and a famous baddie on his arm.

5. Jacques Villenueve

Do I like this man? No. And neither would the fans. He'd be there for the looks and to round out the numbers, but he'd have the smallest amount of fans and eventually go on to be the one giving cringe interviews after the group disbands.

6. Yuki Tsunoda

You CANNOT tell me you can't see Yuki in a j-pop boy group. Look at him. He'd be the youngest one all the fans adore and the funniest one in variety shows.

#f1blr #f1 #f1 imagine #i am so sorry #may do a part 2 because theres MORE #lewis hamilton #jenson button #nico rosberg #jacques villeneuve #yuki tsunoda #kimi raikkonen

[eliorosb3rg]

this has just solved every problem in my life

#formula 1 #jenson button #jacques villeneuve #nigel mansell #alain prost #screaming crying throwing up

[anaid-arghem]

Williams teammates in 1996.

#this is so silly im sorry #i watched the season reviews from 1994 to 1996 #then heard the audio and the idea wouldn't leave my head #it's been a long time since i made an animatic oof #f1 memes #f1 #formula 1 #classic f1 #damon hill #jacques villeneuve

[raikkonens]

petition to ban drivers from cutting their hair

#jenson button #nico rosberg #kimi raikkonen #jacques villeneuve #ayrton senna #carlos sainz jr

[zhniven]

Just cute hilleneuve content for me and myself

#hilleneuve #damon hill #jacques villeneuve #f1 #f1 fanart #formula 1

[laf-outloud]

jacques_villeneuve_official Found Olivia the best babysitter. Now I know she is in safe hands!

Awe! What an awesome, and adorable experience!

#jared padalecki #jacques villeneuve #circuit of the americas #glad Jared's feeling better!

[feraltwinkseb]

F1 Testing Estoril February 1996 - Estoril, Portugal Source: Pascal Rondeau / Allsport

#HOT photography #the main blue...the red accent....so aesthetic #1996 #f1 #formula 1 #Michael Schumacher #mika hakkinen #david coulthard #jean alesi #Jacques Villeneuve #Olivier Panis #gerhard berger #alain prost

[jaesawalth]

he looks so tiny w/ the umbrella <3

i love all their smiles they’re so precious 🥹

#alain prost #jacques villeneuve #nigel mansell #jenson button #f1 #formula 1 #formula one

[manykinsmen]

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just to add on to this, agree with what you're saying, and I find it not funny exactly that it was almost a Jenson Nico line up, when Brawn were changing to Mercedes, Jenson said he would've stayed if they could promise a car with a similar performance, but when Brawn switched over, Mercedes wanted an all German driver line up, hence why they brought Schumacher back and we had Nico/Michael for 3 years and Jenson ended up at McLaren

I do think a Jenson and Nico line up would've been interesting, I don't think Jenson would've played the sort of stress and mind games that Michael did to Nico (at least none of Jenson's teammates have ever said he was like that, that I know of)

Jenson was a dream of a teammate to have (which makes Lewis causing pretty much all the Britclaren drama all by himself very funny). As much as Jenson was prone to pranks, it was cross-grid and never singled out his teammate. He also had some absolute nightmares of teammates early on his career, including:

- Ralf Schumacher, his first teammate, a walking red flag and very big on the psychological warfare, totally unnecessary with a rookie he was greatly out-scoring.

- Jarno Trulli who was a good egg but so much favoured by Flavio Briatore that even though Jenson outperformed him, Flavio fired Button and declared Jenson “just a lazy playboy” (he was replaced by Alonso).

- Jacques Villeneuve who said he should be in a boy band, not F1, and refused to speak to him. (We can read a lot into his gentle bullying of Nico for being pretty - probably that he was projecting anxieties from when he came into F1).

These were all people that Jenson extended kindness to, despite receiving nothing in return. He eventually even won over some of them (including Villeneuve). In the same circumstances, most rookie/early career drivers (including Lewis) learn to give as good as they get but Jenson really took the Waymond Wang approach to it and used kindness as his defence. He also lent into the playboy thing and made some unfortunate comments about potential female F1 drivers he had to walk back later in his career.

But the teammate who had the most influence on Jenson’s teammate persona was probably Rubens Barrichello. Rubens was eternally polite and deferential (somehow avoiding the Brazilian drinking water) and the ultimate grid-Dad, willing to sacrifice his race to support Jenson and the team. Seriously Barrichello was grid dad to:

- the entire Brazilian mafia as we used to call them (Massa, Da Matta, Bruno Senna, Lucas Di Grassi)

- Nico Hulkenberg and Christian Klien

- Pastor Maldonado

- Jenson himself

This had the effect of turning Jenson into a pretty impressive grid-Dad to Checo and K-Mag. In fact, all of these people who had the chance to be grid Dads have been great grid Dads and even produced further grid Dads (Rubens-Felipe-Valtteri-Zhou is a chain).

He ended up being pretty guarded when Lewis was his teammate (bitch tweeted his telemetry!) and had a very much laugh it off approach to attempts at psychological warfare. There was never a chance of being a grid-Dad to Lewis who had learnt from the Alonso school of hard knocks to bite and scratch, and couldn’t identify when it wasn’t necessary.

So yeah, Jenson was basically the best teammate you could get on the grid of that era, other than maybe Heikki Kovalainen who is the kindest, most sportsmanly, lovely and calm human that motorsport has ever produced. I still remember watching him calmly extinguish his own vehicle in the tunnel in Singapore (the marshalls couldn’t get there so they passed him a fire extinguisher), waving to the fans once he was finished. Jenson might have done some gentle pretty-boy ribbing but other than that he would have been a nice guy to be paired with, for Nico or anyone.

#nico rosberg #jenson button #lewis hamilton #rubens barrichello #ralf schumacher #jarno trulli #jacques villeneuve #heikki kovalainen