Da Shitz On Sportz

There was a time DSOS truly believed that Jacques Villeneuve, the son of deceased Formula One great Gilles Villeneuve would carry on where his father left off after his death during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix on May 8, 1982. My expectations for Jacques were high, especially after taking Rookie of the Year honours in 1994 in the IndyCar championship series, winning four F1 races as a rookie in 1996, and then going on to win the F1 Championship in 1997 with 7 victories to his credit in only his second year of Formula run racing. Who could blame me for having high expectations for somebody who in three short years of professional racing in two different classes was on top of the racing world because his skills and daredevil talent?

Sadly for Villeneuve 1998 would be the beginning of the end for him as far as professional racing goes, and 10 years later, his racing career is all but finished. He has nobody to blame but himself, what with his arrogance and the life-in-the-fast-lane-lifestyle he has led since he won the Formula 1 championship.

Would you believe the man I now consider a chump and wannabe on the racing circuit even had the balls to try his hand in the music industry, releasing an album February 2007 that as of December 31 last year had only sold 836 CDs in North America. I’m thinking that Villeneuve might have bought most of those 836 albums himself.

Fourteen years after entering professional racing Villeneuve’s career has all but been flushed into the St. Lawrence River, but don’t try telling him that. He still thinks he has what it takes despite his poor performance in the NASCAR series, the latest stop in his racing career.

With a poor performance at the UAW-Ford 550 in 2007, failing to qualify for the 2008 Daytona 500,a and finishing 16th in the Nationwide race in Montreal, it has been a struggle for Villeneuve and sponsors have shown little interest in him and now he finds himself heading to South America to race in the Argentinean Touring Car series at the end of this month to get more stock car experience under his belt so that he might be able to attract enough attention from sponsors, which he desperately needs for a sponsorship package he is trying to put together so he can compete full time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series in 2009.

I wish him luck with that, but nah, I doubt going to South America is going to change his fortunes. His racing career is all but finished and unless by some miracle he returns to the driving and winning form he had on the IndyCar and Formula 1 circuit, South America could very well be the last stop in racing career. A poor showing in South America will definitely put the brakes on what I think has been a racing career that has relied more on luck and balls than it has on skill and talent.

Villeneuve set to race in South America series

About Jacques Villeneuve

Jacques Villeneuve Gets Another NASCAR Series Chance

French-Canadian auto-racing has-been Jacques Villeneuve is making a comeback in North America with the NASCAR Nationwide Series race in Montreal next month, but if I was running Braun Racing I would be more than a little worried about just how good of an investment Villeneuve really is, and whether or not he has had an attitude adjustment to remove the smugness and arrogance the former Indy and Formula One champ is well known for. If memory serves me well, it was that smugness and arrogance that hastened his exit from Formula One, wasn’t it? Of course Villeneuve would disagree with me on that, but I don’t think he can argue with me that the way he carried himself, and his holier-than-thou attitude when it came to his bosses burned a lot of bridges for him, not to mention distracted him from becoming the racing legend his father Gilles was before him. To put it bluntly, Jacques is a narcissistic f**kwit, whose miserable attitude has far outweighed his accomplishments in my opinion.

That said; Villeneuve is getting another chance to race in the NASCAR series since he was fired by Bill Davis Racing for failing to qualify for the Daytona 500.

Villeneuve, who has struggled to find sponsors, needed the assistance of event promoter Normand Legault to find the sponsors so he could race in Montreal this year, and if Villeneuve doesn’t impress (he’ll need a top 10 finish to do that) in this race, I highly doubt he’ll find too many sponsors willing to put up enough cash for him to race full time next year.

Personally speaking, I think the race car driver’s better days are behind him, and that when the 2009 NASCAR series starts next year, the only race he’ll be running in is the one that gets him home in time for dinner.

I think his race car driver days are all but finished, and I think next month in Montreal he’ll be lucky if he finishes the race.

I could be wrong, but Villeneuve hasn’t done shit since he was a Formula One champion, and I doubt he will fare any better in NASCAR.

Headline: Villeneuve to race in Nationwide event in Montreal

The Brett Favre Circus Introduces Another Act

The “Brett Favre Circus” just keeps going and going and going like a Duracell battery, and as if hearing him whine about wanting to make his comeback isn’t enough for a football fan, now there’s word that the Minnesota Vikings might have tampered with him, according to the Green Bay Packers anyway.

You know what, “Who gives a shit!”

Like I said, if Favre wants to be the starting quarterback in Green Bay, then the manager of football operations should let him compete against Aaron Rogers for the job; that is of course if Ted Thompson can put the things Favre said about him on “On the Record with Greta Van Sustern,” and Favre is mature enough to accept the challenge that basically tells him to put up and shut up, or if your so inclined forces him to back up his mouth that he still has it in him to compete in the NFL. Personally speaking, I don’t Favre has “it” physically or mentally anymore, and that he’s making a fool of himself by thinking and saying that he does.

The way I see it, if Favre thinks he’s good enough to be the starter in Green Bay, then he shouldn’t have any problem with having to compete with Aaron Rogers for the job, and if it turns out that I’m right about Favre, that he can’t the mustard against Rogers, then Green Bay should kick him to the kerb, but not before the”Pack” play their season opener, which ironically happens to be against the Vikings at Lambeau Field.

Sounds fair to me. Anybody else concur?

Headline: Vikings silent about Favre tampering charges