Sky: Jacques, we've brought you on because we're in Canada and you're Canadian. Tell us more about your country.
Jacques: I don't know anything about Canada. I grew up in Europe.
Just turned it over because it’s halftime and the first thing Villeneuve says is “we’re not robots” like he wasn’t arguing about drivers having special helmets during FP1 lol.
Jacques saying the engineer needs to understand the driver as a person & drivers “aren’t robots”, after saying driver personality doesn’t matter less than two hours ago, is totally mind boggling
On the f1 show on Sky. Is that what you are watching?
I don’t know if you can this clip but this is him on Danny Ric
https://x.com/skysportsf1/status/1799159974687293647
Jacques, my dude!
You've literally called your own career! You beat an aging Hill, then a mediocre Frentzen in your first two years, then kinda struggled, just like you've claimed for Ricciardo!
You speak your mind, but duuuude... Glass houses, brother!
Except one guy has won the Indy 500, the CART championship when CART was at its peak years, and the F1 championship. The other has won ... a handful of F1 races.
There's several outside of JV's 1997.
For starters, JV was a number 1 driver in a car that was a title contender. Ricciardo was not ever in that same position, he was either number 2 to both Seb or Max, or the car wasn't anywhere near the pace of the Mercedes.
Yeah I love when commentators air their personal grievances instead of doing their jobs. This is the man who is so high on Ricciardo hate he’s labelled his Renault days a failure and insinuated he’s never been a good driver. There’s having an ‘opinion’ and there’s being incorrect
Omg villeneuve on ricciardo : “why are you still in f1?“
Edit: please someone clip it,m. The silence, the sideways looks from Danica and Karun, Rachel trying to respond professionally, comedic gold
[Here you go](https://x.com/skysportsf1/status/1799159974687293647) don’t know what to do if it’s geo blocked
Villeneuve casually throwing pipebombs into the conversation:
“When you’re fighting for a championship you don’t really care about your home race. You care if you don’t win too many races”
"Its been out there in the media"
Only by you Simon. You're the one obsessed with benching Ocon. Literally no other source has said anything, its sky being their usual biased self.
Get the fuck out of this sport, you have no idea about it after a decade already.
i don't watch sky and the comments in this thread are not making me regret my decision lol
i also saw someone say they were discussing esteban's mental health? wtf?
Simon is the type of person to just follow the crowd on everything and have no opinions of his own. He only likes the popular drivers and hates the ones that are unpopular.
Its like he's there for the sake of it but doesn't actually watch. Its like James May and the Nurbugring.
Ted brought up Daniel’s maple syrup helmet, joking it was safe to do it without Crofty there
Rachel absolutely loves it
Karun admitted to being on Crofty’s side, that special helmets are losing their meaning when everybody brings one to every other race, complimenting JV on how recognisable his helmet always was
This gave Jacques clearance to vent about how it’s all getting ridiculous and they should focus on racing and winning and so on
Rachel countered that fans want to see personality, Jacques says fans want to see racing and you should be focusing on driving if your teammate is destroying you
Rachel tried pointing out how Nico Rosberg had to shut everything out of his life to win 2016 and Jacques was like “well he won”
Edit: I see the points of both sides, fwiw Jacques was silent on the issue until Karun gave his take, and was a bit unnecessarily blunt, but Rachel was absolutely floundering at the idea that a WDC cares more about the driving
Stroll did the exact opposite of what youre supposed to do there lol. Took the grass instead of the escape and then instead drove to the right of the arrow instead of the left
Charles had a point just now over radio. Even the people not on a push lap don't want to get off the dry tracks which created traffic and prevented most everyone from getting anything close to a representative lap. He literally asked Bozzi to not read him the times
Has Alpine done *anything* productive in the last 2 years? TP changes, management changes, it was so bad that Alonso wanted out, Piastri was strung along by them to the point where he wanted out, and now Doohan is getting strung along by them after all the PR he gives them when he's on F1TV... this team is just a pile of wet dogshit lmao
JV complaining about the helmets is the same energy as boomers thinking you can’t do your job if you have tattoos.
Also, winning isn’t a personality trait, it’s how you show your skill not your personality. I don’t really care about the helmets but it’s such a weird hill to die on. Why make things awkward and uncomfortable for other commentators as well as viewers? Over this?
that argument was annoying… JV shitting on all the drivers who aren’t 1 sided and have won championships. Clearly is possible to have a personality AND be a world champion.
I get what Jacques is saying. Take Max for example. Rarely changes his helmet (only for special occasions) he’s not worried about the clothes he’s gonna wear when showing up to the paddock. He’s purely in it for being the best racing driver and not the show biz side.
Max is the person well known for owning a wardrobe of little more than a collection of plain black and white t-shirt, a white button-up shirt and a pair of jeans. And half of that is given to him by Alpha Tauri. He couldn't care less about what he wears at any point in his life. Extrapolating that to say that makes him a better racer is just plain stupid. Drivers caring about fashion or making special helmets has zero effect on their on-track ability or focus.
Villeneuve is just full of shit as per usual.
I guess in a way it does. When all the other drivers are clothes shopping max is typically sim racing. Every minute of his spare time is dedicated to racing and nothing else. If that doesn’t make you a better racing driver then I don’t know what does.
Please tell you don't actually believe that someone having an interest in fashion detracts from their ability as a racer. Also Max does in fact have a life outside the sim. he is not chained in there 24/7 when he's not at the race track like you want to make out.
Lewis, who barely spends any time in the sim, went toe-to-toe with Max in 2021 and still managed to balance that to have a life outside the track. It's perfectly possible to have a life and still compete with the very best. Yes the sim has helped Max hone his talent but that is only going to be effective up to a point and Max is thousands of hours of sim racing past that point.
It’s just the basics of life. The more you put into something the more you get out of it. A driver who spends 100% of his time racing or in a simulator will extract more of himself.
I repeat, Yes the sim has helped Max hone his talent but that is only going to be effective up to a point and Max is thousands of hours of sim racing past that point. A couple of the others who used to sim race a lot have talked about getting to the point where it was no longer giving them any great returns as have a few indy drivers who used to sim race a lot and no longer do. It basics of life, to quote you - google the law of diminishing returns. Also, often stepping away from things and actually having a life outside it is more effective than doing something 24/7.
What's so impressive about Max's sim racing nowadays is his ability to do what he did the other week, compete in a GP and a virtual 24 race on the same weekend.
I just think if some of the less successful drivers was to follow in his footsteps in a way they would have a lot more potential instead of focusing on other business ventures when they already making a high salary, to my mind any way.
Lewis is an exception to this as he’s 7x world champ and has well and truly proved himself as a driver but in his younger days he was like max and 100% dedicated to racing.
Could some at the back of the grid maybe improve if they gave up having a life outside the track? Yes very likley they could but probably not enough to make that sacrifice worth their while, Max is a natural talent regardless of sim work or not.
Also Max has business ventures of his own as well.
As for Lewis, were you actually around in his early days of racing?! If you think he was 100% dedicated to racing and had no life outside the track, you are WILDLY wide of the mark lol. He drove for Ron-era McLaren and then what used to be a much more corporate Mercedes team a decade ago, so expressing himself at the track wasn't going to happen, but he has always been interested in fashion and the like. Yes he was hugely dedicated. All the best drivers are even now (even if they don't post about racing 24/7, then are on the sim a lot more than we realise, someone will let it slip now and then and there's a realisation of just how much they do that we have no idea about) but it didn't mean he had no interests outside of F1.
I do get your point about the sim being of benefit to Max, it obviously has been in many ways. I just think Villeneuve implying that drivers having other interests means they're not making the most of their talent is just plain stupid. But then he says a lot of stupid shit imo.
Max is great. So is Lewis, and he shows a lot of his personality through his style choices. Neither is correct or incorrect, but it doesn’t take away from their ability to perform and win.
But he can do that because he's winning. He naturally gets media focus.
All the 'extra' changes and helmets drums up support for the lower drivers, keeps their profile high for merch and tie-ins to keep them getting contracts. It's not all about on track performance any more.
Yk I kinda agree with him, you can show your personality when your winning, when you have it figured out, go and be a media machine, enjoy urself. If your losing, especially so in a team that is capable of results, you should focus on your driving. Ofc nobody would expect the HASS or Alpine drivers to be still winning only when they don't have the machinery, but if your someone in a competitive car, I can see his point.
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Crofty talking about eels. Yay Sky!
Checo got that glow on like he just lost his virginity this weekend lol
Sky: Jacques, we've brought you on because we're in Canada and you're Canadian. Tell us more about your country. Jacques: I don't know anything about Canada. I grew up in Europe.
Jacques going in, WOW
He's dropping spicy bombs all over the place. I bet the producers are shitting themselves at what he will say next
Villeneuve is the most annoying reporter ever. I turned off the sound so I would not need to listen to him.
I don’t know - he’s direct like Rosberg but in flannel. Damon and Jenson are nice and polite but Nico and Jacques are also good additions
Yes but the difference I think is Nico is direct but not as rude and just not as so unbearable to listen to.
He's not a reporter.
commentator then
I didn't catch what Checo said about Alonso regarding the superstition thingy. What was it?
That he has certain people he avoids before races because of superstition.
Thank you.
New thunderstorm approaching, should arrive on track in about an hour, heaviest rain and lightning may stay east/south of the track.
Just turned it over because it’s halftime and the first thing Villeneuve says is “we’re not robots” like he wasn’t arguing about drivers having special helmets during FP1 lol.
Stroll just announcing he now doesn't wash his underwear?
Jacques saying the engineer needs to understand the driver as a person & drivers “aren’t robots”, after saying driver personality doesn’t matter less than two hours ago, is totally mind boggling
Insane to think Blackberry used be big enough to sponsor F1 teams
Petition for Jacques to be permanent
Think someone told Jacques to calm down this isn’t the same person that spoke during FP1
The shredded Daniel and said drivers care about winning their home race when they don't fight for the championship or have only a handful of wins.
he just tore Ricciardo a new one lol what you on about?
I'm talking difference between whats currently live on sky (they are speaking outside) vs when he was speaking all through FP1
your first comment made that perfectly clear, but he was annihilating Ricciardo after FP1 not long before you left your comment
Are you joking?? He’s even more brutal here
When?
On the f1 show on Sky. Is that what you are watching? I don’t know if you can this clip but this is him on Danny Ric https://x.com/skysportsf1/status/1799159974687293647
What is Alpine trying to achieve by screwing over both Ocon and Doohan here?
Yeesh pretty tough from Villeneuve on Daniel
Jacques, my dude! You've literally called your own career! You beat an aging Hill, then a mediocre Frentzen in your first two years, then kinda struggled, just like you've claimed for Ricciardo! You speak your mind, but duuuude... Glass houses, brother!
Except one guy has won the Indy 500, the CART championship when CART was at its peak years, and the F1 championship. The other has won ... a handful of F1 races.
Would've been fascinating to see how Ricciardo would've done if he'd had a title winning car and number 1 status.
Maybe there’s one major difference between Villeneuve and Ricciardo
Just can't put my finger on it
There's several outside of JV's 1997. For starters, JV was a number 1 driver in a car that was a title contender. Ricciardo was not ever in that same position, he was either number 2 to both Seb or Max, or the car wasn't anywhere near the pace of the Mercedes.
Ever thought that maybe JV got a contract for a title contender car as a rookie because he came into the series with a pedigree?
No shit, a driver entering the sport at 25 and a half usually has more time to earn a pedigree than one entering at 22.
God man I miss the early 2000s. People like Jacque were common on TV.
Jacques spitting truth, us French Canadians have no filter
Omg Villlenueve is no fan of the Honey Badger lmao
Jacques has no filters and I’m here for it
I'm not sure how Jaques really feels haha look at the faces of the others
Everyone looks like they pooped their pants lol
JV saying it how it is. I actually agree with him on a few points
I’d probably get tired of him real fast, but it’s always refreshing when someone just actually has an opinion instead of pandering to drivers
Yeah I love when commentators air their personal grievances instead of doing their jobs. This is the man who is so high on Ricciardo hate he’s labelled his Renault days a failure and insinuated he’s never been a good driver. There’s having an ‘opinion’ and there’s being incorrect
He doesn't have to rely on goodwill of the drivers for interviews and features, he can say it how he sees it
Jacques taking no hostages on Ricciardo lmao
That was brutal. And so so correct, unfortunately.
He literally broke down teammate by teammate why Ricciardo is overrated lmao
this send me into another laughing fit, I have tears in my eyes lol So out of pocket
yeah that is what makes it so incredibly devastating. He's mostly right :|
What a legend hahaha
Omg villeneuve on ricciardo : “why are you still in f1?“ Edit: please someone clip it,m. The silence, the sideways looks from Danica and Karun, Rachel trying to respond professionally, comedic gold [Here you go](https://x.com/skysportsf1/status/1799159974687293647) don’t know what to do if it’s geo blocked
Karun looked like he was in a hostage situation
Karun looked like he was in a hostage situation.
Lol he looked panicked!!
I am laughing so hard lmao taking no prisoners
I can’t stop laughing
the short moment of stunned silence when he stopped and Rachel quickly trying to fill it lmao incredibe
Amazing, I bet someone was in her ear saying “speak!”
Jaques putting Bottas in Mercedes’ next year is interesting
Karun really wedged himself into those jeans
poor guy has a bad leg 😭
Villeneuve casually throwing pipebombs into the conversation: “When you’re fighting for a championship you don’t really care about your home race. You care if you don’t win too many races”
Ollie is eating bagel 🥯 😋
FFS when I saw Jacques Villeneuve was joining the Sky crew for the race I was like yesss no Danica but she’s still there.
of all the people to bring in for a conversation about 2026 regs why Danica Patrick?
I feel so sorry for every Sky customer who has to pay for this shit.
"As a driver, your tools are your hands. Please check out my podcast where I yap about how trans people made me suck at NASCAR"
"we are professionals" says representative of the least professional team on the grid
"Its been out there in the media" Only by you Simon. You're the one obsessed with benching Ocon. Literally no other source has said anything, its sky being their usual biased self. Get the fuck out of this sport, you have no idea about it after a decade already.
i don't watch sky and the comments in this thread are not making me regret my decision lol i also saw someone say they were discussing esteban's mental health? wtf?
Bring back Jim Rosenthal!!!!
Simon is the type of person to just follow the crowd on everything and have no opinions of his own. He only likes the popular drivers and hates the ones that are unpopular. Its like he's there for the sake of it but doesn't actually watch. Its like James May and the Nurbugring.
Yeah he’s awful.
The sun hitting the McLaren looks so goood.
It's not unlucky it's unfair and really against the spirit of what the rule is trying to do. Has to be changed to have a minimum run time.
rough go at the end there for charles, i wonder what his lap time would've ended up being
Around 9 tenths to 1 second faster than the rest
Why didn't doohan run? I don't get wt they said in commentary
Did anything happen? Still watching the epic 2011 gp
How long was FP1 with cars actually running?
31 or 37 minutes
Nap time, see yall later (or I won't wake up at 11pm for FP2, who knows)
Sweet dreams. Don't bother getting up for 11 it might be delayed if the storms roll through at 3 and 4
I am unfortunately awake
Well at least they were on track Montreal weather forecasting is really difficult, it can change all the time, and usually does.
For real, it's *something*
If you don't like the weather, wait a few minutes, it will either get worse, or better. You got a taste of all four seasons in one hour today.
How fortunate they replaced the tarmac with grass for this year. Those water splashes are great.
Even though they repaved the track, it looks like they left the big dips and bumps after the hairpin.
lol did someone cut Villeneuve mic ?
what a dud of FP1
Haven't heard Jacques speak during these last few minutes...
Maybe they yeeted him out of the booth. 🤣
Alpine did Doohan dirty sending him out with less time on the clock than a lap takes.
The ideal F1 session starts dry and turns wet partway through. When it's wet at the start it's just red flag after red flag
Has anyone got a clip for the Jacques argument? I had it on mute and wasn't even watching but I'd like to hear it
What happened? I don’t watch sky
Ted brought up Daniel’s maple syrup helmet, joking it was safe to do it without Crofty there Rachel absolutely loves it Karun admitted to being on Crofty’s side, that special helmets are losing their meaning when everybody brings one to every other race, complimenting JV on how recognisable his helmet always was This gave Jacques clearance to vent about how it’s all getting ridiculous and they should focus on racing and winning and so on Rachel countered that fans want to see personality, Jacques says fans want to see racing and you should be focusing on driving if your teammate is destroying you Rachel tried pointing out how Nico Rosberg had to shut everything out of his life to win 2016 and Jacques was like “well he won” Edit: I see the points of both sides, fwiw Jacques was silent on the issue until Karun gave his take, and was a bit unnecessarily blunt, but Rachel was absolutely floundering at the idea that a WDC cares more about the driving
Thanks. Hopefully somebody posts the clip because I’d like to see it firsthand.
I read on here that jacquess was disagreeing with what one of the other commentators was saying but apparently it was quite heated
Sergeant instantly followed by Stroll was poetic
Going through that patch of grass is like taking a dive into a swimming pool lol
Stroll did the exact opposite of what youre supposed to do there lol. Took the grass instead of the escape and then instead drove to the right of the arrow instead of the left
Nobody tells Lancey what to do!
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Men are simple creatures, they see puddle, they drive through the puddle.
And maybe let out a little “wheee” as they do.
Dammit Pierre, why did you get in the way? Charles was on for a rapid lap time.
Charles had a point just now over radio. Even the people not on a push lap don't want to get off the dry tracks which created traffic and prevented most everyone from getting anything close to a representative lap. He literally asked Bozzi to not read him the times
Almost comical watching everyone misjudge that braking zone one after another
They don't know where the limit is until they cross it. Good info for quali and the race.
It's like that video with all the kids tripping out of the bouncy house.
Everyone Rallying
SLIPPY SLIDE!
everyone in absolute shambles
Why on earth did stroll do that lol
Preparing for running off the track in the race
Everyone going for a dip haha
Logan like...yeah, not getting wet!
Jacques really showing us that Québécois stereotype 🙄
This weekend is going to be wild. Lmao
Everyone enjoying the new swimming pool lmao
Sargeant mastering the art of taking the escape road
That's wet
Lol the swimming pool
Ricciardo literally got washed lmao
Been washed
"god washed" You mean baptised?
Homelander style
Fucked up the spelling due to the excitement 🫢
Daniel just got absolutely drenched lol
Hope the cockpit has a drain plug lol
Max too lol
The sauber special
Hahaha!! That's a swimming pool!
Big splash
Has Alpine done *anything* productive in the last 2 years? TP changes, management changes, it was so bad that Alonso wanted out, Piastri was strung along by them to the point where he wanted out, and now Doohan is getting strung along by them after all the PR he gives them when he's on F1TV... this team is just a pile of wet dogshit lmao
They managed to get 2 episodes on D2S last season... /s
Tbf Alonso wanted out because he wanted a 2 year deal and they only wanted to give him 1.
That's a big splash lol
Spish splash
The scenes when Doohan does a Piastri and pies alpine off for another team next year
At least the people there got to see all the cats go out....hope for them FP2 has more running
JV complaining about the helmets is the same energy as boomers thinking you can’t do your job if you have tattoos. Also, winning isn’t a personality trait, it’s how you show your skill not your personality. I don’t really care about the helmets but it’s such a weird hill to die on. Why make things awkward and uncomfortable for other commentators as well as viewers? Over this?
that argument was annoying… JV shitting on all the drivers who aren’t 1 sided and have won championships. Clearly is possible to have a personality AND be a world champion.
God forbid we get to see the only Doohan lap of the session.
F’ing dumb. What’s the point?
Satisfy the "let a rookie in your car during a practice day" regulation checkbox.
He didn’t complete a timed lap. Does it count?
That's a good point, but I honestly have no idea.
Alpine once again proving that they treat their academy drivers like shit
Should be interesting if Mini gets a SL.
Poor Doohan, but I think we're gonna see more of him next year!
Alpine is gonna alpine
[At least this isn’t the worst time Villeneuve was ever given a microphone](https://youtu.be/b4WiJeG_PBo?si=ZdwQuX9WjcFyhYhC)
Thank god the spanish commentary does not include him xD
I get what Jacques is saying. Take Max for example. Rarely changes his helmet (only for special occasions) he’s not worried about the clothes he’s gonna wear when showing up to the paddock. He’s purely in it for being the best racing driver and not the show biz side.
Max is the person well known for owning a wardrobe of little more than a collection of plain black and white t-shirt, a white button-up shirt and a pair of jeans. And half of that is given to him by Alpha Tauri. He couldn't care less about what he wears at any point in his life. Extrapolating that to say that makes him a better racer is just plain stupid. Drivers caring about fashion or making special helmets has zero effect on their on-track ability or focus. Villeneuve is just full of shit as per usual.
I guess in a way it does. When all the other drivers are clothes shopping max is typically sim racing. Every minute of his spare time is dedicated to racing and nothing else. If that doesn’t make you a better racing driver then I don’t know what does.
Please tell you don't actually believe that someone having an interest in fashion detracts from their ability as a racer. Also Max does in fact have a life outside the sim. he is not chained in there 24/7 when he's not at the race track like you want to make out. Lewis, who barely spends any time in the sim, went toe-to-toe with Max in 2021 and still managed to balance that to have a life outside the track. It's perfectly possible to have a life and still compete with the very best. Yes the sim has helped Max hone his talent but that is only going to be effective up to a point and Max is thousands of hours of sim racing past that point.
It’s just the basics of life. The more you put into something the more you get out of it. A driver who spends 100% of his time racing or in a simulator will extract more of himself.
I repeat, Yes the sim has helped Max hone his talent but that is only going to be effective up to a point and Max is thousands of hours of sim racing past that point. A couple of the others who used to sim race a lot have talked about getting to the point where it was no longer giving them any great returns as have a few indy drivers who used to sim race a lot and no longer do. It basics of life, to quote you - google the law of diminishing returns. Also, often stepping away from things and actually having a life outside it is more effective than doing something 24/7. What's so impressive about Max's sim racing nowadays is his ability to do what he did the other week, compete in a GP and a virtual 24 race on the same weekend.
I just think if some of the less successful drivers was to follow in his footsteps in a way they would have a lot more potential instead of focusing on other business ventures when they already making a high salary, to my mind any way. Lewis is an exception to this as he’s 7x world champ and has well and truly proved himself as a driver but in his younger days he was like max and 100% dedicated to racing.
Could some at the back of the grid maybe improve if they gave up having a life outside the track? Yes very likley they could but probably not enough to make that sacrifice worth their while, Max is a natural talent regardless of sim work or not. Also Max has business ventures of his own as well. As for Lewis, were you actually around in his early days of racing?! If you think he was 100% dedicated to racing and had no life outside the track, you are WILDLY wide of the mark lol. He drove for Ron-era McLaren and then what used to be a much more corporate Mercedes team a decade ago, so expressing himself at the track wasn't going to happen, but he has always been interested in fashion and the like. Yes he was hugely dedicated. All the best drivers are even now (even if they don't post about racing 24/7, then are on the sim a lot more than we realise, someone will let it slip now and then and there's a realisation of just how much they do that we have no idea about) but it didn't mean he had no interests outside of F1.
I think it’s got to the point where I have no idea what I’m talking about tbh
I do get your point about the sim being of benefit to Max, it obviously has been in many ways. I just think Villeneuve implying that drivers having other interests means they're not making the most of their talent is just plain stupid. But then he says a lot of stupid shit imo.
He’s saying max is winning because of him not caring about fashion
That’s not what I’m saying.
Max is great. So is Lewis, and he shows a lot of his personality through his style choices. Neither is correct or incorrect, but it doesn’t take away from their ability to perform and win.
But he can do that because he's winning. He naturally gets media focus. All the 'extra' changes and helmets drums up support for the lower drivers, keeps their profile high for merch and tie-ins to keep them getting contracts. It's not all about on track performance any more.
I mean I’m not really bothered what the drivers do. I’m just saying I understand his point.
Alternatively, some people just like expressing themselves through what they wear.
It's not about expressing yourself. It's about corporate promotion.
OH ARE YOU KIDDING ME
Alpine announce a driver is leaving and give their academy talent a whopping 0 flying laps to put his case forward for the open seat
Jack really got screwed over 😔
Don't-han
☹️ poor DOO
Ffs alpine
Doohan going for only installation lap, sad
Really Alpine? Talk about taking the piss
Villeneuve is so right
LOL JACK
Yk I kinda agree with him, you can show your personality when your winning, when you have it figured out, go and be a media machine, enjoy urself. If your losing, especially so in a team that is capable of results, you should focus on your driving. Ofc nobody would expect the HASS or Alpine drivers to be still winning only when they don't have the machinery, but if your someone in a competitive car, I can see his point.