“The car is shaking like a pig”– Former F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve slips coming into pit road while competing in Daytona 500

Tanish Chachra | 21/02/2022
"The car is shaking like a pig"– Former F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve slips while coming into pit road while competing in Daytona 500

Former F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve spins while entering the pit road and goes further down in the pecking order.

Jacques Villeneuve made history when he became the only F1 champion to qualify for the Daytona 500 race. However, things didn’t start well for the Canadian race driver.

Villeneuve struggled at the end of the grid, and it got worse when he was coming for his first pitstop. The 500-year-old spun while coming into the pit road.

Though the car corrected himself, manages to straighten himself and reach his stall. In the meantime, Daniel Hemric jumped ahead of Villeneuve during the pit stop and so he gets the free pass during this caution.

Villeneuve will still get back onto the lead lap at the end of the first stage. As things stood during the publishing of this article, Villeneuve jumped up the order due to the free pass.

Also read: 1997 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve answers all things Lewis Hamilton vs Max Verstappen

Twitter reacts on Jacques Villeneuve slip

Villeneuve slipping while entering the pit road gathered immediate reactions from Twitter. The former F1 champion was also caught saying on the radio: “The car is shaking like a pig”,

During the race, two cars lost their wheels, causing infractions on the road. The first wheel came off from Kaz Grala and the second was off from Justin Haley’s car.

Also read: Jacques Villeneuve accuses Michael Schumacher for establishing precedent for modern day F1 crashes

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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