Villeneuve: ‘F1 is too soft’

Jacques Villeneuve racing his BAR 004
23 January 2016 by    1 min read

Former world champion Jacques Villeneuve believes that the sport needs to re-discover its crazy edge.

F1 has been criticised for being too complicated and artificial in recent seasons and the hope is that the new rules next season will make it more fan-friendly.

Villeneuve, the 1997 champion, thinks that the hybrid technology makes the sport un-cool.

"F1 tries to be everything, and that's wrong," he told CNN

"It tries to be an endurance car, it's some form of hybrid... and hybrid technology weighs around 100 kilos and that's four seconds a lap of weight.

"It's not F1, it's not extreme, it doesn't make sense.

F1 has to be out there, extreme, unattainable, stupid, crazy - that's what it's always been. It's a laboratory where the sky's the limit.

"There are a lot of things that are making F1 a lot less appealing to the public. A bunch of things like DRS."

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