Jacques Villeneuve will race against fellow former F1 star Olivier Panis, in this year's French GT FFSA championship.
The Canadian has been offered a ride in one of Sport Garage's Ferrari 458 by team manager Christian Petit, for whom Villeneuve ice raced in Trophée Andros last winter. His teammate will be three-time French champion Eric Cayrolle.
"I raced for Sport Garage last year[.] I like the team, I like the car and I like my teammate," says Villeneuve on the series' official website. "It was all there."
The former CART champion, who will continue working with French F1 broadcaster Canal +, has only entered one GT race in his career. It was last year, at the inaugural Baku street race.
He finished seventh, driving a BMW Z4 GT3 alongside Jos Verstappen.
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| Jacques Villeneuve in Baku (Photo: WRi2) |
Albeit, Villeneuve has raced in NASCAR, V8 Supercars and closed prototypes before.
So, come April 27, at the inaugural race of the French GT championship, he should have a good idea of what to do.
Marco Wittmann (BMW), the 24-year-old German who is making his DTM debuts this season, went fastest on the fourth and final day of collective testing in Barcelona.
The former F3 racer and BMW test driver managed to beat fellow rookie Pascal Wehrlein (Mercedes), who was second fastest on Thursday too. Along the way, Wittmann set a new record for the highest number of laps completed in one day (220).
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| Marco WIttmann, BMW M3 DTM (Photo: WRi2) |
Christian Vietoris (Mercedes) was third quickest ahead of Timo Scheider, who was Audi's fastest driver of the day.
Four more days of collective testing are to be held in Hockenheim, April 9-12, before the season opens in Hockenheim, on May 5th.
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