Seems that Supercheap Racing is in current negotiations with Jacques Villeneuve to be teamate to Russell Ingall for the 2009 V8 Supercar season.
The man once descibed by Patrick Head as Having been 1997 World champ despite doing everything possible to blow it, in what was undoubtably the best car in F1 at the time, having failed in a bid to secure a Nascar drive has decided that a season in V8 Supercars is the thing to revive a career that has basically been beached since leaving Williams. It seems that figures of around $2 million are being bandied around!! Seems like a lot of Dosh. I think it's more of a publicity thing.
My money is on him getting hosed off and heading back to Monaco or Switzerland with whats left of his reputation in tatters. I shall be prepared to eat my words if I'm wrong, but apart from Larry Perkins and Alan Jones who was just bloody minded and a gritty so and so. The list of open wheeler stars who have lobbed in from Europe or the US and have been soundly thrashed has so far left me uninspired. ( I realise that AJ and LP are aussies but both went to F1 before coming to the ATCC)
When one thinks of some of the blokes in Australia who are sitting on the sidelines without a drive because they fail to raise a budget (theres more pays drives in V8's than people realise) well it all seems a bit daft.
If it does something to raise the profile of the sport in Oz amongst the uninitiated masses. that may be some consolation I suppose.