Villeneauve ready for Ferrari drive - 21st June 20:35pm GMT

Jacques Villeneuve, the 1997 Formula One world champion, last week announced he is to attend the Goodwood Festival of Speed for the first time. The event, sponsored by The Sunday Times, starts this Friday and runs until Sunday.

Villeneuve will make two runs up the hillclimb course on Saturday, driving the Ferrari 312 T3 F1 car in which his father Gilles won his first grand prix in 1978 in Canada. Gilles was killed at the age of 32 while racing in a Ferrari during practice for the Belgian Grand Prix in 1982.

“Jacques is on his way to Goodwood for the first time,” says Lord March, who hosts the festival in the grounds of his stately home just north of Chichester, West Sussex. “He’ll be hugely popular with the crowd and I’m very excited he’s driving.”