{"id":15092038,"date":"2026-04-01T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/jacques-villeneuve-reveals-why-he-had-no-regrets-over-1996-damon-hill-title-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:33:18","slug":"jacques-villeneuve-reveals-why-he-had-no-regrets-over-1996-damon-hill-title-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/jacques-villeneuve-reveals-why-he-had-no-regrets-over-1996-damon-hill-title-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacques Villeneuve reveals why he had no regrets over 1996 Damon Hill title loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1997 Formula 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve has opened up about his title fight with his team-mate Damon Hill in 1996.<br \/>The Canadian driver entered his rookie F1 season with Williams in 1996 and was straight into a title fight with his team-mate Hill. He ultimately finished second behind the Briton with 78 points, compared to Hill&#8217;s 97. Ferrari&#8217;s Michael Schumacher ended the season in third &#8230;<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/f1\/news\/jacques-villeneuve-reveals-why-he-had-no-regrets-over-1996-damon-hill-title-loss\/10806654\/?utm_source=RSS&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=RSS-ALL&amp;utm_term=News&amp;utm_content=www\">Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/f1\/news\/jacques-villeneuve-reveals-why-he-had-no-regrets-over-1996-damon-hill-title-loss\/10806654\/?utm_source=RSS&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=RSS-ALL&#038;utm_term=News&#038;utm_content=www\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Motorsport.com &#8211; All &#8211; Stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1997 Formula 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve has opened up about his title fight with his team-mate Damon Hill in 1996.<br \/>The Canadian driver entered his rookie F1 season with Williams in 1996 and was straight into a title fight with his team-mate Hill. He ultimately finished second behind the Briton with 78 points, compared to Hill&#8217;s 97. Ferrari&#8217;s Michael Schumacher ended the season in third &#8230;<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/f1\/news\/jacques-villeneuve-reveals-why-he-had-no-regrets-over-1996-damon-hill-title-loss\/10806654\/?utm_source=RSS&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=RSS-ALL&amp;utm_term=News&amp;utm_content=www\">Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15092040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15092038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autos"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15092038-damon-hill-williams-jacques-vi.jpg",1200,799,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15092038-damon-hill-williams-jacques-vi-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15092038-damon-hill-williams-jacques-vi-620x413.jpg",620,413,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15092038-damon-hill-williams-jacques-vi-768x511.jpg",768,511,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15092038-damon-hill-williams-jacques-vi-940x626.jpg",940,626,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15092038-damon-hill-williams-jacques-vi.jpg",1200,799,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15092038-damon-hill-williams-jacques-vi.jpg",1200,799,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15092038-damon-hill-williams-jacques-vi-998x665.jpg",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15092038-damon-hill-williams-jacques-vi-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15092038-damon-hill-williams-jacques-vi.jpg",1200,799,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15092038-damon-hill-williams-jacques-vi-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15092038-damon-hill-williams-jacques-vi-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15092038-damon-hill-williams-jacques-vi.jpg",24,16,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15092038-damon-hill-williams-jacques-vi.jpg",48,32,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15092038-damon-hill-williams-jacques-vi.jpg",96,64,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15092038-damon-hill-williams-jacques-vi.jpg",150,100,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15092038-damon-hill-williams-jacques-vi.jpg",300,200,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/autos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Autos<\/a>","tag_info":"Autos","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15092038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15092039,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092038\/revisions\/15092039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15092040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15092038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15092038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15092038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}