Villeneuve "got lucky" with brake failure timing at WEC Portimao

🗣️ 'It’s never nice to lose the brakes, but it was probably a good place to have a failure like that' Jacques Villeneuve believes he 'got lucky' when the brakes failed on his Vanwall Le Mans Hypercar at the 6HPortimao ⬇️

Formula 1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve believes he “got lucky” when the brakes failed on his Vanwall Le Mans Hypercar in last weekend’s Portimao round of the World Endurance Championship.Villeneuve expressed relief that the failure of the front-right disc on the Vanwall-Gibson Vandervell 680 with just over an hour of the race to go happened at Turn 10.

“Having that happen at Turn 10 was certainly better than at Turn 1,” Villeneuve told Autosport. “It’s never nice to lose the brakes, but it was probably a good place to have a failure like that.VanwallVilleneuve revealed that he had been nursing a brake issue through his stint after taking over the car he shared with regular team-mates

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