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Villeneuve: Advice to parents is tell him to do something else

Straight talking Jacques Villeneuve has advice for parents seeking a career in motorsport for their kids: don't do it because it is becoming a niche sport increasingly for the very rich and has created the ‘Feed Racing' programme to help talented drivers who need funding. Five-year budgets for youngsters on the ladder to Formula 1 through traditional avenues run into the tens of millions, increasingly tilting the field towards the children of well-heeled parents while talented youngsters fail to progress due to lack of funding. 'I've been in the paddocks for a number of years now, I see how it's going and it really worries me, maybe because I have kids too. Often, parents come to me...
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