According to a report in the French newspaper L’Equipe, ex-F1 and Champ Car champion Jacques Villeneuve has been added to the already impressive line up of drivers for Peugeot’s return to Le Mans.

Autosport.com says that the newspaper report claims that Villeneuve will join Champ Car champion Sebastien Bourdais and Ferrari test driver Marc Gene, plus Stephane Sarrazin, Nicolas Minassian and Pedro Lamy for the assault with the new 908 car.

If he wins the 24 Hr Classic with Peugeot, Villeneuve will become the first person to win:

• The F1 World Championship
• The Indy 500
• A US national open-wheel title (ChampCar)
• The 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The late Graham Hill is currently the only person to have won the F1 World Championship, the Indy 500 and Le Mans.

The first of the new Formula One cars for 2007 have started to be revealed by the teams as the build up to the new season starts.

First to reveal their new challenger was Toyota,

followed a few days later by Ferrari,

with the new McLaren making its debut today.

Here at The Speed Blog, we’ve just learnt about Dragtimes.com, a drag racing website that maintains a database of over 9,500 quarter mile times for fast muscle cars and motorcycles. Several of the records include dyno sheets that validate horsepower and torque data for many of the fast cars as well as all performance modifications on the vehicle. For submissions that do not have dyno graphs attached, a horsepower calculator is offered to provide horsepower estimates calculated from the vehicle’s trap speed, 1/4 mile ET and weight.

DragTimes.com also contains drag racing videos and pictures for many of the quarter mile times that can be compared and searched through. Each month a drag racing submission is featured on the home page as an outcome of users voting for their preferred fast cars. Since all records are reviewed to uphold the website’s reliability, DragTimes.com can be a helpful resource to see what other fast muscle cars are running around the world.

Houston, Texas born Billy Wade made an early name for himself around the various tracks of The Lone Star State. In 10 years of competition he won several state championships as well as trying his hand in both open wheel and sports cars.

He made his NASCAR debut in 1962 driving in just three “Grand National” races. In 1963 he landed a full time NASCAR drive as the second driver in the Cotton Owens team. He easily won the “Rookie Of The Year” award with 14, top 10 finishes.

The following year he drove for Bud Moore winning 4 consecutive races in the July of that year. His season ending tally included an additional 25 top 10 finishes and 5 pole awards.

Billy Wade was killed tire testing at Daytona International Speedway on the 5th January, 1965. He was testing the, then new, inner liner race tires, that are still used in NASCAR today.

Andretti Green Racing officially announced Wednesday that Dario Franchitti has renewed his contract for a fifth season with the team. The Scotsman is the final driver confirmed in a four-car lineup which will also include new signing Danica Patrick, Marco Andretti and 2004 IndyCar Series champion Tony Kanaan.

AGR also revealed that Canadian Club will be the title sponsor for Franchitti’s No.27 Dallara-Honda, and an associate backer in the team’s remaining entries. Furthermore, it was announced that the Scot will partner his brother Marino and former AGR IndyCar driver Bryan Herta in select outings in the outfit’s new Acura-powered American Le Mans Series effort.