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F1 to miss Peter Sauber - Villeneuve

The F1 paddock will miss Peter Sauber. That's the claim of the first and only world champion to have ever driven for his Swiss team -- Jacques Villeneuve. Quebec's JV, 34, reckons the cigar-smoking founder, owner and principal - who has sold his Hinwil team to BMW - will definitely 'be missed more than most'.

"Everybody who leaves F1 is missed," Villeneuve told F1 Racing, "but Peter Sauber has build a great team. It's small but efficient and he trusted me enough to ask me to drive one of his cars this year."

It wasn't, of course, always rosy between Sauber and Villeneuve, who underperformed early on and soon was engaged in a slight media slanging match with his boss. JV reckons 'things got out of control' in the press.

But, hoping to have his 2006 Sauber contract honoured by BMW next year, he also admitted: "It was never personal and looked worse on the outside than it did on the inside."

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