By BMW Sauber F1 Team
June 3 2006

Villeneuve to drive a Formula One racer in Hyde Park. At 10.00am on the Tuesday following the Silverstone GP, Jacques Villeneuve will drive a Formula One car from the BMW Sauber F1 Team through London’s Hyde Park. Villeneuve to drive a Formula One racer in Hyde Park: At 10.00am on the Tuesday following the Silverstone GP, Jacques Villeneuve will drive a Formula One car from the BMW Sauber F1 Team through London’s Hyde Park. This promotional day organised by Official Corporate Partner Intel will also see World Touring Car Champion Andy Priaulx take a BMW M6 for a spin along the closed-off 380-metre stretch of road. Villeneuve and Priaulx will be available for photos and media questions around 10.30am.


Also Silverstone will see the third appearance of the BMW Sauber F1 Team Pit Lane Park. This high-tech theme park with Formula One exhibits, as well as interactive computer animations and features supplied by Official Corporate Partner Intel, will be erected behind the Becketts Grandstand. This time round, the Formula One racer will be manned by World Touring Car Champion Andy Priaulx, while Euan Hankey will be steering a Formula BMW car. On display once again will be a BMW 320Si WTCC and a BMW Z4 M Coupé. Admission to the 5,400-square-metre park with its 90-metre section of track is free to anyone attending the GP. The Pit Lane Park is open on Friday and Saturday from 8.00am to 6.00pm and on Sunday from 8.00am to 4.00pm