Jacques Villeneuve's championship-winning IndyCar up for sale

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James Elson

January 13, 2026

January 13th 2026

The car in which Jacques Villeneuve made his name on the international racing scene is now going under the hammer

Villeneuve clinched his '95 IndyCar crown in the Reynard-Cosworth 95I

James Elson

January 13, 2026

Jacques Villeneuve blazed a trail like few others in his early years of top-level motor sport, and the IndyCar he won his first title in was similarly precocious.

Now you can own the cool blue machine that helped him clinch his 1995 championship – if you have at least a couple of hundred thousand dollars (and then some) to spare.

There is one day left for offers on the car, with the current online bid standing at $225,000 (£160k) on Bring a Trailer. The car was previously sold by Christie’s in 1999, going for $74k (£55k) after having a reserve of $80k-120k (£60k-£89k).

The Team Green Reynard-Cosworth 95I Chassis 04 was used by Villeneuve to win in Miami and Cleveland in that campaign, as well as to secure pole positions at Portland, Toronto and Vancouver.

Jacques Villeneuve 1995 Indianapolis 500 2 — Villeneuve became both IndyCar champion and an Indy 500 winner in 1995

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Those race-winning performances contributed to the Canadian clinching the IndyCar title at just the second time of asking, even though Reynard had only joined the championship at the same time as Villeneuve.

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The British firm won on its debut with Chip Ganassi’s Michael Andretti at Surfer’s Paradise driving the 94I, but it was with Villeneuve in that car’s successor that Reynard’s IndyCar journey really took flight.

Designed by Malcolm Oastler and powered by an 800bhp Cosworth engine, the 95I won four races in total with the Canadian at the wheel, including the 1995 Indianapolis 500. He took the championship title ahead of a field that included Al Unser Jr, Michael Andretti Bobby Rahal, Paul Tracy and Emerson Fittipaldi. Reynard also won the Manufacturers’ Cup.

“At that point we weren’t following what Reynard said we should do with the car,” Villeneuve told Motor Sport in 2016.

“We just did our thing, and our car was a lot faster than any other Reynard. [Engineer] Tony Cicale used to design and race Can-Am cars, so he understood the human aspect of things, the feeling, that’s why we really worked well together.”

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The racing car manufacturer would go on to win four more consecutive titles with Chip Ganassi from 1996, founder Adrian Reynard telling Motor Sport that its lineage of IndyCars “represents the wonderful culture we had at the company.” The success of Villeneuve and Reynard led the pair to aim for F1 glory together too, with their unprecedented British American Racing project.

After the Canadian moved to F1 with Williams in 1996 and become world champion a year later, he then joined forces with the company’s founder Adrian Reynard in 1999 to mastermind a new grand prix team based around him, with support from British American Tobacco.

Though the project had a famously troubled start, with no points in its debut season, the Brackley-based firm would eventually evolve into what is now the Mercedes F1 team – one of the most successful of all time.

The ex-Jacques Villeneuve 1995 Reynard-Ford Cosworth 95I is currently for sale with Bring a Trailer – find out more information here.