Laval (Quebec) Canada
E-mail : Michel Flageole flag@flagworld.com

Last update : 04/01/2002

Corporation...

In December of 1995, after the introduction of a first Web site FirstContact, a tribute to Gilles Villeneuve, Michel Flageole comes to an agreement with the Gilles-Villeneuve Museum management to realize a multi-language official web site to promote the Museum on the WWW. In January 1996, Flagworld Communications is created to manage web sites for Jacques Villeneuve, Patrick Carpentier and Bertrand Godin and other racing related web sites. In December of 1996, Flagworld becomes a federal corporation with the mission to create and maintain bilingual web sites for Canadians elite racers and other Canadian athletes.

Objectives...

• To produce quality bilingual Web sites on the WWW.
• To promote the Gilles Villeneuve Museum with a multi-language site on the NET.
• To collaborate to the financial activities of the Museum.
• To support Canadian elite racers with personalized Web sites.
• To create and maintain Web sites for other racing and sport related organizations.
• To create and maintain secure transactional web sites for racing world.
• To promote our Web sites with the main search engines and other major racing related sites.

Partners...

Michel Flageole, president ,« Flag »

In 1970, Michel was a rally competitor in Quebec City and for many years in the seventies, he was also the "pit exit man" at the Canadian Grand-Prix . In 1978, during his first GP, he met a young Canadian racer named Gilles Villeneuve and witnessed his very first victory. In 1995, to honor his lost friend Michel decided to write his Tribute to Gilles Villeneuve and put it on the net in his first site, First Contact. Today, Flag is active promoting Flagworld Communications Inc. activities on the WWW.

Dany Flageole, vice-president , « DanFlag »

Dany is the son of Flag and Jackie. Now working at 20-20 Technologies were he is looking at a great future because he loves his work and learning never stops. At the present time,  he is working in the sector of Quality-Insurance and automated testing department were he is executing tests on a software that is actually being developed. He also worked in the technical support department for nearly four years were he got experience in many areas of computer technologies. Dany is very involved with www.godinracing.com and it was decided to give him the opportunity to become the Webmaster of his own site. Danyis very buzy with his most recent site will be very popular with F-3000 Formula racing fans.

Jacqueline Guérin,  financial manager

Jacqueline Guerin, Michel spouse, is the administrator of Flagworld. Jacqueline also works for Cuisine-Expert in their inventory control department. If you ever meet Jacqueline and Michel, you will understand why he affectionately calls her "Sagesse". Her presence in the team is not only reassuring, it is indispensable.

Contributors...

Flagworld Communications Inc. would not be what it is today without the precious contribution of its team of dedicated racing and World Wide Web people. Introduced in alphabetical order...

Francesca Clemente

Francesca Clemente is also known to us as The Lady. Francesca is responsible for the Italian translation of the official Gilles Villeneuve Museum web site. Gilles Villeneuve is still a very popular figure in Italy. FRA's work for the Museum site is appreciated by all of us...She also assists Martine on monitoring the Italian messages of the GB.

Pierre Durocher

Pierre Durocher started his career as a sport journalist at Le Journal de Montreal in 1975.

He has been covering different beat including, car and horse racing, boxing, ski, baseball (Montreal Expos for 10 years) , hockey (Montreal Canadiens 5 years) , football, Olympics games (7 Olympics). He has been sport editorialist and assistant to the sport manager section of the Journal.

He is now following Formula One, CART and Atlantic series since 1997 with a lot of success and readership. Pierre is married and the proud father of two teenagers. The Durocher  family lives in Laval. Pierre started his contribution to The Jacques Villeneuve official web site in December 2001.

Martine Felton

Martine Felton is a long time friend of our sites. Martine is a University student living in Magog, Québec .For the past two season, she is the chief moderator of the Villeneuve Guestbook. Her work in the GB is really appreciated from all of us...

Louise Murray

Louise Murray is another Flagworld's precious collaborator. She works on everything that is relative to transactional programming in our sites.She worked on the Patrick Carpentier Guestbook and total programming of the new transactional Villeneuve Boutique. We can always count on Louise to develop new applications to keep the sites interesting. 

The Pundit - Terje Kjensli

Terje is a Norwegian living near Oslo the capital. As a great fan of the sport and Jacques Villeneuve, he joined the Flagworld team as a regular freelance writer for the JV site under the header "The Pundit" at the start of the 2001 FIA Championship. His chronicles are already a popular feature of The Site. We are very happy to welcome another International contributor to our team.

Martin Trudel

Martin is spending most of his leisure time creating cartoons related to Jacques Villeneuve race events . In 1996, most of his cartoons were viewed as part of the telecast of every race by RDS. Inquiries were made to see his work available on the Internet. Martin agreed for Flagworld to become his exclusive Gallery on the NET. We are very proud of this arrangement and we have a few surprises in store about promoting his great talent in the near future. Stay tuned...Martin is returning to The Site after a year off with the start of the FIA 2001 season.

Doug Willoughby

Doug is a resident of British Columbia, Canada. Since 1994, he is the owner and webmaster of one of the most interesting computer and racing site in North America: Hi-Tech Bulletin . For him, it is a lot more than a hobby, it's his living , it's his life! A visit to his great site will convince you. Since summer of 1997, Doug and Flagworld have been collaborating many times on race reports in F-1, CART and Atlantic Formula. Recently Doug put to life a great idea of his by creating TEAM CANADA based on his site. Team Canada is becoming the National Home for Racers, Teams, Racing Associations from coast to coast. We are very proud to work with HTB, Doug and his wife Dar, in this great Canadian idea.

Friends of Flagworld...

The following friends are helping us with material and translation. We thank them all for their support ! They are listed in alphabetical order :

• Alain Bellehumeur : General manager of the Gilles Villeneuve Museum, Alain is the soul of the Museum in Berthierville, Canada.
• Patrick Carpentier : For his input with his web site.
• Jean-Guy Courcelles: Material for Automobile Club Ile Notre-Dame web site.
• DailyF1 for the association with Flagworld
• Frank Drui of F1-Live.com for the same reasons...
• Bertrand Godin : For his personal input in his site and "joie de vivre".
• Roy Glikin : His recent contribution and Tribute to Gilles Villeneuve for FirstContact.
• Raymond Lambert : information and reports for his son Olivier Lambert web site.
• Photographers: Robert Colette, Muriel Brousseau, Mike Sheehan and Patrick Vinet.
• Craig & Barbara Pollock: Material and additional information for Official JV fan Club.
• Sponsors: Yes, we do have sponsors in some of our sites (check banners and please visit their sites).
• Bruno St-Jacques, a new member of Flagworld family , F-125 KART Champion in 1997.
• Jacques Villeneuve (Gilles' brother) Information and a lot more about the Villeneuve.
• Visitors : All the visitors to our guestbooks and their encouraging words about Flagworld's work!
• Fans: Numerous fans that are offering their pictures for some of our sites, mainly Jacques Villeneuve !

Merci Beaucoup !

Awards...

In order to succeed and be recognized by fellow Webmasters on the World Wide Web, a small team like Flagworld has to work endlessly without managing efforts and long hours to gain recognition. We are very happy with our first year on the NET. Here is a partial list of our notable realizations since 1996 :

• 10 Tenths Hot Site Award - for Jacques Villeneuve web site - August 2001
• MeritaWeb - bronze mention for Jacques Villeneuve - The Site - March 11
• Site of the Day at Site du Jour on February 6, 2001 for Jacques Villeneuve site.
• Boutique Villeneuve, "preferred shopping site" at Francité, fall 2000
• Jacques Villeneuve, Celebrity of the Day web site October 12, 2000
• Jacques Villeneuve, Key resource in Formula One Topic, July 2000
• Jacques Villeneuve: Top 100 francophone site By Internet Guide  in 1999 (third consecutive year)
• Jacques Villeneuve: Top 100 francophone site By Internet Guide  in 1998 (second year)
• 2 Top 100 francophone sites with Internet Guide in 1997 for Jacques Villeneuve and CARTpentier sites.
• Webs d'Or (French) Spring-summer 1996 , best French language sport site for Gilles-Villeneuve Museum site.
• Top Ouaibe (French) First and second position since October 1996 for Jacques Villeneuve and Villeneuve sites.
• Renault F1 : one of three "not to be missed" recommendation.
• ICN SportsWeb : numerous links to our sites, specially Flagworld "for its passion and dedication to the F-1 World."
• Numerous reviews and "site of the Day" nominations, namely : Branchez-vous, Excite, Yahoo, Le site du jour, NetGuide Live, Franco-Media, Point de Départ, Toile du Québec and many more.
• + Hundreds of hyperlinks fellow Webmasters and friends of Flagworld all over the World ! Please visit : http://www.flagworld.com/sites.htm

Team Flagworld Web sites

07 Le Livre d'Or Villeneuve Villeneuve Guestbook http://www.1secret.com   Multi-lingue / multilingual Ouverture / Opening : 05/05/1996 Textes & matériel / Text & material: Les fans des membres de la famille Villeneuve / Fans of Villeneuve family members Webmasters: Louise Murray, Michel Flageole & Dany Flageole

17 Le site officiel d'Olivier Lambert http://www.flagworld.com/releve/olivier_lambert/ Français / French Ouverture / Opening : 12/04/1997 Textes & matériel / Text & material: Raymond Lambert & Michel Flageole Webmasters: Michel Flageole & Dany Flageole

19 DeschenesDesign http://www.1pageweb.com/deschenesdesign/ Bilingue / Bilingual Ouverture / Opening : 03/12/1999 Textes & matériel / Text & material: Stéphane Deschênes & Dany Flageole Webmaster : Dany Flageole

21   Les bouteilles recyclées du Québec / Re-newbottles http://www.renewbottles.ca Bilingue / Bilingual Ouverture / Opening : 28/11/2000 Textes & matériel / Text & material: Dany Flageole Webmaster : Dany Flageole

22  PRODOORS http://www.prodoors.com Anglais / English Ouverture / Opening : 05/01/2000 Textes & matériel / Text & material: Michel Flageole Webmaster : Michel Flageole

23  Grégoire Sport http://www.gregoiresport.com Bilingue / Bilingual Ouverture / Opening : 01/01/1998 Textes & matériel / Text & material: Louise Murray Webmaster : Louise Murray

24  Allan de la Plante http://www.1pageweb.com/delaplante/ Anglais / English Ouverture / Opening : 23/07/1998 Textes & matériel / Text & material: Michel Flageole Webmaster : Michel Flageole

25  Garceau d'ici et de Partout... Garceau here and everywhere... http://www.1pageweb.com/garceau/ Bilingue / Bilingual Ouverture / Opening : 04/01/2001 Textes & matériel / Text & material: Michel Flageole Webmaster : Michel Flageole

26 www.jv-express.com | Jacques Villeneuve News Leader | Six Gears Ahead http://www.jv-express.com English Ouverture / Opening : 05/01/2001 Textes & matériel / Text & material: Jean-Paul Borg Webmaster : Jean-Paul Borg

27 Pomepi http://www.pomepi.com Français Ouverture / Opening : 26/09/2001 Textes & matériel / Text & material: Michel Flageole Webmaster : Michel Flageole