Who Is John Newhouse?

In gp3 orginal he is in the game with an odd helmet guessing his or made up but does anyone no who he is?

Never mind i no why now.

I think this is a good question. Why Microprose put this guy and not J.Villeneuve?????

it's called john newhouse, because jacques villeneuve's name was copyright protected

Wow and yet all the others wernt lol...wonder why they choose him maybe hes a guy from a lucky hat....

Why was his name copyrighted?

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bit odd 21 drivers rnt and 1 is....lol

it was protected by his manager,if i'm right. Had something to do with marketing

Yeah and "John Newhouse" is simply the translation in English of "Jacques Villeneuve"

No it isn't, that would be Jack Newtown.

Mmh that's strange,I remember reading something saying it was the translation..uhm maybe i'm confusing..

Wel this is very weird though why john newhouse lol....why not Jack Vilnerve?

@ Zyclef: Newtown is "cidade nova" in portuguese and Newhouse means "casa nova", that means that Newhouse is the best translation for Villeneuve.
Anyway, I think the only reason for that happens is being a crap driver, Villeneuve keep doing things to have attention, which he doesn't have for his driver skills.

But Villeneuve is a French name, ville = town, neuve = new, maison = house (i think). So surely John Newhouse would be Jean Maisonneuve or something similar.

lol no lets just say we translate to english not french lol :p I hate french lanuage ive finaly given it up for GCSE's after3 boring years.

Jacques Villeneuve = Jack Newton, but that was deemed too close for copyright

His name was copyrighted because he had already put his name to the title of another game, just like he did with this one:

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That naming "feature" was also present in GP2 as far as I know. You could also find it in "Official Formula I Racing" from 1999. Here he was listed as "Driver Williams". In Formula 1 97 he was listed as "Williams Numberone".

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gary42 Wrote:
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> Jacques Villeneuve = Jack Newton, but that was
> deemed too close for copyright

Jack Newton is an Australian Golfer who walked into a rotating propeller of a plane some years ago, losing his right arm and an eye. So they couldn't use his name because he couldn't drive one handed.

LOL

If I remember correctly, I think it was a French autosport magazine that paid JV an extortionate amount of cash for sole use of his name and as this magazine held the copyrights for his name and all press interviews, meant no other organization could use it. I think this is correct.