Before the 1995 season, he rejected offers from fellow CART teams and some Formula One (F1) squads and remained at the renamed Team Green driving the renumbered No. 27 Reynard 95I-Ford XB. Villeneuve and his team were worried due to their car being unreliable and under-performing in pre-season testing. He won the season-opening Grand Prix of Miami starting eight and went on to finish two of the next four races. His season highlight was the Indianapolis 500, where he took the Drivers' Championship lead. Villeneuve was penalised two laps for overtaking the pace car but recovered to win the race at his second attempt after fellow Canadian Scott Goodyear failed to serve a ten-second stop-and-go penalty for passing the pace car before it had been driven into the pit lane prior to the final rolling restart. Villeneuve went on to win both the &lt;a href="1995%20Texaco/Havoline%20200"&gt;Texaco/Havoline 200&lt;/a&gt; at Road America and the Grand Prix of Cleveland as well as scoring points in all but one of the remaining events to clinch the title at the final round in Laguna Seca. He won the championship with 172 points, four victories and six pole positions.