Formula One News — May 1998

MAY 4, 1998

A waiting game on the driver market

IT is still very early in the Formula 1 season for there to be much movement on the driver market for 1999 but there is no doubt that West McLaren Mercedes will be making a bid at some point for Michael Schumacher.

McLaren sets the pace in Barcelona

MIKA HAKKINEN and David Coulthard once again dominated when the majority of the Formula 1 teams went testing at Barcelona in preparation for the Spanish Grand Prix this week.

X Wings are banned!

THE FIA must have been too busy worrying about the European Commission to bother to inform the world that it had decided to ban sidepod-mounted winglets, known in F1 circles as X wings.