Formula One News — September 1998

THERE was considerable activity in the Sauber motorhome at Monza following the news that Johnny Herbert has quit the team to join Stewart Grand Prix and that Sauber has failed to reach agreement with Heinz-Harald Frentzen.

HEINZ-HARALD FRENTZEN surprised the Formula 1 world last week by signing for Jordan Grand Prix.

DICK SCAMMELL, the former boss of Cosworth Racing, is to get his old job back when Ford completes its purchase of the company from current owners Audi AG.

THERE were rumors in the paddock at Monza of coming organizational shake-ups at Stewart with a new chief designer being hired and Alan Jenkins altering his role slightly, to become less of a designer and more of a Technical Director.

JOHNNY HERBERT also surprised the Formula 1 world by announcing that he has signed a two-year deal with the Stewart Ford team, leaving Peter Sauber after two frustrating seasons with the Swiss team.

PIERO LARDI FERRARI, the son of Enzo Ferrari, is to become the new President of the sporting commission of the Automobile Club of Italy.

ADELAIDE, the former home of the Australian Grand Prix, is obviously missing having racing cars on the streets and last week the city announced plans to run two 250km events for V8 touring cars in April next year.

TOM WALKINSHAW's Arrows team spent last week working flat out in order to have three serviceable cars at the Italian Grand Prix.

THE little-known French racing driver Patrick Lemarie was given a test run last week at Silverstone by the Tyrrell team.

THE Formula 1 teams went into action on Tuesday at Monza, getting ready for the Italian Grand Prix there next weekend and, despite the abuse of the tifosi, it was David Coulthard who emerged fastest of the three day test.

THE announcement that Team Rahal has signed a deal with Max Papis for the 1999 CART season means that one of Heinz-Harald Frentzen's options for next year has disappeared.

IT seems that there are not one but two projects to run a Grand Prix in Beirut in the year 2003.

THE Malaysian Grand Prix may again be in trouble following moves last week by the country's Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Muhammad to isolate the Malaysian economy from the rest of the world.