Formula One News — August 1999

THE Fondmetal Minardi team will use Supertec V10 engines next year - if an agreement it has made with the French engine company is concluded.

EDDIE IRVINE has denied reports that he has signed to be the number one driver with the planned Jaguar Formula 1 team for the next three years.

REYNARD MOTORSPORT INC., a 15% shareholder in British American Racing , has called off its planned flotation on the New York Stock Exchange.

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER underwent a second operation over the weekend at a clinic in Geneva, Switzerland, with surgeons removing some of the pins which were inserted into his leg in the operation which took place at Northampton General Hospital on the afternoon of his crash at Silverstone a month ago.

FIA President Max Mosley last week told the French regional newspaper Nice Matin that the French Grand Prix will move to Paul Ricard in the future.

THERE was testing last week at Silverstone, Mugello, Fiorano and Lurcy-Levis with the biggest test taking place at the British track.

THE Italian oil company Agip is to return to Ferrari next year as the team's fuel supplier and as a major sponsor.

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER may not be back in action in Formula 1 as quickly as had been expected.

MAX Mosley, the President of the international automobile federation (FIA) was delighted last week when the European Commission issued a statement expressing regrets at hostile public statements and leaks made about the FIA by the outgoing Competition Commissioner Karel Van Miert and members of his staff.

THE Formula 1 Silly Season is up and running following the announcement in Germany that Mika Hakkinen and David Coulthard are to stay as McLaren team mates for a fifth consecutive season.

THE continued failure of British American Racing to score World Championship points is something of a joke within the Formula 1 paddock - given the new team's extravagant claims since this time last year.

THERE was a considerable amount of talk in the Hockenheim paddock suggesting that Arrows team owner Prince Malik ado Ibrahim may shortly be bought out of the operation by his partner Tom Walkinshaw.

THE agenda for the next Formula 1 Commission which has been circulated to race teams in recent days features a request for a change of team name for Stewart Grand Prix.

TOYOTA has stopped hiding behind recruitment companies and anonymous post office box numbers and is advertising for Formula 1 staff in the specialist press all over Europe.

ALAIN PROST's relationship with Peugeot remains strained as the two parties wheel and deal to try to decide whether to continue their relationship.