Formula One News — October 2000

DON'T judge the potential of the Asia Motor Technologies-badged Peugeot V10 from its performance in the back of this year's Prost AP03 - it shows all the signs of being a better bet than the Supertec V10.

GERMAN Heinz-Harald Frentzen has said that Jordan's 2001 Honda engine deal has given the team the motivation they need to erase the memories of a disappointing 2000 season.

DAVID COULTHARD has vowed to be unrelenting in his search to win the world championship.

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA has competed in his last Champ Car race and is now turning his attention to taking BMW-Williams into a new era in Formula One.

ALEXANDER WURZ's manager Peter Cramer said on Tuesday that the Austrian driver has successfully come through an operation to cure a knee injury.

WITH Bruno Junqueira going off to race in the United States, the BMW Williams team has begun to look for a new test driver and with experienced Formula 1 men few and far between, it is not going to be an easy task.

TORANOSUKE TAKAGI has announced his plans to race for Toyota in CART next year and says that his intention is to score some good results and return to Formula 1 in the near future.

PAUL STEWART, the son of three-times world champion Jackie, announced his resignation as executive director of Jaguar Racing on Monday.

AUSTRIAN Alexander Wurz is ready to undergo an operation to cure a knee problem which threatened to cut his 2000 Formula One season short.

THIS week the board of directors of British American Racing (Holdings) Ltd. meets to discuss the future of British American Racing and there is expected to be a showdown between Craig Pollock and his allies and Adrian Reynard and his supporters.

THERE have been times in the recent history of Formula 1 when one would have been would forgiven for thinking that Mugen was a subsidiary of the Honda Motor Company but as Mugen's founder Hirotoshi Honda is now discovering this is not the case at all.

BRITISH AMERICAN RACING revealed on Monday that a board meeting planned for Wednesday had been postponed a week.

DUTCHMAN Jos Verstappen was found guilty of assault by a Belgian court on Monday, but the Arrows driver avoided a jail sentence after he agreed an out-of-court settlement.

THERE are signs that the racing car manufacturer Lola is involved in a bid to split the MG name away from the troubled Rover Group. Last week two members of the board of Rover quit the company but said that they would continue to work to build MG cars.

NEW BMW-Williams driver Juan Pablo Montoya has said that he is unfazed by the comments of his new team-mate Ralf Schumacher, who has admitted that he would have preferred Jenson Button to stay at the team.

BRITISH AMERICAN RACING driver Jacques Villeneuve has said that he is pleased with the progress the team has made throughout 2000 and he already feels confident ahead of the 2001 season.

THE new Toyota F1 car could be ready for testing by February next year - one month ahead of schedule.

SPANIARD Pedro de la Rosa will stay at Arrows for the 2001 Formula One World Championship, his manager Raimon Duran confirmed on Friday.

ITALIAN Jarno Trulli has turned his attentions to the 2001 world championship after putting his debut season with Jordan to the back of his mind.

TRAGEDY marred Ferrari's Formula One victory celebrations on Saturday at the Mugello circuit in Tuscany when one driver was killed and another seriously injured during the Ferrari Challenge race.

FERRARI President Luca di Montezemolo is to be awarded an honorary degree in mechanical engineering by the University of Modena.

UNDETERRED by a less than impressive debut season, Eddie Irvine has predicted that the Jaguar Racing team will improve over the closed season and into 2001.

TOYOTA will unveil their plans to buy into a Formula circuit next Wednesday after officials said they are keen to increase their chances in Formula One by having their own track.

NEW BMW-Williams pairing of Juan Pablo Montoya and Ralf Schumacher has already sparked off some real controversy by hitting out at each other before they have teamed up.

THE European Commission, stung by the rejection of its anti-tobacco directive by the Europe Court recently, is hitting back with a new draft directive expected to go before the European Parliament on December 11 that will make it illegal for tobacco companies to use terms which suggest that the cigarettes are less harmful than normal.