Formula One News — March 2001

FORMULA ONE brothers Michael and Ralf Schumacher became the first pair of siblings on the front row in the history of the sport after qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix -- and the pair are looking forward to a battle off the line.

GRAND PRIX team chief Eddie Jordan believes Toyota are "in for a shock" when they arrive in Formula One next season.

TEAM BOSSES Flavio Briatore and Eddie Jordan have called for more promotion and publicity for Formula One after the pair claimed that the sport lacks glamor.

JAGUAR RACING boss Bobby Rahal says that the company is looking at cancelling its plans to build a big new facility at Silverstone.

CRIMINALS have caused problems to some of the Formula One teams in Brazil to further justify their concerns of racing in the country.

ITALIAN Jarno Trulli has predicted that new technical director Eghbal Hamidy will be a major force in Jordan's attempts to move closer to Ferrari and McLaren this season.

JAGUAR driver Luciano Burti has said that he will fight team-mate Eddie Irvine all the way in the battle to partner Pedro de la Rosa next season.

FERRARI's Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello will have a clear-the-air meeting prior to this weekend's Brazilian race in an effort to prevent a rift ripping through the successful team.

FERRARI's Michael Schumacher starred alongside Brazilian footballing legends in a charity match watched by a crowd of 40,000 at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday.

EUROPEAN MINARDI have continued their development by clinching the signing of former Prost engineer Loic Bigois as their new head of aerodynamics.

TOYOTA returned to testing at the Circuit Paul Ricard on Wednesday with Briton Allan McNish behind the wheel of the team's Formula One challenger.

BRISTISH PRIME MINISTER Tony Blair says that despite the disastrous outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that the country is not "out of bounds" to visitors and that business is going on despite the problems.

THERE has been a great deal of talk in recent weeks about the possibility of the major car manufacturers buying shares in the Formula One group of companies.

RUBENS BARRICHELLO says that there is no problem between him and the Ferrari team, despite rumors suggesting that all is not well after the Malaysian Grand Prix.

BENETTON technical director Mike Gascoyne is confident the new aerodynamic package the team tested in Barcelona last week can help turn around their disappointing season.

TARSO MARQUES has decided to give the Brazilian journalists something to write about this week by appearing with his hair dyed blue.

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER goes to Brazil in search of his seventh consecutive Formula 1 victory, a record which is unmatched in the modern history of the Formula 1 World Championship.

MAX MOSLEY could soon get his wish to establish an FIA Foundation f the settlement being discussed between Bernie Ecclestone and Leo Kirch is concluded.

IN a world in which tobacco companies are being slowly driven out of all forms of advertising, the Formula 1 world provides a refuge.

THE CIRCUIT PAUL RICARD at Le Castellet, in the south of France, is to be rebuilt and will be renamed the High Tech Test Track.

EUROPEAN MINARDI test driver Christjian Albers has been named by Mercedes-Benz as a member of the company's touring car team in the German DTM series.

BARELY 48-hours separated last Friday's high profile launch of Toyota's first F1 test car from its first accident, apparently caused by a mechanical failure, during testing at Paul Ricard.

JOS VERSTAPPEN believes Arrows are more than capable of taking another step towards improving on their current position in this weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix.

RUMORS that world champion Michael Schumacher will buy into the Sauber team following the withdrawal of Red Bull money at the end of this season seem to be little more than paddock gossip.

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA believes that the support he will receive from his fans at the Brazilian Grand Prix will spur him on for his first finish of the season next week.