Formula One News — May 2001

AN air stewardess wants David Coulthard to cough up £19,000 (pounds) in compensation after she was injured in a car crash involving the McLaren driver.

INDY 500 winner Helio Castroneves, has shown his hand in wanting to make the jump from success in the States to a life in Formula 1.

ONE of the most colorful figures in Formula 1 history, Vittorio Brambilla, has died of a suspected heart attack while gardening at his home in Camparada di Lesmo, Italy.

BRAZILIAN Enrique Bernoldi claimed that his future in Formula One was threatened after the Monaco Grand Prix, by McLaren bosses Ron Dennis and Norbert Haug.

FIA PRESIDENT Max Mosley unveiled a new helmet in Monaco that is hoped will dramatically improve the chances of surviving impacts to the head.

RENAULT SPORT president Patrick Faure said on Saturday that the car-makers still plan to go ahead with threats to form a breakaway series in 2008.

MCLAREN's David Coulthard believes he could have gone faster than he did after smashing the Monte Carlo lap record to claim pole position for tomorrow's Monaco Grand Prix.

THE Japanese revival in Formula 1 is coming to the boil as Honda weighs up its options for 2003.

JURGEN HUBBERT, the Mercedes-Benz chairman, has said that the European Car Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) could introduce a breakaway series to Formula One before 2008.

FERRARI completed a shakedown run on their fourth chassis at Fiorano on Friday, and will now send the car to Monaco as a spare for the Grand Prix this weekend.

MCLAREN and Hugo Boss have become the longest ever sponsorship partnership in international sporting history after signing a new five-year deal on Friday.

JOST CAPITO, the chief operations officer of Sauber, has left the Swiss team and will shortly begin work as director of Ford Special Vehicle Engineering in Cologne.

THE boss of BMW Motorsport Mario Theissen blotted his copybook somewhat in the days leading up to the Monaco Grand Prix when he was competing on the Mille Miglia with Williams technical director Patrick Head as his co-driver in one of the few surviving BMW 507s which had been lent to the pair by the BMW Museum in Munich. Theissen collided at high speed with a Mercedes-Benz which turned across his path.

THE Ferrari team has secured an important new three-year sponsorship deal with British telecommunications giant Vodafone, it was announced in Monaco on Friday.

CZECH driver Tomas Enge hopes to become the first Eastern European Formula 1 driver of the modern era. Enge, who is currently second in the International Formula 3000 series in his Coca Cola Nordic Racing entry is understood to be talking to Minardi about a possible testing role later in the year.

RALF SCHUMACHER was forced to go to bed on Thursday afternoon after injuring himself in a crash at the end of the second practice session in Monaco.

JARNO TRULLI joined Michael Schumacher and David Coulthard as an elected member of the Grand Prix Drivers Association (GPDA) on Wednesday.

THE FIA have banned Jordan and Arrows' new aerodynamic developments on the day of their introduction in Monaco.

JAGUAR driver Pedro de la Rosa has accepted that one small mistake could end his Monaco Grand Prix this weekend, but the Spaniard promised that it won't happen.

BRIDGESTONE FIRESTONE has announced that it will stop supplying tires to the Ford Motor Company, ending a relationship which dates back 100 years.

MCLAREN's David Coulthard believes his team still have plenty to do if he is to continue his championship challenge.

DR. ROBERT HUBBARD and James Downing, inventors of the Head and Neck Support device (HANS), have been honored with the USA's Louis Schitzer Award for technical innovation and engineering excellence.

JORDAN's Heinz-Harald Frentzen believes he has got the concentration span to produce a positive result in Monaco this weekend.

OUR sources at Vodafone suggest that there will soon be an announcement that the world's largest mobile telephone operator will become a Ferrari sponsor next year.

MIKE GASCOYNE, Benetton's technical director, is aware his team needs an improvement in reliability as well as speed if they are to end their dismal run of form.