Formula One News — July 2002

<b>German Grand Prix Sunday Race Notes</b>

<b>German Grand Prix Sunday Warmup Report</b>

Bryan Herta is to join the fun at Minardi's Thunder in the Park event at Donington in the middle of August.

With Alex Yoong expected to stand down from Minardi for the next couple of races, the team is thought likely to ask Renault Sport if it is willing to loan Fernando Alonso.

Alex Yoong now looks likely that, despite bringing considerable amounts of sponsorship from Malaysia, may have to stand down before the end of the year.

Giorgio Pantano won his second Formula 3000 victory of the year and pulled himself back into the Formula 3000 title race at Hockenheim.

<b>German Grand Prix Saturday Qualifying Report</b>

<b>German Grand Prix Saturday Photos</b>

The FIA Stewards have fined Formula 3000 race winner Giorgio Pantano for celebrating his victory by performing lb"doughnutstt".

There was much rumbling in the British press on Saturday about the work which was done on the roads at Silverstone in order to improve the access to the racing circuit.

<b>German Grand Prix Saturday Morning Free Practice Report</b>

At Hockenheim the Arrows team was running as normal - and no-one was quite sure why.

Most people are assuming that Jacques Villeneuve will soon conclude a new deal with British American Racing and that Olivier Panis will thus be forced to leave the team in order to make room for Jenson Button next year.

When there is a lot of talk in Formula 1 more often than not that means that the stories are a smokescreen for other negotiations.

<b>German Grand Prix Friday Afternoon Free Practice Report</b>

Giorgio Pantano captured the pole for Saturday's F3000 race in Germany, the first of his career.

<b>German Grand Prix Friday Photos</b>

The West McLaren Mercedes team will remain the same next season.

Trevor Foster, the former joint managing director of Jordan Grand Prix, is now working for British American Racing.

Mika Hakkinen has announced his retirement from Grand Prix racing.

<b>German Grand Prix Friday Morning Free Practice Report</b>

McLaren will announce its driver line-up for 2003 later today at Hockenheim.

British American Racing has done a deal with the world's largest mobile company NTT DoCoMo.

Ron Walker has publicly stated that Bernie Ecclestone could be the man to lead a bid for the Olympic Games to be held in London in 2012.

Nick Heidfeld says that he expects to stay at Sauber next year. The Swiss team has an option on the German but it is likely that the option will be taken up on September 1.