FEBRUARY 17, 2002
The last few days...
It seems at the moment that the World Championship battle will be fought out between Ferrari, Williams and McLaren with the rest likely to be led by Sauber. The Swiss team may even be going fast enough to mix with Williams and McLaren. The Honda-engined cars are expected to be rather down-on-power and so are likely to be behind Renault while it is not yet clear where Arrows and Toyota are going to be, although there are no signs that they will be mixing it with the big teams. Minardi will be there or thereabouts as well but the tussle in the midfield is going to be close and so the likes of Jaguar and the rest could be anywhere between 10th and 22nd places on the grid.