NOVEMBER 20, 2002
The world according to Oliver Behring
Behring said that the there is an agreement between Tom Walkinshaw and the FIA that the team will have an entry and told the German press than he is "a 99.95% chance" that the team will be present at the first race of 2003. Behring also said that the team's former shareholder Morgan Grenfell is now out of the picture. The only problem with this is that there is an ongoing court case in London between Arrows and Morgan Grenfell over the shares in the team and thus it is hard to imagine that what Behring says is true.
The deal with the Arrows came about, according to Behring, from a contact who had been involved in previous negotiations for a takeover of Prost Grand Prix. Behring also said that he was talking with drivers Jos Verstappen, Enrique Bernoldi and Fernando Alonso (this is odd in that Alonso is already signed for Renault for the 2003 season).