Formula One News — May 1998
MAY 4, 1998
Magnussen staying at Stewart?
DENMARK's Jan Magnussen, who has been struggling this year with the Stewart Ford team, looks like staying with the team for the rest of the year, despite attempts which have been made by the team to replace him.
A waiting game on the driver market
IT is still very early in the Formula 1 season for there to be much movement on the driver market for 1999 but there is no doubt that West McLaren Mercedes will be making a bid at some point for Michael Schumacher.
McLaren sets the pace in Barcelona
MIKA HAKKINEN and David Coulthard once again dominated when the majority of the Formula 1 teams went testing at Barcelona in preparation for the Spanish Grand Prix this week.
X Wings are banned!
THE FIA must have been too busy worrying about the European Commission to bother to inform the world that it had decided to ban sidepod-mounted winglets, known in F1 circles as X wings.