Formula One News — January 1999

ALAN JENKINS, who has been the technical director of Stewart Grand Prix since the team was established in 1996, has left the company.

BRITISH AMERICAN RACING has announced that it has not settled its differences with the FIA and that it is pursuing a legal challenge to the authority of the sport's governing body.

JORG MULLER is to be BMW's test driver this year.

THE telecommunications company Teleglobe Inc. is to announce a major Formula 1 deal later today and there is little doubt that the deal will involve British American Racing as Teleglobe is a subsidiary of Montreal-based National Telesystems Ltd., which is controlled by Charles Sirois.

DAVID HUNT, the owner of what remains of Team Lotus, is offering $8,000 for information following the theft of one of the operation's few remaining assets - a Lotus 102B - from a garage near Norwich, in Norfolk.

FRANK WILLIAMS has received a knighthood in Britain's New Year's Day Honors List. He becomes only the second man to receive a knighthood for services to motor racing - the first being Australian Jack Brabham, who became Sir Jack in the New Year's Honors List in 1979.

FERRARI and the vast American toy company Mattel have signed a multi-year deal for the exclusive worldwide rights to produce Ferrari toys, clothing and accessories, including adult products.