Formula One News — January 2001

JAGUAR will build its planned F-Type roadster in 2004. It will be the company's first real sportscar since the famous E-Type was discontinued.

THE English football industry is booming at the moment and there is a currently a big battle going on to sponsor the Premier League.

THE problems surrounding the Reynard company continue with the news that its US subsidiary Riley & Scott is to become independent once again.

JORDAN GRAND PRIX will take to the waves after they announced on Thursday that they will enter a team in the Honda Formula 4-stroke Race Series.

JORDAN GRAND PRIX announced on Thursday the appointment of Gabriele Delli-Colli as Jarno Trulli's senior race engineer for the 2001 world championship.

CHIEF DESIGNER Mark Smith has quit Jordan to join Benetton just two months before the start of the new Formula One season, it was revealed on Thursday.

RICK GORNE's departure from British American Racing will probably very little effect on the team.

JEAN ALESI has urged Prost Grand Prix boss Alain Prost to appoint another French driver to partner him for the 2001 Formula One World Championship.

THE announcement of the December sales figures of cars in the United States have sent shivers down the spine of the automobile industry.

THE well-known British lawyer "Gorgeous" George Carman has died at the age of 71.

RENAULT have announced plans to nurture talent of the future by creating a "nursery system" within the company.

THE recent attempt on the life of Iosif Ordzhonikidze, Moscow's deputy mayor, was immediately traced back by the authorities investigating the attack to December 19 when he signed a deal with TWR approving its construction of a Grand Prix-standard circuit.

HONDA chief Takeo Fukui has set his sights on a Grand Prix win in the 2001 season as his company provides engines for the Jordan and British American Racing teams.

RICK GORNE, a founder of British American Racing, has left the team it was announced on Wednesday.

AS the investigation into share trading at EM.TV continues, the German magazine Der Spiegel is reporting that the company boss Thomas Haffa sold around $20m worth of the company's stock in December, possibly in contravention an agreement that the stock would not be sold for a specified period.

SAUBER driver Nick Heidfeld will lend support to a new development program that will help young German drivers break into and progress through motor racing.

AMERICAN LE MANS Series Champion Allan McNish has said he is not too old to dream of a Formula One future.

GIANCARLO MINARDI, team founder of Minardi, has promised his team will be on the grid for the start of the 2001 Formula One season in March.

DOUBLE world champion Mika Hakkinen, along with German tennis legend Boris Becker, recently aged 50 years in order to film a German television commercial for Mercedes-Benz.

HONDA have vowed to invest in and renovate their Suzuka circuit in a bid to secure the hosting rights of the Japanese Grand Prix after their current contract expires.

SPAIN's Catalunya circuit is set to hold an extra 20,000 spectators for the 2001 season.

BENETTON are planning to launch their 2001 challenger at St. Mark's Square in Venice in February.

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JAGUAR's plans to build a new factory at Silverstone have run into difficulties, despite having planning permissions approved.