Formula One News — August 2001
AUGUST 2, 2001
Klatten confirms EM.TV retrenching
WERNER KLATTEN, the new chief executive of Formula 1 shareholder EM.TV, on Wednesday told the annual shareholder meeting in Munich that he intends to refocus the troubled company on its core business of trading broadcast rights and merchandising for the children's market.
Herbert rules out Rockingham appearance
BRITAIN's triple Grand Prix winner Johnny Herbert has ruled out making an immediate race debut in the CART Champ Cars series after unofficially breaking the British closed circuit record at the new Rockingham oval in Northamptonshire.
Formula 1 and the Working Time Directive
FORMULA 1 teams are such efficient organizations that even the USA's National Aeronautics and Space Administration is hoping to learn from their management techniques.
AUGUST 1, 2001
Webber on the way up?
DESPITE patchy form in his chase for the 2001 FIA Formula 3000 title, Australian Mark Webber is determined to secure a Formula 1 berth next year and so is his manager, Flavio Briatore.
...as Schumacher aims for the coup de grace
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER knows that he is only four points away from the 2001 world championship and is determined to put in a quick, clean kill in Hungary when the Grand Prix circus reconvenes on August 19.
Coulthard's optimism intact...
DAVID COULTHARD is refusing to wave a white flag in this year's drivers' world championship, even though a win at the Hungaroring in two weeks will seal the title for Michael Schumacher, and only a string of race wins for Coulthard and non-finishes for Schumacher will alter the course of the championship.