SEPTEMBER 4, 2002

McNish off to sports car racing?

Allan McNish's Formula 1 career seems to have come to an end but the Scotsman looks like being employed next year in one of the big factory teams in sports car racing.

Allan McNish's Formula 1 career seems to have come to an end but the Scotsman looks like being employed next year in one of the big factory teams in sports car racing. McNish is reported to have been talking to Audi and to Bentley about work next year as it does not look likely that Allan will find a drive in F1 having been dropped by Toyota.

McNish's chance in Formula 1 came after a long and successful career in sports cars at a point in his career when it seemed unlikely that he would finally get the chance to race in F1, after years as a test driver with a variety of teams. It is possible that McNish could get another F1 test drive but even these are heavily oversubscribed at the moment.