JULY 15, 2002
Toyota and Rampf
There are rumors in F1 circles that Toyota Motorsport has offered Willi Rampf twice his current salary to move to Cologne to work for the team.
It remains to be seen whether Rampf will take up the supposed Toyota offer. In the past he has shown himself to be a man not overly motivated by money. At Sauber he has had considerable success and he may prefer to stay where he is - and perhaps wait to see whether BMW is going to decide whether to do its own thing in the future. Rampf is a BMW-trained engineer and if the Munich firm did ever consider building its own chassis he would be high on the list of recruits.