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Resurgent Jaguar has a four-driver short list for three seats next
season – Irvine, de la Rosa, Pizzonia and Webber.

De la Rosa, despite being the only one with a contract, is likely to
be the one to miss out. Eddie is flavour of the month within the team
following his recent performances and has an offer on the table. Seems
likely he’ll take it in view of the problems at Jordan.

Pedro, on the other hand, is being blamed by some – Eddie for one –
for giving the team poor feedback during the early testing of the
recalcitrant R3. Suggestion is that he was telling the engineers what
they wanted to hear, while Eddie was being ignored for telling them
that the problems were more fundamental. Now everygody knows he was
right.

Pizzonia and Webber have both impressed in their tests for the team.

David Betts (dav…@motorsport.org.uk)

"In the end it’s always a matter of more accelerator and less brake" – Frank Gardner

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Got a text message through today from the Orange F1 info service
saying that Peter Sauber’s in talks with VW about a possible return to
F1. As Emma pointed out, Audi are pulling their works ALMS team out
(Bentley’s becoming sort of semi-works for LM) so if VAG want a
first-class motorsport presence, F1 with Sauber might be the sensible
thing to do…

Who knows, it might just be the nudge Sauber needs to take his team into
the big time…

Anyone know more about this?

pete
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Has Cristiano da Matta inked the contract with Toyota yet?  He has a big
enough points lead to clinch the 2002 CART FedEx Championship Series title.
So, now that that is wrapped up, the move to the Toyota F1 team can’t be too
far away.

Hef

I think this is the one where they portray Murray in a bad light.

Channel 4
Tuesday 15th October
21:00  

The Real James Hunt
James Hunt was a Formula One legend with breathtaking driving ability –
but he was also an unpredictable hothead with an almost compulsive love
of women and alcohol. In this programme, former friends and lovers
remember one of the most irreverent sporting icons of his day.  

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The Chocolate Monster           http://chocmonster.rules.it

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Thoroughly enjoyed the Monza race when I got back to look at the
recording of the digital feed (mind you, my daughter said she thought
it was great on terrestrial as well). Only caught the last few minutes
on terrestrial on race day myself, so missed almost all the action.

Anyway, seems like Bernie may be making the digital feed available to
terrestrial broadcasters next year. Of course, that needs the
agreement of all the teams and the broadcasters may be asked to pay
more for it, so it won’t necessarily happen. Nice if it does, though.

Of course, those of us who want the full interactive service will have
to carry on paying for it. Hardly a problem if Sky sets a season
ticket price in line with that for the second part of this year. I
notice the pay-per-view football is much cheaper this season.

David Betts (dav…@motorsport.org.uk)

"In the end it’s always a matter of more accelerator and less brake" – Frank Gardner

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