GERMANY: FORMULA ONE DRIVER HEINZ-HARALD FRENTZEN HAS HIGH HOPES FOR HIS JORDAN TEAM

Record ID: 648389

  • Title: GERMANY: FORMULA ONE DRIVER HEINZ-HARALD FRENTZEN HAS HIGH HOPES FOR HIS JORDAN TEAM
  • Date: 19th February 2001
  • Summary: MUNICH, GERMANY (FEBRUARY 19, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF NEWS CONFERENCE WITH SPONSORS 2. EDDIE JORDAN (WITH BEARD) TALKING TO ULRICH SCHUMACHER, PRESIDENT OF SPONSORS CEO OF INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES 3. JOURNALISTS TAKING NOTES 4. HEINZ-HARALD FRENTZEN LISTENING 5. SIDE SHOT OF PODIUM 6. JOURNALISTS TALKING TO EACH OTHER 7. WIDE OF NEWS CONFERENCE 8. SOUNDBITE (German) FRENTZEN SAYING: "I hope to be successful in the new season 2001 along with our engine producer Honda which is a new addition to our team and I hope to have a good reason to be talking about successes in front of a camera in the future. It would be nice if we would succeed this year." 9. CAMERAMAN FILMING 10. SOUNDBITE (German) HEINZ-HARALD FRENTZEN SAYING: "I would imagine that a McLaren driver will keep on having the upper hand in Formula 1 but we are working very hard on adding a little bit of momentum to the race." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: MUNICH, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA1DU0KX18D14BPLRX2D3APAQ54
  • Story Text: Formula One driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen has high
    hopes for his Jordan team this season but thinks a McLaren
    driver will probably take the title.



    The German driver, winner of two Grands Prix for
    Jordan in 1999, again leads the Jordan challenge as the 2001
    season gets under way with the Australian Grand Prix in
    Melbourne on March 4.

    Frentzen will be partnered by Italian Jarno Trulli in this
    years car which is powered by a new Honda RA001E engine.

    Speaking at a sponsor's event in Munich, Germany on Monday
    (February 19), Frentzen said:
    "I hope to be successful in the new season 2001 along with
    our engine producer Honda which is a new addition to our
    team."
    The Jordan team will be hoping to do better than in 2000
    when reliability problems left them with just two third places
    - in Brazil and the United States - to show for their efforts.

    They eventually finished a disappointing sixth.

    With the Honda engine, they will be looking to emulate
    their 1999 performance when Frentzen and Damon Hill finished
    third in the constructors championship.

    Their is little likelihood, however, of them finishing
    above McLaren and world champions Ferrari.

    Frentzen and Trulli witnessed at first hand the power of
    the McLaren Mercedes earlier in the week when David Coulthard,
    driving the new McLaren MP4-16, smashed the lap record whilst
    testing in Valencia. Trulli was second fastest to Coulthard.

    But McLaren test-driver Alexander Wurz outpaced Frentzen on
    Tuesday to record the third-fastest time. Two-times world
    champion Mika Hakkinen will again be McLaren's number one
    driver in 2001.

    Charismatic Eddie Jordan continues to run his team with
    gusto and is expanding his staff and facilities. The
    fun-loving Irishman has left no-one in any doubt that he has
    serious championship ambitions. He even cancelled Jordan's
    staff Christmas party as he felt they had nothing to
    celebrate.



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