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"Frentzen's sacked!!!!"

www.f1today.com:

Heinz-Harald Frentzen will not be competing in this weekend's German Grand Prix following a falling out with the Jordan team. According to an official statement from the team, test driver Ricardo Zonta will step into Frentzen's role. The team also announced that the German driver will no longer be competing for the team.

"With immediate effect, Jordan has terminated their contract with Frentzen for the 2001 and 2002 World Championships and the team's third driver, Ricardo Zonta, will replace him for the upcoming German Grand Prix at Hockenheim," read a statement from the team.

“It has been a disappointing season for both of us,” explained Jordan's Chief Executive, Eddie Jordan. “We had an exchange of views following the British Grand Prix and this is the outcome.”
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I wonder what else will happen this weekend. It was at this GP last year that Barrichello won from 18th on the grid, I wonder if anything like that will happen this weekend.

The Williams will be strong, no doubt about that, but can they last the race?

Comments and opinions please.

BAR deserve to suffer. When they joined F1 by taking over Tyrell, they said they would immediately compete for the championship. Glad to say, they did not get a point that season.

Well it's either that or that there is more than 1 Sniper!

Lol! Yeah, I think something like that!

Is Sniper the master of reincarnation but has the dastardley luck of coming back as himself!??

Don't know, it started before I joined here.

He always seems to die, but then come back to life again.

Maybe he wants to put a bid in for a new set of mechanics!

I asked this question on another thread but got no reply but when people are writing stories why does Sniper get killed or on the verge of death?

It's not his fault. He has the money, but he can't get the staff.

If they dont start to turn it around by the middle of next season, I'd have thought getting rid of him would be a good move.

Thing is, in F1, it seems continuity is the ley. Look at Ferrari, and McLaren, two teams that haven't had a major change for a number of years, and they're the two at the top of the grid.

Coincedence?

I don't think so.

So would you get rid of Craig Pollock or do you think that BAR's averageness is not entirely his fault?

Plain averagness.

They've got the money, thay've got the engine (well the same as Jordan anyway). They've certainly got the driver, I really rate JV, yet they can't get it together.

I think they just need the management re-structured, new staff etc. It's just generally, they aren't as good.

Like Jaguar, when they first took over from Stewart, they had a lot of potential, Stewart were a GP winning team. Regularly in or around the points.

When it became Jaguar they went down hill?

Why?

No sense of direction. The management structure was huge and unorganised and the comapny didn't fulfil it's potential. If they'd have signed Adrian Newey, well, that would have been a right bonus.

Why do you think the BAR's aren't doing as well as the Jordan's? Is it driver's fault or unreliablility or just plain averageness?