Thursday, September 15, 2005

Jordan Running Nothing But Mouth

“The rule is: the more you spend, the quicker you go. Cash is king and engine costs are huge, which restricts the quality of the drivers, staff – virtually everything.”
Jordan reckons Williams should have tried harder to keep BMW on board, if necessary by selling shares in the team to the German manufacturer.
“The logical move would have been for Frank and [co-owner] Patrick [Head] to sell part of their equity and embrace BMW as a shareholder and sporting partner, instead of allowing Sauber to sneak in and steal BMW from under their noses.
“In the current climate, I’d rather be a 50 percent part of something that’s winning than 100 percent of something that cannot win.”
Eddie, your 0 percent “in the current climate” and when you were a percent in 494 chances you won 4 races not really a winning record, but to top it off 25 percent of those wins were with Cosworth.
You have a point about the money but it won’t be felt next year, Cosworth’s long history and experience with V8’s will help Williams as all the other teams start from scratch. Williams problems are more related to chassis than engine and that is why BMW left.